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Some people just know that they're right. That they have "the truth". Burroughs called it the "Right Virus". That was before we had the concept of memes.
I think a lot more people need to build a prototype to validate their ideas, before jumping into development. Have you had any luck getting paying customers at that price?
I don't disagree; but try doing business there without paying bribes.
Obamacare is not a terrible idea, it's a transitional idea as we're already doing this with insurance; it's an evolution of the system in the right direction, it's not a final solution. Add a national exchange, offer a public option, bam medicade for all.
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>>So, you agree with my points then?

I can't figure out what you are saying outside of it sounding like you are trying to trap me and be right about something. No, I don't think your original points are right at all given how the system was designed and navigated around in today's climate.

I'm disengaging from future comments because I don't believe you argue in good faith. Good day.
Food safety regulation has nothing to do with unpriced externality and everything to do with people not knowing what's good for them.
> all AZs are within the same physical facility

The TL;DR from AWS documentation [1]:

An Availability Zone is represented by a region code followed by a letter identifier; for example, us-east-1a. To ensure that resources are distributed across the Availability Zones for a region, we independently map Availability Zones to identifiers for each account. For example, your Availability Zone us-east-1a might not be the same location as us-east-1a for another account. There's no way for you to coordinate Availability Zones between accounts.

The long and confusing explanation:

At least not in us-east-1 and us-west-1-2, but I am pretty sure many of the large regions are also run in multiple physical facilities.

The so-called availability zone is an abstract and virtual concept. Let us use us-east-1 as an example.

Assume the following:

* Physical DC buildings: Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Staten Island

* AWS accounts: Joe, Alice, Bob

* AZ: us-east-1a, us-east-1b, us-east-1c, and us-east-1d

Every AWS account in us-east-1 region is assigned three AZs. But for sake of this explanation, we assume only two.

* Joe: 1a, 1b

* Alice: 1a, 1b

* Bob: 1a, 1c

You now ask, "WTF?" but you let this go, think this is done for capacity reason. So do we actually have four different physical facilities, one per each AZ? Nope.

So is 1a and 1b in the same facility? Not necessarily, but very possible.

So 1a and 1b in Queens, 1c in Brooklyn, and 1d in Manhattan? Nope.

So what the fuck is AZ? What is the relationship between AZ and physical facility?

Think about virtual memory address space.

Joe's 1a and Bob's 1a are in Queens, but Alice's 1a is in Manhattan. But Joe's 1a and Bob's 1a are on a different floor, different racks, while Joe's 1b and Bob's 1c are in Brooklyn and on the same floor. This is why certain customers run out m3.xlarge in 1a but others don't in their 1a.

In essence, AZ is a label and is unique per account. AZ is very similar how virtual memory address in OS looks like.

We learned this because our EMR failed due to low capacity in one account.

[1]: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-reg...
The price of milk is not generally subject to speculative bubbles, though. When it is (let's say some kind of shortage rumor or disaster prep) the price indeed crashes after reaching absurd levels.
and you need that because ...?
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We just started using Asana a couple of months ago, but we're not seeing the performance issues some other folks are mentioning. I just hit Asana full refresh and it took 2-3 seconds to render all of the components in My Tasks. It seems pretty snappy in my opinion. Asana with a few Zaps has been great. Because I know they're watching...could you guys add a calendar view to the iOS app? =)
To truly support downstream remixing, musicians would need to distribute the original, separate tracks. Occasionally an independent musician will do this, but it's not at all common AFAIK.
I don't mean to be rude, but your answer was very handwavy without any citations or proof.

https://datacenterfrontier.com/inside-amazon-cloud-computing...

"Amazon initially said little about the physical layout of AZs, leaving some customers to whether they might be different data halls within the same facility. The company has since clarified that each availability zone resides in a different building."

“It’s a different data center,” said Hamilton. “We don’t want to run out of AZs, so we add data centers.”

To make this work, the Availability Zones need to be isolated from one another, but close enough for low-latency network connections. Amazon says its zones are typically 1 to 2 milliseconds apart, compared to the 70 milliseconds required to move traffic from New York to Los Angeles.

“We’ve decided to place AZs relatively close together,” said Vogels. “However, they need to be in a different flood zone and a different geographical area, connected to different power grids, to make sure they are truly isolated from one another.”

So, distance of availability zones from each other is limited by speed of light in fiber optics (which is slower than through a vacuum or microwave wireless).

