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I think they presented it wrong for impact. If instead of "killed" and "eliminated" they were saying that the internet made it possible to proceed without a sales team and that clo…

In a similar vein, Instagram was the first platform where I actually took a pause and realized someone had actually figured out how to give me appealing advertising over the intern…

> If you do it by taxing the rich, you wind up hobbling and punishing your most productive citizens We may have different definitions of "rich" here. I don't think you can call the…

and the median nominal US home value is up 1728% since 1970[1]. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS

The 30 days part is most likely a legal compliance bit to cover their asses if their backing data systems ever take a big dump. They need to use an asynchronous system to be tracki…

Also a lot of things at Trader Joes are just white labeled versions of other products. As in, literally the same product, just inside packaging that says "Trader Joe's "

Was MBS (mortgage backed securities) a typo here? My understanding was SVB had a huge long term treasury position on the books from before interest rate hikes that was in the red a…

Post 2/2, previous post at https://product.hubspot.com/blog/savings-logging-part1 Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34551290

Why does high school have to go first in the morning? When I was in elementary school I would wake up at 5:30-6am naturally and watch TV before school. Come high school and I was c…

I would have to defer to one of my colleagues for most of the details on running data infrastructure on Kubernetes, I’m not that close to that domain. The major ones we run are HBa…

Your observations are correct. I wouldn’t portray it as an ideal system, just best effort. In the end we care more about the finer details being good funnels to follow up on rather…

You’re right, it’s not an either or for this as we tackle both less total data and making it smaller, although I probably failed to clarify that in this first post. At 20% of stora…

The costs I talk about in the estimate in this post are for the remaining cost of each stored file. We have S3Inventory dumping metadata of all the files in specific buckets weekly…

That's a fair criticism in the edit. Part 2 will cover that a bit more. I did run analysis on the types of queries users ran against the data and what parts of the timeseries were …

(Author here). Yes I believe you are correct with regards to tracking application utilization of say EC2 and other AWS resources. The post fails to mention this system is also trac…

It's a bit more complicated though, interest rates are part of that function too. Low prices & low interest rates: great for new entries to homeownership, but would require a surpl…

Is it really a negative feedback and not just transient though? Sure it may cool things during the fire, but it also just destroyed some carbon sinks and worsened the overall emiss…

Stardock released their own spiritual successor already, so give that a try if you want. And as far as I'm aware the original creators are still working on their own successor.

There's a thread feature built into slack if you need to t ake conversations "aside" but in the same channel

It seems odd that age wouldn't be a dimension of diversity, unless that was shorthand for a very specific type like ethnic.

The element that you might not be aware of is Discord. Primarily a chat and voice communication app but its divided up into individual servers run by community members for free whe…

It seems to me like the intent is to be talking about the meta-concept of the Brazilian soccer organization in the statements, but that's a mouthful and people contextually underst…