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by pjlegato 10y ago
Why is this flagged? Is a well reasoned discussion of the entire future direction of American politics -- where Silicon Valley is -- somehow less relevant to the tech industry than "The Troubled Friendship of Leo Tolstoy and Maxim Gork
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by pjlegato 10y ago
They've failed to analyze the merits of the article sufficiently. They are, in fact, committing the "ad hominem" error -- they see what appears superficially to be a trustworthy news site, and they believe it unquestioningly,
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by pjlegato 10y ago
On the contrary, it's calling out the blatant hypocrisy and utter lack of self-awareness of those who claim to be tolerant and embrace diversity ...except for those people and views they personally happen to disapprove of. Tolerance is
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by pjlegato 10y ago
We (databaselabs.io) did some customer dev tests for that exact product (databases with fast local hardware storage.) We found that almost all customers didn't care about getting that level of performance (enough to pay for it, anyway.
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by pjlegato 10y ago
My company, Database Labs, runs Postgres as a service in Google Cloud -- https://www.databaselabs.io/pricing/#google-cloud
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by pjlegato 10y ago
In the English language, saying that a product or service is "free" is commonly understood (and has always been understood) to mean "gratis, free as in beer." Stallman has spent the past several decades trying to get peo
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Labeling is simply creating a reference to a body of analysis that has already been done. (A particular proposed label may or may not be accurate in a given case, but that's an entirely different issue.)
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by pjlegato 10y ago
This is an "ad hominem fallacy." The attributes or beliefs of the entity making an argument are entirely irrelevant to whether the argument is correct. The argument must be evaluated solely on its own merits.
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by pjlegato 10y ago
The way it worked in the USSR was actually more like: you put your name on the list to buy a car. The local party boss' cousin wants a car, too, and he doesn't have to wait on the list, he gets the car that's being manufactur
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by pjlegato 10y ago
As you say yourself, "Beijing has little regard for rules that constrain their power to act." Why would calmly and firmly articulated objections or public statements supporting the rule of law make any difference? That's a ra
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by pjlegato 10y ago
These settings are currently manually operated by staff, via support@databaselabs.io. That will get added to the control panel eventually, but right now as approximately zero percent of customers want those things, it's not a good use
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Correct. As I said, it is "consistent with" what I said -- not that it outright proves what I said is true. It's ambiguous.
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by pjlegato 10y ago
That article says, "[in western Europe], about half of all women aged 15 to 50 years of age were married at any given time, while the other half were widows or spinsters" which is entirely consistent with what I wrote: over half
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by pjlegato 10y ago
100% uptime is a financial guarantee: if it's up for less than 100% of the time (other than scheduled maintenance), we refund 30x that amount, up to 1 months' fees. We used to have a more engineery 99.95% uptime guarantee, but cus
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by pjlegato 10y ago
"Extremely" insecure is a bit of an exaggeration. It's not as though the password is "password" on all the databases. We do support certificate-based logins and firewalls with IP whitelists. They're just not on
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Doh. It looks like pricing is broken on mobile. Sorry about that! We're on it. Yes, we set up and run autofailover upon request. It's getting rolled into the UI this month. In the meantime, write support@databaselabs.io and we&#x2
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Er. The usual marriage age for a girl in premodern and early modern western European culture (and many other cultures worldwide) was "the onset of menses," or about 12 to 14 years old. ("Romeo and Juliet" takes place jus
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Try us! https://www.databaselabs.io/ . Professional PG hosting in Google, AWS, and DigitalOcean. Happy to discuss more details -- pjlegato at databaselabs.io.
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by pjlegato 10y ago
We (databaselabs.io) are the first Postgres as a Service on DigitalOcean. We fight this sales battle on a daily basis. The problem is that younger devs/owners are much less likely to have ever experienced any significant outage, so it
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by pjlegato 10y ago
You don't have to continue replying after sending them the "sorry, not interested" template reply. Sending them that is infinitely better than just ghosting people, which is grossly rude and unprofessional.
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by pjlegato 10y ago
I would point out that "Americans" are not a homogenous entity, culturally or otherwise. The United States is huge and has many distinct local cultural regions, with radically different behavioral norms that are obscured through
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Rather, it encourages people to become good at simulating gratitude in a plausible manner. It devalues the entire notion of gratitude to engage in that sort of petty manipulation. Gratitude is rendered into a base and superficial thing.
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Indeed, you have summed up a huge problem with SF area culture: many people think that these fake-nice platitudes are meaningful, and also use them against others on a large scale in their daily life as a form of pervasive emotional manipul
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Well, the NSA let a low level contractor (Snowden) walk off with a thumb drive containing half their archive. That's not far removed from not changing the default root password.
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by pjlegato 10y ago
120 employees is a "small startup"?
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by pjlegato 10y ago
The major flaw with that proposal is that the government has shown itself to be exceptionally incompetent (just like everyone else) when it comes to security. For example, the NSA 's security -- not some underfunded, minor agency, but
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by pjlegato 10y ago
If it doesn't block when it can't get a cert, then it becomes very easy for someone to break the security of your site. They just have to block the network path to LetsEncrypt, and then your server will come up without encryption.
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Let me state it explicitly: that "state capitalist" theory is false (and so absurd it makes me suspect you are part of some sort of Russian troll farm.) The USSR was both socialist and communist in character, and not at all capita
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by pjlegato 10y ago
It could be, but it seems like that would depend on the brand awareness / credentials of the team writing the software. Note that KDE, Gnome, etc. have been trying to do exactly that for decades, with only marginal success. So if you g
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Not at all an exaggeration. I recently had to binary patch a video card driver -- using a patch I found on a forum -- just to get it to start X, after I had specifically bought the hardware (Foxconn, AMD - major brands) because they spe

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