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xchaotic··on Bye, Amazon
Even if that is true, contrast that with Bezos who doesn’t want to sacrifice 1% of his worth to protect health of workers.
xchaotic··on New 13-inch MacBook Pro
It’s not easy to iterate in hardware and even harder to go back on a failed design. but agreed that Touch Bar needs to be revisited somehow.
xchaotic··on Hourly 4-second sprints prevent impairment of postprandial fat metabolism
This was done on purpose Every hour but you can get similar results with one longer Training session. Heck I only train 3-5 days per week and problem burning fat with enough intensity or volume.
xchaotic··on Amazon asks workers sheltering at home to return or request leave
Yeah, I don’t see how few extra bucks is worth literally risking life. Total numbers look big but really it’s $120 more per each shift where you can be exposed or expose others to a deadly virus.
xchaotic··on Now Open – AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region
Show me that magic unicorn company that spins data centres like that with 0 documentation bugs and I’ll join you criticising them. As it stands with limited resources I am pretty impressed with the speed AWS keeps adding capacity around the world.
xchaotic··on YC S20 Remote Batch
Where do you get the dramatically more poor from?
xchaotic··on Oil plunges below zero for first time with May contract ending
To have an upper hand in negotiation. Everyone knows Saudi can win the war of attrition with oil at low prices they just don’t know by how much.
xchaotic··on Denmark: No aid for companies which pay out dividends or are reg. in tax havens
You mean like Amazon? The stock price rises and if you want out you sell some.
xchaotic··on Denmark: No aid for companies which pay out dividends or are reg. in tax havens
Not that relevant as the shock is slump in demand. Printing more money etc makes it cheaper to buy things but people are still not buying so oil etc is in a free fall. Traditional interest rate based intervention doesn’t make sense you are just adding even more money available to a system that doesn’t want to spend it. Instead it needs to be targeted intervention that transitions the economy to the new reality and measures something different than quarterly gdp.
xchaotic··on OrbitDB: Peer-to-peer databases for the decentralized web
eventually consistent database Is an oxymoron
xchaotic··on It’s Time to Build
Funny enough, adding such role/institution adds complexity in itself
xchaotic··on It’s Time to Build
One way to win at anything in life is to be counter cyclical. Sure you can also win by being best but the numbers are stacked against you when everyone is doing the same. As someone funnily quipped the pandemic is so bad that most places are out of stock on podcasting microphones. If everyone is podcasting and writing apps then it’s much harder to get through the noise. Find something that no else is doing, maybe something that requires physical presence, just to be contrarian. So now might a great time to write some software but now and in a few months will be a particularly hard time to turn that into a profitable business. Remember VCs don’t care if you take losses.
xchaotic··on Airbnb Paying More Than 10% Interest on $1B Financing Announced Monday
So they probably need to let go of those staff and projects rather than raising money at high interest?
xchaotic··on Airbnb Paying More Than 10% Interest on $1B Financing Announced Monday
PR and they thought they could get away with hosts shouldering the costs
xchaotic··on Airbnb Paying More Than 10% Interest on $1B Financing Announced Monday
“ put options on the common equity” you mean index or that company’s? Because you can’t buy options for Airbnb as it’s not IPOd yet
xchaotic··on Airbnb Paying More Than 10% Interest on $1B Financing Announced Monday
So Airbnb should be bailed out because government imposed the barriers by closing short term rentals.
xchaotic··on Ask HN: How to prosper under negative interest rates?
If you have 200k and add 20k for 30 years plus compounded interest at 2% you’ll have 1,189,861.13 at the end.
xchaotic··on Ask HN: How to prosper under negative interest rates?
“ If you can buy distressed property or businesses at the "end" of the pandemic”. Even if that goes as planned timing it is going to be tricky as there are a lot of punters in the same business- VC firms buying distressed businesses for a living
xchaotic··on Ask HN: How to prosper under negative interest rates?
You need to rebalance your portfolio as you get closer to retirement as you can’t time the market. I think by the time you’re retirement age, your portfolio should be 30% equities
xchaotic··on Cash Is King: Flows, Balances, and Buffer Days
Assuming one made the right choices and is 100% cash, what now? Do you buy the dub on equities? In my view cash is also getting diluted by gov action, which can be nicely summed up by the meme money printer go brrrrr
xchaotic··on From Spain to Germany, farmers warn of fresh food shortages
Not to mention the massive spike in birth rates that I expect 9 months from now (sooner for China)
xchaotic··on Stocks Halt; Oil and Bonds Drop in Sync
Lots of people are complaining but to me it shows the market is working - oil goes down because of decreasing demand and I don’t see why it should be otherwise.
xchaotic··on Object Storage, Kubernetes and Why You Can't Containerize a Storage Appliance
I still think, consistent (as in ACID) persistence layer is a huge gap in the early design of k8s ecosystem, so it still feels like you're wrangling against the architecture to have something persisted. A good example is an otherwise excellent Monzo banks's architecture, they've built a very impressive backend it seems: https://monzo.com/blog/2016/09/19/building-a-modern-bank-bac... but they still had a production outage cause by Kubernetes: https://community.monzo.com/t/anatomy-of-a-production-kubern...

I really see a big conceptual clash between a consistent database view and k8s ephemeral everything, not sure of object storage is the enswer to that.

xchaotic··on Quarantine will normalize WFH and recession will denormalize full-time jobs
if you go East from where the client is based, it is easier to do biking/hiking/skiing in the mornings, before work at HQ starts, due to the timezones. It is also cooler in the summer and usually less busy. I am tired physically but refreshed mentally before the work even starts.
xchaotic··on Quarantine will normalize WFH and recession will denormalize full-time jobs
"The office is 5-20 minutes away" is unrealistic if you plan on having a family AND a career that involves working in more than one place. Heck even the bad scenario "The office is 1 hour away" is kind of optimistic given how population is distributed. So remote work is the future for most senior/sufficiently advanced knowledge jobs in my view.
xchaotic··on Citroën introduces a two-seat EV that costs €2,644 and then €19.99 a month
Well would it have a chance with a loaded F150 towing something? Murica still has ways to catch up on a healthy lifestyle.
xchaotic··on Don’t Confuse a Bug’s Priority with Its Severity
Hiring good programmers who are not too far out on Asperger/ introvert scale is an issue. So you can fix it by letting programmers only worry about the tech part and letting PM prioritise things. I think motivation will not be as high but it is a way to get things shipped and profitable.
xchaotic··on The Gondwana Link: A plan to create a 1000km corridor of bushland
it’s mostly virtue signalling- they described an older couple who bought some cheap land there, still live in Perth and offset their carbon footprint by planting some stuff on that land.
xchaotic··on The new business of AI and how it’s different from traditional software
I’m glad you scoped it well computer vision is a somewhat narrow field and therefore say for a logistic company AI can be applied to some but not all businesses processes. It’s an improvement but not a revolution.
xchaotic··on Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group
Can you provide some examples please?
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