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by steffan 6y ago
At least in the case of MongoDB, yes. Listening on all interfaces and not having a password set.
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by steffan 6y ago
If you're using MongoDB Atlas, you can allow connections only from a specific subnet. Also, you should of course set a password or use x.509 certs. If you're hosting your own DB on a cloud provider, connect using a VPC / Her
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by steffan 6y ago
Started up exposed to the internet and listening on 0.0.0.0... ...and also not enabling a password
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by steffan 6y ago
MongoDB listens only on localhost by default since 3.6 (2017)
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by steffan 6y ago
50.5 cents of the gas price in California is the state gas tax
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by steffan 6y ago
> while a car can stay at 75mph for most the journey. You've never driven to Tahoe on a holiday weekend, I see
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by steffan 6y ago
> Sorry, the Jetsons lied to you No kidding. They promised Rosie and we got Roomba.
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by steffan 6y ago
Given enough redundancy in the powertrain and power, I think it's probably going to be more reliable mechanically than the average piston-engined light aircraft. Where I would really worry, of course, is the software driving all of t
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by steffan 6y ago
(I fly IFR as well) I don't think the comparison between a regular driver's license and Instrument / IMC flight is reasonable. Perhaps more accurate to compare to a Commercial Driver's License with a HazMat load Or driv
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by steffan 6y ago
I'd argue that some of the difference between a pilot license and a driver's license would diminish if the difficulty of a driver's license more accurately reflected the challenges of operating a heavy vehicle in close proxim
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by steffan 6y ago
One thing to keep in mind is economies of scale: Cirrus: "new aircraft deliveries for the piston SR Series reached 380 in 2018" By way of comparison, Ferrari delivered 9,200 cars in the same year. Part of the problem with aviati
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by steffan 6y ago
> given some number of flight-hours? I think the issue here is the lack of flight-hours. These parts were designed and specified for an in-use plane, not one that sits around. An airplane is an extremely expensive asset and they are t
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by steffan 6y ago
My first thought was "New bike lock material" My second was: "New non-cuttable bike lock defeated by ______" {freezing, shock, heat, _ }
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by steffan 6y ago
Congress is the legislative branch
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by steffan 6y ago
> a machine like this may prove comfortable Future virtual real estate listing: "Spacious 640TB expanse gives you room to let your mind wander. Large enough for two entities to share and even spawn subprocesses!"
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by steffan 6y ago
Nonsense! The lizard overlords are only pawns in a much larger scheme
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by steffan 6y ago
A 1031 exchange is only relevant to depreciated investment property subject to capital gains at sale. By engaging in a 'like-kind exchange', the basis of the new property is adjusted and it avoids being taxed on the sale price vs
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by steffan 6y ago
I had similar issues that I was able to ultimately resolve. PM me if there's anything I can do to help.
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by steffan 6y ago
Part of the problem is that a quarter of a million dollars isn't worth a quarter of a million dollars any more. c.f inflation
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by steffan 6y ago
> there's still no proof to my knowledge that nicotine itself is harmful Nicotine itself is a deadly poison. MSDS: https://fscimage.fishersci.com/msds/96314.htm "May be fatal if absorbed through the skin
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by steffan 6y ago
> ...too busy purging tens of millions of their own citizens to develop the global reach... I think you misread 'to' in this sentence to mean 'in order to'. The intent by the parent comment was 'too busy... inst
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by steffan 6y ago
You might feel that way, but that isn't correct. Over the years, the airlines _have_ reduced seat pitch, and as you can see from the 747 illustration, added an additional seat in the middle section as well.
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by steffan 6y ago
Facebook and Google, among others, have offices outside of CA. Employees of those offices do not pay CA income tax. (They do however, for their respective states)
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by steffan 6y ago
People will just transfer to satellite offices / companies will establish a presence outside of California. I'm sure at some point the CA legislature will attempt to tax any "work that has a material benefit to a California
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by steffan 6y ago
You would know that almost without fail property taxes increase, utility costs increase, labor costs increase, and building material costs increase.
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by steffan 6y ago
> Boeing has terrible management and deserves to go under for the 737 Max fiasco This seems a bit like throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Boeing employees 145,000 people. You're advocating making the equivalent of a small
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by steffan 6y ago
If you're really doing video, I suspect you'd use storage arrays (perhaps arrays of SSD for high-end) instead of trying to cram it into your workstation, not to mention you'd want redundancy (and sharing) for production-type
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by steffan 6y ago
As another commenter has pointed out, if your application server is in the same region as your MongoDB Atlas deployment, you're not paying for transfer to your application tier. You'd only have to worry about outbound data transfe
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by steffan 6y ago
Those work completely different muscle groups and are not at all comparable
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by steffan 6y ago
You've inspired me to write a counterpoint - I tried the same, and for a pretty large set of things I do day-to-day, the Raspberry Pi has been working well. So much so that I am currently engaged in an internal debate on whether or no

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