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by mjolk 10y ago
> That view would be a lot more legitimate, IMO, if we had a functional government trying to carry on normal business for the benefit of the people... An analogy that should ring a bell with many HN regulars would be the new technical ma
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by mjolk 10y ago
Facebook asks for a lot of information from users and grew its way into government contracts and safer high $value arrangements due to how much data they store. Even if you're not "on" Facebook, people you know will establis
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by mjolk 10y ago
Traditional full time employment is a much safer bet for savings.
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by mjolk 10y ago
If your startup isn't a labor of love or you're not driven by a strong dislike of an alternative career path, then almost every startup would die the second the founder(s) do the math of income opportunity cost of trying vs stable
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by mjolk 10y ago
> Is any labour of love worth your potential future? Kind of a funny question on a site for people doing startups.
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by mjolk 10y ago
Core complaints of article (please add any that I missed): 1. Steam receives dozens of releases a day and it's difficult for developers/publishers to make their title stand-out without performing marketing. 2. Author perceives tha
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by mjolk 10y ago
As a Python user, I have mixed feelings about this change. I think this move to corporate hosting is acknowledgment of usability and ease of use at the expense of political purity -- for a project as important and major as Python, this furt
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by mjolk 10y ago
I'm not sure why you replied to my reply, but the moral "should" isn't really relevant when the database-to-protest-a-database suggestion is a non-starter due to more egregious flaws.
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by mjolk 10y ago
Please explain.
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by mjolk 10y ago
If you're trying to accuse me of something, I'd prefer you have the decency to do it directly and unequivocally.
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by mjolk 10y ago
Please re-read the parent comment: > it should start with a list of companies that publicly state that their employees are allowed to protest, even if the company disagrees with them. The part that is objectionable is the expectation tha
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by mjolk 10y ago
You're suggesting a left-wing form of McCarthyism. I don't care if my employees/reports protest as long as they do their job and don't attempt political intimidation, but I am not willing to put my company on a list to
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by mjolk 10y ago
How would you verify that an employee was fired for peaceful protest or that self-reporter even worked for the company? Would you demand that a company admit this was the reason or would you trust the person that created the entry for the
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by mjolk 10y ago
Your solution for a problematic database is to create a problematic database?
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by mjolk 10y ago
> Yes, that is a problem. However, the capacity limits you mention don't disappear when we just say, "Open University of California to the whole planet". The only real solution is to build up more top-quality universities
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by mjolk 10y ago
There's no private-message interface for hackernews (so I'm unable to communicate this out-of-bound), but I wanted to tell you that even though we recently disagreed in a different thread, I appreciate your perspective.
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by mjolk 10y ago
Their videos are just clips of others' content, this isn't original work or a leader on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/user/ClimateProgressWorld/videos This reeks of breaking a ToS and then trying to
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by mjolk 10y ago
Youtube is owned by Google. Google is not at all pro-republican party, so this is not a Trump-related thing.
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by mjolk 10y ago
> If we mean what we say about equal opportunity, then we're essentially talking about cutting the probabilistic link between one's background and one's distribution over outcomes. The intrinsic problem with this approach
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by mjolk 10y ago
Is your assertion that we should seek to normalize outcomes in order to address differences in opportunity?
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by mjolk 10y ago
> So there's a lie being told to the rest of us that life is supposed to be reasonably fair and that we're supposed to work toward keeping it that way. Whoever told you that did you a massive disservice. You're not entitl
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by mjolk 10y ago
Not saying that I disagree that the standards aren't being lowered, but that conclusion doesn't necessarily logically follow. Where you only have one side of the data for your anecdotal experience, it's also possible that yo
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by mjolk 10y ago
I'm sorry if this is just really dry satire, but that's absurd. > "Hire California Latino workers or we will tax your ass out of existence!!!" Speaking as someone that's been involved with a lot of hiring decisio
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by mjolk 10y ago
> I'd love to once see a scientific approach rather than the political one You're asking a lot from soft science, especially where said effects would be really hard to measure.
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by mjolk 10y ago
> First, if you don't notice some random/unexpected EC2 instance failures, you don't have a big EC2 deployment. ...Not seeing any unique value proposition here for "the cloud". Because when something fails, you d
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by mjolk 10y ago
> And when EC2 falls over, like it tends to do a few times a year? Multi-AZ, multi-region complete failures are very, very rare. How often do you get a failure in your data center per year (that you notice)? > You're going to be
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by mjolk 10y ago
That interpretation would only make sense if TF or Go could only run on Google's "cloud".
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by mjolk 10y ago
Where cloud-hosting costs are recurring, it's something that won't amortize.
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by mjolk 10y ago
What are the terms? I'd take that action if we're talking in their current form/focus.
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by mjolk 10y ago
> Script your stuff out in Ansible or something similar, run it on your own hardware, and use GCloud/EC2 as secondary data centers for failover/backup/support/emergency bursts/whatever. You can have the flexibili

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