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   by joshpadnick 10y ago

   > The real solution is to either have more beds, or to have less people who need to use them. This is exactly the incentives we've wanted all along. Is healthcare too expensive to cover everyone's current level of need? Now i
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   by joshpadnick 10y ago

   Of course those deaths are horrible. Even a single needless death is the most tragic thing in the world. The point of my question was that "conventional" weapons are still limited compared to robotic warfare / AI. Very strong
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   by joshpadnick 10y ago

   This is really cool tech, but given the current political state, I can't help but worry about a powerful army of robots -- presumably with weapons attached -- being put into the hands of a leader we might consider to have "unrelia
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   by joshpadnick 10y ago

   I'm happily engaged in a DevOps startup and won't pursue this idea, but I proposed a new kind of news format shortly after the election at https://joshpadnick.com/2016/11/25/a-proposal-for-a-new-type
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   by joshpadnick 10y ago

   Very thoughtfully designed. I liked it better than Quip. But all our docs are in Google Docs, which sometimes includes spreadsheets, which doesn't appear supported. The very nice UX around collaboration isn't enough to justify the
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   by joshpadnick 10y ago

   So, government argues it needs broad spying powers for the "security" of the people, but many individuals in the government personally use tools they believe to be beyond the government's reach. Since I don't anticipate
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   by joshpadnick 10y ago

   Thanks, this makes sense. I suppose you can buy as many Yubikeys as your paranoia dictates and potentially even distribute your backups in different physical locations. Is there any potential for the Yubikeys to get "out of sync"?
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   by joshpadnick 10y ago

   What are the options for handling loss or theft of your YubiKey if using as an individual? I love the concept of a physical token as a second auth factor, but last I checked, there were no good loss-recovery scenarios when used as an indivi
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   by joshpadnick 10y ago

   Now that the official Ubuntu containers have gotten down to around 50MB for an image [1], can the case still be made for using Alpine? Admittedly, Alpine images are just 2MB [2], but I kept running into so many edge cases with musl, apk did
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    by joshpadnick 10y ago

    Huge fan of Typora. My one issue is with line breaks. I like to edit GitHub README's directly in Typora and add line breaks around the 80 character mark, but Typora's window seems to wrap them differently. For example: - README on
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    by joshpadnick 10y ago

    Thanks for this great response. To give more color on my use case, my goal is to ship logs off the server and to some central log aggregation platform. That could be self-managed (e.g. Elasticsearch) or hosted (e.g. SumoLogic, Loggly). In m
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    by joshpadnick 10y ago

    I'm wondering if Telegraf is a legit replacement for logstash or fluentd for shipping logs. I couldn't find this info from docs, so do you know if: - it supports multi-line logs (e.g. java stack traces) - it can output to elastics
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    by joshpadnick 10y ago

    Shamir's Secret Sharing [1] for viruses. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_Secret_Sharing
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    by joshpadnick 10y ago

    I'm really curious. What is the wise CTO's recommendation for a coup's way to securely message? As one of the other commenters said, WhatsApp and Signal still rely on third parties to host the system. But doesn't Signal
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    by joshpadnick 10y ago

    I don't have direct experience with any of these, but the Docker approach here is that Docker exposes a Volumes Plugin API[1] which allows third-parties to implement portable volume plugins that achieve the ability for a volume to pers
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    by joshpadnick 10y ago

    Definitely hear you on that, and we've taken steps to mitigate Terraform's "surface area" after we encountered some problematic use cases. This excellent article [1] does a nice job of talking about why it's importa
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    by joshpadnick 10y ago

    > Terraform isn't really doing anything that snazzy compared to Cloudformation I'd disagree with that. Just take a look at the Terraform Changelog[1] for some of the latest & greatest. For example, the concept of "Data
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    by joshpadnick 10y ago

    So, my co-founder and I have basically been independently building a commercially supported alternative to this excellent open source package. But there are a few differences that make sense when offering this as a paid service: - We wrote
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    by joshpadnick 10y ago

    - NAT Instances are placed in each Subnet for High Availability. This way, if one Availability Zone goes down and it happens to be where your NAT Instance is located, you don't lose connectivity. - Terraform vs. Ansible: /u&#x2F
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    by joshpadnick 10y ago

    What a cool concept! If any members of FarmBot team are watching this thread, could you comment on why you decided to make everything open source? Clearly, it's an awesome benefit for the community, but how does it also serve FarmBot t
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    by joshpadnick 10y ago

    I, for one, would mourn the death of Theranos. I live in Phoenix and used their lab service before all the negative press came out. They did the micro-vial testing on me so the blood draw was totally painless, quick, and just a few bucks pe
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    by joshpadnick 11y ago

    I found this article spot on and in fact just decided yesterday independently I'd like to sell or give away my watch. Yes, it's nice to respond to a call on your wrist, and yes the health tracking (esp. the heart rate monitor) is
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    by joshpadnick 11y ago

    I often wonder if there is a tech solution to these types of issues. For example, are records of every instance of a civil forfeiture publicly available? Would it be helpful (and ethical) to publish this list to shine a bright spotlight o
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    by joshpadnick 11y ago

    That's the problem. I have no way of knowing since I didn't also get the same blood tests from a conventional lab. So I have no baseline to compare them to.
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    by joshpadnick 11y ago

    I live in Phoenix, AZ and voluntarily sought out a Theranos test as part of an annual check-up last January. My PCP (primary care physician) ordered a bunch of blood tests, and I made the call to use a Theranos center at Walgreens. I showed
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    by joshpadnick 11y ago

    Totally agree. Setting up a 401(k) seems hard and I'd love help. Picking the right investment fund might also be hard, but placing my savings under the management of a relative stranger feels very uncomfortable. In a world where Berni
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    by joshpadnick 11y ago

    I'd love it if you could comment on how InfluxDB + Telegraf + Grafana + $OpenSourceAlertingTool compares to commercial offerings like DataDog or SignalFx? Also, is Telegraf meant to replace cAdvisor for InfluxDB users?
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    by joshpadnick 11y ago

    Could someone familiar with the Go ecosystem comment on how well Go works with relational and NoSQL databases? Specifically, I'm interested in libraries that serve an ORM (or ORM-like) function, or that are non-blocking. For example,
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    by joshpadnick 11y ago

    I appreciate that you posted this. My first thought when seeing this was "Why all the fancywork when we can just use S3?" Keywhiz uses KMS to encrypt config data and then put it in DynamoDB. This means that access to Keywhiz-mana
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    by joshpadnick 12y ago

    That's a good point. Part of me is trained to think about this like an economist (the subject of one of my bachelor's), but in the end I really hope that human compassion triumphs and this proves to be a win-win. I'm routing