virgilp

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by virgilp 5y ago
It's clear that a strong public system is needed, to keep the private ones in check. But e.g. Italy shows that they can co-exist well, and maybe that's a better solution?
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by virgilp 5y ago
Replace "Venmo" with "Coinbase" and you could have the exact same scenario in the future. "Oops, sorry we messed up, the fraudster's transaction got rejected and he didn't actually send you $50 in BTC like
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by virgilp 5y ago
> This assumption did not hold "if the entire world is a sh*thole, nobody will be able to tell it's due to communism"? I fail to see what "needed technological developments" would West Germany give them. > Cu
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by virgilp 5y ago
Nah, Stalin and the communist leadership were perfectly capable saboteurs, didn't need help from capitalist interests. In a system where "the state" has the capability to enforce "public good" policies above anythin
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by virgilp 5y ago
NHS was a great initiative and idea!! I'm not advocating against public healthcare, at all. I'm saying is that it's not surprising it became underfunded - there needs to be constant effort to prevent (or compensate) that tend
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by virgilp 5y ago
In Romania competition + initial lack of regulation and lucky timing led to incredible speed + cost (my ISP just launched 10Gbps fiberlink for 10EUR/mo; 2.5Gbps is 9EUR/mo, 1Gbps is 8EUR/mo, 500Mbps is 6EUR/mo and the sl
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by virgilp 5y ago
Exactly. Expecting people to be generous and collaborative and selfless and whatnot is just asking for trouble. Note that I'm not saying that people are not/ cannot be generous, selfless etc. I'm saying that relying on them b
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by virgilp 5y ago
But how is that not "expected"? Feels like the argument that "communism is good, it just wasn't implemented well anywhere so far". Well, sorry, but by this point I chose to believe that a full state-run system is vu
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by virgilp 5y ago
My understanding is that "lifetime" is not related to the vaccine but to the virus itself (i.e. we can't make more long-term-efficient COVID-19 vaccines in any tech; but we might get full immunity to other diseases using mRNA
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by virgilp 5y ago
I still don't fully get what the product is. In the launch, you state that "Metaphor has its root in DataHub [...] However, Metaphor is not a managed version of DataHub". My observation: - perhaps intentionally, but you reall
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by virgilp 5y ago
What is the product? It's really hard to figure from the home page, so I looked up on the web and found this[1] > Today, we are excited to announce that Mars, Seyi, and I have teamed up to start Metaphor Data, a company dedicated to
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by virgilp 5y ago
Well you can look at this: https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1100,c_limit,f_auto,q... (it's recent data, from NY, so - likely a lot of omicron)
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by virgilp 5y ago
This can't be right. > For the week ending Dec. 18, 1,265 lab-confirmed flu patients were hospitalized, up from the week prior. The cumulative hospitalization rate was 1.4 per 100,000 population as of Dec. 18, nearly double the over
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by virgilp 5y ago
I mean, you don't even talk directly to lawyers, it's the managers telling you that "this underwent legal review". What are you going to do, say "no it didn't"? Maybe it did. Maybe they did say it was ok.
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by virgilp 5y ago
Because it _is_ different. If you asked me to kill someone for 1 Mil. $, I wouldn't do it. If you asked me to drive 20km/h faster than the legal limit for 10K $, I wouldn't even blink, it's a easy choice. Now, how severe
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by virgilp 5y ago
Average quality, yes. Total, and even max quality? Not so clear. In number of articles/ books that are above a given quality bar? I wouldn't bet on 1922.
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by virgilp 5y ago
Kids are very different. My first daughter had a healthy appetite while small, then after a cold she became a very picky eater; she remains somewhat picky today, as an adult. The second daughter, we "trained" to eat varied, health
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by virgilp 5y ago
It's hard to debunk this since if we declare all democrat party to be "left", then yes, some democrats will be slightly rightwing. But there are definitely some "left" currents that started in US universities and ar
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by virgilp 5y ago
> the Earth will continue to exist even without any people at all. Nobody cares about that perspective; it's an obvious and not particularly interesting observation... yeah universe existed without humans and can obviously continue
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by virgilp 5y ago
As an opposing pov: we mostly use booking.com for our reservations, and have never had an issue with them, and found their support useful the one or two times we needed it. They're the best reservation site that I know (others are way
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by virgilp 5y ago
Rules don't matter. Enforced rules do. If IRS only started tightening their grip in 2020... Their statements prior to 2020 didn't have any effect, yet. I'm not saying "it's doom and gloom for crypto". I'm
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by virgilp 5y ago
I suppose https://dev.to/pikachuexe/postgresql-logical-replication-for... would be it.
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by virgilp 5y ago
> Side note: why is deflation expected and approved of in computers and electronics but not healthcare or higher education? That's... not deflation? It's literally building wealth. Cheaper computers means more people can afford
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by virgilp 5y ago
Newrelic synthetic check cannot be used to verify that newrelic site is functional(their synthetic checks use Chrome 72, their site understandably doesn't support such old browsers) There's a saying here that the shoemaker's
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by virgilp 5y ago
Yeah, and besides, beyond the fact that the claim of "no groundbreaking firsts" was easily falsifiable, I found this one funny: > took something we've done for 50 years and do it more efficiently. One can argue that this i
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by virgilp 5y ago
> didn't develop ground-breaking firsts - First full flow staged combustion engine that actually flies - horizontal flight, vertical landing (belly flop) - booster reuse on an orbital class rocket
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by virgilp 5y ago
They had to get the acronym to work, and presumably "LinkedIn's-owner" sounded a bit forced.
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by virgilp 5y ago
If you put it to a vote, majority of Americans will allocate public funds towards stimulus cheques and not the military.... what majority of Americans would allocate funds towards is not necessarily the thing that gets done.
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by virgilp 5y ago
> because most people don't find their problems interesting so they need to pay more just to get people in the door, That's true when we're talking about a difference between 8$/h and 20$/h. If we're talking
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by virgilp 5y ago
I tried to do that! Didn't use Poisson, used normal distribution, but I think that's not so relevant - at the end of the day it's still just more elaborate guesswork. I think what's useful is thinking about the problem,

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