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romski··on SARSCoV2 cell entry depends on ACE2 and TMPRSS2, blockable by protease inhibitor
Did you buy it from somewhere that can be delivered to the US?
romski··on Millennials are sicker than Gen X, which bodes ill for the future economy
When
romski··on Two of America's biggest coal plants closed this month
You’re talking about it. There, now “someone” is!
romski··on AWS Elasticsearch: a fundamentally-flawed offering
Granted the rebalancing is a real missing feature but what if you had used EBS volumes for data storage, to grow the disk if one node approaches its limit? I'm guessing the author is using local SSD/NVMe to get the most query performance but that does come at the cost of flexibility.

Of course EBS is not as fast, and I'm sure others have run into availability issues, but one has to look at their requirements; in a fast changing environment when data needs are not certain having the ability to expand with a push-button is powerful.

romski··on Cisco Is Said to Have Offered $7B-Plus for DataDog
I interviewed there a year ago - the person on the phone told me I was an idiot for using Cassandra when I should be using HBase like they were; ok, lol
romski··on Uber lays off 435 people
I work at Uber and we do use an internally built chat app.
romski··on Whole Foods CEO on plant-based meat: good for the environment, not for health
Yea
romski··on U.S. Designates China as Currency Manipulator
You could have just googled this years ago
romski··on As U.S. 'superstar' cities thrive, weaker ones get left behind
You don’t get paid if you don’t sell the “resources you control”, also mega corps own farms, mines etc so this isn’t as relevant.
romski··on Americans Are Delaying Health Care Until Tax Refunds Arrive
Why would anyone lend money without interest?
romski··on Airware is shutting down after raising $118M
Slack of Airware alumni
romski··on A new study says services like Uber and Lyft are causing urban traffic woes
The problem with this service is it needs tremendous amounts of capital to own all those buses. Is this company really going to raise billions and billions of dollars to own a large enough fleet to make a meaningful difference?
romski··on Tesla Second Quarter 2018 Update
The information regarding the subsidy limit being hit soon was freely available to depositors.
romski··on San Francisco's zoning makes it illegal to build apartments in 73.5% of the city
That's just one person's opinion. The reality was it didn't make economic sense to extend BART to Marin with it's tiny (at the time, and likely still today) population.
romski··on San Francisco's zoning makes it illegal to build apartments in 73.5% of the city
That's right http://www.marinij.com/article/ZZ/20100807/NEWS/100809186
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