I just wanted to echo this sentiment. Influx had its fair share of issues a few years ago (v0.8 migration, changing storage engines, tag cardinality issues), but the latest v1.x releases have been solid. I have been using the TIK stack (I use Grafana instead of Chronograf) for monitoring several dozen production-facing machines for 2 years now without a single issue, which I would very much count as a win.
I just hope they learned their lesson for the v2.0 release...
What I don't understand is that bitcoin is always referenced in value to USD, but there isn't enough fluid USD in the exchanges to match what the bitcoin network is theoretically worth. How do they decide what Bitcoin is worth, if the money that it's worth isn't actually around?
Also what happens when a big holder of BTC decides to cash out? Wouldn't it become similar to a typical bank run, collapsing the exchanges (and thus the market)?
Yes, they clearly came with pitchforks ready, probably from feeling burned by GCP ("GCP has repeatedly declined to support Ruby Together in the work [...]").
It also doesn't seem clear that the code was forked at all, making this whole exercise pointless.
> They know that there are programs out there to help them, but they don't take advantage of them now. Making it illegal to give them food isn't going to somehow force them to get help. It'll just make it worse for the homeless.
Are you sure? I'm not trying to attack your point, but what would happen if your homeless friends actually started taking advantage of these programs that are put in place to help them? Right now they don't need to because they are getting by on the kindness of others, but what if they had no other option but to go to these mental hospitals, homeless shelters, food banks, etc, where they could someday learn to take care of themselves and break the cycle?
I think what you're doing shows how much of a loving and kind-hearted person you are, but try to consider the other side of the argument. This is an enormously hard problem (dating back thousands of years). We need a way to break the cycle, and the current status quo just isn't working.
I don't think anyone is advocating to let the homeless starve. We just need to realize as a society that the small act of kindness that we can provide at the micro scale (giving rides, money, food, etc) can have harsh consequences when observed from the macro scale.
This exactly. It's not like there are just a few commands to run in Linux that gets you a HIPAA-compliant server. It is a pretty long and arduous process that involves several business-level requirements, in addition to the technical ones.
> I have no problem with the NSA spying on foreign communications or disrupting them. After all, that's their job. What else would we use the NSA for?
Really? You don't have an issue with a foreign intelligence agency disrupting core infrastructure for a nation in the midst of a civil war? Especially against a nation we are not even at war with?
What if the Chinese (or anyone else) did something similar? Would that not be considered an outright act of war?
We are not at war with Syria, we should not be disrupting anything. There could have easily have been numerous deaths directly resulting from that outage.
I just hope they learned their lesson for the v2.0 release...