Based on this calculator: http://wintelguy.com/wanlat.html, availability zones can't be more than 0.5-1 miles apart (about) to retain their 1-2 millisecond network latency, so they're different buildings in the same industrial/business park. We could confirm this by pulling permits (public record) in Amazon's (or their subcontractor's) name.
> insurance companies (even together) lack the financial strength

high deductible policies and reinsurance are other tools that can be used to help with this problem
Even if there is a global downturn, the US economy will remain strong. Where else is capital going to go? If developing economies go bust, developed nations like the US will buy up their assets in a fire-sale.
bam medicade for all.

That is called single payer, government provided coverage. I would support that.

That is not remotely what Obamacare does. Obamacare requires private insurance to cover people with pre-existing conditions and it requires everyone to buy private insurance. It is busted as all fuck and I would like to see it go die in a fire.

I am aware what we were doing before Obamacare sucks and we need a real solution and to not simply go back to that. But this is not a real solution.
It looks great. How would I convert it to the mobi format so I can read it in my kindle?
This is a great read. The lessons apply to corporate IT markets as well as plumbers. Way back I worked on a new Oracle MONITORING project. I went to Oracle World and met uninspired DBA's getting drunk talking to booth babes. They were tallying how many visualizations and metrics MONITORING products delivered rarely understanding why GSA shared memory sizing might matter in the first place. Many interviewed DBA's enjoyed playing hero putting out their fires mostly born of negligence.

So we switched away from another MONITORING product to a DIAGNOSTICS product. Auto-DIAGNOSING common failure cases sold a differentiated product to managers hoping to get rid of those DBA's we met they had to send to Oracle World.

Software cannot help bored envious comfortably uncomfortable people hiding dysfunctions behind information and expertise asymmetries. Maybe that is where burnt steak dinners and bourbon enter the picture. Our disruption dynamics were and remain virtuous peaceful aggressions against human obstacles to possible lived efficiencies. People are very parochial and fickle compared to systems thinkers. Enduring solutions are more imposed by groups of enthusiasts than adopted by atomized individuals. Autumn leaves wither and fall where trunks and roots live on over years and seasons. Think very big and full lifecycle.
Having built a marketplace company around digital services I was a massive skeptical of Gigster but their revenue growth is phenomenal. Congrats to the team. Super keen to see how & when they expand to new verticals outside of software development.
> I've found templated queries(e.g. yesql) are far preferable for complex selects/joins/subselects and just can't imagine using the data structure dsl for such queries

I work with lots of CTEs, UNIONS, JOINS, and sub-selects and can't imagine not using data structures to validate individual parts of the query as I'm designing it. Particularly given how trivial it is in HoneySQL (anywhere a sub-select is legal you can insert a HoneySQL query map).

Further, I use a lot of the jsonb and postgis features of Postgres and HoneySQL is a champ here. Not everything is supported out of the box[0], but adding any missing clause or operator is just a quick defmethod away. Between HoneySQL and clojure.java.jdbc, working with PostgreSQL's JSON support feels like Mongo with the added abilities of custom types, transactions, and function indexes.

I do have a limit with how far I'll take HoneySQL, but that limit is usually something that belongs in a trigger or a sproc anyway.

[0] honeysql-postgres (https://github.com/nilenso/honeysql-postgres) helps here by providing some postgres-specific clauses/operators.
We were replacing a fully SQL email engine (that was starting to fall over due to load) with this more hybrid approach; we had customers, we knew that the business case closed, but the load was starting to overpower the main database, so we spun off separate databases, and bought ourselves a little more overhead by splitting out the normalized and denormalized data. Could well have been a mistake, but we weren't thrilled with postgres ability to scale horizontally, so went to CB so we could scale a bit more. (As I recall, we were doing 7m emails a day, our goal was to support up to 70m with that structure.)
Someone linked this in a previous thread: https://www.time4vps.eu/storage-servers/

It's cheaper then backblaze, slightly. It's not really comparable, because it's not distributed and there is real risk of data loss. However, for my needs, it works as part of a comprehensive backup plan. I get a bit more bang for my buck and more flexibility.
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Yes, but health insurance worked differently before Obamacare. Insurance companies simply did not cover chronically ill people or people with preexisting conditions, thus they were able to arrange a "bet." Obamacare removes the element of a "bet" from the system.

