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by mrkurt 6y ago
You've redefined VC here, but not for any useful reason. Putting money into a risky company is "venture capital". It's literally capital for a new venture. The distinction you're making is between institutional and
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by mrkurt 6y ago
I think you're flirting with a no-true-scotsman argument. VC can mean everything from "seed fund" to "private equity" to "family funds". Giant investments at later stages are frequently from institutions t
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by mrkurt 6y ago
Yes it's standard, or at least it was. The FTC has been rubber stamping acquisitions for almost 20 years.
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by mrkurt 6y ago
I'm here for the Zoolander meme. Even if it was an accident.
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by mrkurt 6y ago
(Disclaimer: I work on Fly.io, this post is bias) It will probably be a while. We've been evaluating Quic and the ecosystem just isn't quite ready. We opted to release UDP support instead, so apps that want Quic can do it, but we
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by mrkurt 6y ago
The flippant answer is "it doesn't really matter, safety usually wins over performance". But also, we run Firecrackers on our own physical servers and performance is quite good (even network + disk performance).
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by mrkurt 6y ago
Because of JavaScript. Really! We settled on Rust back when we were building a JS runtime into our proxy. It's a great language for hosting v8. When we realized our customers just wanted to run any ol' code, and not be stuck in a
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by mrkurt 6y ago
Most organizations don't have the multi tenant problem we do, and end up just using Docker when they do containers. But I also think it's fair to call "Firecracker VMs" containers. Most of what those people are talking a
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by mrkurt 6y ago
We have a whole post about workload isolation that answers this: https://fly.io/blog/sandboxing-and-workload-isolation/ The tldr is: Docker containers don't offer enough isolation for multi tenant systems. Th
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by mrkurt 6y ago
We use Nomad + custom Firecracker plugin and custom device plugins. Nomad is very nice, much smaller in scope than k8s, and saved us a lot of effort. We don't use any of Nomad's networking stuff, really, so all the BPF work was re
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by mrkurt 6y ago
We are! It's Rust + Hyper. It is a _lot_ of work, but that's because we're trying to proxy arbitrary client traffic to arbitrary backends AND give them geo load balancing. Writing proxies is fun. Highly recommended.
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by mrkurt 6y ago
Yep! We have a "Firecracker that accepts QUIC" running with this. People usually want HTTP + TLS handled for them, though. So when we ship QUIC + HTTP3 as a first class feature, we'll terminate QUIC and give people whatever t
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by mrkurt 6y ago
I understand that low infection rates don't follow testing. But low infections rates _also_ means there are adequate tests for infections. What I was after was any kind detail about these countries being test constrained. Links, etc. A
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by mrkurt 6y ago
We're building most everything on bare metal at Fly.io and it's the exact same deal. Wireguard is great for our infrastructure. Your GitHub list is super handy. :)
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by mrkurt 6y ago
Do you have details? A quick glance here shows low positive test rates in the countries that seem to be doing the best. Low positive test rates seem like adequate testing. https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-testing
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by mrkurt 6y ago
The sad reality is that broad, indiscriminate lockdowns are the only real tool available to some "world powers". We know we can manage the covid pandemic with ubiquitous testing and targeted temporary lockdowns. But there is no te
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by mrkurt 6y ago
Automation and production efficiency isn't what people mean by "economies of scale", though, especially in relation to antitrust. When large companies make gains from "economies of scale" it's almost always bec
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by mrkurt 6y ago
Are you really dismissing research on the basis of anecdotal news articles? It makes total sense to question the value of the types of studies I linked to, but "the real world disagrees with research" is kind of a bonkers take.
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by mrkurt 6y ago
That's not true. Our CPU VMs are similar to DO's CPU optimized droplets. The cheaper droplets are all shared CPU.
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by mrkurt 6y ago
This is the intuitive belief, but the research doesn't really prove that: https://www.cato.org/cato-journal/fall-2017/does-immigration... There are studies showing a slight decrease in wages, studies showing
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by mrkurt 6y ago
I think you're not a good customer for us? I'm not sure that makes us hostile, or you wrong, but I'm pretty comfy with how we treat our customers (and they seem cool with it too).
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by mrkurt 6y ago
Nope. Not confused at all.
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by mrkurt 6y ago
That's actually why we made a big deal out of it in our launch post. We thought maybe it would attract underserved customers. I am surprised that it had no effect. My guess is that people who are interested in controlling costs are als
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by mrkurt 6y ago
> Large companies first and foremost benefit from economies of scale, not any dictatorial dynamics they might pursue. Economies of scale are dictatorial dynamics. Economy of scale means you're putting unbalanced pricing pressure o
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by mrkurt 6y ago
I think such features create really negative surprises too. People expect their app or service to keep working at almost any scale. Disabling an app that hits a threshold sounds terrible, because most peoples' apps _benefit_ from more
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by mrkurt 6y ago
Yes we advertised it as a feature to all new signups, with a link to request limits. It's not equivalent to a button, the dirty secret is that when people requested it, I planned to put a notification in my calendar to go look at their
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by mrkurt 6y ago
It sounds like a good selling point but I don't think it works out that way. People dislike a lot of things about AWS and it's still something that almost every technical business spends money on.
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by mrkurt 6y ago
> What a customer-hostile thing to say, never working with you! The point is that I'd rather just wave surprise fees than build a bunch of infrastructure to prevent them. From what we can tell, customers almost never have surprise b
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by mrkurt 6y ago
For what it's worth, we (Fly.io) have this feature, and announced it as part of our launch post on HN. But literally no one has asked us to enable it on their apps. So we never made it self service. I think for most companies, it'
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by mrkurt 6y ago
It's broadly true. It's not feasible for private schools to provide special ed services. It costs about 3x as much per student than general ed. There is a strong incentive to keep special ed populations small or nonexistent at eve

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