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Regarding the first point: owners typically pay themselves a salary in addition to owning the company and thus benefit from both. Employees do not have this advantage. The two prob…

The public already gets its share via taxes, I'd argue, the problem that I see right now is really that the wins for the employees are (usually) limited to their salary, whereas ow…

Most such discussion suffer from an inadequate definition of what is meant by "socialism" vs what is meant by "capitalism". The most important aspect to me is ownership / control o…

I have anecdotal evidence that at least a part of this is due to Musk's behaviour. My father is in charge of the car fleet for a large German company, and they have decided to excl…

Installments of this type are not very helpful, as they proliferate the notion that the so called "debt" of a nation in its own currency has to be repaid or is in any way bad. The …

Just as a side note because you mentioned it in relation to DOGE: the US government cannot go bankrupt in its own currency. As long as prices are kept in check, there is no reason …

We're expecting the amount of data to double every year for the next couple of years. That would require a lot of storage hardware and maintenance cost, don't you think?

We are expecting the amount of data to at least double every year for the next couple of years. That would mean that in 5 years, we'd have to manage more than 500 16 TiB hard drive…

Our company has about 200 TiB of mission-critical data stored in regional Google Cloud buckets. We are currently planning for better protection of this data and are wondering about…

Some good points! There are, however, also changes that you do not want to propagate to your teammates or production unless you are 100% sure that they are the final solution to th…

Good point. You are not dependent on Cloudflare, though, you can use other similar services or open the port on your router if it supports it. And if you pay for it, you can get an…

Depending on your write load, the SD card could become a problem, but you could mount a USB SSD. You can even boot from a USB SSD now ( https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-boot-raspbe…

I can recommend the Rasperry Pi for self-hosting, if you pick one of the more recent models with more RAM (3 or 4 with 4GB of RAM at least). You just need to keep in mind that the …

Python is simpler than Java. This might not be a very important factor in software engineering of large products, but it is very important for prototyping. Also, a lot of research …

Really impressive! World-spanning infrastructure. Beautiful map, also.

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality ( http://www.hpmor.com ), also available as podcast ( https://hpmorpodcast.com ) A Harry Potter fan-fiction where Harry is a master of r…

"it polluted my search results with geographically relevant search results" Oh my! Perhaps they also polluted the search with search results relevant to your search term? If you wa…

I would say it's a strength of his that the guests just get to say what they have to say. He always prepares a couple of questions in case the conversation stalls, but other than t…

My standpoint is that banning encryption or adding backdoors to it is not a feasible way of attacking this problem. Encryption methods don't stop to exist just because the governme…

How would you even ban encrypted communication in practice? It takes only one expert cryptographer who is willing to build a communication platform that encrypts its traffic and hi…

You can't really tell for a Web App whether it'll be faster in JS or Python, but you can definitely expect a Computer Vision application with lots of heavy number crunching to be a…

We try to limit the amount of languages we use, but we have high performance Computer Vision code that is written in C++, we're interfacing that with Python for simplicity, and a w…

I'm not an expert on auto scaling groups, but we have used the Google Cloud equivalent for a time. The biggest issue for us was that deployment is not as easy. Can you update the s…

Our startup has a webapp that acts as a UI for a machine learning application. We have two different types of heavy workloads (ML and something else). The workers for these run on …