Just like the government provides fire protection in the form of fire departments, the government needs to provide health care. What we are doing currently is broken.
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The fluffiness of this article reminds me of a passage from "Debt, The First 5,000 years" by John Graeber:

> For years, everyone had been hearing of a whole host of new, ultrasophisticated financial innovations: credit and commodity derivatives, collateralized mortgage obligation derivatives, hybrid securities, debt swaps, and so on. These new derivative markets were so incredibly sophisticated, that-according to one persistent story-a prominent investment house had to employ astrophysicists to run trading programs... I well remember going to conferences in 2006 and 2007 where trendy social theorists presented papers arguing that these new forms of securitization, linked to new information technologies, heralded a looming transformation in the very nature of time, possibly reality itself. I remember thinking: "Suckers!" And so they were.
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I don't think we're really disagreeing on anything, just talking over each other a bit. Let me try to clarify myself:

> But that's not completely true. There is plenty of code necessary for managing the schema and just the schema in a document database. Default values, relationships, and managing previous version of the schema. I have plenty of code that just exists to handle documents in the "old" format.

This is only the case because you chose to _add_ an explicit schema on top of whatever schemaless DB you were using for maintainability reasons, which is certainly necessary if you're building a production app. However, in this case I was talking specifically about using schemaless DBs in the context of prototyping, and adding an explicit schema (that specifies things like default values, relationships, and migrations) is certainly not mandatory in the prototyping phase when you're not dealing with any real/past data or migrations.

MongoDB and other schemaless databases by default will happily accept whatever document you want to store in it without any care in the world, and this can be a desirable property for iterating as quickly as possible, but in production you definitely want to specify an explicit schema of some kind on top of Mongo as you have done, or just move off of Mongo altogether onto a proper relational database with a mandatory explicit schema.

As to which is the better long-term choice for a production app, I totally agree with everything you said. With schemaless databases, even if you add an explicit schema on top of it, there's always still the possibility to underspecify in your schema and re-introduce implicit data dependencies into your data model and application logic, which can lead to nightmarish bugs in production (I've experienced many instances of this first hand). It's much better to use a database designed around a mandatory explicit schema for relational data for the stronger data consistency guarantees they provide once you start handling real, persistent data.
I take it you never skateboarded. If you really want to see a veritable marketing orgy, look at the skateboarding world. It's gotten even crazier last time I looked.

This is like the kale salad of that type of marketing. It is definitely effective, though.
I wouldn't call where we are a speculative bubble. If you look at the P/E or dividend rates of stocks and compare that to other investments you'll see they are still favourable. So a decision to e.g. own MSFT stock that a higher dividend than you'd get in a 10 year bond, while not without risk, isn't pure speculation. MSFT has a business with good prospects and it makes money and pays it back to you. Where else do you put your money?
> It's not like one of their drivers was facing a long wait at the DMV and...encouraged...a bureaucrat to care about their job for a few minutes.

That's actually potentially legal under US law if the payment is only intended to expedite the process of getting them to do their official duties and they follow the right steps (which includes making appropriate disclosures).
I have thought about this a bit.. here is IMO a pretty insightful quote into personality

"When I say that Professor Lindzey’s left shoe is an “introvert,” everyone looks at his shoe as if it were something the shoe was responsible for. . . . Don’t look at that shoe! Look at me; I’m the one who is responsible for the statement."

The mere existence of the word feminine implies there is a dichotomy between male & female worth observing. When we search for this difference, we find it (funny how our brains are good at finding whatever they search for..). That confirmation leads us to form the perspective "women & men are different" and now see the world through this construct. From then on, confirmation bias is enough to sustain the correctness of this concept.

When a person who has no idea what feminine means, behaves in a "feminine" manner, others call them feminine (because this concept is near universal). That reinforces the concept, and like a virus the concept spreads to yet another person.

So the more existence of femininity as a cultural construct in a sense makes it all the more real. It is partly a "social reality" [1].'

