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Neither. If Richard's statements were facts they would violate his NDAs. In fact, these statements are falsehoods, and seem designed only to cause damage. Also, he's referring to 2016!

The only "problem" is that in 2016 I was physically assaulted at work, Richard had to leave work soon after, and has been denigrating my work since then. For example, here's a post from 2016, where it appears he had a multi-account conversation with himself:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13129798

Three years later, he's still unable to get over it and move on. This feels like a kind of twisted sexual investment, so I have chosen not to reply.

The Python eventsourcing library is excellent, and event sourcing is a great idea. The library is open source, so if Richard had discovered a bug that caused "corrupt data", he could have raised an issue on GitHub. But there hasn't been such a bug, and no such issue has been raised. Everybody can look through the mere 56 closed issues in the entire history of this successful project to see how many "corrupted data" bugs there have been (zero). https://github.com/johnbywater/eventsourcing/issues

The library is being used successfully in production. Some users have data stores with millions of stored domain events, and the library still works very fast. I didn't hear about anybody having billions of events yet, but I wouldn't expect much difference in performance, so long as the infrastructure has sufficient volume.

In case the wrong impression is created by listening to Richard's rubbish, SQL and event sourcing aren't somehow incompatible. Event sourcing isn't somehow the opposite of "regular databases". The library works very well with SQL databases, through both Django ORM and SQLAlchemy. It also works with NoSQL databases.

If you see posts like this in future, please ignore them, it's just fake news. My understanding is that Richard has diagnosed mental problems. But perhaps there's a kind of nominative determinism from the shortened version of his name? I don't know. At any rate, I've been keeping a log of these occasions, in case I need to call the police again.
Dilution / inflation is a feature not a bug. Money should be put to work doing productive stuff in the economy, not hoarded.

Also crypto currencies, are not currencies. They are commodities. It is far more accurate, conceptually to think about them the same as precious metals and grains, not dollars.
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Another factor when evaluating platforms to build an app with includes ease of initial submission/submission of updates.

I've never used Xamarind or flutter, but easily one of the best parts of using Expo (React-Native) was their built-in certificate management, guidance through the submission process, and eventually immediate publication of updates through running `expo publish`

My client was pleasantly speechless when I was able to change code and have it appear on her device a few seconds later, as it had been her experience that updates have to go through another review process.
People jumped to recommending things before asking:

What's the volume of logs?

What's the expected usage? (debugging? audit?)

Are you using text, or structured logs? (or can you switch to structured easily?)

How far back do you want to keep the logs? How far back do you want to query them easily?

Are you in an environment with an existing simple solution? (GCP, AWS)
They're not exactly standard models, a frame design has to be modified to accommodate that Bosch drive.
It may as well be noted that plenty of people who drink coffee (or mate) get fat.

But this is not a refutation. Nutrition is confusing because we’re not used to looking at lots of tiny effects adding up to something large. (Eg. High saturated fat intake causes about a 20% increase in heart disease mortality.)

Just like many other effects, this one is small and requires statistics to prove.
Another positive review for Central Computers. I was sad to see their Pleasanton store close, presumably due to rising rents, but the Sunnyvale store just reopened in a new location, so hopefully they’ll be with us for years to come.
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If you get “shunted” from behind by an SUV, 3cm of expanded polystyrene foam is going to make FA difference to the outcome.

Bike helmets are designed for low speed crashes NOT involving vehicles.

Now I still wear one myself but I don’t fool myself that doing so brings me any protection from someone driving an SUV who thinks they’ll be late getting to a 24 supermarket if don’t just squeeze by me.

It’s like putting an oven glove on an egg and hitting it with a hammer.
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I think many economists would argue it'd have gone _up_ rather than down due to the counterintuitive nature of capitalism.

In any case, many economists argue over this question :)
I remember people scoffing at the Segway, Zune, RJ Reynold's smokeless cigarettes, Flooz, Nintendo Virtual Boy, the Digital Compact Cassette, Apple Newton, Microsoft Songsmith.... All also quite interesting!

