l8again

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by l8again 9y ago
Bernie Sanders "Medicare for All" plan makes all the sense in the world. Expand medicare for everyone. Pay the government instead of insurance premium. Medical costs go down. Doctors/hospitals might earn less, but will have g
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by l8again 9y ago
To add to this. Having implemented a similar log-based architecture, I would say that it is much simpler data infrastructure than having a central RDBMS considering the use case. Remember we need to deal with several consumer applications w
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by l8again 10y ago
I am curious to know why you think that's a relevant question?
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by l8again 10y ago
quick nit: the author is a woman. I see other commenters making the same mistake. So, thought I would correct it.
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by l8again 10y ago
A: Some guy, who was democratically elected.... B: This guy ran on a xenophobic platform, declaring to ban an entire religion (unconstitutional). Travel ban, by the admission of his own people, was a way of "making it legal". C: E
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by l8again 10y ago
Before Instacart was on the scene, my brother and I thought of about a similar service. My brother in his college days used to be a pizza delivery driver, so he had the "real world" experience. Over the weekend, I quickly created
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by l8again 10y ago
GC holders were included, then they weren't, and now they are on a "case by case basis". But good job prettying up the pig, though the stink is strong on this one.
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by l8again 10y ago
Combined with the blanket ban that includes even GC holders, and a clause that due preference is given to one religion over another, along with the way its being implemented (grandmothers detained for 13 - 24 hours on valid visas) with the
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Ask HN: How do I make my HOA to make their online payment page secure?
9 points by l8again 10y ago|6 comments
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by l8again 10y ago
EmoDB - a distributed data store with a global streaming platform on top of Cassandra
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Show HN: EmoDB – a distributed data store with a global streaming platform(bazaarvoice.github.io)
2 points by l8again 10y ago|1 comments
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by l8again 10y ago
A bane of our existence, when working with dbs, is that we always conflate storage with query optimization. When we talk about databases, we unconsciously think of both concerns. This is traditionally instilled in us as that makes the most
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by l8again 11y ago
For us, it boiled down to multi-master writes, and global replication (multi-datacenters). Cassandra worked best for our use case. Moreover, as others have pointed out, high availability with fault tolerance is another major reason. CAP the
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by l8again 11y ago
Another trend I've seen emerging is devs almost always bring in their laptops to meeting and zone out (doing their real work) when they don't care about what's being discussed. Don't know if its good or bad. Or maybe peo
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by l8again 11y ago
I am curious to know how it plans to charge the masses in countries where credit cards are not as ubiquitous. That includes countries like India.