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U.S. successfully tests pair of Lockheed hypersonic missiles(reuters.com)
9 points by reese_john 4y ago|1 comments
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by reese_john 4y ago
https://archive.is/KgRnB
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Lee Kwan Yew's Friendly Advice to America (2013)(wsj.com)
1 points by reese_john 4y ago|1 comments
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by reese_john 4y ago
relevant patio11 anecdote about this https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1536292255983898624
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by reese_john 4y ago
Yep. It's down
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by reese_john 4y ago
Trump said that he will be staying off Twitter even if his ban lifted, in order to focus on TRUTH Social. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-25/trump-say... Personally, I wouldn't bet on it
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How to provide reliable internet access at large tech conferences (2009)(serverfault.com)
2 points by reese_john 5y ago|0 comments
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by reese_john 5y ago
I wouldn't say so. Scale matters. What worked for Singapore, may not work for China. There is this great article about the story of Singapore[0], it was also discussed on HN some time ago. I believe one of its main takes really resonat
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by reese_john 5y ago
I mean technically, I believe your ISP and network provider are able to know that you are using Tor. At least that's how that Harvard kid was "caught" [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6924905
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Putin Has Finally Ended Two Centuries of German Exceptionalism(bloomberg.com)
3 points by reese_john 5y ago|0 comments
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by reese_john 5y ago
I do agree that low interest rates have helped fuel growth, but I'm not convinced that it's played that big of a role. If we look at Europe and Japan, despite the historically low interest rates, they haven't exactly been a b
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by reese_john 5y ago
They've already had thousands of casualities, including two generals and other high-ranking officials[0]. I wouldn't say they are playing mental games with the rest of the world. It doesn't even look like China, supposedly th
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by reese_john 5y ago
Postman enables you to convert your HTTP requests to several languages as well.
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by reese_john 5y ago
> The only downside with what I have proposed is that there is no garbage collection or cleanup possible. If you are using Kafka, you can use log compaction[0] to achieve this. It's also possible to delete individual entries with to
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by reese_john 5y ago
> All it takes is one deranged individual. Not true, at least in the US and Russia. More than one person in the chain of command needs to commit to an all-out nuclear attack. It is perfectly plausible that someone along the chain would n
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by reese_john 5y ago
> In a true meritocracy, a fair system, people are rewarded for their contributions. In your true and fair system, how much should a talented new grad software engineer, whose output to the company in his first year will be littl
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by reese_john 5y ago
> In a world where I am a trillionaire, those gains necessarily have come from exploitation and deep unequality Why?
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by reese_john 5y ago
Yes but, not sure this is a fair comparison. Doesn't ACH transactions take 1 to 2 business days to settle by design, as they are processed in batch and go through an intermediate clearing house ? Venmo/PayPal/Fedwire transact
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by reese_john 5y ago
We already have all of this. The government can tell your bank to do something, and your bank will do it. But can the government do that at scale ? I thought they needed at least a subpoena to get your bank records. It's differ
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by reese_john 5y ago
What kind of companies in Brazil though? I feel like the level of brazilian engineers outside high growth tech companies is very low. Most of them will literally fail "Fizz-Buzz" style coding tests. Good devs are either making a v
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by reese_john 5y ago
Yes, though I'm not convinced that the whole process should be synchronous, unless it is a "hard" use case, such as an ATM withdrawal. For instance, you may want to do some sanity checks, to see if the account is in a valid
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by reese_john 5y ago
I thought the same thing as the parent post, assuming you have a column "account_id", can't you just do: select * from transactions where account_id=$user_account_id for update; Wouldn't all rows for
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by reese_john 5y ago
"Shit is just business. Buy for a dollar, sell it for ten, plus the overnight interest rate. That all it need to be." - Federal Reserve
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by reese_john 5y ago
Maybe a bit off-topic but, I feel like variable, merit-based compensation makes for a better service. I work in finance, although not in the US, end of the year bonuses more often than not effectively doubles your total comp, even for softw
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by reese_john 5y ago
I don't know. But I am still diligently putting part of my paycheck in the S&P 500 every single month. I don't believe you can accurately time the crash, and by cashing out, you are losing some significant returns [0]. In fact
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by reese_john 5y ago
Yes but banks are subject to a wide array of regulations, liquidity requirements and frequent third-party audits. And then, in crypto, you have Tether, whose reserves claims are dubious at best
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by reese_john 5y ago
> August 17 2021 - MSRC awarded $40,000 bounty for the report. I don't know much about the bug bounty industry, is this the typical payout from what it seems to be a pretty severe vulnerability?
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Reviews of “Fixing Failed States: A Framework for Rebuilding a Fractured World”(amazon.com)
2 points by reese_john 5y ago|0 comments
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by reese_john 5y ago
Gall's law reminds me of Hayek: The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design. To the naive mind that can conceive of order only as the product of deliberate
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by reese_john 5y ago
I don't disagree, but if you are fully invested in some cloud vendor, there are maybe easier and cheaper options than basically rolling your own mapreduce. In AWS for instance, you are one API call away from running a Spark job in Glue

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