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by mmt 8y ago
I think you've said two different things here. > A loss leader doesn't need to be sold below cost, only below its minimum profit margin. I think that's an important point, in that you're saying that it's incorrec
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by mmt 8y ago
My conclusion (not just based on this example), is that MySQL favors (initial) ease [1], whereas PostgreSQL favors correctness [2]. To suggest the former approach is "stupid" is to fail to explain how it became so wildly popular.
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by mmt 8y ago
That's certainly true for PCIe lanes, though their memory channel density is unremarkable. (I've also read about cache latency affecting database performance, but I'm not sure what to think of that consindering how synthetic
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by mmt 8y ago
I would expect that to favor memcache, until the RDBMSes get code to specifically take advantage of it, but even that may be a naive expectation.
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by mmt 8y ago
I'd say that's comparable scarcity to DIMM slots, as the ratio between those and PCIe channels tends to be in the range of 1:2-4 on current CPUs.
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by mmt 8y ago
I think it's also important to amortize construction costs over the useful life of the infrastructure, not just how long it takes to pay back the loan. That $40k of road is only $800/year over 50 years. (And I doubt all of it was
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by mmt 8y ago
What would be interesting to see is if this benefit would be better applied directly to the database instead. The relative scarcity of NVMe ports/bandwidth per server may make that as unattractive as doing the (RAM) caching on the data
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by mmt 8y ago
> I mean couldn't one say that a lot of sys admin jobs have been automated by VM's, further by containers and other automated deployment tools? I think one could only say that if those jobs didn't still exist with the new
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by mmt 8y ago
> many places in the US where the closest doctor is a few hundred miles away Although this statement may be true, it may also be irrelevant if there are no people in those places . That said, I'm not just being pedantic: my poin
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by mmt 8y ago
> (in many areas of Europe it did, I don't know about the Americas) there was a huge influx of people with no technical expertise, all of whom simple wanted to be a startup owner for the sake of it, with no plans or targets, just to
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by mmt 8y ago
It's also quite a bit longer, though I agree it's worth the read. > You succumb to survivorship bias because you are innately terrible with statistics. This one line is probably one of my biggest takeaways, and I wish we had a
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by mmt 8y ago
This is oft-repeated advice, but, in this context, it ends up being little more than a platitude. Since the complaint here is of corruption that is silent , the level of testing required to catch it would be extraordinary.
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by mmt 8y ago
> That would only leave people to PostgreSQL or NoSQL Databases like MongoDB AFAIK. That's only true if you ignore the non-free options, which is what, I would argue, Postgres and Mysql were originally competing against in the first
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by mmt 8y ago
> perhaps other municipalities) have a 72-hour law This is harmonized by state law, CVC 22651(k). It's probably safe to assume every city and county (which therefore means the whole state, excepting federal reservations) has such a
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by mmt 8y ago
> yeah because a treatment that might induce a seizure is just what one needs. For some patients, a treatment that does exactly induce a seizure (i.e. ECT) is what they need. Of course, because of the risk of harm, it's still rese
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by mmt 8y ago
> you could simply direct hospitals to treat poor people for free. Nobody does that Actually, I believe that's exactly what happens in the US with emergency departments. Although it supports your point about such a practice being di
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by mmt 8y ago
> Python was invented in 90's and it's took 20+ years for debian to setup some serious guidelines for python developers. I've only ever packaged in-house (within a company I'm working for) Python apps, very simple ope
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by mmt 8y ago
> I would have thought that you do it by (expected) lifetime of the panels. That would certainly make the most sense to me, and maybe even based on the warranty period, with accounting for replacing failing or underperforming panels afte
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by mmt 8y ago
>This kind of innumeracy is distressingly common. I would say it certainly doesn't help that science reporting essentially never gives the numbers that matter, nor explains what they mean. > Covering 33 randomized clinical trials
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by mmt 8y ago
> I've never understood this idea of feeling humiliated at the gym or while starting a new sport. I don't, either, but, because of that, I wouldn't presume to give out advice regarding this aspect without first understandi
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by mmt 8y ago
Agreed. Furthermore, what is somewhat amazing is that, on a Good Day (or less depressed or in-remission day, or whatever one wants to call it), one can also look back on a Bad Day, just yesterday, and be mystified why that seemingly dead si
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by mmt 8y ago
Yes, they were not yet tired enough of sitting, at least not enough to stand up for some small amount of time, only to have to sit back down again. This is true for any part of the flight, not not just before the start of descent. There are
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by mmt 8y ago
> the people who are the first to stand up rarely get up and walk around during the flight If they didn't get up and walk around during the flight, wouldn't they be the most tired of sitting and therefore the most motivated to
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by mmt 8y ago
To a human, that's a very loaded question. There are some emotionally compelling arguments for human exceptionalism, such as everything we've "accomplished" (space flight, global warming). Magic is remarkably simple, i
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by mmt 8y ago
I brought it up not to nitpick semantics, but to elucidate to the, arguably more technical audience of HN, how the technical details can matter here. Even to call it a "system" dialog is misleading, since it's just a system-p
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by mmt 8y ago
Fortunately, that speculation has little merit, not just because it's a sample size of 1 (aka anecdata) but, more importantly, because it was made by the depression sufferer herself. Also, characterizing a country that doesn't sup
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by mmt 8y ago
That's both an uncharitable reading and out of context. Like the original commenter, I'm feeling free to take some liberties with my language. However, to clarify, the threshold I was suggesting was of severe, unrelenting pain,
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by mmt 8y ago
> It's not zero. The numbers are pretty big Woah.. treatment resistance is nowhere near the same as being untreatable. It's an alarmingly huge leap to make, especially since the definition kicks in after only two anti-depress
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by mmt 8y ago
I'm pretty sure that's a misconception. That's just the application using a system library for that dialog box, and the system library's look and feel (unsurprisingly) match the Finder's. In some cases, the code may
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by mmt 8y ago
> I really wonder why Y Combinator, as a clear thought leader in the technology start-up space, doesn't vocally support private offices more, given Graham's own unequivocal endorsement of them in an essay about foundational ide

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