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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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And they got them.
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Infinite downside is theoretical. The bigger problem that I learned a long time ago is that the leadership of every company is fighting against the stock going down. So if you're long a company…
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I'd also venture to say that most phones and bank apps are more secure than laptops and websites. Phones are much more locked down by the vendors.
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Yeah the source code isn't really such a big deal aside from helping to find vulnerabilities. The PII is a real disgrace.
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$10?? I thought it was a major crime to drive without a license plate.
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Interestingly that's one of the Marxist critiques. The market simply is not efficient enough to work fully. The effort to get Lego2 off the ground is simply too high and Lego gets an effective …
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I can imagine doing that for Linux ... but why tech people battle Windows at this point is beyond me.
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Same as Texans asking where Houston Street is in NYC.
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There's some of that but I remember 15 years ago this investor in our startup emailed the founder and misspelled the name of the startup that they had just pumped a significant amount of money in…
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Yeah I don't know what this person is on about. Lego is obviously premium and ... charges premium prices because ... they're a business. People (consumers) who want premium products ... pa…
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Which model(s) are you using?
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Yeah I really would like to know how many bots are on reddit (and on particular subreddits/threads) and also how many are here! The interesting thing though is that the bots are just cheaper vers…
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Not 'allegedly' - it's just a fact. Even if you're not malicious however it's still sometimes necessary because the server may have different sites for different browsers and…
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That's only in-region. Ireland imports all sorts of stuff so just look at imports if you want to exclude the energy impact on everything else.
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I feel like when these tickets are struck down it's still smart to send notices to the homes of the cars doing this in more of a shaming way - even if the fine itself isn't legal. I suspect…
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I think what they're saying is that larger radii are for 'real windows' that have toolbars and such but there are 'mini windows' and those get smaller radii. It doesn't …
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You would have to normalize against other costs and do a deep dive to really understand. My first question would be whether electricity (commercial and residential) has become relatively more expensi…
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Forgive my ignorance but wouldn't a TPU be a kind of ASIC where the application is model inference? The TPU Wikipedia article also says it's an ASIC - we should update it if it's wrong…
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Who are you responding to? OP made a moral argument for sure but he wasn't pushing for maximum employment.
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Yeah that's part of Nuclear Peace Theory. It's interesting and compelling - but also prone to some major tail risk.
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That would happen even if there was no medicine at all. It's not like in the natural world disease and dying is smooth. Individual systems fall apart and then the rest of the organism dies slow…
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Where and when?
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It's a little bit the opposite. Private groups are focused on profits but there are gov programs to support the rare disease research that would otherwise go unfunded in a pure market system.
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I don't know how much longer it will last but the US government invests significant resources into rare diseases in order to improve outcomes where the normal market wouldn't otherwise suppo…
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What I always find peculiar about this is the wealth disparities even at the highest levels. Andy Jassy for instance, or David Solomon (CEO of Goldman), have less than 1% of the bulge bracket class a…
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It could be a leak but it could also be an inefficient piece of logic in Firefox. One could imagine that on every keystroke Firefox is scanning the entire input text for typos or malicious inputs whe…
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I wouldn't ease any taxes - we simply can't afford lower taxes. Debt is nearly $40T (125% of GDP)!
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I'd go for a more progressive tax if it was on offer. But there is so much debt that I'm pretty worried that taxes are simply unsustainably low.
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Ironically I was mildly in favor of tariffs from the left pov. Reduced consumption and getting more taxes to help pay down the debt. Consumption was likely mildly reduced (and still is with the 15% t…
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I love how share just instantly copies the URL - so refreshingly easy and fast.