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by kyrra 3y ago
I guess it's different types of concerns. My feeling is that Google tries to optimize the resources of a datacenter, and the larger it is, the better things can scale. GCP Zones provide logical separation of machines for management (
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by kyrra 3y ago
Yeah, I think you're right. I think you could build such an API, but there will be so many gotchyas with each special form of payment, it will be really difficult to use well. Knowing which fields to populate for a given form of payme
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by kyrra 3y ago
Googler, opinions are my own. I think you misunderstand Google's infrastructure. I'm guessing that each GCP zone is actually a Borg Cell (see: https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-... ). B
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by kyrra 3y ago
Building such a thing would be extremely difficult. When you start getting to the local level with banks, networks, and governments, there are all kinds of different things you have to deal with. You have all the different forms of payment
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by kyrra 3y ago
They used to have higher end stuff, but shifted to different brands over the last few years. See: https://www.wsj.com/articles/bed-bath-beyond-ceo-private-lab... ( https://archive.is/xacpG )
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by kyrra 4y ago
Do you know we could keep people safer if we set car speed limits to 10 mph everywhere. We can make everybody wear safety helmets all the time. Maybe we could just prevent everyone from interacting with others, and we can just shut down all
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by kyrra 4y ago
The problem is that in government, you are rarely if ever punished for being top strict with your regulation. You are only ever chastised if you are too lenient (or the appearance of it). People like scapegoats and will use lax regulations
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by kyrra 4y ago
For too much radtion, I recommend reading: https://www.wsj.com/articles/nuclear-regulatory-council-nrc-... ( https://archive.is/LITQT ). I'm not sure how France treats radiation levels, but in the U
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by kyrra 4y ago
Totally makes sense, I guess I do the same thing internally (using partitioned tables, so the queries are a lot smaller, or making sure to only select the minimum columns to prove my query is correct). I also have no clue if my internal qu
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by kyrra 4y ago
Googler opinions are my own. I know little about BQ. My understanding of Big query is that at least some of the tech it's based on allows for handling very large datasets. I'm talking being able to search BI that is petabytes in
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by kyrra 4y ago
Teacher unions regularly ignore students (they are there for the teachers), much like Cop unions are there only to protect the cops. See Teacher Unions pushing to keep schools closed at the detriment of students.
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by kyrra 4y ago
> there aren't many teachers in the first place, and the older ones often lack the motivation to further their own knowledge I'd also say part of the cause of this are the teacher unions. When we don't do merit based promo
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by kyrra 4y ago
I'd love to hear the authors thoughts on Tink. It seems to have similar properties to NaCL, wondering why it isn't mentioned. I'm guessing low adoption?
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by kyrra 4y ago
In-person and video/audio/phone conversations do not have the same requirements. What makes text chat that is meant to be ephemeral to be different than an in person chat?
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by kyrra 4y ago
And more concrete example for the banking system is a recent bank failures. The Fed and FDIC have effectively given notice to the banking system that crypto is disfavored. See: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/signatures-
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by kyrra 4y ago
I'm sorry, but no. Yes, this might work at an academic level, but dealing with the politics of the world and human nature, this thing that you ask cannot happen given the diversity of the politics and cultures of the world. It's t
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by kyrra 4y ago
WSL2 should help some? It's not perfect, but can get you a lot of the way there.
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by kyrra 4y ago
Defer overhead was mostly fixed in Go 1.14. From: https://go.dev/doc/go1.14 > This release improves the performance of most uses of defer to incur almost zero overhead compared to calling the deferred function dire
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by kyrra 4y ago
I think the point the authors of the article were trying to make was that the Fed has operated for 90 years and never lost money. We've been through multiple financial crisis and not been in the situation. They are implying the current
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by kyrra 4y ago
Good to know that AOSP lets you just build ontop of it now. To me this means not really a different OS, but closer to something like a different window-manager (this is more akin to Gnome vs KDE, not Linux vs FreeBSD).
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by kyrra 4y ago
My take on why a third mobile OS is hard is that phones don't have a standard BIOS type system that gets all basic I/O working on it. So having an OS that can install on existing phones is a bunch of work. And there were previousl
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by kyrra 4y ago
I'd recommend reading those that disagree with race-based admission (Jason Riley for example) as to why it tends to be a bad idea. My take on the argument against what you are saying is that it is effectively lowering the standards for
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by kyrra 4y ago
with the paired announcement post at: https://blog.google/technology/ai/try-bard/
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by kyrra 4y ago
This policy has been in place since the Oracle lawsuit, which was the impetus for it.
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by kyrra 4y ago
The issue is that this isn't Microsoft bootstrapping a new division that produces games exclusive for their platforms. This is a problem of Microsoft trying to buy one of the larger existing game publishers with some very popular title
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by kyrra 4y ago
Got it, thanks
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by kyrra 4y ago
I don't understand how this pension fund manager will lose any money if the FDIC will be making all depositors whole. The article doesn't seem to cover this (unless I missed it).
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by kyrra 4y ago
There's a certain amount of risk with all lending and investment that banks do with deposit funds. This can be home loans, government bonds, and other relatively safe products. I don't think it should be up to the government to ba
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by kyrra 4y ago
There was a scene from an internal meeting where an SVP rolled their eyes while Vic was talking about G+ and the real name policy. Even others as Vic's level were not a fan of him.
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by kyrra 4y ago
everything is super broken. I can't load help pages. Links to 3rd party sites (that use t.co links) don't work. All kinds of fubar going on.

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