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by chillacy 5y ago
Afaik you could up until the data exceeds your capacity to fit in one machine, at which point you have to figure out how to split your data up in a way which lets you preserve all the strengths of sql (strong consistency). At that point you
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by chillacy 5y ago
Do you mean BigTable? That's Google's "HBase" in sofar as hbase is based on the BT paper. From what I recall from using it a few years ago, it's pretty damn fast, very low latency. HBase had speedy p50s as well but
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by chillacy 5y ago
Hmm... have not tried this myself, but just brainstorming. You could shard based on discord server or chat room, which would give "read before write" consistency since writes can lock, but then you'd have to manage shards to
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by chillacy 5y ago
If they were a public company where shareholders could vote, they'd probably fire the board and replace them with people who could maximize revenues.
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by chillacy 5y ago
The $5B fine comes with a lot of enforced changes to the company's operations: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2019/07/ftc-i... Though it does tend to have fewer regulations than the
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by chillacy 5y ago
> Bitcoin is only unchangeable because of the current whims of current users Is this different than saying that the US laws that we admire are held up by the whims of the electorate? But yes, I guess nothing fundamental because software
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by chillacy 5y ago
> What ever happened to working somewhere because you believe in what you're building and the people you're around bring you joy? Sounds like capitalist propaganda, unless you work at some sort of co-op which is employee owned
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by chillacy 5y ago
There is a type of hostility which is very polite and bureaucratic hostility, the kind encoded in immigration laws and policing... but executed politely. For example, in a dispute with a Japanese person, the police are pretty famous for mak
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by chillacy 5y ago
> The real fix would be to improve on the conditions that parents need to have children I hear this a lot, but have difficulty squaring that with observational evidence: France for instance great employment security but is hovering at si
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by chillacy 5y ago
Hotels often use a technique called triple sheeting which uses 3 flat sheets: one goes on the mattress cover to simulate a fitted sheet, one goes between the guest and duvet, and one goes on top of the duvet. Hotels normally don’t wash the
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by chillacy 5y ago
If people are willing to pay, it becomes the price, and people are definitely paying. Anecdotally from my friends who host, increasing prices leads to more 5 star reviews and fewer incidents as you get more affluent guests.
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by chillacy 5y ago
Hmm, if manipulation means intending a change in behavior in the recipient then this is true. But by that definition many things are manipulative, like regulation / tax codes (which create behavior changes). So I'm not sure if I q
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by chillacy 5y ago
A common view is that both sides in an economic transaction gain some sort of benefit. Nonetheless sentiments like "all labor is exploitation" are fairly common, so I can see why that view exists, given the power disparity.
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by chillacy 5y ago
I do this too but I generally search on google/amazon for the product before buying. Much of the time, the same product is available cheaper from someone else. I think certain companies buy and resell stuff through paid advertising, so
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by chillacy 5y ago
Given finite resources (limited pages in a book), the decision to put some facts over others into said book is by nature a form of editorialization.
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by chillacy 5y ago
If Klingon were invented in Europe and designed to be a pan-european easy-to-learn language, sure. Otherwise, Esperanto has some desirable attributes as a universal second language.
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by chillacy 5y ago
Probably starting with Puritan (proper noun, religious sect) witch hunts.
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by chillacy 5y ago
What I find interesting is that Dale Carnegie published How to Win Friends and Influence People in 1936 covering this topic. Maybe that was the "beginning of the trend"... not really sure.
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by chillacy 5y ago
Not exactly the same as orgs but it reminds me of the very very difficult skill of "criticizing the king". It's possible, but it requires a lot of finesse and skill, and even then you might get beheaded. And it goes without s
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by chillacy 5y ago
Naturally the article (which is an opinion piece written by the author) makes a case in favor of the author.
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by chillacy 5y ago
I looked into syndication and commercial real estate earlier this year. My primary motivation was to diversify my holdings. I ultimately bought a house where I could rent rooms out on airbnb or to renters instead of going with a syndication
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by chillacy 5y ago
Everyone knows how to lose weight: you eat less, you work out more. If it’s so obvious and imply, why isn’t everyone losing weight? Some things require so much work to do that they leave an opening, verses things with low barrier to entry.
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by chillacy 5y ago
One which I'm curious about is buying software businesses with existing user bases and adding new features, kind of the equivalent of buying a fixer upper, but it uses my unique skills.
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by chillacy 5y ago
Developed nations still have a lot of levers for meddling around with the behavior of developing nations. E.g. subsidizing clean technology, but also, sanctions and a level of political interference (which to be realistic hasn't gone v
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by chillacy 5y ago
Just as an analogy, one could imagine similar comments: * I see contraception as intrinsically immoral... * I see gun ownership as intrinsically immoral... * I see capitalism as intrinsically immoral... Which are all sort of arguments by no
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by chillacy 5y ago
I think it's pretty much this, advertising is lubrication for an economy of consumption. Word of mouth and aggregators (like yelp) can help people find solutions when they know of a problem, but ads inform/manipulate (depending on
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by chillacy 5y ago
> Creative jobs have always been boom or bust ... > That was fine for centuries... I always assumed that this was an artifact of recording technology: if you can record a movie or music, then you can have a handful of actors and music
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by chillacy 5y ago
I’ve heard a theory that the causation is in the other direction, where those who are currently depressed spend more time consuming media including social media
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by chillacy 5y ago
Today at least all the gpt3 we read is still hand selected by another human, so if it communicated feeling in the editor, we get to read it.
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by chillacy 5y ago
Hmm, but by the time Google could afford to buy YouTube, they were already very popular and had a well liked search product. Ask Jeeves didn’t buy YouTube.

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