dougmoscrop

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Avoiding scaling the stateful part is also a path to hammer-nail syndrome - you start using less and less of the database system because you keep pulling things out since that's the only place you've established the ability to add CPU capacity and with that come a host of new and old issues.

dougmoscrop

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I can't decide if I would enjoy reading real examples of these cycles. Just knowing how precarious the supply of natural rubber is, and how inadequate artifical solutions are (including prospective ones from continental), makes me uneasy, but I'll be damned if there isn't some kind of allure there as well.

It seems almost certain that climate change is going to severely disrupt several of these cycles in decade or two, and a slightly different failure mode of what you allude to in C. is that our tech and processes become capped before we adequately scale up renewables, and overshoot kicks in and it's actually a negative feedback loop that certainly doesn't just stop with computers.

dougmoscrop

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I live in Canada, things don't quite work like the US in terms of ownership incentives, but generally nobody is renting a house here for less than what it costs to finance and maintain it, so rather than "renting with extra step", an entire generation of people are being told they can not afford to own the home, but they can go ahead and pay the bills of the person who does.

Buying a house ten years ago has added about $450,000 to my net worth, without me making any extra payments. Had we stayed renting an apartment, saving the difference would have produced about $57,000 at 8% annualized, and had we rented a house that was comparable, would have yielded nothing.

Buying a house here can be highly leveraged - you start off only having to pay 5, 10, 20 percent of the price, but until very recently houses appreciated more than the interest on the mortgage, furthermore, as you pay your mortgage off, you can take a loan out against a certain portion of the value of the house and use that money to invest in other things, while tax deducting the interest from that loan. Never actually paying your house off is a thing for both the rich and the poor, but with very different outcomes.

dougmoscrop

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Can you imagine if even a fraction of the effort poured in to k8s tooling had gone in to the Erlang/OTP ecosystem instead?

dougmoscrop

5 anni fadiscuss

Agreed, we have our work cut out for us but the team is fantastic and I can't wait to share more of our vision with the world!

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