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You don’t know that he cheated on her. Bezos’s statements say that they were already separated. Please don’t malign either’s reputation in a public forum.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/09/business/jeff-bezos-wife-...


The cheater said he didn't cheat so no issue, gotcha.

He got caught texting his girlfriend while having a wife, his wife divorced him and took $38 billion.

Call it whatever you want but he smeared his own reputation.

He made one of the worst social, moral, & financial decisions you could make all at the same time.


On the flip side, $38B is a great deal


It's also possible he had access to rare supplements that enhanced performance; a modern equivalent would be a banned PED or Performance Enhancing Drug.


I guess I'm morbidly curious how much better performance a doped horse has?


I would think much like doping does today, marginal but when all the competitors / animals are all at the top of their game, marginal gains can be the difference between winning and losing.


That makes sense, thanks


Maximum Security has won $11.8M so far in its racing career [0], and there are strong indications that it has been doped. [1]

[0] http://www.equibase.com/profiles/Results.cfm?type=Horse&refn...

[1] https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/239437/nava...


I'm with you on this analysis. CAFO or factory farms have made meat much cheaper; likewise with globalized supply chain. Abundant Florida waterfront real estate – and low cost of air travel – has contributed to a comparably increase in supply of seaside villa substitutes.


Deploy to another Heroku environment and use DNS to reroute the traffic temporarily?


I wrote some open source code to automatically mirror all my commits to Keybase. </shameless plug>

I think read replica mirrors are good practice for fault-tolerant systems


link?


it's probably on github


Hopefully does not depend on github webhooks for replication!


It does, but it would've mirrored your latest commit before it went down.

Anyway, here's how you connect Keybase to GitHub:

https://blog.codefor.cash/2019/08/30/free-automatic-github-b...

https://github.com/codeforcash/github-to-keybase-mirror

Note: this was a v1, and I'm sure there are more resilient ways to do this. Critical feedback strongly encouraged (ideally along with suggestions).


Hooks (https://git-scm.com/docs/githooks) together with templates (https://coderwall.com/p/jp7d5q/create-a-global-git-commit-ho...) sound like a good alternative.

Edit: I can see where your solution has an advantage. When one accepts contributions, all of that can be automated with web hooks via github. Still, having to run lambda/similar for this is a bit heavy weight.

Edit 2: Considering that for a release, I would opt in for release from a tag or explicit commit, that would be a non issue. Pull when needed, for redundancy, use another, self hosted bare repo. Push there in case of github down.


Wouldn't replacing the github hook with a git-hooks script incrementally improve the solution as it currently exists?

Then, combine that with a git-hook script that designate all non-release branches push to team's Keybase repo as well? Maybe including a custom prefix in the branch name to avoid need for conflict resolution?


I'm also thinking that it would be easier to use git-hooks to push to AWS CodeCommit (in a random region that GitHub is unlikely to use) paired with CloudWatch events to invoke service backup to Keybase


Of course, ideally it would be a Terraform (or similar open source stack) script so it's not dependent on AWS as a vendor... I have experienced the real pains of vendor lock-in, even with cross-region there is opportunity to improve robustness


srosenberg: you've really caught my attention here. I'm likely unqualified for the job, but I would appreciate any feedback on my approach.

WolframAlpha says ChineseRemainder[{145767, 109572}, {611939, 598463}] is 243085550

So as a golang newbie, and someone who's interested in efficient representation of strings, I tried this:

        package main

        import (
                "bytes"
                "encoding/binary"
                "fmt"
        )
        import "go.chromium.org/luci/common/data/base128"

        func main() {
                var num1 uint64 = 243085550
                buf := new(bytes.Buffer)
                err := binary.Write(buf, binary.LittleEndian, num1)
                if err != nil {
                        fmt.Println("binary.Write failed on num1:", err)
                }
                string1 := base128.EncodeToString(buf.Bytes())
                fmt.Printf("% s\n", string1)
        }

Output is wL?p?????

and of course, wLp@inpher.io bounced back.

So any feedback would appreciated in the interest of learning.

I also tried this:

        package main

        import (
                "fmt"
                "ekyu.moe/leb128"
        )

        func main() {
                fmt.Printf("%x\n", leb128.AppendUleb128(nil, 243085550))
        }


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Why would you ever read a book on financial systems by someone who isn’t absurdly rich


Why would you ever read a book on aeronautical engineering from someone who isn’t a million miler?


Inappropriate metaphor


I know one of the people who literally wrote a chunk of the matching engine on one of the larger exchanges. He’s not absurdly rich but a book from him on high performance order book management at scale would absolutely worth a read.

The metaphor is appropriate because quite frequently people who use things to the greatest effect know very little about the implementation or how it actually works.


That's a reasonable argument then, and now I appreciate the metaphor.

If one is interested in the technical details of implementation for technical reasons, I would agree that a brilliant and interesting engineer wouldn't necessarily be in line to profit from their value creation although would be available to discuss mechanics of implementation.


Some of the books being mentioned here are by people who got absurdly rich.


Which ones?


Just on a quick scan we've got Graham, Buffett, Soros, Taleb... those are before I need to go and look up personal net worth for some of the other names. I'd bet on Burton Malkiel having done alright for himself, too.


Graham, Buffett, Soros – sure, ok, although I doubt they're giving away the keys to the kingdom in their books. Buffet himself is notorious for saying that great ideas are proprietary and not to be shared. In the investment world, in stark contrast to the tech community, ideas are as valuable as execution. Even in VC proprietary dealflow is considered to be valuable.

There is actually some controversy as to how much money Taleb made from trading and portfolio management as opposed to writing.


Right, so your argument is what? That no valuable idea is ever written down? Or that no written down idea is valuable? Why would either of these be true?


I see a common fantasy among developers; they want to apply their sophisticated intellect and technical knowledge towards exploiting financial markets. So, my argument is that if this is what one is up to, one is not going to find many valuable ideas spelled out and spoon fed in a book.


But that's a non sequitur. There's no connection between the intent of the reader and the value of the content. Whether the reader is in the right mental state to learn from it is another matter entirely...


Ok. I acknowledge your points and am glad we had this discussion.


Where's the GoFundMe? I have a spare $1 to jump start the effort.



Contributed $10.



OK, contributed $10 there as well. Worst case I'm out $20, best case I've done my tiny part to keep the ball rolling.


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