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xxxpupugo commented on How much faster is Redis at storing a blob of JSON compared to Postgres?   peterbe.com/plog/redis-vs... · Posted by u/Manozco
xxxpupugo · 6 years ago
Is this really that surprising?

Postgres is a RDMS, with transactional support and everything. While Redis is powerful, it is much simpler and focused, not nearly as comprehensive as Postgres.

TL;DR Postgres is doing a lot more heavy-lifting than Redis, it feels slow because that much of work is not necessary for simple kv lookup

xxxpupugo commented on Employers Used Facebook to Keep Women and Older Workers from Seeing Job Ads   propublica.org/article/em... · Posted by u/shrikant
adrianN · 6 years ago
I think for similar reasons like it generally being seen as a good thing to give free food and housing to the poor, but frowned upon to do the same for the rich.
xxxpupugo · 6 years ago
Not all women are poor, not all men are rich.

If discrimination is THE issue, then woman specific job ads also needs to be banned.

xxxpupugo commented on How Not to Build a Country: Canada’s Late Soviet Pessimism   palladiummag.com/2019/09/... · Posted by u/molteanu
deskamess · 6 years ago
""" But Canada is, and has always been, an oligarchy where the ruling families—the Saputos, Demarais, Reichmans, etc.—have relied on their own Brezhnevites to preserve their wealth by shielding them not just from competition, but from any kind of change.

The key to acquiring wealth in this country is creating bottlenecks by saturating public and private institutions with members of this class. """

So true. The general feeling that incompetence at these big companies has no consequence.

The depresssing and true: """This is how much a developer should make. We’re not paying a penny more."

Sorry to say, but tech is not valued in Canada by Canadian companies. American companies operating in Canada have a better mindset.

xxxpupugo · 6 years ago
> This is how much a developer should make. We’re not paying a penny more.

This almost reads as if there is a cast system, where there is place for everyone to be comfortable with and shut up demanding more...

xxxpupugo commented on White House Weighs Limits on U.S. Portfolio Flows Into China   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/chenzhekl
factsaresacred · 6 years ago
> but I don't think they have the appetite to break the status quo this eagerly.

Mainly they don't have the strength to break the status quo. Plus they don't want to jeopardise access to such a large market. It's a Faustian bargain they're beginning to regret.

China is going to rise, this cannot and should not be prevented. But allowing them to rise at your own country's expense is folly. America gets this.

xxxpupugo · 6 years ago
Also US can weather itself the best if the status quo is broken, because it is currently on top. Other countries won't be so lucky.

Trump's actions feel dramatic, but mainly on the magnitude and fast aggression. Something is due to happen and the world needs to adapt to that new normal.

xxxpupugo commented on White House Weighs Limits on U.S. Portfolio Flows Into China   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/chenzhekl
keiferski · 6 years ago
The growing confrontation between the West and China seems to me to boil down to a philosophical problem:

- Should free markets/societies/cultural entities allow participation by all actors, even those which (in their own spaces) obviously don't play by the rules of the entered market/society/culture?

- Or, should entry into the entity be restricted to those that themselves (in their own space) follow the rules of the entered culture?

It seems to me that there are definite advantages and disadvantages to both approaches and it's probably something that game theorists have addressed. To use a convoluted, over-simplified metaphor of a playground:

- If we allow kids (that have different rules in their own playground) into our playground, we run the risk of their rules overcoming or having a negative effect on ours. We also enable them to play with us while having "bad" rules on their own playground - some of which might give them an (unfair) advantage over us on our own playground. However, we get the benefits of having more kids and toys to play with. And, maybe the kids will choose our rules (which we perceive as better) over their own.

- If we don't allow them into our playground, we have less kids and toys to play with. We also have no real direct influence on them - they can't see that our rules are better in person, and we can't threaten to kick them out of our playground if they aren't in it to begin with. However, we avoid the risk of having their rules overwhelm ours and we worry less about them having unfair advantages over us on our own playground.

xxxpupugo · 6 years ago
> The growing confrontation between the West and China seems to me to boil down to a philosophical problem

It is not West VS China, it is mainly US VS China. EU and other Asian developed economies might disdain China ideologically, but I don't think they have the appetite to break the status quo this eagerly.

And it is nothing philosophical about it. It is geopolitical, and it is human nature. What you are saying are just intellectual seasoning, it may be necessary to intrigue the audience, but not for action.

China is a new world power that competes with US both militarily and economically. Post WWII, US had fought with Soviet/Japan on those fronts separately, but China looks like a combination of both, makes it even more threatening and hard to tolerate.

xxxpupugo commented on Twitter launches its ‘Hide Replies’ feature in the US and Japan   techcrunch.com/2019/09/19... · Posted by u/antibland
xxxpupugo · 6 years ago
Much needed to detoxicate Twitter itself.
xxxpupugo commented on WeWork, Bankers Have Discussed Laying Off One-Third of Workforce   theinformation.com/articl... · Posted by u/tempsy
roymurdock · 6 years ago
How have we gotten to the point where a company that is considering a $10-46B IPO is in a position where 1/3 of its staff is redundant and can be laid off, where investors can look at that company and think it's a good and growing investment to sustain their public pension or hedge fund returns, where bankers and consultants can come in and say yes deprive these 5000 people of their income and livelihoods because we need to give the founders and early investors an exit, where "tech" has come to be defined as a more flexible office space leasing model that scales quickly, where the brightest new students want to replicate another SV "tech" success by following the same playbook.

There is something extremely wrong with the rate of innovation, productivity growth, the division of labor and capital, and the distribution of profits between labor and capital in developed countries today, and it's unsustainable.

xxxpupugo · 6 years ago
> How have we gotten to the point where a company that is considering a $10-46B IPO is in a position where 1/3 of its staff is redundant and can be laid off

I don't think those are contradictory to each other. And in WeWork's case, they were posed to 45B IPO, now it is down to 10B, the trajectory is now totally different, as with the staff that needed.

xxxpupugo commented on Germany's Vanishing Monasteries   spiegel.de/international/... · Posted by u/hecubus
xxxpupugo · 6 years ago
> Religious orders in Germany are disappearing because so few people want to dedicate their entire lives to God anymore

Is there anything weird about this? Entire life is a pretty hefty price to pay, what needs to be changed is religion itself, if it wants to find more new believers to keep itself from disappearing.

xxxpupugo commented on TSMC: 3nm EUV Development Progress Going Well   anandtech.com/show/14666/... · Posted by u/hourislate
buu700 · 6 years ago
This is the first I've heard of EUV, so I don't have an informed opinion of it at all, but some quick googling shows that Intel will be using it for their 7nm process.

Does this mean that Intel's "7nm" should be considered roughly equivalent with TSMC's "3nm"? And who's typically considered to have the lead on fab tech nowadays?

xxxpupugo · 6 years ago
Intel doesn't have anything 7nm yet, there is nothing to consider in the first place.

They failed hard at their 10nm process, and are still struggling to recover from that.

TSMC is the the indisputable leader on fab technology at the moment

xxxpupugo commented on What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)   wozniak.ca/blog/2014/08/0... · Posted by u/BerislavLopac
xxxpupugo · 6 years ago
Can't we all agree ORMs are just leaky wrappers of SQL? Almost all of them need a backdrop workaround to issue raw SQL to the backend DB to avoid being a blocker at some point.

u/xxxpupugo

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