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by manquer 2y ago
Few beers with a fridge is one thing , skinny dipping with the toaster is suicidal !
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by manquer 2y ago
That is a big “IF” . 99.99% side projects are not successful, you should not be planning architecture expecting to win the lottery . Even if you did, on premise self-hosting does not save from scaling costs or problems . If you are successf
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by manquer 2y ago
That cost and time is less about nuclear and more about this being bespoke one-off for US with little recent experience in building new reactors. It is like saying designing and building a single new car is costing few millions and taking y
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by manquer 2y ago
That is equally terrible comparison. It is the first new reactor in US in 30 plus years , the experience and expertise is simply not there to do it cheaply and on time . France , India and some other countries regularly builds reactors and
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by manquer 2y ago
Rocket regulations apply including ITAR, FAA and others for any payload human or cargo launched on any vehicle . The launch doesn’t have to be even to launched from the US, rocket lab have to comply with them even when launching from New Ze
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by manquer 2y ago
They didn’t claim to be running non-profit/ capped profit entity , being altruistic and saving the world from AGI and didn’t co-opt the word “Open” and never claimed to work on a humble 65000 salary with no equity upside and doing it a
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by manquer 2y ago
Statutory law is no exception, it is not only common law which is inconsistent. Laws are not logical constructs, they are political constructs, why expect logic from them. Laws are passed or repealed because it is popular or politically adv
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by manquer 2y ago
Obviously you need subject knowledge, that should be implicit? Keep in mind even today[1] ( in California and few other states) you don't need to go law school to write the Bar exam and practice law, various forms of apprenticeship und
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by manquer 2y ago
Not just better, it will only work in Firefox soon . Ad blockers will stop working on Chrome based browsers with Manifest V2 being dropped starting next week. All Chromimum based browsers are in the same boat, Ad blocking will be severely d
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by manquer 2y ago
It was involuntary that is the point . It was not Sam idea to leave YC at the time Your remote work example is not different companies ask a performance improvement plan they are saying improve your performance or leave. That “ or leave” do
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by manquer 2y ago
Graph models need not be your tables . They should reflect your data models, the same kind of models that would have been exposed in a traditional RESTful API? Similar concepts of allowing queries and response formats was there in other sta
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by manquer 2y ago
Hasura does role based access control pretty well. Apollo federation and implementation of supergraph and nested graphs is pretty robust We use both in production at reasonable scale and complexity 10+ roles few hundred object models, 100s
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by manquer 2y ago
> NASA had no way to get crew to the ISS, and relied exclusively on Russia. The reason NASA was doing that was because of risk aversion and lack of innovation! The shuttle was shut down because NASA couldn’t afford another disaster like
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by manquer 2y ago
The talent and even many of the ideas came from NASA and old space, while SpaceX has both inspired and created a generation of it, there was always strong engineering talent in rocket science. The primary issue for other companies is cultur
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by manquer 2y ago
> Motivation issue i.e threat model. A lot of security processes are not designed for say state actors with library of 0- days or monopoly on violence(i.e. $5 wrench) that doesn’t make them bad. Security is a spectrum, perhaps some subse
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by manquer 2y ago
Isn’t that what Reddit is or digg was ? Link aggregators ? Gaming that is solved problem , you can use human bot farms to brigade and astroturf and you can even motivate people to do it for free . If cost of spamming is cheaper than cost of
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by manquer 2y ago
what good will consensus on a statement everyone already agrees on help with ? nobody is ok innocents with being executed[2] . Even the Texan criminal justice system responsible for a third of the about 1600 executions since 1976 will say t
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by manquer 2y ago
What has innocent to do with it ? Innocent under whose eyes ? one man’s revolutionary is another man’s terrorist. what morality and code stands the test of time ? actions which was legal and moral say 200 years ago would be illegal and amo
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by manquer 2y ago
video encoder/decoder support and performance has order of magnitude improvement in M series, I am surprised that didnt sway you. Not just that, for high res stuff or modern codecs like AV1 or h265 is probably not supported at all in
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by manquer 2y ago
I won’t be so sure, pardons are possible , people convicted of far worse crimes than him have been pardoned in the dying days of a presidency. It is quite possible in few years his political capital would be useful for that (with some new d
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by manquer 2y ago
It was not that OVH is competitive for streaming , it is that even likes of OVH is orders of magnitude cheaper than cloud, let alone actual setups for streaming companies whose cost data no one in this thread has access to.
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by manquer 2y ago
AWS is particularly bad at this for S3. Cloudflare and most other Object Storage Providers either fully free egress for all users or at-least for inter-cloud transit so you can then put a free/cheap CDN like Cloudflare in front and not
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by manquer 2y ago
The key point is video streaming products are not impaired because of high cost of bandwidth, that only YouTube can only afford because Google subsidizes it from other revenue. YouTube is profitable by itself, the combination of premium and
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by manquer 2y ago
Yes, at certain scale you likely have deals with many CDNs. At even higher scale (YouTube, Facebook or even Netflix ) you are going to be putting content caching servers at the local ISP PoPs : it is mutually beneficial to do so .
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by manquer 2y ago
Cloud bandwidth pricing has nothing with do with costs and everything to do with lock in . You can get 100x cheaper and unmetered at a low cost provider like OVH or hetzner or similar bare metal data centers . It doesn’t even need significa
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by manquer 2y ago
We were talking about last 10-12 years Any reasonable observer wouldn’t compare the first 15 years of google to the next 15. Also the examples(baring fitbit ) you cite were great product ideas but fairly small companies, it takes a very dif
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by manquer 2y ago
Google did a $70B stock buyback last year. Every year they are doing similar numbers for the last 5 years. In 2012 they had $50B cash on hand. Today despite the buybacks every year they still have $100-150Billion cash on hand, while Comcast
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by manquer 2y ago
And yet all these mega corps can spend 100s of millions on lobbying and get favorable law passed or regulation taken care whether labor, FTC or taxes or EPA . The local council is apparently the last bastion of democracy that can ward of in
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by manquer 2y ago
Meh, they could have bought one the monopolies if they wanted to, like they did with Motorola when it is was in their interest to do so. It is a matter of will and persistence to run a this kind of business, Google does not have the DNA to
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by manquer 2y ago
Beyond deleting the reference to file , Delete the data on disk means one of two things : Overwrite with zeros or have another file contents written over it . Overwrite with zeros is generally not done as default in flash memories to improv

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