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AdamN
4,134karma·1,342submissions·August 27, 2009
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AWS/Amazon Q - Berlin
Formerly Seattle, Nairobi, NYC:
* AWS Reliability Services (Fault Injection Service) - Region Isolation, AZ Power Outage and other tools for Chaos Engineering * AWS Developer Tools - building software teams to build software for other developers to build software * CTO at Factr - a geo/temporal research aggregation tool for international organizations and media * Founder of Kili.io - a public OpenStack for African markets based in Nairobi. * CTO at Yipit - Built the team and was initial dev (Python, Django, Ubuntu, AWS) * Way back when, I was the CTO of Forsalebyowner.com (acquired by Tribune Interactive).
Get in touch (adam@varud.com) if you have any interest in African technology, governance, Amazon, or anything in between.
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You might be interested in the concept of 'satisficing'. A product needs to be significantly better to replace an existing product that is satisfactory. Your point is slightly different tho…
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I might be wrong but my understanding is that the patients' blood was tested on legit equipment so they did get valid results. It just wasn't using the Theranos technology. So investors (a…
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Why not a stock certificate :-) https://www.apmex.com/product/50847/enron-corp-stock-certifi... …
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Solar flare would be awesome for coders. Some huge percentage of enterprise applications no longer have source code (they're just binaries with the code lost to the ages). All those binaries des…
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I have a milkman in Seattle in 2021 - works great!
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I remember a friend who's dad knew somebody from school who had a great way to make money. He would 'guarantee' he could get somebody into one of their top 3 schools because he had ins…
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No single country is capable of producing the newest chips end to end. Lithograph machines, raw materials, clean room builders, educated workforce, and the scale to do each of these economically are …
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reverse camera is mandatory by law in the US
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Yeah, everybody focuses on Word but that's the least interesting one. It's all about Excel and there is no competitor that has hundreds of thousands of trained users and works so well that …
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That's all risk and no gain. If you're successful you've saved no money and just moved platforms. If the community thinks FOSS is an end in and of itself you've accomplished some…
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Meaning it's more acceptable to not comply with cultural standards: i.e. keep standard hours, have a job, not marry/have kids, or whatever else the standards of behavior are. I'm not co…
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The meta point here is that spaces are the type of thing that work fine ... until they don't. This class of bug is best avoided entirely, especially if there is an easy workaround (not using spa…
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I generally don't buy any food from China - simply don't trust the health regulations. Seaweed I get from Japan or US, pine nuts - anywhere but China. Of course I'm sure I'm gett…
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right?
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There's some truth to it ... but why is that a bad thing exactly?
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Q up there made a Freudian slip :-)
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I think they're saying in the extreme event of needing to do declination manually you are safe and can navigate and land the plane, not that it would be a normal occurrence. The default would be…
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Stupid questions are a great way to tease out when people seem to be saying similar things but they're not actually saying the same thing.
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Petroleum is definitely more environmentally friendly than the timber industry. You probably haven't driven around tree farms - monoculture that destroys the environment for hundreds of square m…
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$12.7MM/year taxed at 30% (remember, these are workers) means $9MM/year. Presuming they spend half of that it would take 3 years to get to the 1% threshold ... many CEOs don't make it …
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"Modeled on" doesn't mean singularly Rome. It just means that Rome was one of the models.
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Seems to me like the two numbers that matter are: Mean time from docking to last container being outside of port property Mean cost per TEU
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Median comp of $100k in LA for a skilled job isn't "incredibly overcompensated" to operate the busiest container port in the western hemisphere.
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That's even worse. It presents even more clearly that the United States has been captured by the upper class, who pay all the bills but also receive all the proceeds (aside from small supports t…
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The archive utility, when run as the backup user, cannot read the file but it can read file metadata or have a database of backup state so it knows where to send differential backups. The archive util…
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Yes. That is why in the US people are so malnourished - eating the cheapest possible food day in day out. That price also does not include externalities (eg. the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico cause…
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Having different read/write permissions is an important durability consideration. In this case the CEO has read privs (not write) and the archive utilities have write privs, not read. There are …
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I think you two agree (as do I). So much of this thread is focused on stuff like interest, but spending less than you earn and knowing how to calculate risk over time are massively more general and u…
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Being amenable to delayed gratification comes way before allowances become a thing. It may even be innate and not a learned behavior.
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First, read "Debt: The First 5,000 Years" by David Graeber so you understand money better in the first place.