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by eric_b 7y ago
We're creating more complexity every day. Kubernetes, microservices, microfrontends, "big data" lakes, etc etc. Now instead of securing a physical server, or even a VM, you have to somehow secure thousands of interconnected
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by eric_b 7y ago
It's nickel and diming all the way. I always thought the S3 pricing was sort of ridiculous. Pay for the amount you store (fair). Pay for the egress data (less fair but ok...). Pay for the number of API calls! (lol!)
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by eric_b 7y ago
I canceled my Prime membership a few months ago. I never bought food on Amazon, but I received plenty of counterfeit or obviously used and broken items sold as new. I went back through my order history recently and it was over 10% of my o
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by eric_b 7y ago
I'll match your anecdote with mine. Before I canceled Prime, 30% of my previous 10 orders were defective or counterfeit. 3 in 10. Before that it was trending a bit above 10%. I finally got sick of it and don't order anything f
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by eric_b 7y ago
[Me reading the article]: Hrmm, I'm not sure I understand the point of this article. Seems like vague hand wavy advice and platitudes (I mean c'mon "run towards your fear"? Cheese-factor 1000). [Me gets to the end of th
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by eric_b 7y ago
I personally have no problem with them making this decision. I wish more companies would take stands like this. At least it's honest. Unlike the NBA and every other company with value statements they honor only when convenient or adv
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by eric_b 7y ago
I mean... Masayoshi Son must be one of the worst investors in history, at least in terms of absolute losses. That guy loses more money than anyone. Lost 70B during the dot com crash. Writing down billions in 2019 on Uber and WeWork. I kn
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by eric_b 7y ago
Sure, the government can say they'll only pay half as much as they do now, so providers will only provide half the care. Have you ever actually done any government procurement? Saying the government can just wave a magic wand and low
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by eric_b 7y ago
It amuses me when people think that letting the government run something will make it more efficient. I do not disagree there is tremendous waste in the current system. I strongly believe that expanding the government's role will onl
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by eric_b 7y ago
I think we agree. I'm just saying it's not a single fundamental difference between the US system and other systems, it's myriad differences that combine to make things way more expensive in the US.
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by eric_b 7y ago
In many cases US doctors make 2x (or more if you're a specialist) than their European counterparts. The outcomes are not materially better in most cases. (Also, I'm just picking on one small reason for healthcare costs, the point
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by eric_b 7y ago
The problem is that there is not a single reason that healthcare is so expensive. Even if you list the top 15 reasons, you still have to apply the "5 whys" to each of them to find root causes and possible solutions. - Doctor&#x
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by eric_b 7y ago
Huh, it's as if the NYT has a narrative they wish to push, and will use lazy/questionable journalism to do it... Makes ya wonder what other topics they're doing this with...
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by eric_b 7y ago
I first tried eating vegetarian to deal with some digestion issues. It made it worse. Especially spinach, broccoli and other high fiber foods. I switched to a 90% carnivore diet and everything cleared up digestion wise, and I also felt m
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by eric_b 8y ago
Unpopular opinions ahead: As far as I can tell, "globalism" is the biggest cause of inequality. It's not about QE or easy monetary policy. It's about the fact that I don't have to pay a guy next door high wages to
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by eric_b 8y ago
"Alexa, set timer for 14 minutes." Great for keeping my iPhone clean while I'm cooking. Otherwise I'd have to try and convince Siri to set a timer... (But yeah, i agree - definitely nothing very innovative about it. I
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by eric_b 8y ago
At the gym today, on all the TVs, the media talking heads were crucifying the FAA for being "unsafe" or playing fast and loose with passenger safety (for not grounding the planes). I've always held the FAA in high regard, and
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by eric_b 8y ago
We can argue all day about following the spirit of something vs the letter of the law, but all four of those companies have direct business incentives to make it difficult for those wanting to use their software for free to do so. No surpri
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by eric_b 8y ago
RHEL, as far as I know, is not available as a nice installable package without a subscription, at least to run in production. CENTOS was started as a separate entity to make bundling the RHEL source in to easily installable distributions m
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by eric_b 8y ago
I dunno if I'd be long $ESTC at this point. Elastic took $162 million in venture funding before IPOing. In the last year their Operating Income was -$43 million. A lot of that is sales/marketing related, but at some point they
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by eric_b 8y ago
I've noticed lately that a lot of the "heartwarming" stories I read have a common thread: religion. People do good things not because it makes objective sense, but because their faith compels them to do the right thing. I&#
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by eric_b 8y ago
eh, fighting about musical genre is like arguing tabs and spaces. I often call Prodigy "techno" to people who don't closely follow electronic music, as it gets the point across. And certainly you could make an argument that
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by eric_b 8y ago
Music for the Jilted Generation is one of the best electronic albums I've ever heard. Not sure how much Keith contributed to that particular album (at the time I think it was mainly Liam Howlett's project) but certainly Fat of th
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by eric_b 8y ago
It's a distinction without a difference. At the end of the day, the deal was to shut down Hipchat - in exchange Atlassian was paid with shares of Slack. Might not officially be an "investment" but it more or less amounts to
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by eric_b 8y ago
The discussion is always around increasing or decreasing the size and expense of the government. So I like that the author is advocating increasing efficiency instead. Doing more with the same amount of spending is a good goal. And I thi
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by eric_b 8y ago
Unpopular Opinion: There is no viable solution to climate change through policy or political action. No one wants to give up their own personal comfort or lifestyle for the sake of "the planet." Even people I know who are self-d
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by eric_b 8y ago
I used to use AirBnB all the time. Lately I've switched back to using hotels almost exclusively. The camera/privacy thing is a big part of it. I empathize with the hosts to a degree - you don't want people doing outrageous
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by eric_b 8y ago
Thank God someone else feels this way. I heard so much hype about WP, and their prices were so cheap. I bought two pairs of glasses from them. I wanted to love their product. But their glasses are terrible, for all the reasons you mentione
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by eric_b 8y ago
Please, why do you think I needed to lose 40 pounds in the first place? Not because I was the paragon of willpower I can tell you. I still go off the rails and eat an entire package of Oreos in a single sitting sometimes. It’s a constant st
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by eric_b 8y ago
People are fat because they eat too much, and they have almost no incentive to stop it. Sure, they are mostly eating the wrong things too, in the wrong amounts, but the bottom line is the number of calories going in the front door. I lost

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