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by zxcmx 7y ago
Not a huge fan of node or anything but npm lock files do pin to a hash. Also in commercial world you're going to be pulling through nexus or some other cache to reduce bandwidth use and developer downtime. Are there other reproducibili
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by zxcmx 7y ago
I do have a prior, which is that I don't think any "free" markets exist in western nations due to broad consumer laws, plus applicable domain specific laws but interested in your perspective. There are severe limits on what a
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by zxcmx 7y ago
There are plenty of regulated free markets. Examples would be everything which uses mains power, phone lines or radiates rf. Or stuff you eat or medicine. Or occupational products. Or... actually I think more things are regulated than aren&
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by zxcmx 7y ago
From my POV its fair for the support services to cost a lot. The theatre or the nurses or the equipment or really anything we can account to facilities or administration might cost a lot and thats generally kind of ok. A junior programmer c
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by zxcmx 7y ago
Maybe they're already here...
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by zxcmx 7y ago
I'm curious how much the observed speed of Aspera on the Internet might rely on "nicer" protocols (TCP) backing off as Aspera causes congestion^H^H maximises link utilisation. Do you think the protocol might cause problems if
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by zxcmx 7y ago
The conflict is that curation / recommendation is profitable because it "closes the loop" on the skinner box, you can push towards content that will keep people watching or that makes more money. But Google don't want to
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by zxcmx 7y ago
Have thought about this a bit. Moving towards DD used to seem like an obvious evolution to me, particularly with modern technology. Following recent political developments I see a lot more risks now. First of all is how do we choose what to
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by zxcmx 7y ago
Bit of an aside, but a lot of people in AWS or Azure can't run their workloads in Hetzner, OVH or what-have-you for compliance / paperwork related reasons. Now SoftLayer I'm not so sure about - interested to hear from anyone
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by zxcmx 7y ago
Regulation gets interesting too. What devices does this apply to? Does it apply to smart tvs, thermostats, printers, anything with software? (which will soon be everything). Components? Can I import a device? What vetting / certificati
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by zxcmx 7y ago
Much of the world has contactless payment (no pin, no physical card insertion). It is more or less instant. Common in .au, .nz at least. I'm actually noticing some cultural changes as a result of this, cash is starting to seem "di
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by zxcmx 7y ago
Provisioning cloud stuff ends up being about the relationships between all the things. Plus a bunch of dirty domain knowledge about retries and resource schemas. It's very difficult to delete infra in AWS without a resource graph onc
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by zxcmx 7y ago
Yeah I think this could probably work well in gcp. In AWS you end up with a manually built/managed root cluster and if you've automated deploying / upgrading (which you probably should) that then you might as well just use th
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by zxcmx 7y ago
We thought about this pattern for a while and ultimately decided we didn't want app compute to directly provision supporting infrastructure. You end up in this weird place where your compute nodes can, at any time, assume super powerfu
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by zxcmx 7y ago
A frequently overlooked aspect in enterprise is billing, accounting and supplier agreement overhead. In enterprise, Joe developer can often add / use more AWS services and it just goes on the giant enterprise bill, no questions asked.
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by zxcmx 7y ago
The wealth distributions we see have a mathematical flavour to them but are the result of a system created and governed by humans. In fact vast disparities in wealth can only be created and sustained through significant social effort. It ta
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by zxcmx 7y ago
Wait, does this imply that ruminating and getting blackout drunk could be an effective form of therapy?
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by zxcmx 7y ago
Seems like you could make the same argument for foot binding.
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by zxcmx 7y ago
Just telling millions of people per year they might have cancer... say the MRI is booked for 2 weeks out... which they are then going to majorly stress about the whole time regardless of how low you tell them the risk is - is going to have
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by zxcmx 7y ago
Not the OP, but I guess the TL;DR for me is that it's usually ok for sessions to be loosely consistent, and you can upgrade to "hard" consistency where you need to. Enforced session state consistency creates a hard runtime de
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by zxcmx 7y ago
Well the $6k is gone at the end of the month but some portion of the $8k becomes equity.
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by zxcmx 7y ago
I think of CT as a large scale deployment of basically the same idea.
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by zxcmx 7y ago
Suspect the parent poster was thinking primarily about the other five-eyes. The rest of Europe though... has no great cloud options I can think of for genuine national security stuff.
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by zxcmx 7y ago
I agree with your general point but computers are weird. Attacks and exploits can have scaling properties much like other software. We can do something expensive (say $200k attack cost) to break the platform and sell 10k $100 mod chips. The
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by zxcmx 7y ago
Or launch a thing, to be fair. We came up with a product internally. So our CEO hired a top-tier consulting company to sell our own idea back to us. That process cost millions. But they do make real slick presentations and they have highe
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by zxcmx 7y ago
You could also say that society subsidised your education and will do the same for other, future citizens. Also, most families who were eligible, maybe even your own, got the benefits of the tax breaks available to parents. For some reason
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by zxcmx 7y ago
Hm. I think the kind of fake news most people are worried about on social media has properties which distinguish it from merely "factually incorrect information". It's a kind of "supernormal stimulus" - high viralit
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by zxcmx 7y ago
It's their thing though, right? It's their passion. The author seems to be making a weird argument, to me: If you're working for love, status or meaning (rather than need)... you should... stop? Morally? Because you have enou
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by zxcmx 7y ago
Edit: Joining Mensa is associated with mental and physical disorders.
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by zxcmx 7y ago
Is this just a general position or do you have concerns with this specific study? I tend to be reflexively skeptical of results like this as well - but I also have a lot of time for results from the Dunedin study. Long-term studies are grea

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