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by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
Not too surprising. YC’s more successful companies do have a history of skirting (Uber, AirBNB). When I worked at PagerDuty, some of the less ethical aspects of the company (like the product was initially developed while interns at Amazon)
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SF poop-testing startup, once compared to Theranos, charged in $60M fraud scheme(sfgate.com)
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by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
Cycling is almost one of those politically charged conversations which should be banned from HN. As a bicycle commuter and enthusiast (since somehow cyclist is a dirty word) I’ve long since learned that any online discussion inevitably de
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by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
I always wondered if Frank Herbert’s “Axlotl tanks” were borrowed from Huxley.
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by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
When the Taliban destroyed Bamiyan Buddhist statues in Afghanistan in March 2001, NPR started calling for blood and I realized how spot-on Noam Chomsky was when he said “In times of war, all media becomes state media.” This was before 9&#x2
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by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
Living in the future sucks. We thought we were going to get an Asimovian utopia. Instead it’s more like a sad cross-over between gibson and orwell.
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by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
Nor will there be any privacy benefit to the Danes knowing their Apple data is stored within the borders of their nation or having lower latency to these services. The only reason this is being done is to destroy the world with wind turbine
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by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
I’m sure the construction of those other datacenters will also mean nothing to the economy. Also, as we have seen in The Dalles, Oregon over the past 15 years, the inevitable increase in fiber and power capacity to this region, which will a
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by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
Sure, I’m sure you are 200% correct. This will be nothing but a resource drain, and will have $0 economic benefit whatsoever. That’s why so many regional and international governments clamor to attract datacenter projects. Because they are
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by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
> Apple is just going to open more data centers, hardly eco-friendly. Would you rather Apple build these datacenters in a nation with coal power? European datacenter construction is heavily concentrated in Ireland or UK. Denmark has ple
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by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
To begin with, those wind turbines don’t build or wire themselves, now do they? Just the construction creates a lot of good jobs, so does the maintenance work involved. So does the infrastructure built and maintained to get that power into
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by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
If you had ever been there you would know that the residents are left-leaning, forward thinking people who are very proud of those wind turbines. They are incredibly eco-conscious and would roll their eyes at your statement, invite you in
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by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
I’m working on a decision tree workflow to help burned out / aged out engineers leave the industry and seek a happier career path.
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by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
Sure, but This doesn’t get around America destroying your economy via sanctions and embargoes. It also doesn’t prevent America and Israel from assassinating your nuclear physicists and engineers, or attacking your infrastructure with viruse
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by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
> Actually I don't think it is moral. This idea of going somewhere remote and just living off the land. Consider how much of the fruits of our labor ends up in landfills and this seems like a somewhat disastrous philosophy to me.
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by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
Consider the USA’s position as nuclear police, then put yourself in the position of a third world nation on the receiving end of this “gift”. Here are some of the very valid questions a poor country would have to ask. “Do we really want Ame
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by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
> The only thing I'll say is... Extensions have a scary level of access (they're basically almost as easy to use as a website, but with unlimited powers such as recording every site you visit and stealing passwords), and the av
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by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
If a truck full of solar panels crashes on the highway, that highway doesn’t become a superfund site. It doesn’t cost hundreds of millions to clean up, the local community doesn’t see a massive spike in cancer. You cannot say the same abou
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by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
Since you’re going to go there, let’s add in the damage from all the iron, that limestone and uranian required to build the nuclear plant? Also quite damaging. Photovoltaics, not the best. Now what about mirrors pointing at concrete towers
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by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
When one plant’s worth of solar panel waste is improperly discarded, does it ruin potable water supplies, airable land and the health of entire regions? Does that area become a no-man’s land for decades /centuries, even after spending
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by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
Dude, sciatica was my catalyst for lifestyle change as well. I had a bicycle accident 14 years ago and damaged my piraformis. It was the most humbling and painful experience of my life.
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by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
Right side of history? I dunno about anything like that. It’s just business, show me the money. There will be a new trend next year or the year after, ad nauseum. I’ve been consulting on and off for over 20 years now, I dont even remember m
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by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
It’s unpopular, but I embrace (AWS) lock-in for small and mid-sized infrastructure. AWS’ various services solve 99.9% of any infrastructure needs. High-bandwidh streaming and heavy gpu processing is one of the few places my customers find
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by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
Nothing I do in this world is life or death. Hell, my customers neither, mostly they sell or support advertising in one fashion or another. Some founder I work for might make billions on products people don’t need, why shouldn’t I make $50k
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by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
Actually This is exactly how I accidentally started consulting on k8s. Three of my customers had engineers who advocated for k8s, did 50-75% of an implementation then left. I have told all of my customers they don’t need this, but they are
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by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
This past year I’ve finally been able to hit the $200/hour rate as a k8s consultant. I feel like I’m selling snake oil. I’m working on my 7th implementation and none of my customers need kubernetes. Basically all of their developers