herostratus101

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by herostratus101 7y ago
Why do you care? Has anyone ever tried to convert you to Orthodox Judaism?
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by herostratus101 7y ago
Hey nickjj, you may want to update your blog post to reflect that the Lambda timeout is now 15m, not 5m.
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by herostratus101 7y ago
This is still the best essay I have read on the topic: http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/20130404/in-search-of-... I've left Silicon Valley since I read it. And having read it, I hope to never move back.
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by herostratus101 7y ago
Wait, let me get this straight. You get $5000 of AWS Credits that don't expire and don't require any minimum level of spending by signing up for this card?
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by herostratus101 7y ago
This really brought into sharp focus how underdeveloped most of Africa is.
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by herostratus101 7y ago
This argument would be persuasive if the NRA were literally a gun that kills people rather than an organization that lobbies for the robust protection of second amendment rights.
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by herostratus101 7y ago
I hope you never wind up as the victim of a home invasion.
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by herostratus101 7y ago
The issue with this argument is that "militia" had a different meaning when the Bill of Rights was ratified. Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1811: “[T]he militia of the State, that is to say, of every man in it able to bear arms.”
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by herostratus101 7y ago
How would this argument not apply equally to anyone who supports the first amendment (because it can lead to hate speech that inspires atrocities)?
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by herostratus101 7y ago
us-east-1 is the most likely to have any given new service first.
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by herostratus101 7y ago
Where does it say it's a single AZ?
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by herostratus101 7y ago
Lol, or just architect your applications to be highly available and fault-tolerant to regional failures if that's your business requirement.
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by herostratus101 7y ago
I largely agree with you. But I also care a lot about the politics of Google employees insofar as they exercise a tremendous amount of influence over both elections and people's ability to broadcast their messages to the world. Since G
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by herostratus101 7y ago
Can someone explain to me how this is not like that episode of Arrested Development where they steal a dollar from the banana stand and then throw out a banana to "cancel it out"?
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by herostratus101 7y ago
Former teacher, so I'm guessing this employee was not a software engineer.
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by herostratus101 7y ago
I'd think that writing an extremely widely used package manager is good evidence of your competency as a software engineer. Whereas in your analogy the qualification is totally irrelevant to the position.
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by herostratus101 7y ago
Being a professional athlete is very lucrative. Do you think that professional athletes have the exact same genetic profile as the general public, and their professional success is entirely a result of their environment? It's funny how
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by herostratus101 7y ago
Well, if another HN user told you that something with a genetic component is a better measure of intelligence (whatever the Hell that means) than genes... "People with Down's syndrome are not less intelligent than average" is
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by herostratus101 7y ago
It seems dogmatic to rule out genetics as one possible factor among many that determines life outcomes. I get that a bunch of other people in Silicon Valley will pat you on the back, but that doesn't amount to a winning argument.
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by herostratus101 7y ago
If you believe that intelligence is at all heritable, then it would be an astonishing fact if low-income individuals had the same genetic distribution as high-income individuals. If you don't believe that intelligence is at all heritab
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by herostratus101 8y ago
Pretty misleading title. US homicides are up significantly since 2013 (they rose by almost 25% from 2014 to 2016 before leveling off in 2017 and dropping perhaps 7% in 2018).
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by herostratus101 8y ago
Just read all of the cancer posts on his blog. Very sad.
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by herostratus101 8y ago
Silicon Valley People: We need basic income because there aren't enough jobs for low-skilled workers. Also Silicon Valley People: Let's have open borders and import unlimited numbers of low-skilled workers. Doing anything else is
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by herostratus101 8y ago
I'm not sure your reading of this is warranted at all. In any event, are you sure it protects you from criminal liability if you label something as a deep fake, then other people redistribute it without that label?
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by herostratus101 8y ago
Is this specific to the UK? Because if so, it's irrelevant to what the person above was asking.
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by herostratus101 8y ago
(link here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/19/the-mystery-of... )
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by herostratus101 8y ago
The New Yorker story is still the most thorough and best reported story I have read on this subject: >> Smith rejected this explanation [of mass hysteria]. “To artificially display all of these symptoms, you’d have to actually go and
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by herostratus101 8y ago
This seems fairly pointless
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by herostratus101 8y ago
lol, The Purge (2018)
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by herostratus101 8y ago
He does cover SVD in EE263, and all of the lectures for that course are freely available online.

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