I think bitcoin is a really innovative idea (and kicking myself for not acting on my initial instincts when I read about it on HN in 2010 - when mining software said "please don't use your GPU"!) but I don't buy this "people laughed at the internet too, so bitcoin must be important!" line.
Thanks for the link, interesting read. Almost all predictions were spectacularly wrong.
> Because it's not against the law for companies to lie to employees but it is against the law for you to lie to your companies.

Can you elaborate?
> If I'm building a project for fun at home, then it's typically specifically to learn about a new thing (which I kind of assumed was the case for most people)

While I do sometimes get excited about learning a new technology, the most fun projects for me are where I already know all the tech required, and all the new ideas relate to whatever I'm building.

And I had assumed that would be the case for most people.

I see the differences between the two as:

1) Learning a new technology is kinda like reading a sci-fi short story to me: it's mostly about getting some interesting new idea, with the added benefit that it may apply favorably to my future work.

2) Building something new with known technology comes with the kind of unstilted, gratifying fun experienced when exercising well-developed skills in service of producing something. Often this comes with flow states; internalizing new concepts and practicing new techniques on the other hand are not ideal for this.

They both have their merits but to my mind, the second one is on another level, and I'd recommend to anyone using their fun projects only to learn knew things to try exercising their already established skills to build something they'd just like to see running, or to share with friends etc.

Edit: just to give an example: I had a lot of fun building this game where I learned no new technologies, and in fact had already built basically the same game 12 years prior (with different tech and far less knowledge). Instead I explored ideas related to the architecture that I thought might generalize, and enjoyed myself developing the algorithms and aesthetics that made the thing work: https://github.com/westoncb/under-game
I think it was ultimately an exercise to see if people are lazy enough to pay for convenience and brand. It almost worked for them which says a lot about the state of society. One could argue Uber's business model is not that different either...
MSVCRT.DLL has kept stability but Microsoft makes no official promises about it.

That's because it doesn't need to be said. Countless numbers of existing applications would break if it changed, and MS still cares enough about backward compatibility and knows that many huge and important customers depend on them to not do that.
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> Except for light financial crime (ransomware, money laundering, gambling, theft, etc), it has no demonstrated advantage over alternative technologies.

Slight nitpick: Cryptocurrencies have demonstrable advantages over existing solutions (pseudo-anonymity, decentralization, inflation-proof, etc) but consumers don't care about these advantages enough to make the switch.
> Feel free to peruse the documentation and point out which parts seem unbelievable. The system is currently live and I hold a Dai Savings Account and can attest I've been paid according to the system's documentation.

The problem with bad financial instruments is not that they don't work at all, but that they work fine for a period of time and then blow up.

I think the point your parent was trying to make is that the long term interest rate of any security has an upper bound of the growth rate of the economy.

I don't know of anyone who things the US economy has a real growth rate of 6%.
> they don't solve any above board problem more efficiently or with lower expense than existing technologies

You've picked two arbitrary criteria, which certainly don't cover the entire range of useful properties that anybody in the world might want. And even still, you're only right about one of them. Cryptocurrency is very inefficient from a power consumption standpoint, no denying that. Not sure what you mean about lower expense though, sending money internationally (in a perfectly above-board way, like placing an order or supporting relatives in another country) can be a lot cheaper via bitcoin than alternatives like Western Union. It's also useful as a store of value that's not tied to a single government, so similar to gold in its intrinsic value but with the benefit that it doesn't take up physical space and can be sent and received much more easily.

I'm still quite bullish on bitcoin itself, for these properties alone, I see these properties as basically a floor on the value that it can provide and even just for for this use there's room for a lot of growth. If Ethereum-style contracts/apps and all the other kinds of things discussed in the post also gain wide adoption (which certainly seem like far from a sure thing at this point, but also not completely crazy), that's just a bonus.
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Your example is bad because it mistakes arrest for kidnapping, when the two are different actions.
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HN will look almost identical.
What happened to customer A and B?

