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by hbrn 4y ago
We're all here speculating what is going to lead to a worse future outcome. To me it seems obvious that Putin has been testing the waters for the last 10-15 years. Ukraine is not the end game, it's another test. So far the respons
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by hbrn 4y ago
> At some point, the support for Ukraine creates a greater security threat to NATO than no support Again, this is based on assumption that Russia will stop after Ukraine. Given their rhetoric and actions in the last two decades, I see no
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by hbrn 4y ago
Of course it's not about morals. But Russia does see the west and US specifically as their major enemy. And morals are a good way to justify your strategic interests. So yeah, it is strategically important for the West that Russia lose
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by hbrn 4y ago
I've listened to this audio many years ago. I know that based on the transcript it's easy to paint the narrative that US is the puppet master pulling the strings. A narrative so favored by both US and Russian citizens. But the rea
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by hbrn 4y ago
> there is economic stability, current and future security, political stability at home, and so on. Did any of those improve after 2014 invasion? Did any of those improve after 2022 invasion? Again, you're trying to present him as t
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> The issue is whether Russia is capable of acting rationally to secure their interests as they define them > People seem to be endlessly confused that leaders spin various narratives to sell a war at home. Putin is no different So ar
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by hbrn 4y ago
> The issue is whether Russia is capable of acting rationally to secure their interests as they define them You're missing the fact that Russia keeps redefining their interests. The word rational no longer has any meaning, because t
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by hbrn 4y ago
> If we raise the cost of victory in Ukraine to the point where that cost is higher than the anticipated benefit of occupying the next state, it is possible to prevent any further expansion Which costs are you talking about? Unlike the w
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by hbrn 4y ago
History and culture aside, there's a good chance they missed it precisely because of abundance of resources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse
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by hbrn 4y ago
Borders are malleable is an incredibly naive, if not malicious thing to say. Kenyan ambassador explained it really well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofijY6M-OA8
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by hbrn 4y ago
It's semantics at this point. Sure, given russian values, their preference to feel proud trumps life expectancy, healthcare, wealth, technological progress, ability to travel, etc. Being misinformed and brainwashed doesn't make yo
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by hbrn 4y ago
While I agree with the suggested rules, the thought process in this article has a major flaw: It assumes all players are rational. In Russia's case, this might not be the case. They don't necessarily want the best outcome for them
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by hbrn 4y ago
Unlike Stadia, Android was acquired.
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by hbrn 4y ago
I have bad news for you. traceroute news.ycombinator.com
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by hbrn 4y ago
> Here's Biletsky (the founder) in March saying Azov had at least 40,000 fighters "Having started as a militia of just over 300 troops, “there are (now) scores of thousands” of Azov fighters, said Biletsky, who in 2008 co-found
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by hbrn 4y ago
I'm honestly curious how would you know that? Which metrics would you use to compare one infrastructure to another? Or one eng practice to another. For example I heard multiple times that in a lot of projects at Google shipping somethi
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by hbrn 4y ago
I have yet to see evidence that Ukrainian military has more neo-nazis than any other military in the world. Or even more than Russian military. You do realize that nazis are militaristic by nature, so having them join military is not surpri
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by hbrn 4y ago
You're still not addressing my points. What is the big problem that serverless solves? What does it promise and what does it actually deliver? Infinite scalability? It only solves the easiest part of it. Cost reduction? As you seem to
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by hbrn 4y ago
Counterintuitively, software performance as a whole is not a function of hardware, it's a function of human tolerance. Apps are as slow as we humans are willing to tolerate. As hardware gets better, we're finding ways to use it le
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by hbrn 4y ago
Infinitely scaling webservers is trivial. Serverless solves a problem that is already easy to solve. Infinitely scaling database means inevitable tradeoffs. Serverless doesn't take those tradeoffs away. It doesn't do anything to j
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by hbrn 4y ago
Might be a bit anecdotal, but I actually hired ex-Googlers for two different startups in the past. I would be hesitant to do it again. They can indeed be good at building complex systems. But when we needed simple systems, they would still
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by hbrn 4y ago
https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#section-most-...
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by hbrn 4y ago
Here's a counterintuitive piece of wisdom: building both is equally hard. Running marathon is way harder than running 100m. Most people are not even capable of doing marathons. But that doesn't mean that winning 100m is easier tha
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by hbrn 4y ago
And yet those minds managed to build the most hated frontend framework. Not just bad or mediocre. The most hated one. Now, I'm not denying they are super smart. But you need a mix of book smart and street smart to be successful. Google
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Looking at feedback loops means being honest with yourself and accepting you don't know everything. And for most people that's hard to admit. Surely if you got into Google you know almost everything. You just need a little bit of
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by hbrn 4y ago
They should probably try implementing OKRs at Google. I heard it helps with transparency.
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This. I'm surprised how often people try to copy Google practices because Google can't be wrong. My bet is that Google is one of the worst places to learn anything, be it product, management or programming. You will only learn how
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by hbrn 4y ago
Let's say you're a startup that's hiring it's 5th engineer. Should you do criminal background checks? Install spyware on laptops? Forbid hiring from other countries? Restrict developer access to production env? Invest al
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by hbrn 4y ago
Nice! I always wanted to build the same thing. A system like that is also my favorite question for systems design interview. Care to share some of the technical details? How far does it scale, what are the delivery guarantees, recovery stra

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