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by eloff 5y ago
I think that there's another angle here too. That Putin made demands of NATO publicly and NATO rejected them completely just as publicly has backed him into a corner. Perhaps he only meant to bluff to extract concessions in the beginni
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by eloff 5y ago
It's tough to be properly nuanced and specific in a tweet. "I've never read a business plan , but I ask all the big questions that should be answered in a business plan." Just isn't pithy for a tweet. Honestly Twitt
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by eloff 5y ago
Did they get an offer like that, or did they work there when it was 10 people? Because that makes a big difference.
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by eloff 5y ago
Automating with LetsEncrypt doesn't mean your certificates don't expire. It just means the failure case looks different. Typically something gets messed up with the server configuration such that the auto renew doesn't run or
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by eloff 5y ago
If you're Bangladesh, give up on being a country and join India so your people at least have somewhere to migrate to. If you're New Orleans, time to give up on being a city. Start preventing new construction. Incentivize people to
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by eloff 5y ago
Could you log the headers and body though? I looked into it a little and it looks tricky (requires buffering incoming request body to individual files, which are then your logs of the request body which have to be correlated somehow with th
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Ask HN: How to log full HTTP requests
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by eloff 5y ago
I recently had to research and compare analytics services for work. Type in Heap vs MixPanel and look at the results, the entire first page is garbage comparison sites. I really struggled to find any impartial, real reviews.
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by eloff 5y ago
In a context of an interview it means how performance of an algorithm scales with respect to the input length. This is measured in Big O notation. Understanding that is seldom very helpful on the job, but it's very important for interv
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by eloff 5y ago
Yes, the API is probably suboptimal for Go. It's better to make a wrapper that does the query and fetches many results in one call, into a Go buffer.
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by eloff 5y ago
Yes, function calls across the boundary are slow. It's fine if the functions do lots of work, it's very expensive for function calls that should be cheap. For sqlite it might not matter too much, since any query does quite a bit o
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by eloff 5y ago
If you mean they have to solve the same problems with very careful design and programming, yes. It's non trivial. Even Postrgres had a correctness issue around fsync for nearly twenty years. If you roll your own, that's very hard
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by eloff 5y ago
Getting vaccinated doesn't hurt our "dignity as a species". It's the smart and socially responsible thing to do, so it would make one more worthy of respect. I know name calling is pretty low, but I stand by it. The data
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by eloff 5y ago
90 days is just silly. Also anywhere there's a vaccine mandate, except in parts of Europe, that doesn't count for anything - when a confirmed recovery should be equal to vaccinated status.
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by eloff 5y ago
I don't think you'll get any more functional immunity from an extra shot of vaccine compared to two and an infection. So the benefit side of the calculation is lacking. While the vaccine risks are very small, they're also hig
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by eloff 5y ago
We're not talking about the government here, we're probably talking about over a hundred governments worldwide. They're all corrupt in the same way? That's ridiculous. Also what's the end game here. Why would a corr
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by eloff 5y ago
The data so far suggests that the booster grants substantial protection against severe disease with omicron. If anecdotally there doesn't appear much difference in your circle, that's much weaker evidence. I would still recommend
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by eloff 5y ago
I've also noticed this. I have covid right now. I'm double vaccinated. I was planning to get my booster shot, but now that I've had covid what's the point. It's not likely to increase my immunity and it comes with r
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by eloff 5y ago
I feel like I really started to have more empathy and better understand the world the moment in my life where I realized that black and white don't actually exist, they're unattainable ideals. It's all just shades of gray. It
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by eloff 5y ago
Leave it to humans to optimize for the most Armageddon per $. There's a non zero chance each year that we trigger Armageddon. Given enough years it will happen with certainty. Yet nothing is done about it. I think our first mistake in
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by eloff 5y ago
That depends on if we're still around or not by then. That's a long time, so I don't like our chances. But we could well engineer our way out of that predicament if technology and civilization keeps progressing.
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by eloff 5y ago
I think the non sequitur argument you're making is that somehow humans are not to blame because natural cycles have caused greater extinction? The latter implies nothing about the former, it's an invalid argument.
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by eloff 5y ago
I'm curious what your startup is. I'm in the devtools space as well. My email is in my profile, contact me if you're willing to share what you're working on in private.
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by eloff 5y ago
It's amazing to come to the comments and find the author himself here. Thanks for writing Accelerando, I enjoyed the book. It really made me think about the future differently.
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by eloff 5y ago
Yeah, it's pretty awesome. Panama has its problems too mind you, and one really should learn Spanish if you're going to live there. But all of that seems small in comparison to the tax break that you get. You could spend the whole
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by eloff 5y ago
I'm pretty sure you're correct as far as the US is concerned. Panama is different though. Panama imposes no income, corporate, capital gains, or estate taxes on individuals or companies that only engage in business outside of the
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by eloff 5y ago
No social security to speak of. Health care is excellent and reasonably priced, so not too big a deal. Set aside some savings and get some basic insurance / critical illness insurance. No pension either, so plan for your own retirement
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by eloff 5y ago
I just want to throw out there that this is nice, but it's zero in Panama on foreign source income. The country uses the US dollar and is quite stable and modern. I used to live there, and I want to go back to that tax system as soon a
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by eloff 5y ago
This is probably a question easily solved by querying Wikipedia, but I'll ask it here so the answer benefits others as well, where does the urea used in fertilizer come from?
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by eloff 5y ago
I think there are real serious trade-offs here in income to the farmer. It's nothing about lazy or ignorance. Honestly to make a comment like that, add if you know more about their business than they do is both ignorant and arrogant -

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