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What do you recommend for distributed data processing?

Don't use exceptions for flow control

Presumably, they're either looking into adding more members from other companies, or reducing members from EDB (or both).

Have you considered the environmental impact of increased red meat consumption?

Interesting, do you have any examples of the out-there names?

In what market are Apple and Facebook competitors?

Isn't a rental house just a house that you buy to rent out?

Wait, houses on Lake Tahoe go for $130k!?

Why do you need the date in the reply tweet?

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As I understand it, the premise of the method is that, at day D, you already have written the contents of tweet Tr (to be posted as a reply to T) and so you can already compute its hash and tweet the hash as part of T on day D. Then on day D+N, you tweet Tr, which hashes correctly to what you said it would, and thus is extremely unlikely to have been tampered with.

Where does the date string contained in Tr come into play?

I disagree that college should be a pure meritocracy. Students from disadvantaged backgrounds would have a really hard time getting into college, even though many are extremely smart and have great potential to succeed at college. Meritocracy is biased towards the privileged.

Couldn't Facebook denying to accept TikTok ads be argued as constituting amticompetitive behaviour?

That's one of the points of the essay. Steve also argues that it's not a GCP problem, but a Google-wide problem (excluding Android and Chrome).

I'm pretty sure data center workers were considered essential workers.

Relevant snippet in the Google SRE Book:

https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/chapters/service-lev...

Google introduced exactly this to one of their internal services so that downstream dependencies can't rely on its extremely high availability.

In Sweden, Finland, and Norway, everyone's income tax records are public. Is that unethical?

Same

This comment reveals the insight that 10^20k is equivalent to the number of different possible 64kB files

> not that paid search engines are a thing

They are in enterprise, but I digress

Analog watches would all be rendered useless.

Cities will still exist even if remote work rises significantly. There is a huge amount of buildings and infrastructure which won't just disappear. Rather, demand for them will fall, and since supply is flat, prices will drop. This will give opportunity to less lucrative ventures to work at the city center. Artists, for example, would have a harder time working remotely.

> What H&M had, Zara somewhat still has, but Uniqlo doesnt have is the must buy or might not see it again.

And this is why I shop at Uniqlo, not at H&M or Zara. I like to ensure that my favourite basics will always be available for repurchase 2+ years after the original purchase, so I can replace a worn item.

The justification is that the equipment presents a national security risk.

If that's true, how is it reasonable to allow this equipment to operate in the UK for 7 more years? Doesn't that mean the UK is willingly under national security risk for 7 years?

Unless, of course, there was never a security risk...

Casinos and financial markets are two industries regulated very differently from each other

> The other day I had a visitor from security come in and scrub all my addons off of my Firefox installation because they hadn't been vetted through IT.

They can't do that remotely?

So for 1 million records, you need to spend $1k/month. Hmm.

Welcome to 1998

[] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....

I don't think they are pronouncing "Sur" correctly...

Are you predicting 500-900k deaths in the USA due to COVID-19?

Yes, but a different noise.

How so?