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by boulos 6y ago
Thanks again! I’ll consider this settled: people prefer Ken Liu, but that’s not why the second book was different :).
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by boulos 6y ago
Even still, there is no sales tax rate that ends up charging wealthy people anything meaningful. Roughly speaking, the savings rate of wealthy people is so high (and therefore 1-that as spending rate) and everyone else basically spends all
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by boulos 6y ago
I think this thread is conflating election contributions/outcomes with lobbying. The main point of lobbying is not in the direct, (historically) small campaign contributions but in the large staff of lobbyists who spend time with congr
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by boulos 6y ago
Thanks! I don't think the political correctness or other changes would have really bothered me, it was much more about structure. IIRC, there were some "chapters" in Dark Forest that were... over an hour? In Chinese, does the
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by boulos 6y ago
If there's anyone out there that has read the trilogy in both the original Mandarin as well as the English translations, I'd love to get their take on the effect of translation. If I remember correctly, I found The Three Body Prob
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by boulos 6y ago
Great write up! I’m amused by your subdivision of space note, given Figure 1 :). There are clearly some problems and transforms that are better on N-spheres (N-balls?) and others on rectangles / N-cubes. Do you have a deeper intuition
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by boulos 6y ago
Do you mean on GKE or directly on GCE? It sounds like you mean GKE (“failed to unregister from cluster”). We’re looking to fix up the GKE graceful node shutdown, because it’s currently “racy” and doesn’t actually respect the grace period pr
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by boulos 6y ago
I didn’t know about this anecdote before, but apparently Alan Krueger of minimum wage study fame had an interesting follow up: shouldn’t the federal minimum wage be too high somewhere? What about Puerto Rico? Apparently, he didn’t find evid
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by boulos 6y ago
Good point, I updated my comment with an edit: Healthy SF isn’t mandated, providing health care is (and the very limited Healthy SF coverage is basically the cheapest option, so most restaurants do that). On the “dictated by statute”, I act
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by boulos 6y ago
I forgot they said that (I read this when it was posted a couple days ago), thanks for noting that. But I still would encourage even a 1s “clean” shutdown. You don’t need to wait for any of this fancy cleanup, but it’s really nice to finish
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by boulos 6y ago
To be clear, in California the tipped minimum wage is at least $13/hr state wide (and $14/hr for businesses with 25 employees or more). I believe in San Francisco, it’s also just strictly the same as minimum wage of $16.07/hr
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by boulos 6y ago
You still want to send SIGTERM or equivalent to the processes so that they can flush their state if needed. Just abandoning ship is often less good than using a few seconds to cleanly shut down (if only to exit and send a clear message that
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by boulos 6y ago
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (and Preemptible VMs). You’re kind of racing against the clock though. You could instead have a “load balancing” style layer in front, so that while there is no usable session, at least the person’s conn
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by boulos 6y ago
The images from CS348B at Stanford in Winter 92 are still up: http://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs348b-competition/cs34... but I think everything on the site was actually posted sometime in 1994. Unfortunately,
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by boulos 6y ago
(I’m not sure why people downvoted / flagged you, so I vouched this). I definitely don’t remember the numbers and haven’t looked them up on wikichip, but Itaniun certainly counts as “Intel-based” :).
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by boulos 6y ago
Poor Niagara :). The Niagara design though was clearly intended for web serving/databases and Sun didn't go try selling it into the LINPACK/supercomputing segment. That's the disconnect for me. To be clear, if you ha
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by boulos 6y ago
On the funny Pentium3 equivalent thing bolted on? Or you mean in emulation mode?
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by boulos 6y ago
Sure. Specint and the more modern specintrate are obvious choices for “we can’t suck at this”. But the overall architecture was so extremely over “int heavy” that the box was just not great for the supercomputing segment it claimed to want
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by boulos 6y ago
Ahh the memories of dealing with Itanium for our large SGI boxes. It was super awesome to have a single system multi terabyte memory “machine” in 2005. It was not awesome to keep adjusting out code to be more amenable to the VLIW-like needs
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by boulos 6y ago
Right, I should have been more clear: Anthos on-prem "just" gives you the Kubernetes part of that API consistency story. On machine management, it's intentionally the case that administrators can control the base machine pa
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by boulos 6y ago
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud. Adam’s conclusion: > I understand why customers want Outposts. Despite the grousing in this post, I’m an AWS fan and have tremendous respect for their rate of innovation. Customers want API-driven infr
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by boulos 6y ago
I’m honestly confused! Can you point me to your source for the excerpts in your sibling comments? Edit: reading your lancet link now (sorry about that). My understanding from reading the description of the Moderna results was “XX / YYY
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by boulos 6y ago
I believe AZ was doing weekly testing while Moderna (maybe?) was doing “test if symptomatic”. That’s a huge difference.
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by boulos 6y ago
> The mRNA vaccines are obviously the gold standard, they're what you want, if you're in a position to pick. That might end up being true, but see my comment about the different “efficacy” measures and demographic differences [
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by boulos 6y ago
I find the Johnson and Johnson Press Release [1] more informative. It gives a lot more detail on the study, including linking to their protocol [2]. It’s unfortunate, but the different vaccine trials all have different demographics and diff
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by boulos 6y ago
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (and have worked with Ben and Eric in their role at OpenAI). For folks that find this topic interesting, I think that Maciek’s (GKE PM) talk at NEXT with Twitter on 15,000 node clusters has a ton of great
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by boulos 6y ago
Russell’s teapot doesn’t fit in this case. Paper ballots exist. Many were manually recounted (whether by optical scanner or by hand). Are there actually claims of miscounted votes that you feel were miscounted or incorrectly treated that yo
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by boulos 6y ago
> can i use privatelink between AWS and Google Cloud ? do you have an idea on how much it would cost on either side ? You basically have to hookup Cloud Provider A through a middle layer to Cloud Provider B (e.g., connect via Equinix or
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by boulos 6y ago
See my sibling comment. Snowflake actually has historically run as a multinenant service with access to say your S3 bucket, so the majority of data transfer is VM <=> S3 in the same Region (so included/free). As a snowflake custo
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by boulos 6y ago
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud. Just to clarify, AWS has a feature called PrivateLink [1] that charges $.01/GB transferred between a Service provider and the end customer (I thought there was a free variant for same AZ, but I seem

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