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by petcat 2y ago
json/jsonb, hstore, ltree, btree/gin/gist, enum types, nested record types... the list goes on and on. PG is _very_ hard to beat. Mongodb certainly isn't doing it. Their entire value proposition boils down to cre
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by petcat 2y ago
> Anyway. I just use Postgres. Same. Because I care about my data.
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by petcat 2y ago
/dev/null scales better than all of them
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by petcat 2y ago
Sounds like you made a nice, tight little Rails app. 50,000 concurrent? Oh man, I wish.
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by petcat 2y ago
For real. Show me a company that has scaled RoR or Django to 1 million concurrent users without blowing $250,000/month on their AWS bill. I've worked at unicorn companies trying to do exactly that. Their baseline was 800 instanc
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by petcat 2y ago
How do you think that credit cards work? I assume you have one. Or bank cards. I steal your credit card and spend $80 to fill up my gas tank and then go buy a pair of sneakers, who do you think pays for that? It's not you. It'
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by petcat 2y ago
So you've never had a credit card. Or any bank card at all where fraudulent usage is the liability if the bank, not you. How do you think that works?
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by petcat 2y ago
> There are plenty of 2FA apps that work just fine. Is one of them Microsoft Authenticator?
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by petcat 2y ago
In USA, Uber accounts are locked to phone numbers. You can't just create a new account. OP is fucked.
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by petcat 2y ago
2FA apps are a fundamentally broken auth mechanism. We just saw Microsoft's authenticator app inexplicably delete people's codes and lock them out of their accounts. And this is another example of how stupid the whole thing is.
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by petcat 2y ago
This is also why stuff like blockchain-based currency will never be realistic or accepted in the "real world". We need the ability to fix things out-of-band. Like you said, people make mistakes. Imagine that your bank or credit
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by petcat 14y ago
Yeah it's just compliance. But Amazon having physical access doesn't matter because this level of CIA (confidentiality, integrity, availability) is enforced by Amazon also, by contract.