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AdamN
4,134karma·1,341submissions·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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Yes it is. They're giving a lower quality result to the user (their customer ... but not for long if competitors can get just a little bit better)
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Possibly but even if so it's just in a few examples that probably won't be repeated in the future now that it's known.
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The problem is that the eye is not the most damaging part, it's the right side of the eye that's funneling water from the Gulf onto the land that's got the most damage potential. From …
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This is what I hate about the category system - it's entirely wind based and while that's important, rainfall and direction of wind (for coasts) is what's most important. Cat 2 can be …
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Watched the most recent Berkshire Hathaway meeting which was really fascinating. However, Munger seems like he doesn't challenge his assumptions very often and also builds anecdotes whole cloth …
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Billions in the US and it's part of the infrastructure bill and alot of investment right now. This is a multi-year effort (although IMHO functioning windows should be more normalized instead of …
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8045461/ This is a common attribute of infections and is really more of a math issue than anything SARS-specific. The bigg…
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Isn't that part of the scientific process? Is there some other way to come to the truth aside from observation and examining variables related to the observed outcomes?
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This makes it sound like there was some groundbreaking CDC study that got hidden for political reasons. It was a study of a single month in Georgia before Delta. Aside from the narrowness of the inpu…
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Keep in mind the initial dose is highly relevant to the impact of the virus in your body. There's a big difference between getting a single virus, enough to cause an infection, and enough to be …
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Not by the IRS, by the USG.
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+100
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I remember being in Kenya before the election that followed post-election violence previously (scores dead). Ambassador said point blank, "You need to take care of yourselves. We only have a ha…
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AWS Developer Tools | Seattle, NYC, DC, US-based virtual possible | Senior Engineer | Full-Time | https://aws.amazon.com/products/developer-tools/ AWS Dev Tools builds the t…
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In the book that's the state of human science when they learn of our existence. Also, they want our planet and it will take them a long time to get to earth - so long in fact that they predict t…
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^ Lesson number 1 for QA is to use demonstrably fake metadata. Lorem Ipsum is good and if you need realish metadata like email addresses, translate real ones (i.e. from adam@google.com to testaccount…
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Practice, competence, and probably more funding. I doubt members of the DOE are highly paid in NYC compared to market rates. The original comment still stands though. RCV is more complicated and th…
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Yeah, gmail hit the nail on the head. No folders (originally), liberal use of archive, and you can still delete for true garbage. Spam controls work really well too. I would like to de-google (alrea…
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They might just want to protect other secrets about the lab and keep everyone at arms length. My bet is that even in China (which is not monolithic) different stakeholders are not so sure and there&#x…
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Some/many people can't separate the accusation from it being shown to be true. During that period of time (years??), it's a distraction for those people from the other problems like ha…
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Tax evasion (IRS) is much more serious than a securities crime (SEC). Also, he did go to jail for some time.
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US indeed has draconian punishments. However 30 years is a starting/worst case scenario to encourage a plea bargain. Plea bargains are horrendous and really should be banned or made extremely ra…
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Where did you end up?
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I live in Seattle and the water is clean, the electricity is constant, the safety is high, the air is breathable. This is the same and different than other places I've lived like Nairobi, NY, Au…
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Not a satire. I notice that people who presume government itself is incompetent haven't lived in multiple jurisdictions and seen how impactful effective government is vs ineffective government.
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I wish DDG would have a toggle for the privacy/speed/other attributes of the destination site. I'd like to set minimums and simply never see those sites in my results. This would requi…
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I wish she would give to governments :-/ There are thousands of governments in the US (and many more globally). Towns, cities, counties and states and of course the federal government. Many of …
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I think he was joking. Windows 7 is EOL
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Depends on what you spend the money on. If you take the margin and spend it on an asset, then you have the underlying stock as well as the asset to cover calls. Still requires correct thinking but t…
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For the mega-rich it's tax avoidance. That money gets rolled into the estate or trust with the cost-basis resetting on death.