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by mmt 8y ago
> That seems like a topic for private communication methods. Since the topic is public officials acting in their official capacity, I disagree.
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by mmt 8y ago
I assume you meant 1000x not 1000% (since the latter would only be 10x. Is there any evidence that even as many as 1/1000 startups provide a 1000x return to VCs, considering that the return is only a fraction of a total exit? Even then
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by mmt 8y ago
> the stock market only averages 7% on long time series (30ish years) I believe that's inflation-adjusted, whereas the article seems to be ignoring inflation, other than mentioning it once. > If you add the constraint that you m
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by mmt 8y ago
Do all the downvotes mean people merely disagree? Surely none of my points are so obviously invalid as to warrant silent dismissal. After all, if there had been a blog post (or other similar discussion topic) that could pointed to, no (repe
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by mmt 8y ago
> we have no way of adjudicating which posts are fair and true vs. not. You routinely bring this up as if it's somehow necessary but have never demonstrated why , only resorting to "it's better for the community", wi
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by mmt 8y ago
> a different kind of cluster, that could optimize for better throughput, and more efficient storage It doesn't even require all that much imagination, considering how anemic the storage IO choices are under AWS. Until recently, EBS
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by mmt 8y ago
That made me wonder, though, in this particular context, are these really outliers? Even just counting population, the Bay Area's CSA is 8.8M, NYC is 23.9M, Boston is 8.2M and LA is 18.9M. That's already over 18% of the population
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Here’s why so many data scientists are leaving their jobs(towardsdatascience.com)
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by mmt 8y ago
> Perversely incentivizes getting sick. This is a stretch, since "getting sick" isn't generally something one controls directly. At most, it could incentivize illness-risking behavior. However, even then, to be an incentiv
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by mmt 8y ago
Location: San Francisco Bay Area California Remote: OK Willing to relocate: no Technologies: hybrid cloud, datacenter, AWS, PostgreSQL, network engineering, bash/shell, Linux system administration, Devops culture, software concierge, c
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by mmt 8y ago
It's even in th instructions in the post: > Only one post per month, please.
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by mmt 8y ago
That notion is conradicted by numerous articles about WPA2 cracks. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=wpa&sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&...
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by mmt 8y ago
> Of course, tape, the subject of TFA, is even better. $17k > LTO-8 drives are $2700 and 12TB cartridge are $170. What I initially ignored was the cost of a "library" (robot), which is, arguably, necessary if the minimum ti
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A minimalist, good-enough approach to object-relational mapping (2017)(blog.dieselpoint.com)
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by mmt 8y ago
Indeed, at 1TB scale, cloud storage can sound "dirt cheap", and, of course, it is, since the fixed cost of hardware to store that reliably is the same as for 100TB. 10x that, or a petabyte, would cost $144k-$180k after 3 years, de
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by mmt 8y ago
Indeed, all of this are debatable, and the article only specifically mentions "rise up through the ranks", which means management. Of course, even that's a questionable proposition. It calls out the youth of a Chief Product O
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by mmt 8y ago
That particular one, "career progression" only seems to apply to those who consider it a progression to move into management. That seems to be a minority opinion among engineers, but, more importantly, there are far fewer manageme
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by mmt 8y ago
> equity is now viewed dubiously by many This could be merely viewing it with the correct amount of doubt, as the trend has been toward less information asymmetry between founders/employers and candidates/employees. The small
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by mmt 8y ago
> They should really focus on hiring junior people who can't or won't work for Google/Facebook. This is also antithetical to (some) startups' way of thinking, which is that they must hire only senior/"top&q
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by mmt 8y ago
> they are pretty bad at math You've been couching your assertions in hyperbolic judgmental-sound terms, which I fear detracts from your point, but this seems to be the crux of it. You have not, however, demonstrated the "math
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by mmt 8y ago
> If you’re saving on the order of a hundred dollars per tape (12TB), you’re going to have enough left over for a few readers. That's a good point, and it certainly improves the attractiveness of tape overall. Still, a $200 saving i
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by mmt 8y ago
The point is that, to a VC, a small return is indistinguishable from losing all the (not "your", since they rarely have much, if any of their own money in it) money. Given their economics, VCs have a very strong incentive (or an i
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by mmt 8y ago
> Only very myopic VCs would think this way globally. Might this be a (converse version of a) No True Scotsman fallacy? Elsewhere in the thread, a comment [1] referenced an article [2] that details the return imperatives that VCs face. I
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The meeting that showed me the truth about VCs (2017)(techcrunch.com)
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by mmt 8y ago
> a lot of these workers are independent contractors My understanding was that, though the "Flex" delivery workers could be independent contractors (where allowed, similar to the ride hailing situation), that's not possib
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by mmt 8y ago
> that only applies to full time associates. This is what immediately caught my eye when reading Amazon's response. I was under the impression that their FCs are primarily staffed by contractors. If "associate" is just cor
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by mmt 8y ago
All this may be true, but I can't tell one way or the other, nor can I determine if it's actually applicable to the context of the discussion/article. It all seems very low-level. As a lay person (without EE or physics traini
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by mmt 8y ago
I'm not the OC, but my understanding of the context is within an integrated circuit, possibly within a multi-die package, and as an alternative to smaller unit sizes. > is it an electronic component, that will consequently influenc
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by mmt 8y ago
My point isn't that parallelism isn't possible with tapes, but, rather, that it not comparable, due to cost, at same order of magnitude or two. > Even with drives, if you get too elaborate of an enclosure or JBOD, you're
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by mmt 8y ago
> author choose to paint Magnetic as better alternative to Flash (in capacity dimension) I'm having trouble finding where in the article that occurred. To me, it seemed to ignore flash/SSD, as the principle premise was that tap

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