throwboatyface

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by throwboatyface 3y ago
This is just an op-ed complaining about your average culture wars stuff. "Taboos exist for a reason" is such a thought-terminating cliche, and it seems like it should be anathema to free thinking startup folks.
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
1% fee and it doesn't even give you real money? At least the old-fashioned "pay with crypto" providers actually cashed you out.
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
I used to work with this guy and he used to send a bunch of these weird, rambling "thought leader" messages to the whole org.
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
Traditional bare metal involved complicated packaging and release processes. You would literally have a diagram of "these are the physical servers running this service (LB, web server, etc.)" and be able to point to them. You coul
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
What if we, I don't know, did something to fix the poverty?
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
Using a different identifier isn't sufficient to satisfy a right to be forgotten request. The user's identity could still be inferred from comments, for instance.
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
Companies are willing to pay more money to rent a computer from AWS than to send a computer to their employee, because of the risk the employee won't send it back. It doesn't actually make economic sense but it tickles their sense
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
Bishops Gate has been a place before Watergate happened.
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
The guy who drove Sears into the ground also did the classic private-equity self-dealing to carve off all the valuable bits and saddle the company with debt. Berkshire Hathaway is an example of a company that owns lots of businesses which a
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
Into what format in memory? You can't just mmap into a parquet file and access whole records, it's a columnar format. Arrow is absolutely designed for Interop between languages - often devs want to develop their core in something
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
This is just saying "union bad" in more words. The recent WGA strike and Teamsters strike at UPS both got terrific results for workers. The UAW and SAG-AFTRA are also very effectively striking right now.
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
This is not correct. The current UAW strike is to get back benefits the union voluntarily gave up during the 2008 recession because they wanted to keep the Big 3 alive. The union is absolutely willing to bargain in a way that is beneficial
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
Wait, so most workers are alienated, and alienation makes a job bullshit. But most jobs are not bullshit? > A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
> sign on for 15 years doing something more meaningful than making sure rich people get even richer. I have some terrible news for you.
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
The square outage wasn't just credit card processing, it was their entire product. You couldn't log in, update your ecommerce site, accept online orders, book appointments, anything. Even things that had nothing to do with accepti
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Ask HN: Why was Square down for 13 hours?
4 points by throwboatyface 3y ago|6 comments
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
Yup. If you got your foot in the door at the right place and people in leadership liked you, you're on the track to be a director in 6-8 years. Usually the people who promoted you were themselves early employees with no experience bein
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
Computers have facilitated a second industrial revolution, and we're living in the "children crawling into giant machines, everyone is choking on coal smoke in London" phase. In today's economy it's precariously emp
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
Pretty sure the onus is on the manufacturer to produce cars in a repeatable fashion such that crash test samples are representative. If they can't make the cars consistently they shouldn't be making cars.
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
My pet peeve: "information wants to be free" just means the universe tends towards entropy. You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube, once information has been distributed it will take energy to "undistribute"
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
Disagree. Avro makes messages slightly smaller by removing tags, but it makes individual messages completely incomprehensible without the writer schema. For serializing data on disk it's fine and a reasonable tradeoff to save space, bu
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
It's wild that a two-state solution was widely accepted 30 years ago, and now the Overton window has moved so much that Israel occupying the entirety of Palestine and killing or displacing all the Arab population is no big deal. I symp
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
My understanding is Shopify can be quite good for ecommerce but the PoS sucks. And they are very up front that there is no support to interoperate with other platforms. I would love to continue using my Square hardware for in-person
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Ask HN: Is there an e-commerce platform that doesn't suck?
26 points by throwboatyface 3y ago|16 comments
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
Pretty funny to say package management is table stakes and use go as an example. For a long time they had nothing, then hacky workarounds, and now they have a first party hacky workaround
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
As a Canadian who makes ~250k working for bay area companies from Canada, where can I make 500k-1M in the states?
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
IME most places will take you on as a contractor or use a PEO. If they're open to remote they'll find a way. Canadians are so cheap it's still worth the overhead
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
You don't even have to swear at all, the Constitution allows officials to swear or affirm. This is because some religious groups at the time of the drafting of the constitution were morally opposed to swearing oaths: https:/&#x2F
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by throwboatyface 4y ago
Took celecoxib after major surgery and I can confirm it works great compared to Tylenol.
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by throwboatyface 4y ago
The cloud providers like to pretend their secret sauce is massive scale automation. They have tooling, alerting, etc. to make this all work with no people at all. Of course it's all BS, and the people I know who came from AWS were some

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