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by yingw787 6y ago
I wonder how much money Facebook will lose by simply not running ads for say one week. One week before the election, turn off all ads to a particular area, then run ads made by FB marketing for everybody to say vote in the election, I don&#
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by yingw787 6y ago
...isn't the whole reason of this discussion revolving around events causing "ridiculous paranoia" being realized? No, I don't think I'm being too paranoid. Even if Signal is open source, it means smack if you don&#
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by yingw787 6y ago
As a software engineer: screw software-based solutions. Too hard to communicate to people, too easily compromised without notice, just blegh for things like this. I remember the Mueller report being printed out, inked over, and then scanne
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by yingw787 6y ago
I've heard that all that QE and tax cuts from '08 and '20 goes into assets that are valued by rich people. Healthcare, real estate, college, financial securities, which drives up prices due to inflation. I'm not sure if
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by yingw787 6y ago
I'm using Lambda@Edge for static site auth, so I just need to pass some HTTP headers, and it still seems a bit overkill. I really like the ability to integrate with a CDN, I don't think I want to move away from that to something l
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by yingw787 6y ago
I've only used Docker w/ ECS and EC2 task definitions, but creating and draining instances is pretty time-consuming and I'm guessing not responsive enough for serverless-specific workloads. If you use Packer and lock down you
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by yingw787 6y ago
Hmm, you make some good points w.r.t. the custom runtime. I do kind of wish that AWS would maintain its own LTS releases of things like node.js, but I guess it's difficult to say whether that would require source mutation from the user
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by yingw787 6y ago
I don't get why you have to go with .metal EC2 instances only, can you elaborate?
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by yingw787 6y ago
I wonder what the difference between managed serverless and having an EC2 instance w/ Firecracker loaded up on it would be. I've used Lambda and I fear maintenance burdens due to the underlying environments migrating; they'll
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by yingw787 6y ago
Thanks for this clear explanation, I enjoyed reading it! If UBI was to come into effect, and that's a separate discussion, I'd definitely prefer using government debt rather than revaluing the very notion of the U.S. dollar to do
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by yingw787 6y ago
I kinda don't think after all this people want to move towards currency consolidation. Isn't the E.U. the only union and non-country to have a singular currency? And isn't that singular monetary policy something that causes a
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by yingw787 6y ago
So...if nobody but the Fed or some other govt construct demands these notes...are we good...if the market says so...? I'm not saying this isn't insane, it is, but I don't think it's that much more insane than what's
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by yingw787 6y ago
If everyone's in on it... would it impact credit scores? My impression of credit scores is they're a metric for a bank or a financial institution to determine credibility for a loan. If everybody knows you'll default on said
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by yingw787 6y ago
But the Fed QE from '08 didn't make it back if I understand it correctl...I think we managed to unwound about a quarter or a third (?) of the outstanding debt before this crisis hit and the Fed had to issue new QE all over again.
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by yingw787 6y ago
One can dream, but you can imagine if the Fed really wanted to implement UBI, it could probably do something like: - Give everyone in the U.S. a guaranteed loan for $2,001, 0% interest, payable at the end of the month - Before you "def
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by yingw787 6y ago
Wow, so cool! How does this compare to something like Google Chrome Lighthouse? I think there's a webapp: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/ Is there any place we can sign up for upd
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by yingw787 6y ago
Immediate concern for me would be safety. My impression is the battery pack provides a lot of the rigidity necessary to keep the car in one piece, and swapping the battery out introduces new hazards. There's also the concern about liab
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by yingw787 6y ago
God. I remember reading this a year ago. I've been working on TinyDev for about...two months longer than I thought I would have, and I still have probably a month left to go before it's completely ready. Just the amount of ops wor
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by yingw787 6y ago
I've been reading the Incerto series by Nassim Taleb and he talks quite frequently about nonlinearities and their outsize impact. He mentions how a friend of his saw how during the Gulf War, everybody had planned for the war to increas
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by yingw787 6y ago
I have a ThinkPad P1 Gen 2 with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS installed. It works fine. By contrast I had gotten a Dell Precision 5530 with Dell OEM Ubuntu, and after a factory reset the GPU couldn't be detected afterwards. Unless they get things l
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by yingw787 6y ago
My example to follow in this domain is Max Levchin: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-... To Levchin, prepping for survival is a moral miscalculation; he prefers to “shut down p
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by yingw787 6y ago
I remember watching this video on the Intel 8086 by Harvard Business School, and they mentioned how revolutionary it is from a business perspective because it took a vertically integrated market and made it a horizontally integrated market.
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by yingw787 6y ago
Oh woah cool! I love the Verizon dashboard, looks very polished for an internal tool! I have a friend who did some network security work for Comcast, interesting stuff it is.
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by yingw787 6y ago
This is cool, thanks for sharing! I'll be honest, I didn't think AOL did anything...interesting...but this is interesting to me! What are some open-source alternatives / analogues to this product?
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by yingw787 6y ago
This might or might not be relevant, but I had an idea for a Typeform-based way you can deploy services. You would fill out an online form on what you want, and a service would automatically provision an instance of that service for you. Se
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by yingw787 6y ago
I've heard Uber Eats has much higher margin anyways, and many restaurants (the ones that haven't closed down anyways) are still shipping via Uber Eats among other delivery apps. I'd love to hear more about how Uber Eats might
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by yingw787 6y ago
I never understood why as a company you wouldn't prefer an on-premises computer cluster with some overhead and give employees thin clients, rather than give everybody MacBook Pros. Thin clients + servers make much more sense to me from
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by yingw787 7y ago
I can't drink crude without dying
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by yingw787 7y ago
No barrel needed, I just eat it when it's hot and fresh

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