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Slavery. For instance the technology for windmills already existed at the time, it just wasn't that big of a deal in world with an abundance of slaves. Fast forward to the Middle A…

Interesting, I’m starting to think undocumented thresholds are quite common in GCP. I experienced something similar with Clod Run: inexplicable scaling events based on CPU utilizat…

I have a different approach: I'm ok to throw away significant chunks of code as long as I have important new ideas that allow me to do more with less. Often the problem with refact…

Fewer than 10k wouldn't be surprising at all, yes.

The 65k figure is what ancient historians reported, in reality it’s almost certainly order of magnitudes lower. Exaggerated figures are usually the case with ancient reports (espec…

You can ship your local docker context to a remote host and build/run your containers there. All the docker commands you typically run locally you can run on the remote host. https…

Isn’t a monolith with split workloads just a monorepo?

The main flaw of the article is not controlling for product category. I suspect most data warehouses have similar NDRs. In many companies a data warehouse is the place where you du…

I think the main lesson should be not to use it, especially at scale.

Not only they were cousins, in their private correspondence right before the outbreak of WWI they were addressing each other as Willy and Nicky[0]. By the way they fought against e…

I think you're too quick at making assumptions which are not correct unfortunately. Let's recap: > there's no selective pressure for it to become less lethal. > If people take meas…

Agreed, macro predictions are very hard. Much easier to make predictions on individual assets (companies, commodities etc.) and hold long term. Also, precisely because macro is har…

Don't really get your point. > The people have dramatically altered their behavior on a global scale (on average anyways) because of COVID’s lethality. There is absolutely selectiv…

Well if the two events (improved transimissibility and improved lethality) are not independent as I assumed then it's certainly bad news. I also heard the opposite thesis btw, high…

Yes my point is, when you do improve one (transimissibility) you probably did not improve the other one (or even got worse at it).

True, there's no selective pressure for it to become less lethal. But I wonder: isn't a random mutation unlikely to improve on any of its profiles (transmissibility or lethality)? …

Well bitcoin does have an intrinsic monetary policy despite not having a monetary authority. It is possible to engineer currencies to be inflationary/deflationary without an extern…

> even Bitcoin experiences inflation as more of it is mined (as does gold). Surprisingly they don't understand what inflation means despite having just quoted its definition a few …

> Nobody chooses to be a fool Dogecoin is at least honest, so many other "jokes" including Bitcoin, contemporary art, some stocks etc... If people want to play a game of musical ch…

I think people should not think that much in terms of supply-demand for speculative phenomena. At least not in a macroeconomic sense. The value of a coin is determined by the expec…

Well I wish he expanded a bit more on the “Just do X, that’s so much simpler” section. He's on AWS, he could have gotten all those benefits with ElasticBeanstalk or ECS even. Plus …

> When you can create money backed by nothing Isn't that what money really is about? Debt and money go together. When you take on debt your creditor can decide to sell his credit t…

> The central thesis of value investing is: if a company is going to close shop, the scrap value of that company will be higher than the market cap of that company. There's a lot m…

They are certainly very successful ideas in terms of outcomes. Apple went up more than 3X since he bought it in 2016.