The next generation of bullshit military spending?
A trillion for Afghanistan and F-35 each. Jeez, what could we have built with $2 trillion in investments? What cool companies, technologies or infrastructure could have sprung from this?
As I understand, that $tn for F35 is projected over the entire lifespan of the program, which is decades in the future. Not the sum they spent on development.
Per the BigQuery docs, GCP charges $5 per TB of data read. Which works out to be $0.50 per query if said query reads 100 GB of data.
It feels expensive, but then again running and maintaining a big data platform is inherently very expensive. If you consider the fully loaded cost of a single big data engineer to maintain such a platform to be ~$250,000 (likely an underestimate if you want similar performance characteristics
to BigQuery [disclaimer: never used it myself, but I assume its performance is near-unbeatable]), that'd be ~500,000, 100 GB queries. Which makes a $0.50 query feel reasonable relatively speaking. GCP also sells dedicated "slots" (as they call it) which as I understand it is an abstraction over a CPU. If you buy said slots, the marginal cost of queries is $0, but you may be subject to queueing. No idea what a "slot" actually represents however.
A full scan rarely happens on BQ because of the nature of the columnar store. Try some public dataset like HN archive, and see how a query actually costs. You'll need very advanced (or stupid) query to read 100GB at once on BQ.
It's not for every use case, but Big Query is often a very stupidly cheap datastore. Query results get cached, and repeats don't incur a charge unless the data has changed.
It's not a datastore to power a crud app, or anything requiring frequent queries, but it's a great place to stash gobs of logs that you may need to query at some point. Or it's great for serverless batch workloads and is often cheaper in both time and money than firing up spark clusters or something similar to do the work.
Quite frankly, it's awesome. But sure, they do use it as a tool for lock-in, and for some cases it would be prohibitively expensive.
Incredible as in 'that's a great deal' or as in 'that seems a ripoff'?
I find 50c to read 100GB from disk, do useful work on it (including running javascript code or ML models if you are so inclined) and returning a result in seconds... pretty damn incredible.
A query reading about 100GB with one of the most advanced data warehouse systems with no operational overhead and integration into a major cloud environment costs $0.50.
The point of BQ is to allow you to perform queries which are ad-hoc and/or touch a significant fraction of the data. If you have a problem of that shape, then full column scans are not merely tolerable, they are optimal.
I shut down a successful, profitable startup once because I realized it was growth capped and I didn't want to spend the rest of my life doing it. By many measure it was a success, but I spent almost 3 years in utter depression for not being the next Larry Page or whatever rock star technical founder.
I think it all comes down to expectations. Whatever they are, if you one day wake up and realize you will never fulfill them, it can break that dreamer part of you in an unexpected way. That startup abyss some people talk about is real and feels like shit.
We left about 9 months ago. I'm not going to pontificate and judge people. From our point of view, the policies seemed to be designed to incentivize us to leave, so we left. We'll miss SF, but we were never welcome.
I always assumed that the water packaged with can beans would have tons of lectin seeped from the beans and therefore should be discarded. Is it safe to use?
As a normal human digestive tract does not contain any anti-oligosaccharide enzymes, consumed oligosaccharides are typically digested by bacteria in the large intestine. This digestion process produces gases such as methane as a byproduct, which are then released as flatulence.
Processing the beans, such as by boiling, soaking, cooking, can leach the indigestible sugars from the beans and significantly reduce, if not entirely eliminate the problem.
Also, red beans contain 3x as much of the foul stuff.
Honestly, I like the idea, although I'd prefer a pure L2 for security rather than a sidechain, which is what this appears to be. Unfortunately, I don't think this is a tech problem. How do you get the devs to move en masse from Ethereum back to BTC? The network effects are just so enormous, it feels like a catastrophic failure needs to happen to Eth at this point.
I'll check it out and play around, will never say never. I'm just generally skeptical of sidechains because why can't Eth just be a sidechain to BTC, or various incarnations of the same end like atomic swaps, BTC collateralization, etc?
People treat you with contempt and ridicule if you complain about being unfairly treated. They hide behind objective processes that give cover to be biased. If process A, B, and C are objective, A+B+C can still yield terrible, biased outcomes. Witnesses and data simply doesn’t matter without empathy and understanding.
They walked out because he wouldn't say, in private, that black people's lives mattered. It was simply outrageous to see that in this age. Do you really think it is political to say that a human's life is important, in private?
So not promoting people because they are black is now enough to get called raciest? I guess that's exactly how Kamala Harris has made it to where she is.
We didn't accuse anyone of being racist. Just sharing our disappointment. When that disappointment is so widespread that the NYT is writing an article on your company, it's more than a coincidence, no?
But that's the concern here, isn't it? If the NYT chose to write this article because they heard that Coinbase was actively mistreating its employees of color, that's an important story and I'm glad to see it covered. If they chose to write it because Coinbase wouldn't endorse their preferred political slogans, that's a pretty serious problem.
Kraken is destroying them in margin/derivatives and their margin product is quite bad. Not saying there is a relationship, but it is a good trade for Coinbase if Kraken has to shutter theirs as well.
