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by rbranson 8y ago
I’m pretty sure the traffic as well as the cost of parking and bridge tolls already excludes vast numbers of people from driving into the city.
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by rbranson 8y ago
Land and not housing is a positional good, but socializing it can help reduce the effects. Density only actually needs to be very high for a very, very tiny fraction of land. In SF, for instance, something like 80% of the land is zoned excl
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Social Housing in the United States [pdf](peoplespolicyproject.org)
2 points by rbranson 8y ago|3 comments
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by rbranson 8y ago
Employee salaries are tax deductible in the US.
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by rbranson 8y ago
FWIW, Mountain View is definitely a suburb, and was the first city to propose the ban.
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by rbranson 8y ago
This would only be true if everyone commuted at exactly the same time or along the same route.
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by rbranson 8y ago
In this scenario there's no moat for Lyft/Uber either. If Waymo can meet demand, they'll be able to undercut ride sharing prices so deeply that most consumers will switch overnight. Banks will be falling over themselves to pr
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by rbranson 8y ago
I tend to agree. Waymo ordered 62,000 Chrysler Pacificas with delivery slated for late 2018. Base retail on the hybrid model is $40,000USD. Even if they got an unbelievably generous 50% discount, that means they're $1.24B USD serious,
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How browsers safely run untrusted WebAssembly code(webassembly.org)
2 points by rbranson 8y ago|1 comments
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by rbranson 8y ago
They very likely have all of these protections in place, and more. Large-scale outages of mature systems are almost always a cascade of small human errors that, each on their own, would have caused negligible damage. It's only when the
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Monads are like burritos (2009)(blog.plover.com)
1 points by rbranson 8y ago|0 comments
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by rbranson 8y ago
Student loans aren't eligible for court-mandated forgiveness in personal bankruptcy.
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Benchmarks of memcached with NVM caching(memcached.org)
5 points by rbranson 8y ago|0 comments
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by rbranson 8y ago
Also our creations lack a self-healing exoskeleton.
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by rbranson 8y ago
In short... atypically long timeouts on these locks. We can afford to inject a few minutes of delay on a small number of in-flight messages to preserve this safety property. I’d agree that we should probably have a second layer of fencing.
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by rbranson 8y ago
That doesn’t solve the traffic problem, which is what the company is addressing.
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Why Marketing Doesn't Work(blog.reifyworks.com)
6 points by rbranson 8y ago|2 comments
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by rbranson 9y ago
... and then you have to clone all the AWS services yourself. If you just need a few boxes, there are definitely cheaper options than AWS.
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by rbranson 9y ago
If your “SRE” team is only “unblocking deploying a solution” then I’m sad to say they are an operations team who has rebranded themselves to appear more relevant.
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by rbranson 9y ago
How do you legally define a tech company?
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by rbranson 9y ago
I don’t think they mean literally SV the place. It’s like how “Wall Street” is used as a stand-in for the high finance industry in the US.
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by rbranson 9y ago
Errors in memory are temporary, errors on disk are permanent. Don't approach them both the same way.
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by rbranson 9y ago
Because the problem isn’t that there is one bug in a specific implementation, it’s that the whole model is fundamentally prone to this type of problem. cgroups, Jails, and Zones all suffer from having to cover an immense surface area. Contr
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by rbranson 9y ago
Problem is that vending machines don’t scale. Consider that much of the “tracking” on a site like Amazon.com are to overcome the inherent problems of finding products in such a massive catalog.
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by rbranson 9y ago
This is a pretty pedestrian article. Very little background. That might make sense for the average WSJ reader, but I would guess most HN viewers are already aware of the tiny amount of data shared in this piece. If you are interested in act
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by rbranson 9y ago
The licensing cost of Zing generally makes this a bad trade-off. It's much cheaper to purchase more hardware. Zing is targeted at vertically scaling very large JVM heaps, where it's valuable to have massive amounts of data on a si
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by rbranson 9y ago
I've been hearing about the magic of Graphene for over a decade now. How close are we to actually getting this stuff into mass-produced goods?
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by rbranson 9y ago
Did you all find that there were changes to the Java heap/GC configuration that would make tuning this setup different? I imagine if most everything that "sticks" is moved off heap, the GC could be tuned more heavily for youn
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by rbranson 9y ago
Even if you don’t think the product itself is novel, the technology infrastructure behind Facebook is absolutely novel, from the news feed to TAO, their massive graph database. I’d wager to say TAO is the highest throughout OLTP database in
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Observations on the Enterprise of Hiring(honeycomb.io)
2 points by rbranson 9y ago|0 comments

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