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they probably have different clusters for different use cases: att big companies, this will lead to a very long tail of small clusters. cassandra struggles to scale horizontally af…

There are indeed people who repeatedly perform reprehensible deeds.

For anyone wondering, there are currently 45M first generation immigrants in the US (13.5% of the total population.) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_S...…

Could it be that the younger folks are less inclined to acknowledge the existence of objective truth than older generations? I could argue that it is orthogonal to integrity seeing…

That to me is a reason to like the company rather than not... Let's see where you stand once your opinions are on the chopping block

Can somebody more knowledgeable than me weight in on the efficacy of this approach as opposed to using docker containers?

I don’t think Uber itself operates in China since it sold its operations to Yandex.Taxi.

I know you might not be interested in anything chromium-based since this thread is about firefox, but qutebrowser[1] is a great solution for anybody looking for vimium/pentadactyl-…

You’ve said it better than I could have. Many people on HN probably know your handle/identity, if only by virtue of you referring to it in your comments somewhat systematically. Yo…

A very interesting follow-up to an insightful post. I think the answer might lie in why the american business culture is more efficient in the first place. I believe american busin…

Your computation is incorrect, 3 days out of 365 is 1% of downtime, not 0.1%. I believe your error stems from reporting .1% as 0.1. Indeed: 0.001 (.1%) * 8760 (365d*24h) = 8.76h Al…

Immigrating alone to a previously unknown country is very hard. I did it with my spouse and we struggled a lot. I also had to stay in my job for 5+ years to keep my visa, I am just…

Thank you for the wisdom!

I think you make a very good point. I would add that in the short to mid-term, Twitch could also grow thanks to the pie getting bigger. Video streaming, I believe, is far from havi…

The ridesharing line of business has been profitable for at least a year from what I can tell. The plan was for it to cover all the other costs by EoY 2020, incl. HQ expenses and o…

This is a rule of thumb. You should always check your assumptions about code being correct or not. However, if somebody and their code have proven themselves unreliable, it is a us…

In the rest of the world, and in CA before this change, drivers are paid per mile/time and riders pay an upfront price. The only way this is possible is if Uber does absorb the ris…