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by techie128 4y ago
Hello IT. Have you tried turning it off and turning it back on again?
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by techie128 4y ago
Yes, and insurance doesn't always cover every single medical bill. Therefore a lot of people experience extraordinary amounts of medical debt.
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by techie128 4y ago
> The US healthcare system - for all its flaws - has some of the best outcomes provided you have enough money to access it. You're kidding, right? Vast majority of Americans have poor outcomes despite being insured. Let's not
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by techie128 4y ago
> Netflix should've used their dominant position to lobby for new rules to the game - prevent exclusivity of content! Countries like India already have protections like these in place. They haven't regulated the streaming space
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by techie128 4y ago
Not that I don't believe you, but can you name this mythical state?
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by techie128 4y ago
> If users never brush up against the inconvenience they'll be much less likely to seek out hardware alternatives I think you got it backwards. Users will seek out SOFTWARE alternatives. They're easier to change than the hardwa
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by techie128 5y ago
Never ever deal with the IRS or any government agency on the phone. Always send a certified mail explaining your situation and documentation. They genuinely respond better. The phone operators have frustrated people yelling at them all day
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by techie128 5y ago
Having been personally on the receiving end of the incompetence of both California FTB and the US IRS, I can assure you that there is no scheme to commit fraud. It is plain, unadulterated incompetence. Coupled with extremely complicated tax
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by techie128 5y ago
I think you're misunderstanding Netflix's scale and their culture. I am sure the SVOD service you architected was great but it probably wasn't Netflix scale. Netflix's culture is heavily biased towards collecting metrics
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by techie128 5y ago
On my X1 Carbon with the 10th Gen Core i7 processor which also happen to have VP9 hardware decoders, the fans still spin up. They're not very audible but the machine gets warm to the touch. On my M1 MBP? 4K video playback does nothing
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by techie128 5y ago
I'm sorry but if they're 50+ and majority of their holdings are in stocks, not bonds they're at fault.
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by techie128 5y ago
This is BS. You don't write your name at all, just your student id number.
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by techie128 5y ago
What exactly is a crime in the US?
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by techie128 5y ago
Interesting take. Do you know that a vast majority of the world is required to obtain a visa to the US & Europe? Obtaining a visa is a horribly long, painful, expensive and sometimes humiliating process. The visa fees for a US visitor v
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by techie128 5y ago
Weird part is that IEEE published this. Someone might actually take it seriously...
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by techie128 5y ago
It is unfortunate to read about such decisions. I can't imagine the amount of waste, carbon footprint and other environmental impact due to such decisions. This is purely policy failure. I am curious - did they advertise these machines
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by techie128 5y ago
I am curious what sort of testing strategy was being employed? Stripe offers pretty good testing / staging environment which is intended to be used for testing. Surely, one would assume renewals / auto renewal functionality should
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by techie128 5y ago
80TB for 5M page views works out to 16.7MiB per page view. I assume you're serving images and other assets on the page otherwise you have room to optimize on the page weight.
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by techie128 5y ago
India’s food insecurity was caused due to bad policies of the British rulers that left the country in a bad shape when they left. India experienced terrible famines and deaths of millions of people under British Raj. It took a while but Ind
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by techie128 5y ago
Databases, stateful part of services, have matured to have multi-region support. This isn't new either. Nobody's saying that its easy to have multi-region redundancy for stateful services. Its just something you need to have to pr
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by techie128 5y ago
Disclaimer: I am neither a supporter of China or CCP. I have my own thoughts on them but they're besides the point for now. I don't mean to attack you but your post reeks of American exceptionalism and elitism. Allow me to explain
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by techie128 5y ago
I have lost faith in Amazon a while ago. I base my opinion on their amazon.com online shopping experience. The ratings are regularly gamed, the "Amazon's Choice" label is completely unreliable, the quality of products sold by
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by techie128 5y ago
the title should read - "Show HN: A small key-value database" -- without the double quotes.
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by techie128 5y ago
The real victims are children. This is going to make them less competitive in the international arena.
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by techie128 6y ago
Their claims are absolutely false as witnessed by the numerous Slack screenshots. When I first came across their ads, I dismissed them as scammy and even reported a few. Scams are common place everywhere but they're particularly viciou
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by techie128 6y ago
Australia complains a lot, about many things... ;)
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by techie128 6y ago
They're very much official routes. The US also has 'private bills' in which Congress can make anybody, even criminals and other individuals ineligible under the current INA, into US citizens. https://www.latimes.co
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by techie128 6y ago
Unpopular opinion here: These type of questions are horrible at filtering out bad software engineers. Employers should be focusing on principles of software engineering rather than random math problems. Most new grad will write code like th
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by techie128 6y ago
FIFO is a fairer strategy.
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by techie128 6y ago
This is a ridiculous argument. Why don't we forcefully tear down all of PG&E's infra every few years. They'll be forced to rebuild it with the latest safety standards... smh

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