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So what do most of your current customers do for data storage? I mean, I doubt they all use CosmosDB? (simply because it's not particularly mainstream)
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Right. If you ban racists openly spouting hate speech and inciting violence it's clearly a very fine line between that and banning baseball. Slippery slope. How can we possibly draw that line.
> ...but it does always warrant further inspection.

That's what I mean by suspicion: scrutiny, not dismissal. What, e.g., are the narratives in play, that enable someone to speak that casually, yet confidently, about a thing they're prima facie demonstrating a flawed understanding of?
I think no one here on HN finds this definition hard to understand, even though not everyone agrees with it.

I think the most contentious point is that "prejudice without power" has become a socially acceptable phenomenon while a decade or two ago people were campaigning for no prejudice of any kind.
This is a fair criticism, but at the same time you have to be realistic about what Facebook would be like with no content filtering. There would be lots of porn. There would also be lots of group harassment. It's possible to police some harassment without policing content, but those merge into a gray area quickly. Facebook wants to be an acceptable environment for teenage minors (there are legal requirements for this, not just social ones), and that one criterion alone probably requires the majority of the filtering they do today.
I would postpone the interview. Give yourself at least 2 months to study this stuff. If you can't postpone it, then I would go ahead and do the interview anyway. There are some good suggestions below, try to spend at least a few hours each day. Hopefully a few hours in the morning, then a break, and then a few more hours. Get plenty of sleep.

When you do the interview, do your best and try not to care about the outcome. If you don't care about the outcome, you won't be nervous and you'll likely do better.
> although AKS and GKE being free

I‘m a developer too and I feel the burden too. Can you tell what you mean here?
Funny and may be sad but I found myself learning more and more about servers, linux, nginx, load balancers etc. in my FREE time. So seems like that is a hobby of mine for now. I do work with my own business where I have to tinker with servers but the more I get into it, the more I enjoy.
Please don't post generic flamebait here. It's really boring.

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> This case is rare because it's rare for the woman to be in the position of power and the man in the subordinate position.

This may just be due to unfortunate phrasing, but is it really rare? In this case the roles are adviser-student, and at least anecdotally it doesn’t seem that rare for an adviser-student relationship to be a female-in-power one. We just don’t hear often about abuse in such relationships—likely because it doesn’t happen as much.

(If you meant that it’s rare for the woman to be in a position of power in #metoo cases then I’d not disagree, otherwise I find that specific statement surprising and possibly misrepresenting reality in an unfortunate way.)

That aside, I’m mostly in agreement with the sentiment.
No need! Just use Sci-Hub and you're all set!
I understand this position, but I still would say that it's muddying the semantic waters a bit. If you had "prejudice plus power" against someone in the LGBTQ community, would that also be called racism?

In general, I think the most common interpretation of racism would be "prejudice w.r.t. race" rather than "prejudice plus power". I would suggest that perhaps oppression is a more appropriate word to use for "prejudice plus power".
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The biggest change probably isn't that you are renting things, even from companies (which tends to be a bad thing to do long term). But that the people, or companies, you rent from doesn't even own their stuff. Banks i.e. capital increasingly owns everything. They are the record companies of reality. Takes little of the risk, does little of the work, but profits handsomely and makes everything more expensive.
> My commute is enormous

And:

> rather than be beholden to some landlord whose interests are not aligned with my own

It sounds like you're now beholden to a situation that's misaligned with your interests. You've traded one kind of serfdom for another.
This is not a position that can be taken by people who intend to publish research under their own names. It'd be akin to signing a confession.
This has been attempted in a few places. Curitiba, Brazil comes to mind.

If by "greenfield" you mean "eliminate all roads", then I think you'll find yourself adding them back in at some point. I've been involved in a few of those design brainstorming sessions around urban transportation and every time it comes down to emergency services. If you need to get somebody across a city as fast as possible in a situation where seconds can mean the difference between life and death, then you need roads and cars.
I would agree. Part of why it's risky ground to try to be in some kind of romantic/sexual relationship while there is a institutional power dynamic between two people is the risk that the one in less power cannot say "No", and/or that saying "no" will be detrimental to their well-being.
They are superior in every way except the one that matters: diesels are much dirtier than gasoline engines, especially with respect to particulate emissions.

Diesels are only good for limited purposes, like buses and trucks, that need the higher efficiency.
> Isn't it entirely possible that a word can have different meanings in academic and non-academic circles?

It almost seems like rather the rule than the exception.

