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by glogla 5y ago
I've seen a lot of suggestions that solar can be used as the only energy source for humanity, that we don't need anything else, just build more solar! That's not realistic. Of course, the limitations that solar has are very m
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by glogla 5y ago
If they actually can increase the concurrency now, that's good news! We asked for that as well, and at first the support said they did that, but turns out they increased the Athena queue length instead of concurrency - so the queries w
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by glogla 5y ago
I would very much say it's the other way around. AWS is good at giving you commodity infrastructure at scale. They are really good at "stupid" services like S3 or EC2 or RDS. The high-level services meanwhile? I worked with q
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by glogla 5y ago
What do you know, here's an article[1] from 2017 about Databricks making an unfortunate mistake that showed Spark Streaming (which they sell) as a better streaming platform to Flink (which they don't sell). I really hope this is n
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by glogla 5y ago
Delta lake is not meaningfully more "open" than whatever Snowflake (or BigQuery and Redshift) are doing. It does not require any less "moving data around" With all these, the data sits on cloud storage and compute is don
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by glogla 5y ago
Databricks is $28B valuation and 2800 employees, Snowflake is $109 valuation and 2500 employees. They are both billion dolar companies, we're hardly talking David and Goliath here.
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by glogla 5y ago
It used to be that way. Old data warehouses (built on relational dbs) couldn't handle large scale data, and old data lakes used to be hard to use (write a map-reduce job to query data). It is barely true nowadays.
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by glogla 5y ago
The open source Delta is not a replacement for the real thing - they did not include features like optimizing small files (small file problem is well known in big data, and much more of a problem once streaming gets involved) and others. It
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by glogla 5y ago
I do that as well - I have work Mac and personal one, and I don't want to run them with different OS versions since Apple loves to change things between versions for no reason (last time they renamed "grab" to "screensho
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by glogla 5y ago
> At the very least, it was a half truth, and unrealistic hyping. It was what the data showed at that time. Calling if half-truth because people couldn't predict course of a pandemic year in advance seems over the top. Do you know w
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by glogla 5y ago
I think it's quite brilliant! Unvaccinated people hurt others by spreading the disease to the vulnerable and clogging the hospitals (at much higher rate than vaccinated). Turning this around and making it so that their unvaccinated sta
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by glogla 5y ago
Training doctors and nurses takes a while. And there's less them now before COVID began - they (especially nurses) are overworked, underpaid, people treat them horribly and COVID killed a lot of them.
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by glogla 5y ago
> Later on, a lot of hyperboles were suggested about vaccines, like that they made you "immune", that vaccination would mean that no restrictions would be needed anymore, or that once a threshold of 70% was reached we would hav
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by glogla 5y ago
> But semi-forced medical procedures imposed in an emergency and likely driven by special interests are genuinely concerning. Organising protests over seat-belts - while logically defensible - just makes people look stupid. I'd say
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by glogla 5y ago
> How are the unvaccinated supposed to put food on their table Get vaccinated? Unlike minorities, they can actually do that, you know.
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by glogla 5y ago
> As a young man, who survived Covid, why would I risk heart complications to save some old people? This kind of sociopathy is peak HN.
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by glogla 5y ago
> I am firmly anti-mask and pro-vaccine. It’s absolutely insane to continue with this mask stuff when anybody can get a vaccine. There is zero reason for a vaccinated individual to continue wearing a mask in any circumstance at all. Zer
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by glogla 5y ago
Yes, that was kinda the point. If someone is easy to manipulate to spread misinformation about Ivermectin being effective for treating COVID in humans, do I really want to listen to their opinions about (for example) technology or are they
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by glogla 5y ago
Depends. In perfectly logical debate, you'd be right. But I think real world is more complex. What if "who someone is" a "someone who is easily manipulated and used by bad actors to amplify dangerous misinformation"
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by glogla 5y ago
Really? Interesting perspective. For me, it is very obvious which side this person is on (both the twitterer and HN poster) based on keyword like "authoritarian" and "propaganda" and "fear of death", not to men
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by glogla 5y ago
Yup, I know a slumlord who owns 26 apartments just between him and his wife.
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by glogla 5y ago
Those are foreign designed but not necessarily foreign made. If you buy Honda Accord in the US, it is likely to com from a factory in Ohio. If you buy Toyota Corolla in EU, it is likely to come from factory in Turkey (or UK, but probably no
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by glogla 5y ago
To ask questions, you have to 1) understand that others have minds 2) understand that there are things you don't know 3) understand that others might know things you don't 4) understand that you may ask them and they will tell you
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by glogla 5y ago
Allegedly the famous parrot Alex asked what color he is. But the whole line of research is doubted by a lot of people.
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by glogla 5y ago
That depends on the form of consumption. For example, one large form of consumption is commuting from suburbs to the offices on gridlocked roads in SUVs with one person in it. Everyone universally hates that, and working from home for offic
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by glogla 5y ago
I mean batteries might work! My problems with that approach is that: 1) Batteries are in everything. If we want to go from fossil fuels to renewables + batteries, at the same time as we go from ICE cars to BEVs, that's going to be a lo
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by glogla 5y ago
Can you share what is your storage solution that will be needed to make renewables without coal and gas practical? Where can I see storage handling gigawatthours to terawatthours in the real world? Or are you relying on some magical technol
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by glogla 5y ago
Yes. This is a huge win for coal lobby. This might be the turning point that kills humanity.
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by glogla 5y ago
Very good post. Without accusing the grandparent of anything, "Israel shows that vaccines don't work" is a common misinformation, that is getting people killed day by day. Let's not let it spread.
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by glogla 5y ago
> We did obey and suffer the lockdowns. We did get the vaccine. But it certainly doesn't look like we're getting our liberties back. I mean, is the COVID gone? Is 99 % vaccinated so we have herd imunity? Do we have updated vacc

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