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by pnathan 6y ago
There's not a good deal of solid literature on it in English that I've found, but contemplative Christian prayer evolved later on. I want to say circa 500 or so. I think today it's primarily found in the Eastern Orthodox chur
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by pnathan 6y ago
It is all set up and chosen to work out of the box. I have a limited number of hours in my life, and figuring out the right combination of hardware to run a Linux box correctly is not something I'm going to bother spending them on.
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by pnathan 6y ago
There's a whole nuance here that often gets lost. A lot of people are straight up _raging jackasses_ - or worse and/or their work is repulsive - and at a certain point, wind up getting to be the target of an Internet Hate Mob. Not
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by pnathan 6y ago
I've been extremely happy with GCP's GKE offering as a solo dev. They've regularly upgraded it and improved it. That said, the risks around customer support and occasional account termination worry me substantially. I'd
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by pnathan 6y ago
East Coast and West Coast too. I've struggled there a fair bit myself, having East Coast parents. I would love to work with some Israelis or East Coasters sometime. Be refreshing :)
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by pnathan 6y ago
The article asserts a strawman, that we had, in the past, cool, rational, reasoned debates that we all stroked our beards and decided what the right choice of action would be. I would suggest several counter examples: * Hearst Newspapers an
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by pnathan 6y ago
Not only that, in Seattle - Amazon's home city - package theft is seen as a significant problem. So, I would imagine that deterring package theft is a real concern and a real quality of life issue for many Amazon ICs. I would argue a k
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by pnathan 6y ago
This is a very good essay. It feels that pg is more reflective now than he was a few years ago. In particular, he is calling attention to how the dice fell; how things worked out well. I'd be interested, as a purely personal matter, in
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by pnathan 6y ago
This is excellent! As a principle , we should always be able to properly critique the expert witnesses and analyses! Or, at least, hire an expert firm to do the critique. It at least restores a proper ability to challenge an assertion of g
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by pnathan 6y ago
a proper index fund isn't a proper bubble, since it's proportional against an index, the net underlying asset that said, I grasp that there are some odd knock on effects with so many assets tied up in what are, approximately, a de
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by pnathan 6y ago
:) I have, approximately, 99.7% of my invested money in vanguard funds. The other 0.3% goes into the fund for doing trading. To be honest, it's probable that I should adjust my risk tolerance to 5% ultra-low risk assets and 5% ultra-hi
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by pnathan 6y ago
> I hesitate to ask -- do we really think people are stupid enough to gamble away lots of money they can't afford to lose? Oh. Yes. Yes, yes, yes. And it's not just the stupid people. Isaac Newton famously lost a fortune in spe
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by pnathan 6y ago
no. not even close. things are quite in chaos here and there, as is normal, but it certainly hasn't turned into this absurd mad max scenario that was described.
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by pnathan 6y ago
> You do not understand the contract. that, heh, has been made apparent. Fortunately not at a loss to me.
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by pnathan 6y ago
if you trawl his reddit account, he mentioned 9 months ago there's a possibility of a short squeeze of some sort happening sometime.
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by pnathan 6y ago
Ah - I have generally understood it as working on a percentage of the trade; being part and parcel of a leveraged strategy. It's one thing to loan me $100 when we have shaken hands and contractually already agreed that $100 is on its
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by pnathan 6y ago
It was not obvious to me. What my perception was, was that you were being loaned money against the transfer you were sending in. It was not clear at all to me that it was a generic margin account. Because, among other things, I consider
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by pnathan 6y ago
> I listened in on a Clubhouse room today where people were teaching each other how to options trade oh no. that's really bad. Options is one of the really fast ways to lose your shirt. I mean, they are known for that. I expect th
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by pnathan 6y ago
Yeah, periodically I've puttered over to WSB and looked around. It's not a shining jewel of analysis on a normal day. Right, now it's a pure stampeding herd of FOMO with metaphorical taxi drivers giving stock tips. Which is
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by pnathan 6y ago
"perfect being enemy of good" is what I thought of.
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by pnathan 6y ago
Yes, this isn't just _therapy_. Although apparently he provides that in a highly limited way. I think "someone to tag along in uncertain & common situations" is a useful service. I also think that there's probably a
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by pnathan 6y ago
I would concur with your critique. There are vast swathes of counter-examples to the article, to the point where I don't think that, given the business framing of the OP , the article actually holds water outside of "some people
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by pnathan 6y ago
Appreciate that, a lot. Particularly with software auto-updates, a software mute is simply untrustworthy.
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by pnathan 6y ago
It depends. What are you doing? What are the constraints? What is the problem? Do you need innovation? Do you need plumbing? Can you lift your eyes and see the value in a radically new way? Does it look like what you are already doing, or d
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by pnathan 6y ago
I'll be frank: Google's UX blows most other enterprise suites out of the water. Maybe not as slick as other startsup/apps - but it aligns well with me. The one major thing I'd suggest to Google is to have a better Drive
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by pnathan 6y ago
Same. I was looking for a fairly niche item in November (something that would likely be handmade), and everything I saw was essentially a drop-shipped mass production item. That is not what I wanted. I wound up buying from an Amazon shop b
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by pnathan 6y ago
there are, but the tooling was ... very subpar. Truncate, for instance, didn't exist.
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by pnathan 6y ago
I'm also super curious about AWS's response. Because these numbers - and the aspect of backups - mean that, barring Timescale just not doing the benchmarking right, Timestream isn't going to be an option.
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by pnathan 6y ago
> There isn’t a mechanism or support to DELETE or UPDATE existing data. The only way to remove data is to drop the entire table. This largely accords with my experience with DynamoDB (a few years ago) as well - sql-class data management
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by pnathan 6y ago
I pay for G Suite, it works well. If I have to migrate, I will, but it'd be very upsetting. Music-wise, I have completely transitioned to Alexa and Amazon Music. The interface is worse, but they seem to be more stable. I just wish I c

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