Outside of disciplines that produce precise documents (law, engineering, academics), most words do not even have well-defined meanings. People associate words with fuzzy clouds of meaning: their own personal ones, not the definitions from a dictionary. When they speak they crudely grope among these clouds of meaning to fetch the words that best approximate what they are trying to say.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocabulary#Degree_of_knowledge
I think you might have a logical hole here. The biggest problem with renting things is precisely that they have a negative effect on your net worth. When you buy a product that is something that you have the right to sell, rent, trade or otherwise enrich yourself with, at least within the confines of intellectual property law.

As an example I enjoy games and my Steam account likely now is 'worth' some thousands of dollars that I should be able to sell at some depreciated rate. Except it's not, and I cannot. As I'm effectively renting access to these products instead of actually 'buying' them, my account is worth exactly $0. I could try to sell it nonetheless, but it would be unlawful. If I was instead able to actually own these games, my little hobby would still have cost me money, but I'd be able to recoup a substantial portion of it at a later date -- or perhaps even work to monetize "my" games in some way, again within the confines of the law.

This is sort of a microcosm of what causes wealth inequality. A more typical example would be a poor individual spending decades paying rent each month that is simply subtracted from his net worth. A wealthier individual might be paying off a mortgage on a property that eventually begin to earn money for him, or at the minimum provide him a residence with no rent due other than that which the government demands. It's interesting to consider this aspect of the migration to cities. People move into these extremely dense areas where they're obligated to rent homes which, due to high demand, consume a very large chunk of their earnings - and then at the end of the days, weeks, years, decades, they have absolutely 0 to show for what will amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars for most people.
There's a rinse and repeat pattern of denial, suiting narratives here.

Anti-feminists are covering their tracks by saying we live in a world that's already equally fair to women, which is obviously false. It happened with Adam, where believers distorted the meaning of "fall of man" to suit their narrative that it only applies to women separating men from their god. It's happened for ~2000 years, documented in the founding texts of the people now calling foul.

It's happening now, and it's not the last time. And just so you are aware, these narratives rely on the evisceration of science, logic, reason and well established definitions of words.
When the word is used this way, it's also implied that "power" means an amorphous and ideologically-defined racial hierarchy (ex., a black CEO is lower on the power totem pole than a homeless white person, etc., because of the attributes of the groups as a whole).
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> Another thing is that you can pipeline, for example, multiplies. So in a CPU multiply you give the CPU inputs, wait a couple cycles, and then get the result.

Just to be clear: CPUs will pipeline high-latency execution units. Most arithmetic operations, vector, integer, or floating point, will have a reciprocal throughput of 1 (i.e., you can issue a new operation every cycle) even if their latency will be 3 or 4 cycles. See Agner's optimization tables for actual counts. The major exception to that rule is division, which has a reciprocal throughput of ~5 cycles or so and a latency ~3-4 times that.
Not just that but diesel is just kerosene + some additives for lubricity so there are plenty of uses. Kerosene + some other addditives is jet fuel.
It’s somehow funny to think about these companies as utilities or infrastructure, which is traditionally created and maintained by the state. I’m not sure if that’s the better scenario
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>Seriously, I don't know why the "prejudice + power" definitional distinction is so hard for well-meaning people to understand. It makes perfect sense.

It is easy to understand, but there is not consensus that the meaning should have been changed. Nor is there consensus on what "power" means.

Academics may have a good need for that distinction, but they made the mistake of overloading the word.
Actually you do. "The liberals own the media and the universities, and they are all out to get us, and take away the things we love", is a pretty common narrative. Everybody wants to claim that they are the oppressed group.
There's a "bit of noise" and then there's the relentless, unbelievably permeating buzzing you get in some cities full of these mopeds.

It doesn't matter if you're on a gigantic Honda Goldwing, you're invisible if you're on a two wheeled vehicle. Drivers are idiots.
If you're interested in this sort of thing pick up a copy of "The Body Electric" by Robert O. Becker and Gary Selden. [1] Describes investigation of regeneration among other things. YMMV

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Body_Electric_(book)
As usual, the study is, as mentioned in the article, heteronormative, and does not take into account the fact that some people may not feel the need to marry to be in a meaningful / long term relationship.
That's a fair argument.

Unfortunately, I wasn't appointed Plenipotentiary in Charge of How Controversial Terms Are Used in Academic Discourse, so my powers here are limited to explaining the position, as I understand it.
Yeah, the first time I ever drove solo was at night, in pouring rain, during rush hour, on the Autobahn. (This was Germany, having learned to drive in the UK.)

Oddly enough, I never really warmed to driving...
Investigated by police and prosecutors, then decided by a judge. This ain't megacity 1
Based on my travel experience and given that taxis are rather cheap in many countries, I’d say that most of the people jet setting around the world are very likely to use a universal cab-hailing app at some point.
I think it is quite easy. If you have a relationship with someone and having a "position of authority", the simple solution is to get rid of the "position of authority", let your lover have another boss. That responsibility is of course on the one with power.

