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I think Fabi is licking his chops thinking he can now finally be a world champion since Carlsen is out and Ding maybe won't be too hard to best. He predicted lots of lines in the m…

I would want a way to view all the slides for a particular deck together, but here it seems I can only click a slide and see just that slide, no way to go back or forwards. I know …

Who knows. The point is, if when not restricted you get a ton of db connections, then any restriction on that almost definitely means you are imposing a bottle neck. The only way t…

>Sidenote here: one thing I found but didn't mention (the reason I put in the pooling, both in Python and pgbouncer) is that otherwise, under load, the async implementions would fl…

I had to go back and look it was a while back, it took longer than I remembered it. The initial reach out was in May 2011. I had some initial conversation with them in May and June…

Not sure how MSFT usually handles it, but when I was acqui-hired (by a different large tech company, not quite on MSFT scale, but no trifle) I dealt almost exclusively with a perso…

Basically invented Proof of Work (see Bitcoin): Cynthia Dwork and Moni Naor. Pricing via processing or combatting junk mail. In Proceedings of Crypto, 1992. Also available as http:…

What makes the $ more stable?

Maybe you weren't around for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble By the end of the stock market downturn of 2002, stocks had lost $5 trillion in market capitalizatio…

Silly to look at % down from ATH when we had a massive bubble that peaked and popped. If you look at return overall, crypto beats ALL stock market investmets.

What we need is more data. What is the % of Covid-19 cases that require hospitalization (and are people actually going to hospitals when they don't need to?) ? Is it 20x that of fl…

It's pretty ridiculous and has a ton of just bizarre stuff you have to read through (and do!) to even get to something remotely interesting. One of the first projects I "assigned" …

Is this foresight a function of the CEO themselves or more of being in that position (ceo of a technology company). In other words, being in that role you have time and resources t…

If the appstore isn't providing the massive increase in revenue that it should, then you should definitely leave. It will be interesting to see in a year or 2 if they regret their …

Do you think MCAS worked well in the event of a failed angle of attack sensor? I mean ignore fucking "stability" semantics. Also this: "The MCAS deflects the horizontal stabilizer …

Lol, these things are big !!! I had the scale all wrong. When I saw the pictures and video I thought this plane was something one or 2 people could hold (6-12 ft wing span). Then I…

Wait a sec, didn't the steel prices increase (and didn't the tarrifs cause lots of other issues)? Was that coincidence? Here's an analysis : https://www.tradepartnership.com/pdf_fi…

>People / companies like to have the ability to dispute the outcome of a transaction Crypto currency doesn't stop this. You can dispute cash transactions and you can dispute crypto…

Brush your teeth (and gums): https://www.perio.org/consumer/alzheimers-and-periodontal-di...

Should have been new Brand. I feel like the Chevy logo and branding didn't help much with Volt sales. They could have done something similar to what Toyota did with Scion. Create a…

You either like strongly typed object oriented langs or you don't. If you do, then a bit of verbosity is really nothing. If there are actual lang improvements beyond saving me a fe…

Not sure if they cover... A typical scenario is that you are in a corporate culture where, for whatever reason your manager does not "manage down", like at all. Meaning that they a…

Really? I don't see much in the docs about this except https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/4.1/users-guide/vcl-inlin... They seem (at first glance) to have no concept of security in…

No security layer though right? Meaning if we want to restrict access to certain content based on user token or something, how to do that with Varnish? How to prevent John from rea…

>...who I wouldn't trust with ten cents. Interestingly the entire point of bitcoin, for example, is that you don't need to trust anyone at all.