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by dx034 7y ago
In the end no one will know if it was worth it since no country went in the other direction and just lived with it. The UK tried for a bit but then reacted harshly as the situation worsened. Maybe not doing anything would've resulted i
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by dx034 7y ago
For a few quarters. They'll survive and be back where they are now when the economy bounces back (whenever that may be). They could take a 100% cut for several quarters without cutting expenses. Small ad companies are the ones that wil
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by dx034 7y ago
Apart from some online-only businesses, pretty much every business it cutting back at this point. Ads are one of the first ones to go. Esp. with the whole travel industry cutting by nearly 100%. Airlines, hotels and cruise ships spend a ton
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by dx034 7y ago
> Because Re-insurance companies look at the likelihood of pandemics and simply refuse. I believe it's not likelihood alone. It's a combination of very low likelihood, very high cost event that doesn't make it worth it for
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by dx034 7y ago
I thought they all use custom hardware by now? But it's probably useful for applications that go beyond simple algorithms, work on time series data could be much faster.
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by dx034 7y ago
kdb+ [1] used to advertise already about a decade ago that their database code fits into L3 cache, making it extremely fast in execution. With 16MB, you can probably fit the core of a pretty much fully featured database in there, accelerati
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by dx034 7y ago
And yet, so much software on modern CPUs takes seconds rather than milliseconds to perform and output simple calculations. Especially with the mantra "developer time is more expensive than computing power", few developers nowadays
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by dx034 7y ago
Isn't it standard to open separate accounts for companies? My employers would've never even allowed me to use a personal account or personal email for business content. In the end, they need to be able to claim the content if an e
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by dx034 7y ago
IF done right, 500 can be representative. Although considering the number of jobs out there combined with age groups and gender, I guess you'd need a few thousand carefully selected participants to get valid results.
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by dx034 7y ago
Teams and Slack have covered the collaboration market quite well (and there are others as well). What really took off are video conferencing solutions (e.g. Zoom). Google had products here but were never able to offer a single, easy solutio
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by dx034 7y ago
But Google still dominates Ad Space and Search (which is connected). And they still dominate search, growth rates for competitors don't really seem meaningful compared to Google's market volume. And unless governments step in, sea
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by dx034 7y ago
It's probably a question of size. Same as with Google Analytics. Google can afford to offer it free of charge for smaller websites but charges for larger ones. Cloudflare was probably one of the heaviest users with a very high percenta
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by dx034 7y ago
Until two weeks ago I was the only one in my family who had used Zoom. By now, each member of my family has used it independentely for different purposes. From casual meet-ups with friends/family over sports classes to seminars and tra
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by dx034 7y ago
I would be really interested in a tech writeup on how they managed infrastructure. They run a lot of very bandwidth and presumably CPU intensive servers that they quickly had to scale out massively. There are some older articles that they u
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by dx034 7y ago
They already changed default values which were the main vector of attack.
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by dx034 7y ago
It typically happens in small companies that can't afford an IT department. Any large company has made enough experience to take install rights away from most users.
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by dx034 7y ago
Not just financial institutions. Allowing any user to install anything on their computers is dangerous from an IT Security perspective and tends to lead to chaos.
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by dx034 7y ago
I absolute agree with this sentiment. Software can only be simple if it covers a narrow set of use cases. ERP software for large companies that works across borders and industries will always have to handle a million edge cases and accumula
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by dx034 7y ago
Financial institutions are much more heavily regulated by governments than ISPs. The honor system in finance only works because regulators ensure (today more so than a few decades ago) that all players fulfill minimum requirements.
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by dx034 7y ago
You could administer two tests for those, I believe that's what's already done.
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by dx034 7y ago
I've had a look at a few of those and I doubt you'd get 99% accuracy. A lot of the footnotes especially are very hard to decipher. They're also 50 years old, handwriting has changed over time. I'm not sure how well model
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by dx034 7y ago
Source of Truth should (in my opinion) be used in many sectors but even finance doesn't use it everywhere. Having each data point originate in only one system helps a lot with data quality but is complex to introduce in existing system
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by dx034 7y ago
Honestly, please record a better one. It's true that most tutorials are very confusing and mix up terms. It's very hard to find good docs. If you have the time, please write something, I'm sure it'll be appreciated.
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by dx034 7y ago
With petabytes you should either have a procurement team that gets a great deal or you should look at co-location. At some point, hiring a team of infrastructure experts is the cheap option, esp if you leave hardware management with data ce
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by dx034 7y ago
Running k8s is much harder and takes more time than just having a few VMs with docker on it. Many applications never need to scale. I really like k8s from a user perspective but it's no easy task to set up. And managed solutions don&#x
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by dx034 7y ago
Nice post! But can you really compare AWS with k8s? With kubernetes, most companies still won't want to run it. They'll either use VMs or (where possible) a managed kubernetes. That's just one product for AWS. In the end, not
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by dx034 7y ago
Shouldn't we optimize for a higher number of false positives? In the end, sending someone in quarantine for 2 weeks without them being infected is probably less dangerous than a false negative. So making tests overly sensitive would se
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by dx034 7y ago
The idea is to not have a lab with a huge machine testing several thousand samples a day, but to have these devices spread out throughout the hospital and doctor's offices to test closer to the patient. A device will also be much cheap
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by dx034 7y ago
I'm not sure how they price these devices but it could make sense to compare against labs. The question is not how many tests a device can perform but how many tests you can perform for all available devices and at a price comparable t
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by dx034 7y ago
To get information to those that are interested in it. While some dislike any kind of advertisment, many (me included) don't mind having ads, as long as they're not too intrusive and actually useful.

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