drewrobb

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by drewrobb 7y ago
One aspect you miss in your analogy is that when you include the time dimension, the probability of a collision is proportional to swept volume (and thus speed), rather than static volume. So while the space is really large, really fast obj
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by drewrobb 8y ago
Having transaction data hidden from governments isn't the essential feature of decentralization in the original promise of cryptocurrencies. The essential feature is preventing a single party from tampering with transactions or account
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by drewrobb 8y ago
I agree, this is a perfect example of a homunculus fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homunculus_argument .
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by drewrobb 9y ago
I'm surprised that the scaling story of k8s/(+etcd?) is still so far behind mesos/zk. There have been mesos clusters at over 10k Nodes for several years now. I have never personally needed more than a few hundred mesos agents
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by drewrobb 9y ago
Also, the area within by that large radius is going to be much bigger than from non-nuclear threats, so the number of people who could have reduced injuries via preparation might be much greater.
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by drewrobb 9y ago
Those are just called "market makers". As a market maker you might be exposed to the risk of always ending up on the wrong side of the market over a longer time. For example if BTC is generally moving up, market makers might event
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by drewrobb 9y ago
I think that is some kind of rowing/swimming/boating course. It shows up in the running layer because a few people mislabel their activity types. It shows up much stronger in the water layer. Next update to the heatmap I intend to
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by drewrobb 9y ago
Update done!
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by drewrobb 9y ago
I think there are two parts: 1) Internal representation for building/serving: For vector, the data would have to be aggregated in some way otherwise it would be way too slow (for example, tiles having 10 million or more lines). How exa
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by drewrobb 9y ago
level 16 is as far as it goes.
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by drewrobb 9y ago
It is serving 512px tiles by default, which only go one level lower. At 256px, the level 16 requests are valid: https://heatmap-external-b.strava.com/tiles/ride/blue/16/337...
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by drewrobb 12y ago
I worked the routing backend if anyone has questions. You can read more here: http://engineering.strava.com/routemaster/