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by vasco 1y ago
If you read carefully you'll notice I did both sides.
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by vasco 1y ago
> However, the tariffs clearly introduce an inefficiency which - globally speaking - will be net negative. Nobody can predict this. Tariffs are used by trump mostly as a negotiation and distraction tactic. In that sense they've been
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by vasco 1y ago
>I find it mildly amusing that there are so many people claiming that it's 100% on one side or other, when it's trivially easy to see why that can't be GUARANTEED TO BE the case. To be fair most people on one side think th
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by vasco 1y ago
> Can't you still run it downhill and regain energy? That just means you had stored potential energy, otherwise how are you going to get up the hill?
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by vasco 1y ago
You don't care about life of any hardware in the cloud, that doesn't really matter either unless you work for the cloud provider in their datacenter teams.
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by vasco 1y ago
In EC2 using any kind of swapping is just wrong, the comment you replied to already made all the points that can be made though.
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by vasco 1y ago
I help run quite a big operation in a different region and had zero issues. And this has happened many times before.
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by vasco 1y ago
> All of AWS operates out of it. I don't think this is true anymore. In the early days bad enough outages in us-east-1 would bring down everything because some metadata / control pane stuff was there, I remember getting affecte
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by vasco 1y ago
Do you want to eat a plate of worms or do you want to eat a plate of spiders?
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by vasco 1y ago
Obviously I speak in first person, makes zero sense, to me. I'm definitely not wise though, that's why I asked because for many of these things I often start really puzzled and after a few years of sharing some opinion someone fin
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by vasco 1y ago
How? You read it the same way in your brain? Like when you read you think of the words, so they are all there in the same way, with the only added extra parsing on top (ie an extra half second spent on the word you want to avoid). If you wa
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by vasco 1y ago
The final boss could be something like Scottland mountain roads, or some of the million beaches on a cliff in Greece where this "you have to first reverse" kinda situation happens every 30 seconds.
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by vasco 1y ago
> if you care about your health : fully If you care ONLY about your health
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by vasco 1y ago
When I read su**de my brain read suicide, so you still put the word in my mind, what's your point doing that? In fact I spent more time thinking and parsing the word suicide because of the asterisks.
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by vasco 1y ago
Having spent many years very close to people with shit childhoods that deal with depression and other issues, I'd say one of the biggest hurdles was indeed being able to create a positive self image of themselves. There's some peo
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by vasco 1y ago
> But I might want to continue and ask you a question, and this is just out of curiosity, do you think consciousness is made of matter? You might want to stop calling people silly if you want them to answer your random questions. You&#x2
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by vasco 1y ago
> another way to look at it is the self driving car - they got there eventually Current self driving cars only work in American roads. Maybe Canada too, not sure how their roads are. Come to Europe/anywhere else and every other roa
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by vasco 1y ago
> Like Penrose said, I believe our consciousness is an electromagnetic field, Careful around magnets my friend, your consciousness will change a lot if you're right.
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by vasco 1y ago
Carving a wooden spoon in hand.
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by vasco 1y ago
Did anyone say that?
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by vasco 1y ago
Dialysis specifically requires several hours and a specific location and its debilitating. Going to a random pharmacy to take an injection 2x a week would be much simpler.
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by vasco 1y ago
Not so much irony as it's a great vector to get inside an org. Security / monitoring agents that you deploy everywhere and don't suspect when you see they exfiltrate data, since you're expecting the telemetry anyway.
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by vasco 1y ago
Re-read the comment I replied to and check if that comment was referring to everything being great already because those systems are in place or if they were calling for some kind of ad-hoc popular vote at any point during a mandate based o
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by vasco 1y ago
If you die right now, will people on the internet know how to restore your backups or that you had them or are you an idiot?
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by vasco 1y ago
No, that was after, and it made it easy, but before google many people said there was no point "because their site wasnt sensitive". Those people didn't care about let's encrypt or how easy it was, they just didn't
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by vasco 1y ago
It was only successful because Google said you'd rank higher if you did it.
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by vasco 1y ago
Math is just a standardized way to communicate those concepts though, it's a model of the world like any other. I get what you mean, but these intuitive or visualising approaches help many people with different thinking processes. Jus
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by vasco 1y ago
Just remember that in this example you don't remember 30x more things, you just remember the same things 30x faster. That is a significant difference.
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by vasco 1y ago
Since you seem to like advice on the internet: Try engaging with people as if they are smarter than you and more unbiased than you, rather than less. You'll find people take you much more seriously and its easier for you to focus on th
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by vasco 1y ago
Exactly, that's the definition. It doesn't apply to timing a 100m race. There's many such situations that are simple enough and with perfect information available where this doesn’t break down and a metric is just a metric an

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