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why can't AI be that solution?

This is classic libertarian thinking, and I used to subscribe to it, at least to some extent. The more you think about it, though, the more it doesn't hold up. It's just undeniably…

A virus with a novel mutation favoring humans would be successful infecting humans, period. I can't imagine any respiratory virus that wouldn't spread more effectively indoors. Thi…

What's been disappointing to me throughout this experience is the fact that a large percentage of people don't seem to understand contagion. The idea that a young person is safe is…

> There is no "buts" regarding freedom. This is clearly not true. You are an intelligent person and can probably think of half a dozen counters to this without trying too hard. You…

This is a regional outage, not a single AZ.

I always find it interesting how people can think completely differently about this topic depending on how they frame it in their mind. If you think about it from the perspective o…

Not sending kids to school is about keeping the teachers, administrators, and their dependents and contacts safe. It's about grandparents who care for the children and would be at …

I keep reading people asserting this, and I assume it's because we believe that a virus that becomes less lethal would have an evolutionary advantage. But, wouldn't lengthening the…

On the other hand, the second and third order consequences to providing a stronger social safety net to people might be highly beneficial. We can apply creativity to solving the wo…

The longer I've worked in software development, the less I'm convinced that any of this matters, at all. What has mattered more to me is choosing the right architecture, technologi…

I don't disagree. I would love the option in the US for everyone to have basic health care through medicare or a public option insurance plan (with prices starting at zero). My poi…

Yeah the negativity struck me as well. After being in Afib for a month, he was at high risk for having a stroke. I guarantee you that insurance would have been appreciated then. Ju…

Well that's just like, your opinion, man. In all seriousness, C and C++ are with us forever. Improving and moving these languages forward, and improving their safety with static an…

If you take someone's money, you only have a duty to fulfill your promises. Plenty of for-profit companies exist partially for some social good, or exist to further some multifacet…

I hope people don't take this kind of simplistic advice on such a complex topic. Actual fruit, although it tastes sweet, is impossible to eat in quantities that are as harmful as j…

Disagree. We've been running on ECS for years and it's a very economical and reliable way to run containers on AWS. The service itself is free, the agent over time has become very …

I can't see how an 80% plant based diet could lead to a low carb, high fat outcome. It in no way implies to me a one meal a day diet. It sounds more to me like the DASH diet, or Me…

I do run such a service, one that must scale daily in response to traffic at multiples of off peak traffic and I can state unequivocally that this is false. I can vaguely recall ov…

AWS no longer recommends warming up the newer ALBs for the vast majority of customers and scenarios. Of course lambda isn't magic and has an initial start penalty. There are ways t…

Well keep reading. Lambda supports python 3.6

This is just not true. A brand new account on AWS will come with a default lambda limit of 1000 concurrent invocations with up to 2 cores and 3gb per invocation. That is a massive …

Well I ask because reserved instances can significantly reduce the price of ec2 (up to something like 75%). Also just turning off idle instances can save a ton. If you invest the t…

Did you reserve your instances? Were you using current generation instances (c3, m3, etc). Did you try to take advantage of traffic patterns to scale up and down the number of inst…