gberger

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by gberger 6y ago
What do you recommend for distributed data processing?
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by gberger 6y ago
Don't use exceptions for flow control
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by gberger 6y ago
Presumably, they're either looking into adding more members from other companies, or reducing members from EDB (or both).
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by gberger 6y ago
Have you considered the environmental impact of increased red meat consumption?
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by gberger 6y ago
Interesting, do you have any examples of the out-there names?
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by gberger 6y ago
In what market are Apple and Facebook competitors?
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by gberger 6y ago
Isn't a rental house just a house that you buy to rent out?
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by gberger 6y ago
Wait, houses on Lake Tahoe go for $130k!?
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by gberger 6y ago
Why do you need the date in the reply tweet? - As I understand it, the premise of the method is that, at day D, you already have written the contents of tweet Tr (to be posted as a reply to T) and so you can already compute its hash and twe
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by gberger 6y ago
I disagree that college should be a pure meritocracy. Students from disadvantaged backgrounds would have a really hard time getting into college, even though many are extremely smart and have great potential to succeed at college. Meritocra
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by gberger 6y ago
Couldn't Facebook denying to accept TikTok ads be argued as constituting amticompetitive behaviour?
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by gberger 6y ago
That's one of the points of the essay. Steve also argues that it's not a GCP problem, but a Google-wide problem (excluding Android and Chrome).
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by gberger 6y ago
I'm pretty sure data center workers were considered essential workers.
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by gberger 6y ago
Relevant snippet in the Google SRE Book: https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/chapters/service-lev... Google introduced exactly this to one of their internal services so that downstream dependencies can&#x
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by gberger 6y ago
In Sweden, Finland, and Norway, everyone's income tax records are public. Is that unethical?
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by gberger 6y ago
Same
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by gberger 6y ago
This comment reveals the insight that 10^20k is equivalent to the number of different possible 64kB files
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by gberger 6y ago
> not that paid search engines are a thing They are in enterprise, but I digress
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by gberger 6y ago
Analog watches would all be rendered useless.
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by gberger 6y ago
Cities will still exist even if remote work rises significantly. There is a huge amount of buildings and infrastructure which won't just disappear. Rather, demand for them will fall, and since supply is flat, prices will drop. This wil
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by gberger 6y ago
> What H&M had, Zara somewhat still has, but Uniqlo doesnt have is the must buy or might not see it again. And this is why I shop at Uniqlo, not at H&M or Zara. I like to ensure that my favourite basics will always be available f
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by gberger 6y ago
The justification is that the equipment presents a national security risk. If that's true, how is it reasonable to allow this equipment to operate in the UK for 7 more years? Doesn't that mean the UK is willingly under national se
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by gberger 6y ago
Casinos and financial markets are two industries regulated very differently from each other
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by gberger 6y ago
> The other day I had a visitor from security come in and scrub all my addons off of my Firefox installation because they hadn't been vetted through IT. They can't do that remotely?
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by gberger 6y ago
So for 1 million records, you need to spend $1k/month. Hmm.
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by gberger 6y ago
Welcome to 1998 [] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor... .
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by gberger 6y ago
I don't think they are pronouncing "Sur" correctly...
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by gberger 6y ago
Are you predicting 500-900k deaths in the USA due to COVID-19?
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by gberger 6y ago
Yes, but a different noise.
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by gberger 6y ago
How so?

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