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by vacri 9y ago
You say 'informed members', but most of the mongo hate seems to stem from bad reputation from the early days. Most of the hate seems to come from historical bandwagoning, rather than informed DBAs commenting on current versions. F
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by vacri 9y ago
> Compared to newer cloud databases like Spanner, Citus, or Aurora There's a lot more help available online for Mongo than any of those. Of course, *SQL has a lot as well.
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> And Joel Osteen is a tool and a fraud. And this makes him "not a christian"? This is a 'no true Scotsman' argument. If you're going to provide a litany of 'good things', then you shouldn't glos
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by vacri 9y ago
Cetaceans (dolphins and whales) have a complicated arrangement for sleep, where they sleep one half-brain at a time.
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by vacri 9y ago
Take out the transport infrastructure and you've basically done the job and can dust of your hands and go home. Good luck keeping a megacity (or nation) fed when you destroy its ports and interchanges, polluting them with radiation suc
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by vacri 9y ago
Are there nuclear shelters for seven million people in Dallas?
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by vacri 9y ago
That's not "the christian version of sharia law". Think instead of something like the Spanish Inquisition. Also, it's not like the christians have a monopoly on disaster relief, nor is it like christians are always helpf
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by vacri 9y ago
Python is a general-purpose language. Make is specifically focused on building artifacts. Python can do anything Make can do, but it's going to require more work on your part, which won't be as battle-tested as the stuff already i
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by vacri 9y ago
He could just do what he wants anyway, and not care if he loses a couple of stars. There will be one brief period of "OMG, local 3-star restaurant lost ranking" and after that, nothing.
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by vacri 9y ago
> stay at a budget salaryman hotel and use their concierge? Budget hotels have concierges?
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by vacri 9y ago
> There is no reason that the government couldn't choose to pay for advanced wheelchairs for those that need it And how many electoral cycles do you think it'd take for that program to be canceled, given the 'American di
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by vacri 9y ago
> I've been to several European countries, but never gave a second though to sidewalks The UK doesn't have any sidewalks... ... they have footpaths.
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by vacri 9y ago
Other things that don't exist in nature: cars, houses, clothes, cooked food...
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by vacri 9y ago
> Empathy is hugely important. [story of own problems] It's not 'empathy' if you don't notice it until it affects you personally, or you're only doing something because it might affect you in the future.
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by vacri 9y ago
Seriously? The concept of treating people fairly is Stalinist?
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> You will not stop an ideology by denying them a platform. Ideologies are routinely stopped by denying them a platform. It's the standard way of stopping an ideology.
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by vacri 9y ago
Part of how he was found included that the house he was in was the only one in the area that didn't have a phone line.
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by vacri 9y ago
At least with the AWS ELB ones, the names can't be wildcards, so the only information that can be transmitted is info that the other party had set up ahead of time. 'gzunified-ecselast-1isehuisml2g4-663788831' is actually in
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by vacri 9y ago
Perhaps you should hawk your minimally-tested, 'just trust us', generic pre-designed handles made out of cheap steel to NASA, and tell them what a bundle they'd save. If it works then you'll be on a gravy train. Well, a
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by vacri 9y ago
1) I don't really understand this criticism - why would a bespoke milspec controller be any more likely to be around than a widely documented consumer controller? Which do you think is easier to replace today, or get a manufacturer to
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by vacri 9y ago
Text is a bad way of conveying tone, though there was the smiley at the end. I interpreted it the same as you, but I can see how a lot of people would miss the tone. Poe's Law is why the internet doesn't get sarcasm - that without
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by vacri 9y ago
Thanks, I stand corrected. I've read through a few other use cases in the comments here and I can see now that there's scope for savings, depending on workload.
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by vacri 9y ago
HN isn't particularly philosophy-friendly. I've talked about how philosophy was crucial in laying down the philosophy of science and working out the scientific method, only to be drowned in a sea of "wasn't necessary, it
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by vacri 9y ago
If you're doing that, why bother loading an entire operating system? Just use something like AWS lambda instead.
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by vacri 9y ago
> you don't own the whole core Moving the goalposts here. 'Not owning the whole core' is the default in the cloud.
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by vacri 9y ago
Well, if you're going to use bad figures, then sure, AWS won't win. The default size there is 768MB RAM, 1 cpu, and 50GB disk... which it says AWS will provide for $54. Whereas in actuality a t2.micro with those specs only costs $
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by vacri 9y ago
Remember that AWS has been in the game for over a decade. Per-hour billing was amazing when it came in. Also, is the economic incentive really that huge? Or is it just a nicety?
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by vacri 9y ago
And in the US, there are states where an atheist is legally barred from being governor. And you can be pretty sure that blaspheming in the nations listed with the best scores will be more acceptable than blaspheming in the religiose US. As
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Especially since it took another 80 years for the country that the 'freedom-loving' Founding Fathers created to actually get rid of slavery. Buggered if I know why some people get so religiose about the Founding Fathers when they
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by vacri 9y ago
> The right to publish any media, no matter how obscene or political, is free speech. And the US has the closest to free speech of any major country. When it comes to freedom of the press, Reporters Without Borders rates the US quite p

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