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by eloff 5y ago
I remember the article and the discussion, but the fundamental issue seemed to be the difference between MySQL and Postgres indices and the different trade-offs made. Postgres indices are better for read heavy workloads, and MySQL for write
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by eloff 5y ago
Postgres doesn't support synchronous replication yet? It's had it since 9.1. I think you're referring to something else.
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by eloff 5y ago
Why would you need multi master to be "always on"?
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by eloff 5y ago
In what way did they make basic mistakes?
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by eloff 5y ago
Where do they find people willing to put up with that. Some people have a high threshold for job pain versus uncertainty around job hunting pain. I'd much rather the latter.
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by eloff 5y ago
Was it the vaccine or just two independent events close in time. Because when you give anything, even water to 160M people and then record adverse events afterwards you're going to get a lot of them and some will die. The question is a
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by eloff 5y ago
I'm not sure if it would be cheaper, but the potential could be there if there's enough innovation in the space. At least in happy we're exploring all paths and not betting the farm on just one.
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by eloff 5y ago
I agree with what you're saying. I think we just differ on what constitutes a disaster. Given the potential to end civilization, I feel any outcome short of that is a win of some kind. Even if the consequences are still severe. I also
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by eloff 5y ago
That'd be hopeful if true. I agree the speed of increase is slowing. I'm not aware if the actual increase is now negative. That would be great news.
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by eloff 5y ago
It can certainly be part of the solution.
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by eloff 5y ago
1.5 isn't going to happen. I'll be happy if we manage to keep it under 3. There's no guarantee that doesn't trigger a total disaster, but it's possible it would also just be extremely costly, damaging, and inconveni
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by eloff 5y ago
Source? I think we would avert disaster if we got net zero today. We wouldn't avoid change and things would continue to warm as you say. But it wouldn't be the end of civilization, just very inconvenient. In the other hand if we d
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by eloff 5y ago
I'm still on the waitlist for the 5950 since Christmas. I bought an AMD laptop meanwhile, but never bothered removing my name from the list. I should start a pool on how long it takes before they contact me.
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by eloff 5y ago
Every apartment building I've lived in over 20 stories puts their water reservoir on the roof. The reason is to let gravity distribute it when a tap is opened.
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by eloff 5y ago
People don't seem to understand what I'm saying. If the OP at least gives numbers you can compare them to easily looked up estimates and find out if they're reasonable or if you can ignore him in a couple minutes. Without tha
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by eloff 5y ago
> If you halt programs completely for tail risks you'll never get anywhere. If your tail risk is the end of civilization then it doesn't matter how small the probability. You'd be fucked with certainty on any long enough t
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by eloff 5y ago
You also don't know how substantiated my claims are, but at least with numbers you could look it up. Parent provided only an argument from authority. There is no easy way to falsify it. You'd have to do all the research from scrat
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by eloff 5y ago
There is lots of room to frame things though. And companies do charity and political donations and community service all the time. Maybe it's for the tax deduction, but it's also because companies are just people, and those people
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by eloff 5y ago
I don't buy into moral relativism. There are things that result in more or less human flourishing. Often it's not that hard to see the right thing. There is some room for different value judgements, but that's not the same as
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by eloff 5y ago
> Worst case sea level rise estimates easily gives New Orleans 300+ more yrs, likely much longer, a time frame longer than the current age of the city. Your argument depends on this but you give neither numbers nor citations, so it'
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by eloff 5y ago
It could, I think many companies do choose the right thing over the profitable thing, at least sometimes. Obviously not all companies, and not everytime. If that caused sufficient lost profits, shareholders might band together to try and ch
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by eloff 5y ago
I've wondered lately, since the government backstops both banks and mortgages, shouldn't it just cut out the middleman? It could either give cheaper mortgages or use the difference as tax revenue.
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by eloff 5y ago
We have literally 100 bigger problems to solve before we worry about the climate impact of digital transmission. This will just be solved as a happy side effect of getting our electrical grid off hydrocarbons.
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by eloff 5y ago
Or a glass half full way to look at this is 50% more yield means less land area needed to produce the same amount of food. Typically also longer roots improve soil quality. There are always tradeoffs, but this looks amazingly positive.
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by eloff 5y ago
It's called rezoning them and letting the market handle it. Land value explodes, owners sell, developers bulldoze and build apartments. You only have to do three things. Rezone, expedite permits, and encourage investment dollars to flo
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by eloff 5y ago
Yes, focusing on your legacy and being remembered is pointless. It's also not going to bring you any joy specifically because you won't be around to appreciate it. I think live a good life, treat others well, try to leave things a
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by eloff 5y ago
If civilization lasts a million years it would be an accomplishment. I think the likely answer to the Fermi paradox is that civilization is but a short lived spark on evolutionary timescales and self destructs.
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by eloff 5y ago
Even on shorter timescales we all die and cease to matter. That doesn't mean life is without meaning. Life is amazing, and terribly short. I wish I could live 1000 more lives, and live them all differently. There's so much I will
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by eloff 5y ago
That's missing the forest for the trees. No, it's not a continuous straight line down. But the trendline is, which is what I talked about.
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by eloff 5y ago
With interest rates trending ever lower since then. The only reason to hold government debt right now is to park large amounts of cash that can't otherwise be parked. Bonds are a terrible investment now. What happens when the only way

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