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they probably have different clusters for different use cases: att big companies, this will lead to a very long tail of small clusters.

cassandra struggles to scale horizontally after a while so i am guessing that they also do some sort of application level sharding across multiple clusters

There are indeed people who repeatedly perform reprehensible deeds.

For anyone wondering, there are currently 45M first generation immigrants in the US (13.5% of the total population.)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_S...

Could it be that the younger folks are less inclined to acknowledge the existence of objective truth than older generations?

I could argue that it is orthogonal to integrity seeing as I believe integrity to be about intent and not result.

What cannot be argued however is that this viewpoint definitely casts a shadow on journalism as a profession, even the "serious" journalism.

What always struck me in Chomsky’s lectures are the constant barrage of examples of big, serious publications pushing agendas left and right.

I guess what I am trying to say is that serious is a low bar here, not that much higher than entertainment news.

That to me is a reason to like the company rather than not... Let's see where you stand once your opinions are on the chopping block

Can somebody more knowledgeable than me weight in on the efficacy of this approach as opposed to using docker containers?

I don’t think Uber itself operates in China since it sold its operations to Yandex.Taxi.

I know you might not be interested in anything chromium-based since this thread is about firefox, but qutebrowser[1] is a great solution for anybody looking for vimium/pentadactyl-like experience.

[1] https://qutebrowser.org/

You’ve said it better than I could have.

Many people on HN probably know your handle/identity, if only by virtue of you referring to it in your comments somewhat systematically.

You manage your identity with an SEO mindset indeed. I do not mean to offend, but it does read just as fake as any SEO search results.

A very interesting follow-up to an insightful post. I think the answer might lie in why the american business culture is more efficient in the first place.

I believe american business is more fluid, allowing for better arbitrage opportunities that ultimately leads to better arbitrage abilities for its actors.

More law and protection has the same effect as more code: it slows things down because it increases dramatically the amount of requirements you have to contend with. A double edged sword indeed!

Your computation is incorrect, 3 days out of 365 is 1% of downtime, not 0.1%. I believe your error stems from reporting .1% as 0.1. Indeed:

0.001 (.1%) * 8760 (365d*24h) = 8.76h

Alternatively, the common industry standard in infrastructure (the place I work at at least,) is 4 nines, so 99.99% availability, which is around 52 mins a year or 4 mins a month iirc. There's not as much room as you'd think! :)

Immigrating alone to a previously unknown country is very hard. I did it with my spouse and we struggled a lot.

I also had to stay in my job for 5+ years to keep my visa, I am just out of it now. I also struggle with on-off work ethic. Mostly depends on how interesting the work is (after 6 years it often is not.)

The best advice I have is to find ways to entertain yourself (in ways that make you grow, OR NOT) aside from the job. Looks like you’re thinking about it A LOT, for understandable reasons.

Thank you for the wisdom!

I think you make a very good point. I would add that in the short to mid-term, Twitch could also grow thanks to the pie getting bigger. Video streaming, I believe, is far from having peaked.

The ridesharing line of business has been profitable for at least a year from what I can tell. The plan was for it to cover all the other costs by EoY 2020, incl. HQ expenses and other bets like Eats.

This is a rule of thumb. You should always check your assumptions about code being correct or not. However, if somebody and their code have proven themselves unreliable, it is a useful optimization to first consider they are wrong, instead of first considering they are right (humility.)

In the rest of the world, and in CA before this change, drivers are paid per mile/time and riders pay an upfront price.

The only way this is possible is if Uber does absorb the risk for the rider's convenience. They will not be providing this service from now on because it strengthens their claim that the drivers are contractors.

For what it's worth, I agree that the drivers deserve more protection, and I also consider that it's impossible to envision Uber drivers as employees without totally destroying the whole concept.

The only solution that I can see to this problem is to improve the status of contractor for these people's health care to be covered at large.

Government is pretty bad in this country like in most other countries. I suspect it is because most good solutions are the product of balanced view-points, but politics and legislation is driven by public opinion, which is rarely balanced in its views.