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I think Fabi is licking his chops thinking he can now finally be a world champion since Carlsen is out and Ding maybe won't be too hard to best. He predicted lots of lines in the match or saw better ones from his commentator chair (granted the eval bar helps a lot). But you are right he will have to take some risks probably.

I would want a way to view all the slides for a particular deck together, but here it seems I can only click a slide and see just that slide, no way to go back or forwards. I know in some cases the full deck may not be available but often there is more than one that we should be able to page through.

Who knows. The point is, if when not restricted you get a ton of db connections, then any restriction on that almost definitely means you are imposing a bottle neck. The only way this would not be the case is if it was trying to create db connections when it didn't need them, unlikely.

Sidenote here: one thing I found but didn't mention (the reason I put in the pooling, both in Python and pgbouncer) is that otherwise, under load, the async implementions would flood postgres with open connections and everything would just break down.

Doesn't this prove that async is waiting for connections when you put a limit on it? The only way async wins is if it is free to hit the db whenever it needs to.

I had to go back and look it was a while back, it took longer than I remembered it. The initial reach out was in May 2011. I had some initial conversation with them in May and June, sent them some overview of the company, etc. Then didn't hear back for a while. In December 2011 conversations started back up. By then the company had actually launched a product where they could see my business being useful. I sent them some small amount of data as a sample. I had actually proposed a simpler lower cost proposal of them just purchasing the data they wanted and not the business or acquiring me to work there. Anyway sometime at beginning of Feb 2012, things started to move faster and then it was done by beginning of March 2012. So in my mind/memory it was really January 2012 to beginning of March but really started in May 2011.

Not sure how MSFT usually handles it, but when I was acqui-hired (by a different large tech company, not quite on MSFT scale, but no trifle) I dealt almost exclusively with a person from Business Development. Maybe it is a bad sign that they had you discussing with people in their engineering group directly. Sounds like they were gathering data from you with no real plan to acquire. Then again every company may do it differently.

For me, there were some questions about my technology, but not a lot. Mostly we agreed on terms, and then they came up with a 40 page contract :) (the bus-dev guy said they don't really treat a small acquisition like mine that much differently than a larger acquisition in terms of contract verbiage). I had my lawyers (no I did not have any before this offer), review it.

But overall I felt that someone, who later I'm pretty sure turned out to be the CEO, had told their Business Development guy, just acquire this thing (and bring him along if you can), so they just went about doing that and it came out ok.

Basically invented Proof of Work (see Bitcoin):

Cynthia Dwork and Moni Naor. Pricing via processing or combatting junk mail. In Proceedings of Crypto, 1992. Also available as http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il:81/Dienst/UI/2.0/Describe/ ncstrl.weizmann_il/CS95-20.

What makes the $ more stable?

Maybe you weren't around for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble

By the end of the stock market downturn of 2002, stocks had lost $5 trillion in market capitalization since the peak.[39] At its trough on October 9, 2002, the NASDAQ-100 had dropped to 1,114, down 78% from its peak.[40][41] Many online shopping companies, such as Pets.com, Webvan, and Boo.com, as well as communication companies, such as Worldcom, NorthPoint Communications and Global Crossing, failed and shut down.[42][43] Others, such as Cisco, whose stock declined by 86%,[43] and Qualcomm, lost a large portion of their market capitalization but survived, and some companies, such as eBay and Amazon.com, lost value but recovered quickly.

Silly to look at % down from ATH when we had a massive bubble that peaked and popped. If you look at return overall, crypto beats ALL stock market investmets.

What we need is more data. What is the % of Covid-19 cases that require hospitalization (and are people actually going to hospitals when they don't need to?) ? Is it 20x that of flu or 2x? We need random testing throughout the population to know true mortality rate and herd immunity.

It's pretty ridiculous and has a ton of just bizarre stuff you have to read through (and do!) to even get to something remotely interesting.

One of the first projects I "assigned" to myself when learning to program was to create a 3d environment and be able to scale, rotate, translate objects in 3d. It was easy and fun because I got to choose the language, the rules, etc.

This assignment makes me cringe a bit because there are a lot of hoops to jump through. But yeah, I guess, no pain no gain or something like that :)

Is this foresight a function of the CEO themselves or more of being in that position (ceo of a technology company). In other words, being in that role you have time and resources to think about "what is next?" also this is somewhat expected from the board and investors.

How much of their insight comes from others (eg. senior staff, acquisition targets, etc.) and how much from their own noggin so to speak?

Or a better way to ask this might be, how would one go about replicating this insight if one is not a CEO of a tech company? What resources would I need to pull in, who should I be talking with?

If the appstore isn't providing the massive increase in revenue that it should, then you should definitely leave.

It will be interesting to see in a year or 2 if they regret their decision or not.

Do you think MCAS worked well in the event of a failed angle of attack sensor? I mean ignore fucking "stability" semantics.

Also this: "The MCAS deflects the horizontal stabilizer four times farther than was stated in the initial safety analysis document..[19] Due to the amount of trim the system applies to the horizontal stabilizer, aerodynamic forces resist pilot control effort to raise the nose." Wikipedia

Lol, these things are big !!! I had the scale all wrong. When I saw the pictures and video I thought this plane was something one or 2 people could hold (6-12 ft wing span). Then I saw people talking about 600kW and I was like, no freaking way can you get that much power from a plane that size.

Then I saw this: https://makanipower.com/makani/images/pages/technology/cta.j...

Wait a sec, didn't the steel prices increase (and didn't the tarrifs cause lots of other issues)? Was that coincidence?

