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by nameless912 3y ago
This seems unsurprising? I'm sure you incur similar risks from smoking or drinking alcohol or large amounts of caffeine on a dailiy basis. The thing is, at least in my small sample size of 10 or so friends who use pot with any freque
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Right, because it's the streamer's JOB to be an entertainer. There's no misaligned incentives here, it's just like how people playing pickup basketball aren't "playing to earn" and can still enjoy an NBA g
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Yik Yak was too good and pure for this world. Or maybe too bad and degenerate. Either way I guess. But the reboot was just sad! Who in their right mind thought they would be able to revive that cultural moment and moderate the shit out of
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by nameless912 3y ago
Literally exactly this is what I keep trying to tell my (mostly former at this point) friends who are super into blockchain gaming. The fact that some silicon valley suit put $x million into a project doesn't mean that it has any viabi
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by nameless912 3y ago
I think the meltdown would have been less dramatic had it not been for softbank inflating their valuation to gargantuan size for basically no reason.
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by nameless912 3y ago
I was in a WeWork in London on the day of the original Softbank-induced meltdown 4 years ago. It was surreal to be in a building that you weren't sure still operated as a business, with employees who were unsure if they were in fact st
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by nameless912 3y ago
I've worked with a "big brain type system shaman" before. If anything, this is a very kind and charitable analysis. People who are obsessed with type hierarchies are _insufferable_ to work with, and their justifications often
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by nameless912 3y ago
I've never understood peoples' obsession with matching appliances for this exact reason. No, I don't want my fridge, microwave, stove, and dishwasher to come from the same manufacturer and make the same noises, thank you ve
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by nameless912 3y ago
Lodge and Pyrex are probably not the best examples - Lodge cast iron has gone down the tubes recently, making thinner pans with worse factory coatings, and Pyrex switched away from the high quality borosilicate glass they had used for decad
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by nameless912 3y ago
As someone who works at a competitor of Apple TV, I truly don't understand the product. They don't go out of their way to make it clear you can watch Apple TV on most major devices, and they support fewer set top boxes/devic
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by nameless912 3y ago
That's fine, admirable even! But EVs have other problems: mining lithium and other metals for batteries is still terrible for the environment, and other battery technologies are not yet promising enough to replace them. Not to mention
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This is kind of like saying the bullet didn't kill you, the loss of blood did. It's a distinction without a difference.
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You know what would save more lives? better public transit. Electric cars don't solve for car accidents and pedestrian strikes. Yes, this is a bit of a non-sequitur, but electric cars continue to feel like an incremental improvement at
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> I don’t even hate the Go 3 that much. What ringing praise. Yikes, this review is worse than if they had just said "I hate this thing and it has no redeeming qualities".
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It remains extremely strange to me that we have our school boards be largely totally non-professional laypeople in the US. Obviously there's no absolute requirement that you be a "professional" for almost any elected position
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Not when the primary asset of the business appreciates on its own. The fact that the building itself is an investment that can appreciate in value irrespective of its usage means that the incentives are misaligned.
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I always love this counterargument to penalty based enforcement in these sorts of situations. "The penalties don't seem to have the desired effect!" Then the natural conclusion is that they aren't high enough.
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> No major real estate investor has a thesis of pure speculation 2007 called, they would like to sell you an amazing condo development in Naples, FL.
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by nameless912 3y ago
Another option that I really like is forcing rent control on landlords who don't have at least 80% occupancy. Don't want to reduce your rents to market rate? Fine, the law will do that for you.
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One big source of apartments being too expensive to rent is investment companies swooping in to buy apartment buildings, hoping the _building itself_ will appreciate in value, so that they can then sell it later at a profit. In this model,
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by nameless912 3y ago
I think I said this in another comment, but I'm not shitting on Spanner or DDB's right to exist here. Obviously, there are _some_ problems for which a globally distributed ACID compliant SQL-compatible database are useful. However
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by nameless912 3y ago
Sure. Spanner is expensive, and your primary job as an engineer (if you work for an enterprise like most of us do) is to generate business value. So, if nothing else, you will run into the cost problems of Spanner. There are also other prob
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by nameless912 3y ago
I don't think the API you interface with fundamentally changes the point that Spanner is hard to recommend from an engineering perspective at anything except the absolute most massive of scales, and even then it will create nearly as m
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by nameless912 3y ago
I said this in another comment, but I have seen _two_ applications in my career that actually had a request load that might warrant something like one of these databases. One was an application with double digit million MAU and thousands of
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My point is that I've seen very, very few situations (I can think of two in my entire career so far) where a "hyperscale NoSQL database" was actually the right choice to solve the problem. I find that a lot of folks turn to t
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by nameless912 3y ago
Gasp, a shill?? I totally believe you, I just can't see how it becomes easier than chucking a container on Fargate or something. Maybe I've just been scarred by lambda rat's nests in the past.
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But at low request volumes, either is a rounding error to a medium size enterprise, and for personal projects IMO Lambda is a huge PITA.
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Like, I don't want to fanboy, but it's _hard_ to find a use case that postgres can't handle at small to medium (i.e. 90% of projects) scale.
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Not to be that guy, but why lambdas? I'm genuinely curious. I've never found the "cost savings" (big air quotes) worth it in comparison to the increased configuration/permissions complexity. Especially when Fargate
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A connection pooling proxy should fix this shouldn't it? I think both Google and AWS have this solved for functions as a service.

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