I say "the simple solution" as it is the company policy of all companies I have been working for. I _guess_ it is the same for all universities.

I can _only_ guess that _maybe_ youngster is under pressure having sex with oldster with position of authority.

I need not guess that all these complexities could have been handled easily by assigning another professor to the student. And there is no question who's fault that is.

You do not need a contract, but do not fuck people that you have direct power over.
> This doesn't help someone who never set up iCloud, has forgotten their password and/or methods of recovery, or any other list of problems. iCloud is a form of backup, by the way, and I specifically mentioned people that didn't set up backups. If you think I'm cherry-picking or coming up with some imaginary position, watch some of Jessa Jones' videos[1]. Many of her customers are in a position where they need data on their phones, and it's not in iCloud.

So if you use the device incorrectly, it doesn't work? How exactly is Android better if whatever you happen to need is stored on the device and not an SD card?
> They are superior to gasoline engines in every way.

What about pollution? There is sufficient evidence that the fine particles cause cancer

[0]https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-causes/diesel-exhaust-a...
From what I've seen, when people talk about serverless there's 2 camps.

Functions makes life easier camp. Serverless development and deployments have nicer properties which make them easier to reason about and eliminate entire classes of errors.

Functions make edge computing possible camp. Serverless functions can be deployed in datacenters around the globe close to your users, offloading compute from your core and improving latency.

Now let's talk about DB semantics. You and many other people in the first camp probably want your business logic on strongly-consistent SQL transactions. That's good, it's the right semantics for the job. But it's incompatible with the edge model where the functions are decoupled from the central datastore.

So I think that you're asking for something the community isn't mature enough to provide yet. The momentum is towards unification where we need stratification (with respect to coupling).
> Bird is a still billion dollar company

It's hype at this point, we'll see how that shakes out as well.
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They're brokers.
Please cut this diesel apologist Bullshit! Your defense of diesel entirely ignores exhaust and emissions.

Sorry to be rude but this is a very personal and emotional topic to me and you’ve really pissed me off by saying “They are superior to gasoline engines in every way.” You apparently aren’t living in a city where the poor-sighted decision was made to promote Diesel engines over gasoline for marginally better CO2 metrics, and now get to breathe air that exceeds annual EU pollution limits in mere days.

Diesel is terrible in urban settings. It’s dirty as hell. I have no idea where you live but Diesel engines are entirely on their own choking the streets of London with their particulates and NoX exhaust. Gasoline engines are much cleaner by comparison.

I’ve gotten bronchitis several times in the past few years. I’ve finally tracked it down to the nox fumes, primarily from buses and heavy trucks where it’s a very noticeable sharp smell. I’ve gotten a bit better by avoiding high streets whenever possible, and I’m also proactively going up to drivers in idling diesel cars and asking them to cut the engine. It’s been estimated that 10k people are dying a year in London alone from effects of the exhaust!!
Hi Agustin, living in Colombia it has been impossible for me to purchase selected US stocks/index, even with a large-ish 100K account I got, too much hassle too high fees. I will be looking forward for your launch in Colombia.

Additionally, I am working with a SF based e-lender www.pimes.com whose primary market is LATAM (Starting with Colombia, expanding to Chile and Peru soon), perhaps we could talk about some partnership opportunities there. My profile has my personal email if you feel like talking more about it.
> "For everyone to be using one type of stone, I believe they had to collaborate. That's why they were so successful—they were working together."

> To Simpson, this level of large-scale cooperation contradicts the popular narrative that Easter Island's inhabitants ran out of resources and warred themselves into extinction.

Maybe I'm missing something, but this doesn't really indicate that the society did not eventually war themselves away. They could have gotten along for a while, until forests/resources ran out, then fought.
Vegas has discovered that it doesn't really matter what they charge. People will pay it. Gone are the days where they subsidized food costs with gambling revenue -- I really wouldn't be surprised if the casino floor cocktailers disappeared in the near future.
There is already a linguistic convention in place that disambiguates those two concepts. We had the terms "racism" and "institutional racism"/"systemic racism". What do we gain from condensing the words into one?