Here's an analysis : https://www.tradepartnership.com/pdf_files/2002jobstudy.pdf , written in Feb 2003 (Tariffs were imposed in 2002, which was when NY times article was written https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/06/us/bush-puts-tariffs-of-a...)

Their summary:

"We found that:

• 200,000 Americans lost their jobs to higher steel prices during 2002. These lost jobs represent approximately $4 billion in lost wages from February to November 2002.3

• One out of four (50,000) of these job losses occurred in the metal manufacturing, machinery and equipment and transportation equipment and parts sectors.

• Job losses escalated steadily over 2002, peaking in November (at 202,000 jobs), and slightly declining to 197,000 jobs in December.4

• More American workers lost their jobs in 2002 to higher steel prices than the total number employed by the U.S. steel industry itself (187,500 Americans were employed by U.S. steel producers in December 2002).

• Every U.S. state experienced employment losses from higher steel costs, with the highest losses occurring in California (19,392 jobs lost), Texas (15,826 jobs lost), Ohio (10,553 jobs lost), Michigan (9,829 jobs lost), Illinois (9,621 jobs lost), Pennsylvania (8,400 jobs lost), New York (8,901 jobs lost) and Florida (8,370 jobs lost). Sixteen states lost at least 4,500 steel consuming jobs each over the course of 2002 from higher steel prices.

• While insufficient data exist at this time to measure the precise role steel tariffs played in causing such significant price increases, relative to the other factors, it is clear that the Section 201 tariffs played a leading role in pushing prices up. Steel tariffs caused shortages of imported product and put U.S. manufacturers of steel-containing products at a disadvantage relative to their foreign competitors. In the absence of the tariffs, the damage to steel consuming employment would have been significantly less than it was in 2002.

• The analysis shows that American steel consumers have borne heavy costs from higher steel prices caused by shortages, tariffs and trade remedy duties, among other factors. Some customers of steel consumers have moved sourcing offshore as U.S. producers of steel-containing products became less reliable and more expensive. Other customers refused to accept higher prices from their suppliers and forced them to absorb the higher steel costs, which put many in a precarious (or worse) financial condition. The impact on steel-consuming industries has been significant. In making policy for the revitalization of manufacturing, including the steel industry, our conclusions suggest that the effects across the full industrial spectrum should be considered. The lessons of the impact of higher steel costs should counsel a good deal of caution when import barriers are considered."

Oh and the chart they publish of prices from 2002 shows the following:

HR Sheet metal: went from about $220 to $300 ($ per ton) an increase of 36% HD Galvanized metal: went from $330 to $460 an increase of 39% CR Sheet metal: went from $305 to $405 an increase of 32%

People / companies like to have the ability to dispute the outcome of a transaction

Crypto currency doesn't stop this. You can dispute cash transactions and you can dispute crypto transactions. If I pay for something in crypto and it is not delivered, I can sue, complain, etc just as I would with a credit card. What you can't do with crypto is run to visa and have them magically reverse the charge (possibly screwing over the merchant). But dispute away my friend.

Brush your teeth (and gums): https://www.perio.org/consumer/alzheimers-and-periodontal-di...

Should have been new Brand.

I feel like the Chevy logo and branding didn't help much with Volt sales. They could have done something similar to what Toyota did with Scion. Create a unique logo and branding.

Create a high tech brand that isn't associated with "Chevy". Is that just me?

You either like strongly typed object oriented langs or you don't. If you do, then a bit of verbosity is really nothing. If there are actual lang improvements beyond saving me a few characters, I'll take them.

Not sure if they cover...

A typical scenario is that you are in a corporate culture where, for whatever reason your manager does not "manage down", like at all. Meaning that they are not giving you direction and nor are they listening to any needs, direction from you (ok, maybe once per quarter?). Your interactions with them (if you are letting them set the schedule) are very limited. Now that can be great or bad.

Typically though these people (by essence of being someone you report to) control more corporate power than you do. They can perhaps authorize work, hire 10s of additional resources, approve muilti million dollar projects, set a budget for next year, etc. So it becomes imperative for you to 'manage up' if you want to achieve more than what you are being fed.

Just how to do that, maybe this book covers. Hope so.

Really? I don't see much in the docs about this except https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/4.1/users-guide/vcl-inlin...

They seem (at first glance) to have no concept of security in the sense of restricting people's access to certain content like in the case of all social networks.

No security layer though right? Meaning if we want to restrict access to certain content based on user token or something, how to do that with Varnish? How to prevent John from reading Mary's tweets?

...who I wouldn't trust with ten cents.

Interestingly the entire point of bitcoin, for example, is that you don't need to trust anyone at all.

Unfortunately, the block size limit was set too large and this created outsized returns for large consolidations.

Can you clarify this statement?

but it's also desirable to be able to instantly transact a payment of $0.0001 without everyone in the world processing that payment.

I think there is a feeling (rightly or wrongly) in the community that LN is being sold as the future of bitcoin, and that this is not just about sending $.0001, but sending pretty much any amount. And there is concern, fear, etc that LN is one not ready yet, might have some issues we haven't uncovered, may be preventing us scaling in other ways, and may lead us to a bitcoin world we didn't sign up for.

are using LN as some kind of punching bag

So yes, those concerns about the direction of bitcoin will lead people to beat up on LN, but mostly because there are strong champions of LN stoking those fears/concerns in some ways.

Probably if it was perceived in the community that the future state of bitcoin, was a really good combination of LN plus what we have today (on chain txs unrelated to LN settlements) then there would be less concern and divisiveness. Then it would be clear we have to grow/scale both parts. LN would be a nice solution to some use cases, and on chain bitcoin would need to scale to meet those other use cases (as well as support LN).