Its like in cultures where the language has 1 word for 2 colors (from perspective of english speaker), they have observed that these people literally perceive less difference in the colors... so is the difference between blue/green a social construct or reality? The lines between social construct & reality are very blurry :p

[1] From Sapiens - Yuval Harari
The people who most need healthcare tend to have low incomes because they are chronically ill. So, no, that Boom! fundamentally does not work.
I can't help but wonder if the Fence comments had anything to do with my blog post last night. Kind of like watching social osmosis in action :D
Here's a famous example of a "just talk" experiment that went wrong (it literally created the Unabomber):

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2000/06/harvard...
I think it's interesting that you seem to innately recognize a linux box is basically a NAS. I run a full linux box at home that I use as a personal cloud / NAS.
I feel like another step missing or at least not fully acknowledged is knowing your competition. I just did a quick check and both Angie's List (1995) and Yelp (2004) were around years before this idea (2010). While it's certainly possible to be late to the game and win there's no visible differentiator here.
We are long overdue for a correction. Put your money into bonds and buy into the fire sales in inevitable upcoming crash.
Should have just wrote a sci-fi novel but I guess bold and baseless speculation on the future is the trendy thing to do these days.
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Your tip is appreciated, but that pales in comparison to what you could do with vim or emacs and a tool like qmv when renaming files.

You could, for instance, rename by regular expressions, easily do block selections and substitutions, use complex macros, etc. The sky is really the limit.

Then there are unlimited undo features of modern editors, and even branching undo histories where you can get back to a state that would be unreachable with linear undos.

Finally, tools like qmv do sanity checking on your renaming plan, so that if you (for example) wind up renaming two files to the same name, it'll warn you and safely let you rename the original files and try again.

As a result of the power and safety these tools provide, I no longer rename directly using my shell's renaming features (like the ones you describe) except for the absolute simplest and foolproof situations. For anything more complex, I use qmv.
By irrefutable, what do you mean? Over-fitting and variance should make normal engineers more cautious. Evidently, climate science is far more magical.
There are elements of authoritarianism that aren't categorically bad. The example that comes to mind is Lee Kuan Yew who took the city-state of Singapore from a swamp to having one of the highest GDPs per capita through benevolent dictatorship.
I guess what I meant wasn't "non-independent events". However, there is still a fundamental difference. The probability of a 500-year flood happening next year is still 0.2%. With a birthday paradox, the filling of birthdays is what causes the explosion in probability. Assuming no collisions so far, the 20th person you add to the room has a 19/365 chance of colliding, while the 2nd person only has a 1/365 chance.

I'm not sure how to succinctly phrase this idea. Maybe "non-constant probabilities"?
It's almost like you are saying the model was overfit to the data.
vifm works for me.
It can be secure, but it's less secure by definition.

While it's almost impossible to crack some cryptos, it's definitely impossible retrieve data that simply isn't there.
I run a personal home server that acts as my cloud / NAS. I personally think RAID is overkill for most home users. Instead, I use my 2nd drive to mirror the data. This saves me from fat finger errors and such. I also use BTRFS so I can take snapshots and provide my own file versioning.

For offsite backup, I use a time4vps storage server, but I might transition to B2 in the future. I like what I'm hearing.
The cost of dev time having to reimplement some of the features available in RDBMS on top of NoSQL stores can be NxTimes the cost of of that box.
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This article has an impressively poor explanation of how pinhole viewers work.
Didn't they dose him with LSD?
Yep. Even if you only owned a perfectly sterile (no secrets) proxy tier to a distinct service tier, you are placed in the path of requests from clients to those services and can thereby extract credentials (passwords, tokens) or PII (names, emails), which would still be unacceptable.
The miscalculation that I believe economists are making is the massive shift in leverage between the laborers and the owners. Historically, the two were balanced to the point that creating greater economic growth would tip the scales in the laborers' favor, thus increasing wages and inflation. What's happening now is that, due to many factors including outsourcing, illegal immigration, lobbying(bribery), capital concentration, anti-union legislation, anti-small business legislation, and a lot more, the scales are tipped so far in big business's favor that monetary policy is having a limited effect.

I honestly don't know if this trend can be reversed without something major happening.
I believe this is the story with Cutie (nickname for QT-1) who invents a religion to justify its existence. The amusing thing was that the rituals of its religion consisted of making sure the space colony functioned properly, so the humans decided to leave the robot's faith alone. And the robot thought that the humans were mindless religious fools for believing in Earth:

"""The robot approached softly and there was sorrow in his voice. “You are going?”

Powell nodded curtly. “There will be others in our place.”

Cutie sighed, with the sound of wind humming through closely spaced wires. “Your term of service is over and the time of dissolution has come. I expected it, but -- well, the Master’s will be done!”

His tone of resignation stung Powell. “Save the sympathy, Cube. We’re heading for Earth, not dissolution.”

"It is best that you think so,” Cutie sighed again. “I see the wisdom of the illusion now. I would not attempt to shake your faith, even if I could.” He departed -- the picture of commiseration."""

--"Reason" by Isaac Asimov