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by zumachase 6y ago
We don't but it helps with marketing and has synergies with other paid products Most of the traffic is P2P. We operate a couple of geo distributed relays for NAT'd traffic. But everything is 100% e2e encrypted thanks to webrtc. It
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by zumachase 6y ago
For anyone interested in push-to-talk/intercoms we built a free tool at the beginning of quarantine last year called Squawk - https://www.squawk.to
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by zumachase 6y ago
We have a free version called Squawk over at https://www.squawk.to
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by zumachase 6y ago
Wow...an S-1 with positive net income.
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by zumachase 6y ago
Also there's a large selection bias: people using less common or more esoteric/demanding languages tend to be better engineers who have invested the time in learning something off the beaten path. That absolutely does not mean it&
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by zumachase 6y ago
We've played around with that and it's on the roadmap. But it just adds another set of fixtures to herd.
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by zumachase 6y ago
This is what we do but it's too manual for my taste.
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by zumachase 6y ago
We've got a core product running on Django, and one thing the author doesn't mention is testing migrations. The migration system is wonderful, except for the difficulty in testing migrations. There's no sane/official way
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by zumachase 6y ago
Hi Vlad - your anecdote about ship tracking is interesting (my other startup is an AIS based dry freight trader). You must know the Vortexa guys given your BP background. How does QuestDB differ from other timeseries/OLAP offerings? I&
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by zumachase 6y ago
The prompt contained a few react examples with annotated English descriptions that were similar enough. You’re not seeing the entire prompt and as impressive as this is, it’s likely that you’d end up writing more code trying to get it to do
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by zumachase 6y ago
We're incredibly excited about GPT-3. I think there is a fair bit hype exhaustion, especially from the likes of OpenAI ("our AI is too dangerous to release"). So this is completely understandable. However I think what's
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by zumachase 6y ago
I’m not really sure what containers/k8s has to do with JVM? Containers are just name spacing, not virtualization. If you’re running in the cloud, either way you slice it you’ll have two virtual machines: hypervisor and JVM. I’d argue t
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by zumachase 6y ago
I think this is pretty myopic. As someone who straddles both sides of this, the world is not that simple. If the "business side" as you say isn't viable, then nothing matters. This has nothing to do with late stage capitalism
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by zumachase 6y ago
> Why would any company include this SDK > Is implementing a user authentication system really so complicated "Login with Facebook" isn't popular because it saves developer time. It's popular because it massively r
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by zumachase 6y ago
Surprised databases haven’t been mentioned. Anything stateful is still far easier to scale vertically. Otherwise you have to go multi master and start sharding across smaller instances. A massive chip like this can let you keep a pretty sim
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by zumachase 6y ago
I wish Redis would focus a bit more on the standard clustering options. Cluster has some real drawbacks and Sentinel is about the most brittle service I’ve seen. We run all of our peer discovery for Squawk[1] on Redis but recently made the
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by zumachase 6y ago
Again, this is not what I said. Inflationary policy in a deflationary market is still inflationary.
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by zumachase 6y ago
I think this thread is full of people confusing absolute inflation with relative inflation (“inflationary”). A policy resulting in zero absolute inflation can be inflationary provided that absent such policy, deflation would have occurred.
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by zumachase 6y ago
Another commenter rightly noted that inflation is only partially driven by supply of money. The other factor is velocity of money, which is how quickly money is “recycled” within the economy. If that 40k is now going to investors who have a
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by zumachase 6y ago
> It seems to me that others in the thread are describing a scenario where product is discarded because the price has already fallen so far that it is no longer profitable after accounting for various processing costs (ie things such as
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by zumachase 6y ago
What? Nothing I said has anything to do with the demand curve. This is all supply side. We hold the demand curve constant for any such analysis. But it’s irrelevant anyway: a basic tenet of economics is that people are, in aggregate, utilit
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by zumachase 6y ago
Yes, it would absolutely. Purchasing power is (roughly) the ratio of production divided by the money supply. If supply of money goes down, purchasing power goes up and vice versa. In your example, these truckers have stopped producing goods
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by zumachase 6y ago
We’re not talking about the Treasury. We’re talking about Central Banks who lack the power to tax (directly at least). > People seem to prefer inflation to taxation. That’s because they’re not the same thing, not at all.
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by zumachase 6y ago
You’re putting the cart before the horse: price came first, then the product was discarded. The risk that these potatoes might be dumped into the market pushed prices down. If you magically take this risk away, it doesn’t matter by which me
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by zumachase 6y ago
You’ve moved the goalposts. OP claims that it’s not inflationary. You’re claiming it’s inflationary but that it’s beneficial. I’m only taking issue with the former.
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by zumachase 6y ago
Yes the control plane is only in one of the data centers. The other only runs admin services like offsite backups, our development infra (gitlab, etc) and CI/CD. We could definitely do two clusters and probably should, but the secondar
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by zumachase 6y ago
Yes this is all very true, but he makes the case explicitly for money velocity to increase. He’s not suggested printing money for savers or rent seekers, he’s suggested printing money for the express purpose of consumption: I have been auto
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by zumachase 6y ago
I’m sorry, that’s just not how economics works. A market with excess supply necessarily has lower prices than one that is balanced, ceteris paribus. Idaho potatoes were mentioned above. They are only being thrown away because the market doe
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by zumachase 6y ago
No, I’m not. You’re making a very simple argument of an extremely complex issue. That only holds up in a world of unlimited resource. As long as energy and raw materials are finite, the above does not hold. More importantly, you’re conflati

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