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by yupper32 5y ago
> Good advice, so is "don't have a global outage" but do people follow it? People on HN should understand better than anyone that this isn't really possible over a long enough period of time. It's not like Southw
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by yupper32 5y ago
I never understand people's expectations of companies during stuff like this. There are people complaining that they can't get through to customer service on their phone. Like, do they expect them to always have enough customer se
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by yupper32 5y ago
> Cheap, simple, easy, fast I mean, this page is not simple, easy, or fast to develop. Instead of just writing a simple article, the author had to source/create at least 2 dozen images with no value only to lay them out on the page
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by yupper32 5y ago
This isn't a great argument, regardless of my stance on the issue. We ban and heavily regulate plenty of financial stuff so that people don't get taken advantage of. Payday loan regulations/bans are a good example.
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by yupper32 5y ago
> but if there happened to be an outage during that time now you’d have to have your team working then anyway. So you're having them work late 52 times a year AND when there's an outage vs only when there's an outage. They
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by yupper32 5y ago
Sorry I'm a bit confused by your argument. > When things are up people have to work. That's not true. Monitoring software and on-call rotations are well established things, and wouldn't even go away in your world. Believe
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by yupper32 5y ago
Frankly, because it can be. Weekly scheduled downtime is arbitrary, manufactured, and lazy. Of course, having to schedule the occasional downtime for a database migration is fine. There's probably a few times a year that you'd nee
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by yupper32 5y ago
I find it very hard to come up with a use case where a weekly 6 hours of downtime at night EST would be acceptable. US government websites already often do this, and I find that completely unacceptable since these services need to be availa
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by yupper32 5y ago
> I recall something I read about people who work in high places like antenna towers would often rather do away with the harness if safety regulations allowed as they find it tedious to be unhooking and rehooking every few steps up the l
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by yupper32 5y ago
Many big tech companies (and individual products within the company) rotate oncall/release/SRE responsibilities between NA and EU. HQ doesn't need to be awake in these cases.
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by yupper32 5y ago
You can just Google "Marriage Tax Penalty" and you'll get more details and history than I can write in a post. I imagine it's not a super common problem in the general population. But for the HN demographics, two high ea
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by yupper32 5y ago
Sounds horrible. I don't want people outside of my tech circle knowing how much money I make. I like my privacy. Having people know I make over $x00k a year would invite all sorts of bad things.
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by yupper32 5y ago
> The purpose of a wealth tax is (mostly) not to raise revenue, it is to provide a downward pressure on the wealth of the wealthiest individuals. Sorry, what? Taxes should always be about raising money for various projects that benefit t
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by yupper32 5y ago
It's very possible to pay more taxes while married. Two high income people getting married will very often face a large "marriage penalty". It's the dumbest thing I've ever heard of when I first looked into taxes wh
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by yupper32 5y ago
You still have a massive massive number of loop-holes to fill and complexities to answer for. Does my collection of rare coins count as one asset as a whole, or individual assets that are each under X amount? Who decides what my random pain
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by yupper32 5y ago
It's a completely ridiculous policy that would require enumerating every item in history and deciding if people are able to buy it from you. My fridge? My dog? My shoes? My car? My bike? My boat? My model railroad set? My grandmothers
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by yupper32 5y ago
"Unless they can prove it was a specific bad actor" That's the opposite of the entire basis of the US criminal justice system. Innocent until proven guilty. You need to prove it was them. Not have them prove it was another ba
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by yupper32 5y ago
> What's wrong with it being a lovely experience? It shouldn't be a priority. At all. If it happens to also be a lovely experience, that's of course fine. But it's not something to plan around when it significantly re
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by yupper32 5y ago
According to a recent study reported by Reuters, child birth in a hospital setting is far safer: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-homebirths-newborn... Skin-to-skin contact immediately after birth is pretty co
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by yupper32 5y ago
Some of my candidates I've supported have won. Some I've liked once in office, some I haven't. Some I've voted for again, some I've voted out. Can't win them all. Just have to keep trying. Sorry my efforts aren
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by yupper32 5y ago
Because the source is likely good enough to post. MSNBC reported on some CNN reporting the other week, while acknowledging that they haven't independently verified it yet. MSNBC was not saying that CNN isn't credible, it's ju
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by yupper32 5y ago
You've missed my point entirely. My point is that just because I heard an acid attack outside my hotel in London, it does not make me qualified to criticize London or those who choose to live there. Just as someone who visited SF a few
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by yupper32 5y ago
And in most cities I haven't had to bribe a cop, like the one time I went to Mexico. And in most cities I haven't heard the result of an acid attack outside of my hotel lobby, like one of the times I've visited London. I&#x27
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by yupper32 5y ago
Voting, contributing to campaigns, some volunteering around prop times. Though I'll admit I haven't done much around the recall of our DA outside of donating. I should be doing more there. I'm also active in my neighborhood i
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by yupper32 5y ago
> This was my third time in SF. > Also, I've always refused to move to Silicon Valley > The author is in denial. > it is a really expensive shithole I'm always amazed by people who have visited a place a few times as a
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by yupper32 5y ago
I honestly don't understand what you're trying to say. What's actionable about your view? You going to call up every business that doesn't accept your email and tell them their programmers suck? Businesses like this are
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by yupper32 5y ago
Of course they're a bad programmer. But we live in real life, where bad programmers exist. Get a big brand .com email and you'll never run into an issue.
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by yupper32 5y ago
Might sound strange but yes, me@<my-last-name>.al is being clever. You found a nice short clean email by buying a domain from Albania and setting up a me@ address. That's clever. Think about it this way: either you can get some
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by yupper32 5y ago
If 5% of ecommerce shops refuse to accept it, it's likely you being clever. My email is refused by 0% of ecommerce shops... because I just have a normal email. Don't be clever, pick a better email.
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by yupper32 5y ago
And the solution that many stores have been doing is to put basic cheap items behind a lock and key. The last time I went to a Walgreens I needed to buy: 1. Mouth wash 2. Tooth paste 3. Shaving cream I had to drag some poor employee over fo

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