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by ciguy 8y ago
When did I ever claim to be an authority on anything? I'm making the observation that citizens who know they're being surveilled online are unlikely to respond to this type of poll negatively, affecting the accuracy of the results
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by ciguy 8y ago
No surprise that countries with the most oppressive internet surveillance and censorship also rank highly in self reported satisfaction. Chinese citizens probably got a boost to their social credit score for answering positively on this sur
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by ciguy 8y ago
I have lived in Europe for about 5 years now, and sadly this is correct. German and French media in particular seem to delight in disparaging America and Americans. Most Germans I've talked to are incredibly misinformed about what life
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by ciguy 8y ago
I lived for a few months in Istanbul and can confirm this. I was surprised by the quality of engineering talent in Istanbul though they are getting hit by brain drain hard these days.
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by ciguy 8y ago
I have no idea. Normally younger people could be a catalyst for change, but they are all leaving. I think the effects of this are going to reverberate in Italy for generations as they fall further and further behind.
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by ciguy 8y ago
You're hilariously off the mark. I'm not from Italy, and I live here by choice because my money comes from businesses I built elsewhere. I didn't grow up here and have no ties to Italy at all except distant ancestry, so I&#x2
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by ciguy 8y ago
The difference in Italy is that the managers were born into those connections, they didn't make them on their own. And the system incentivises this to an alarming extent. In other countries, you can actually network and make a name for
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by ciguy 8y ago
Most of the beauricracies I've dealt with in Italy have nothing to do with the Euro or the EU. And yet they are horribly mis-managed and run by corrupt nespotic maniacs. It's a cultural problem, not a regulatory one. And thanks to
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by ciguy 8y ago
Precisely. Value for your tax money is simply not there in Italy. You get either tolerable, or non-existent transport, healthcare and education depending on where you are. In the south it's usually non-existent. The root of the issue i
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by ciguy 8y ago
I also considered hiring people here. After looking into the regulations and dealing with the government in other areas I realized I'd need a full time lawyer just to deal with the bureaucracy while I ran the business. There's jus
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by ciguy 8y ago
Tax rates on middle income earners (15k to 30k euros annually) are higher in Italy, at least based on my limited research. If you have data to back up your claim that they are higher in Germany I'd love to see it. Either way that'
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by ciguy 8y ago
I'm American but living in Italy right now, and it's really sad talking to Uni students. Every single one of them that I know wants to get out of Italy as soon as possible after graduating. They all feel (Probably correctly) that
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by ciguy 8y ago
I'm living in Italy at the moment, and I can watch the brain drain happening in real time. Every single university student I know here is looking to go to the UK or Germany when they graduate, almost without exception. I can't bla
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by ciguy 8y ago
This is exactly right and something that my fellow American Millennials can't seem to grasp. I do business in many different developing countries where a good wage even for skilled programmers is less than 10% of a normal silicon vall
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by ciguy 8y ago
Agree 100% with all this.
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by ciguy 8y ago
The article mentions Terraform workspaces and their limitations (Not Google Cloud related at all). The way we get around this is to have separate variable files for each environment. The master file contains sensible defaults and then those
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by ciguy 8y ago
We do have a complex topology based on your definition, and already do many of the things you mentioned (Though we do have some limitations due to ECS being less flexible with deployment options). So glad to hear that a service mesh may fit
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by ciguy 8y ago
Thanks I will check it out!
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by ciguy 8y ago
We aren't 100% sold on service mesh yet, but it seems appropriate for our needs as we are going multi-region soon and we already have a micro-service style architecture. At some point an abstraction layer is needed to handle routing am
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Ask HN: What should we consider when moving to a service mesh architecture?
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by ciguy 8y ago
This sounds like your router has been hacked and your default DNS set to malicious servers. I've had this happen a few times in Thailand where the default ISP routers had a vulnerability. The hacked router would set the DNS to servers
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by ciguy 8y ago
No I just spent 6 months working there and studying Spanish. Loved the city in general but it does have very real safety issues. I was never robbed myself (I'm 6'3" and scary looking) but every single other person I know who
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by ciguy 8y ago
The consulting companies use exactly the same MO that Y2K consultants used. Cherry picking case studies and data sets to make executives think the sky is falling when in reality it's not all that hard to be compliant with GDPR and it r
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by ciguy 8y ago
That's just a Chengdu thing. I don't know why precisely but it's widely considered one of the nicest Chinese cities. A few local I know even claimed it's the San Francisco of China, whatever that means.
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by ciguy 8y ago
Don't know what it was like years ago, but these days it's a mess and universally hated by Quito residents. The Trolley bus is dirty, crowded and a haven for pickpockets and thugs. The schedule is completely irregular now and it o
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by ciguy 9y ago
Maintenance windows are set for the cluster, not single instances. We were distributed across 3 AZs and Google had no suggestions for mitigating the ~5 minutes of downtime we were seeing every week or two. The whole experience was so amateu
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by ciguy 9y ago
I've lived in Hong Kong and Tokyo as well Bangkok and Manila. Many of these observations totally miss the mark, which isn't unexpected from someone just visiting as a tourist. Blockchain and Bitcoin are huge in HK tech circles rig
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by ciguy 9y ago
Unfortunately last time I used CloudSQL for MySQL it was incredibly unstable. They would take down our master AND standby at the same time for maintenance. When we filed a ticket they just said it was a known bug with no plans to fix. A maj
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by ciguy 9y ago
A quick glance at your site, and I left with the impression that you're a more corporate version of Trello. Right now Trello serves our needs perfectly for free, so what's the value add in signing up?
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by ciguy 9y ago
No I had no idea, just kind of randomly came across it while walking around.

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