jakelarkin

So yeah we're going to end up with middle class social housing lotteries, 1.5 hour commutes and crazy inflation of basic service costs ($3k/month child care, anyone?).

Every neighborhood can't be a wealthy enclave of SFH. There is literally no where to live in the central Bay Area on teachers salary much less a Social Security Disability paycheck. The homelessness epidemic will grow.

It's a rentier economy of land owners and the rent-controlled incumbents. How "Progressive".

when major banks/investors refused to deal with BBB or lower they called it 'Junk'. When they realized 1) the credit risk can be safely managed with modern financial theory and instruments 2) there was money to be made ... they quickly adopted it and had to figure something out to drop the 'Junk' pejorative.

If I live twice as long my 401k doesn't magically double.

Anyway, the crux of the problem its very difficult walk the line of having institutions that safely guarantee massive financial payouts 50+ years into the future. From the perspective of the seller its an asymmetric risk. We can't even accurately predict the yield on government bonds 5 years from now.

The logical thing would be to phase in mandatory 401k contribution and healthcare savings accounts with fixed amount in high-rated bonds. But that might put a dent in the ability of Coca-Cola/Disney/Comcast Co. to suck the American consumer dry so its probably a no-go in our political environment.

secondly, its just an intergenerational wealth transfer. another excess of the selfishness of the boomer generation. Who will pay the price ... the school kids getting a crap education in 35 student classrooms in crumbling buildings in a towns who's infrastructure is going to literally fall apart in 2 decades time from zero maintenance. Ah well at least we kept the promises some corrupt politicians made in the 90s to well-off gov workers.

that said the benefits in some states are ludicrous, cops spike their payout the last few years and retire with $200k pensions and healthcare for life at 50, then move on to your 2nd careers. In the private sector even if you max out your 401k you'd never come close to that sort of retirement.

- how many experienced scylladb devops are there globally that we can hire?

Those questions asked at BigTechCo before it adopts somebody elses tech.

FB already operates RocksDb and Cassandra so there's way less technical, career, financial risk for just hacking the two together with some aggressive refactoring.

time distribution follows a log-normal distribution (fat tail to the right)

statistically modeling pathogen progression over tissue spatially (2d, 3d) seems to confirm the real world distribution

key things that help - focusing on extensibility/abstraction in areas of code that will require ongoing changes. This is where you most need experienced and talented engineers. - maintain testing discipline - conservative dependency management and picking the right battles between DIY and open-source - creating periodic blocks of time for engineers to refactor software or architecture.

too often the problems currently ascribed to "tech" are problems of society as whole.