Edit: My question is what caused these corporate customers to churn? Did they maintain spend levels with One Medical while the other customers grew spend? Did they decrease spend below reporting thresholds? Did they stop using (or sponsoring) these services entirely?
Nobody mentioning Splunk? Too obvious or am I not understanding the ask?
How has your experience with Loki been? I keep an eye on it, but haven't deployed it since it seems to be maturing still.
Expanding a bit here: Splunk is free for < 500MB day and has one of the easiest UIs, so you can run on same-node or elsewhere, and deploy via docker to skip most weird setup. So just record syslog, volume mount to a Splunk docker, enable syslog reading + nix metrics, and done. (Too bad no free cloud for the same...)

We work with a ton of log tools as company bringing graph analytics+vis to investogations largely log & event data, and I've increasingly shifted to that when I need easy basics.
I have one of these and I really really liked it until the motor started cutting out while pressing the throttle. Sent it in for repairs twice, got a new ebike while waiting for them to send it back the second time. It was great for the 9 months it lasted, though.
I googled this too. The second definition fits better here

'reduced in force, effect, or physical thickness.'
How do you fix their No. 1 problem: scalability? The blockchain updating, and certainly mining, are inherently slow.
There are definitely cases where transactions need to be reversed, and this functionality can be built into a clearinghouse system. Immutability is a plus here because you have an unalterable audit log showing the original transaction and then the subsequent transaction that reverses the first. The cost savings comes from the fact that instead of having to hire independent auditors to verify the paper trail, the blockchain serves as an immutable audit log and can be verified programmatically.
Finland. Lots of domestic meat replacement products. I know Germany doesn't have nearly as much, but that's not too surprising as it's a slow adopter of everything.
Follow-up question that comes to mind: what happens to the fats and sugars when they don't get "accumulated"? Do they hang around in the blood, temporarily raising blood sugar and triglycerides? If so, how bad is that, if you do it frequently?

IIUC, obesity is bad partly because it's a sign of excess caloric nutrients in the body and therefore chronically high blood sugar and triglycerides (and partly for other reasons, like inflammatory signalling by fat tissues). I don't know the relative significance of these different factors, but I have to wonder if this effect of caffeine is hiding one obvious sign of problems while exacerbating the problems themselves.

ETA: it looks like they found that caffeine also had blood-triglyceride-reducing effects, partly by reducing lipogenesis. I would think this would shift all of the burden to blood sugar. I don't see anything about blood sugar levels.

ETA: I did some further research. Caffeine does acutely raise blood sugar levels[1], but caffeine intake is inversely-correlated with T2D[2]. The reason doesn't seem to be known yet, and I don't know if anyone's ruled out the obvious confounder that people who drink more coffee drink less Coke.

1: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014067366...

2: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15998896
It's not illegal for them to ask to see your receipt at the exit.

It IS illegal for them to try to stop you from leaving if you decline, unless they are detaining you for suspected shoplifting (which they must specifically inform you of).

And if they actually go so far as to physically prevent you from leaving? Congratulations, you just won the lawsuit lottery.
Possibly, or an independent invention from first principles; you'd have to ask the guy.
Bitcoin could change it’s algo to a QC resistant one in advance.
Could you quantify the effect of CO2 on water distribution? How about other factors, such as the Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation? We still do not even have predictable models for these natural oceanic patterns. The quantity of H2O on this planet VASTLY outweighs the quantity of CO2. Oceans cover 70% of the Earth's surface and are deep. The marginal difference in CO2 is not enough to move ocean currents. It is a trace gas that has gone from 280 ppm to 400 ppm. The heat capacity of water is very high and far more than what a few CO2 molecules can absorb or re-emit. The oceans store massive quantities of heat and move it around in cycles that sometimes last hundreds of years. In addition, CO2 has a thinner radiative band that it can block than water vapor. And when water takes the form of clouds it can influence temperature in dramatic ways. Cosmic rays have a strong influence on global cloudiness, known as the Svensmark effect, and this influences precipitation patterns.