Given how this new construction is used, my more cynical side wants to believe that what is gained is the ability of one side of the political aisle to spew any kind of hatred towards particular groups of people without criticism or consequence.
Ships not only use diesel for generators but for propulsion in general; many engines found in recreational mid and large motoryachts are basically truck diesel engines adapted for a harsher maritime environment. Volvo Penta, Detroits, Caterpillar are very popular. Marine diesel is taxed differently and is somewhat cheaper than truck diesel (and has a different color due to a different dye added; marine diesel is red, truck diesel is yellow). Diesel is also safer than gasoline in terms of accidental ignition and explosion since the ingnition temperature is much higher than gasoline. Diesel fuel flash points vary between 52 to 96C (126 to 205F)
The Nazi party built a great deal of its support on the argument that the wealthy Jews were oppressing the "pure" germans.
Created and maintained by the state, or simply regulated by the state. One of the two is absolutely appropriate for at least the most important of the companies we're talking about, but we currently have neither.
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I used to teach game AI. Most of the articles I read are badly researched, incomplete, and full of opinions of the author based on whatever they noticed trying things randomly in their game.

This article, on the other hand, is comprehensive and very well-written. Anyone interested in this topic should give it a read.
Half the stuff you described there solve different problems to docker. Not to mention that docker doesn't solve all problems in infrastructure.

I like to think of docker like git. It solves some problems with distributing data but it doesn't solve the problem of developers writing code, writing tests, pipelines, etc. Nor even problems with 3rd party APIs etc. Obviously this isn't a perfect analogy but my point is docker isn't a magical silver bullet.

I've worked in places where their solution to everything was "docker" and it honestly caused more complexity problems than it solved. That's not to say I don't like docker; in fact I've been a big advocate for containerisation long before docker was a thing. However like with any tech, the key is using the right tool for the right job instead of attacking every screw with the same hammer.
This is clearly a legal matter - and college based tribunals and councils have often looked like a Star Chamber or Kangaroo courts. That's not a mistake - it's the inevitable outcome of a non-judicial and closeted legal system that is unconstrained by transparency and fairness. In fact, this was the exact fate of the original star chamber:

"The Star Chamber was originally established to ensure the fair enforcement of laws against socially and politically prominent people so powerful that ordinary courts would probably hesitate to convict them of their crimes. However, it became synonymous with social and political oppression through the arbitrary use and abuse of the power it wielded."

So how do you make a non-governmental court even more powerful? You make up laws and definitions as you go. There is a difference between the legal definition of racism/sexism and a (sometimes held) academic definition of racism/sexism. The argument put forth here fails the basic doctrines of equal protection and application of the law.

When you combine Unelected and unconstrained tribunals, with non-legal justifications of crime, it's inevitable that there will be abuses and usage of that power not just in the persuit of good and noble goals (where it always starts) but in the systematic destruction of people with different viewpoints the accuser (where it ends). People are objecting not because of the guilt or innocence of the accused, but because it's a arbitrary use of unconstrained people-crushing power in the first place. It's a unconstrained weapon, and the only the wielder is safe from it's effects.
This is great not only for browsers but possibly for microservice/FaaS type of architectures.

Does anyone know if sharing of built-ins across processes is/will be available on node.js? I couldn't find any issues specifically discussing this on node's repo
The value equation would tip a lot more if Americans paid a fair price for automobiles. Everything, from oil, to roads, to the cars themselves, are stupidly subsidized.
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> There are minorities in positions of power, and they can use that to take racist actions.

Which means the definition holds. Give someone power, they can be racist, and not merely prejudiced. It doesn't matter how much power objectively. It matters that they have relative power, over someone who is the object of their prejudice.

How is this so confusing?

> I disagree that minorities are incapable of racism...

Me too. Can you please clarify where you found a position to the contrary in my commentary?
>The acceleration and braking dynamics are _very_ different compared to diesel (and even diesel-hybrid) busses: Because so much torque is available immediately when moving from a stop, it is very easy to jerk passengers around. Similarly, the busses like to move into regenerative braking immediately the foot is lifted off of the accelerator, often making another jerk. It can be difficult to adjust (as a driver) if you're moving between multiple different types of busses, during a week or even during a shift.

>Both of the above issues are things that can be rectified, although I wonder how much modification would be needed to get smoother acceleration and braking. And regardless, the time needed for the bus to be out of service (to implement any necessary modifications) is still time where the bus's value is continuing to depreciate.

This is just a teething issue. City buses are geared to top out at low highway speeds, like 50-65mph. Current diesel drive-trains have more than enough go power to send passengers flying but they don't because they're mature technology. Pretty soon they'll figure out how to put the power down in a way that doesn't toss people around.
There are e-cigs that do smell, the one in my previous company "vaping" in the open space used some kind of flavor that had a strong [unpleasant] smell, even over 5 meters away.

Overall it's a great improvement. I just hope this improvement doesn't come with regressions (more [e-]smokers, especially in public areas and maybe in newer generations) precisely because it is so great an improvement.
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