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by mqnfred 4y ago
they probably have different clusters for different use cases: att big companies, this will lead to a very long tail of small clusters. cassandra struggles to scale horizontally after a while so i am guessing that they also do some sort of
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by mqnfred 4y ago
There are indeed people who repeatedly perform reprehensible deeds.
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by mqnfred 4y ago
For anyone wondering, there are currently 45M first generation immigrants in the US (13.5% of the total population.) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_S...
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by mqnfred 4y ago
Could it be that the younger folks are less inclined to acknowledge the existence of objective truth than older generations? I could argue that it is orthogonal to integrity seeing as I believe integrity to be about intent and not result. W
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by mqnfred 4y ago
That to me is a reason to like the company rather than not... Let's see where you stand once your opinions are on the chopping block
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by mqnfred 5y ago
Can somebody more knowledgeable than me weight in on the efficacy of this approach as opposed to using docker containers?
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by mqnfred 5y ago
I don’t think Uber itself operates in China since it sold its operations to Yandex.Taxi.
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by mqnfred 5y ago
I know you might not be interested in anything chromium-based since this thread is about firefox, but qutebrowser[1] is a great solution for anybody looking for vimium/pentadactyl-like experience. [1] https://qutebrowser.org
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by mqnfred 5y ago
You’ve said it better than I could have. Many people on HN probably know your handle/identity, if only by virtue of you referring to it in your comments somewhat systematically. You manage your identity with an SEO mindset indeed. I do
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by mqnfred 5y ago
A very interesting follow-up to an insightful post. I think the answer might lie in why the american business culture is more efficient in the first place. I believe american business is more fluid, allowing for better arbitrage opportuniti
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by mqnfred 5y ago
Your computation is incorrect, 3 days out of 365 is 1% of downtime, not 0.1%. I believe your error stems from reporting .1% as 0.1. Indeed: 0.001 (.1%) * 8760 (365d*24h) = 8.76h Alternatively, the common industry standard in infrastructure
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by mqnfred 5y ago
Immigrating alone to a previously unknown country is very hard. I did it with my spouse and we struggled a lot. I also had to stay in my job for 5+ years to keep my visa, I am just out of it now. I also struggle with on-off work ethic. Mo
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by mqnfred 5y ago
Thank you for the wisdom!
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The Light vs. Dark Triad of Personality(frontiersin.org)
2 points by mqnfred 5y ago|0 comments
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by mqnfred 6y ago
I think you make a very good point. I would add that in the short to mid-term, Twitch could also grow thanks to the pie getting bigger. Video streaming, I believe, is far from having peaked.
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Show HN: Hide in Plain Sight, manage secrets alongside your code(github.com)
7 points by mqnfred 6y ago|1 comments
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by mqnfred 6y ago
The ridesharing line of business has been profitable for at least a year from what I can tell. The plan was for it to cover all the other costs by EoY 2020, incl. HQ expenses and other bets like Eats.
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by mqnfred 7y ago
This is a rule of thumb. You should always check your assumptions about code being correct or not. However, if somebody and their code have proven themselves unreliable, it is a useful optimization to first consider they are wrong, instead
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by mqnfred 7y ago
In the rest of the world, and in CA before this change, drivers are paid per mile/time and riders pay an upfront price. The only way this is possible is if Uber does absorb the risk for the rider's convenience. They will not be