We are also having near record levels of snow across the Northern Hemisphere, which according to your world view, shouldn't be happening: https://globalcryospherewatch.org/state_of_cryo/snow/fmi_swe...
Why aren't nests considered tools?
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> But we don't want financial transactions to be fully automated and immutable.

And cryptocurrency does not provide immutability anyway. Remember the DAO Ethereum fiasco where they lost a bunch of money and decided to roll it back.
the unspoken truth: ebikes' biggest upside is that you dont need insurance licenses and no red light cameras.

once you put them into the 'fully regulated'category they lose a lot of their appeal..though not all.

america and europe are not free. they are expensive prison traps. the saving grace is unlike the developing world where there is a lot of opprtunity....you at elast have the rule of lawyers and excess capital in the west. guaranteeing a long slow decline instead of an otherwise precipitous and politically rapid demise.

its not as if the whole lacks ebikes. they are not that 'high tech' anymore.
Also be prepared to ask that a lot before you get the truth and be SEEN actually doing those things when others ask to establish that there is value in answering.

I worked for a VP who got upset if he didn't get questions, or requests when he asked, but he never answered any of them in the past and somehow he never understood that those two were related and by the time he wanted to do it he had established the culture and it was impenetrable.
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Does anyone have opinions on this? And why wouldn’t they test with coffee or regular black tea because there’s a lot more people drinking that I assume?
GREAT question. Are they having trouble with customer retention? Are customers reducing spend year over year?
I don't have Whatsapp but I do have messenger. Messenger shows me ads and I would even say they are more effective than the ads on FB. Does FB disclose how much they make in ads from individual sources?
As others have speculated, we have no reports of this from actual users with noisy kids. Promoting speculation to fact like this is unhelpful.
Or, pharma. They have pockets and imagine what that graphic could be worth to Aleve. Otherwise reps could use this data in their sales pitches. Lots of money here.

Have that doctor introduce you to her pharma reps.

Find other data that is specialty specific and sell to pharma in that specialty.

I’m a healthcare CFO and this could work. You’re talking to people that’s a great step.

Keep talking. You built the thing, put it on a $30/month server. I suspect you don’t need the cloud stuff. Just make it your proprietary graphics & viz data. It doesn’t have to be freely available.

Raise money for this. You’re in the Bay Area for a reason.

Get commitments from pharma first. Keep more of your company from PE.

Good luck.
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Not at all tech related, but my friend and I loan money for mortgages to people who likely wouldn't be able to get one from a bank. Mostly fix and flips, interest only, two year term. Make 12% on each one.
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Turns out I was wrong on this. Gf confirmed that it is weaker and more expensive, but generally easier to get if you don't have a hookup.
The title is definitely overstating and the linked journal article is more informative. IMO, the article title should have been:

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First evidence found of body-care-related tool use by seabirds

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We use Loki in production. It's pretty good! There are still some issues with memory usage (particularly the log-cli tool) and query performance, but it's a great start.
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I also can't comment on the book, but I'd recommend trying out Spacemacs if you are interested in learning Emacs. With Evil mode, you get to continue using a lot of your muscle memory from vim, and it's just overall a more pleasant experience with the discovery feature.

https://www.spacemacs.org/
Not really. It's a thesis that if you own the top dogs in the most important consumer growth verticals that you will get both economies of scale and own sector growth. He might end up being very wrong, but it's not really more than that.

Good movie though.
It is heavy and difficult. Regenerative braking is rare. The GeoOrbital Wheel (which converts a regular bike to an electric bike by swapping out the front wheel) does charge the battery when you're not using the throttle.

Why not use both? E-bike for commuting and regular bike for fun? Or why not get a spare battery to carry on long rides just in case?
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