ultraluminous

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by ultraluminous 9y ago
First of all, as the sibling comment mentioned, no one is waiting for weeks for hardware requisition. Everyone is using virtualized environments and have capacity to spare. Spinning up a new instance in VMware is not harder (in fact easier
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by ultraluminous 9y ago
"the bank of middle-class parents" is not a real bank. It's your parents. You can pay them whenever (and you most likely never fully/really will, and that's ok). Your opportunity cost might be true and might be &quo
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by ultraluminous 9y ago
I coasted through five years of college ... Compared to a 9-5 job, yeah, college was a five year vacation. If you went to college voluntarily and did not care about neither the monetary constraints nor the opportunity costs, then sure tha
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by ultraluminous 9y ago
Both are markets heavily distorted by the federal government. That's one way to look at it. Another way to look at it is that those "markets" are fundamentally distorted by the in-elasticity of demand. People generally nee
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by ultraluminous 9y ago
Yes, but nothing in this speaks to the value of unions. It speaks volumes to the US legal climate allowing massive corporations to subtly coarse employees to vote against their economic interests. Basically what you're describing is &q
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by ultraluminous 9y ago
Democracy is fine and well (caveats apply etc.) but the crux of the OPs comment is the "50 years of anti-union FUD". Maybe union workers indeed have a different set of values and priorities, which prefers the weakening/dism
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by ultraluminous 9y ago
So you'd also definitely agree that if you're running an ecommerce (or video streaming, or food delivery, or grocery delivery or anything really) business on AWS, Amazon is in the clear for terminating your instances? Just making
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by ultraluminous 9y ago
Ironically (considering all the prognostication) one of the main examples you cite is factually incorrect. which is what happened to Microsoft, stagnating its stock for ~15 years Microsoft stock ticker - https://finance.google.
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by ultraluminous 9y ago
But he didn't argue we have "too much" liquidity. The argument is that we have "enough" liquidity and are now expending a huge volume of capital on a literally imperceptible increase in liquidity.
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Establishing Web/Operations Engineering in mid-size SaaS?
1 points by ultraluminous 13y ago|0 comments