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vraivroo··on Caffeine boosts problem-solving ability but not creativity, study indicates
Did you read the article? Convergent vs divergent thinking.
vraivroo··on Pizza Effect
You misunderstood. It's not "Pizza" that was looked down upon in Italy, it was "toppings on pizza".

There are 3 official types of Neapolitan pizza, for example, and none of them have any of what Americans would traditionally consider "toppings".

Putting anything other than tomato sauce, mozzarella, and seasonings on a Neapolitan pie is, simply, "looked down upon".

vraivroo··on GitHub was down
Github will bail on large diffs, too.
vraivroo··on GitHub was down
Do you use Gitlab? Everybody on HN loves to love Gitlab because they're the underdog, and the product isn't bad, but it's not that great either.
vraivroo··on Ask HN: How do I help my Indian coworker get a raise?
How do you come to that conclusion?
vraivroo··on We use Kubernetes and spot instances to reduce EC2 billing up to 80%
If your entire infra is dockerized, you are in the vast minority and should probably be discarded as an outlier.
vraivroo··on China bans consumption and trade of wild animals
It would be historically correct, though.
vraivroo··on China bans consumption and trade of wild animals
Obesity, diabetes, heart disease, etc. STDs are _nothing_.
vraivroo··on We use Kubernetes and spot instances to reduce EC2 billing up to 80%
Baloney. All the major clouds offer managed k8s. And using k8s in no way precludes you from integrating with services that are not on k8s (of course though, k8s can run anything you can containerize). So AWS has vastly more "lock-in" debt than k8s.
vraivroo··on We use Kubernetes and spot instances to reduce EC2 billing up to 80%
> Start out on AWS/GCP/Azure in the initial phase when you want to optimize for velocity in terms of pushing out new functionality and services.

Have you ever done this? It's exorbitantly hard to migrate off of a cloud provider, and few ever do.

vraivroo··on China bans consumption and trade of wild animals
glass houses...
vraivroo··on China bans consumption and trade of wild animals
Eating of meat and sugar are responsible for much more. No need to vilify those whose vices you don't share.
vraivroo··on 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated
Coda does.
vraivroo··on Ask HN: How do you pay attention to emotions in your remote teams?
A support group will always be at odds with an employment situation, the motives are inherently disaligned. "Not being emotionally overexposed" absolutely does not equate to "hiding information", that's ridiculous.
vraivroo··on Modern workers are at the mercy of ratings
Yes, you've described why large corporations are hated. It's quite obvious that a handful of numbers are incapable of measuring a person's true impact, yet by god, they insist on trying.
vraivroo··on James Lovelock: 'I Would Not Waste My Fortune on Colonizing Mars'
Yeah, he's definitely playing 4-dimensional chess. Complete with the insane Twitter outbursts.
vraivroo··on German banks are hoarding so many euros they need more vaults
investing is a type of spending
vraivroo··on You’re better off using Exceptions
Null _pointers_ are called the billion-dollar mistake, not null values.
vraivroo··on New York is proposing the creation of a 'public Venmo'
Government is necessary. Government is not free. Grow up.
vraivroo··on Using the hunger I experienced as a kid to teach mine about generosity (2019)
The beatings will continue until morale improves!
vraivroo··on Using the hunger I experienced as a kid to teach mine about generosity (2019)
No, a nicer gesture would be respecting their dignity and humanizing them. It's popular to rationalize those who are worse off as being worse at making decisions, but it's not accurate, fair, or humane.
vraivroo··on New York is proposing the creation of a 'public Venmo'
> If it's operated by the state, it will probably be a disaster.

This is a common trope propagated by big-business interests, but it's not borne out by evidence. Giant corporations have proven remarkably apt at being hacked and leaking private data.

vraivroo··on New York is proposing the creation of a 'public Venmo'
No need to be flippant, it IS socialism. As in, the payment network ought to be socialized. The opposite being privatized.
vraivroo··on Tesla Cybertruck
You can huff and puff about things you don't like being "American" but the rest of the world is following along about as fast as they can.
vraivroo··on Tesla Cybertruck
Any risk analyst could tell you all the factors you don't take into account when you do a simple comparison of renting a new, cared-for, insured vehicle for which someone else is responsible vs. the crapshoot of buying something second-hand, which you now have to take on, whatever goes wrong.

I also doubt you are taking fuel into account with this comparison, which was the primary source of savings mentioned when you own a small car and rent a truck as needed.

vraivroo··on Tesla Cybertruck
It's "Mack" truck
vraivroo··on Tesla Cybertruck
Come now. Most of the people who drive pickups rarely if ever use them to tow or haul things. They drive pickups because driving anything else means you're gay, or communist, or smoke marijuana.
vraivroo··on Tesla Cybertruck
Economics 101. Any producer would rather sell a tenth of the units at ten times the cost. This is one way to do that.
vraivroo··on Office noise bothers some people more than others
Yes, you can also work for an established company with cramped offices in a dense, expensive city.

Or you can take a massive pay cut, tank your career, and go live in the middle of nowhere.

Sounds great.

vraivroo··on I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam on Airbnb
rider no-show
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