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by wegs 7y ago
There are quite a few other competitors. They make SSDs. It's a different price/performance curve (lower on the low-end, higher on the high-end), but as I said, reliability trumps all. In the early days, I waited to adopt SSDs bec
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by wegs 7y ago
I read that as 'for critical applications, buy a competitor's drive.' Perhaps reading comprehension is limited on my part. The key thing I want from a drive is reliability. I don't want to lose my data. That far beats si
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by wegs 7y ago
Neither. This is based on seeing a large number of companies, who are seamlessly capable of working and delivering products remotely (e.g. SaaS) moving to salary reductions, furloughs, and layoffs. That's anecdotal data among companies
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by wegs 7y ago
I feel bad for the spiral here. We're now seeing the second-order of the depression spiral. * First step was laying off people without jobs which could be done remotely. * Second step is laying off people who could still be productive
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by wegs 7y ago
This brings back the good-ol' days of early Linux. Anyone remember Enlightenment, and it's crazy theming? I think what's changed is tech use and literacy. Most people spend hours on digital devices today, and are a lot like t
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by wegs 7y ago
I don't find GraphQL to be easier to learn than SQL. But SQL is a much more helpful and generalizable skill. That's the second-system syndrome. Once you tack all the stuff on needed for something "simple" to be useful, i
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by wegs 7y ago
No. You miss the point. SQL has proven robust over a broad set of types of data. People have tried to come up with new systems for objects (OODB), JSON documents (Mongo), and so on. All were disasters. It turned out SQL was the answer all a
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by wegs 7y ago
Many charities produce enormous externalities. That's why people donate to them. I think OP's point was that those organizations don't necessarily have a good grasp of the reality those of us bound by market forces live under
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by wegs 7y ago
The majority of their income comes from government subsidies and from charitable donations. At some universities, over time, that's built up into endowments which support professors. That's very much the definition of "live o
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by wegs 7y ago
I had a very similar one in my career. It's a little bit more complex than that, though -- the value of us as a customer was >>$1 mil per year (Google had several dedicated engineers for the partnership), but it wasn't a fla
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by wegs 7y ago
Nah. With Google, the attitude of ad-supported extends to B2B. You can pay them a megabuck a year, and still get steamrolled by their AI having a random bug.
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by wegs 7y ago
Which is why I would never trust Google for any business functions. These things happen all the time with Google. The model is based on your value being your ad revenue. If the cost of support outweighs your future ad revenue, which it alwa
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by wegs 7y ago
This first link is utter nonsense. It bases on things like 6 people having died on Diamond Princess. That number is now 12, and growing.
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by wegs 7y ago
And the coronavirus was just a flu. And there's pent-up demand in out economy which will just explode when we get out of this. No. This is not panic-buying or hoarding. There are actual supply chain disruptions, shifting demands, fewer
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by wegs 7y ago
My experience: Better than Logitech. A $10 webcam I picked up 5-10 years ago vastly outperforms my fancy Logitech which my work bought for me. Coincidentally, eBay, AliExpress, etc. have a bunch of cheap ones, but with long lead times (ship
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by wegs 7y ago
I find bidets as or more useful if it's not that bad. You're often talking about just one or two square of toilet paper (literally, not figuratively). Try cleaning your hands with paper instead of water some day, and see how that
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by wegs 7y ago
Past performance isn't always indicative of future performance. Cultures and worlds change. In many cases, people confuse poor concepts with poor execution (or vice-versa: bad concept with excellent execution or good luck can be succes
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by wegs 7y ago
Well, I'm pretty sure. The negotiation between the teacher's union on the administration is a closed-door meeting, but I follow district politics very closely. Perceived equity issues fed into this as well. The result, of course,
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by wegs 7y ago
Most of the bad reputation is deserved. Most US unions are horrible organizations. There are still some good unions, just not many. That doesn't make the concept of a union bad. They worked much better 50 years ago, even. It's a g
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by wegs 7y ago
This story is a little bit one-sided. If you read right-wing media, you'll get stories one-sided in the other direction. States in the US had placed orders for masks, in some cases more than a month ago, and have not received them even
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by wegs 7y ago
In my area, they're burning through PPE like there's no tomorrow, and complaining about shortages. When the crisis really hits, that's when they'll need to go for amateur-made, reusing, and working naked. The lack of for
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by wegs 7y ago
Millennia, actually. There is clear evidence that people understood the medical importance of copper in ancient Rome, and even some evidence of Bronze-age Egypt and ancient India (which is to say it's clear copper was used in medicine,
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by wegs 7y ago
For public health use (as opposed to medical use), the difference between an N95 mask and a surgical mask is pretty small. They both make a huge difference. It's true: air can come around if the seal isn't perfect. However, you&#x
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by wegs 7y ago
If Khan Academy did the same thing without Khan, I think it would work better, rather than worse. The personality-cult model is less scalable than the best-and-brightest model.
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by wegs 7y ago
I think it's a false statement to say someone less expensive will run things less well. I've been at a number of not-for-profits, and that does not match my experience at all. Compensation should be set at a level where people don
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by wegs 7y ago
You make a whole slew of unsubstantiated statements. 1) Businesses going under is preventable. If a lot of businesses go under, so will banks when those businesses default on debts. 2) Direct payments would need to be astronomical to protec
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by wegs 7y ago
Banks can get loans for free, and pass that onto credit-worthy businesses. Less credit-worthy businesses can get loans through the SBA through the stimulus. The government's existing programs (assuming the stimulus passes) will breach
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by wegs 7y ago
Don't dramatize. You do get paid. You (potentially) get paid a few months later, and in the meantime, the Fed provides loans at effectively 0% interest. Who would you rather have: a pile of debtors in your portfolio who have a 50/
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by wegs 7y ago
Most people need that salary to survive due to fixed obligations: mortgages, rents, credit card debt, car leases, etc. That's what we need to pause. Beyond that, you have discretionary spending, which can be cut. And finally, you have
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by wegs 7y ago
There's a delay, not a stop. Banks can borrow at approximately 0% from the fed right now.

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