they probably have different clusters for different use cases: att big companies, this will lead to a very long tail of small clusters.
cassandra struggles to scale horizontally after a while so i am guessing that they also do some sort of application level sharding across multiple clusters
> Could it be that the younger folks are less inclined to acknowledge the existence of objective truth than older generations?
Does anyone really question the existence of objective truth in general? Even those who claim they do, don’t actually act like they do-when it comes to non-controversial factual claims such as “1+1=2” or “Canada is north of the (mainland) United States” or “World War II happened”.
People only really question objective truth when it comes to issues connected to social/political/ideological/ethical/philosophical/etc controversies-on issues distant from those controversies, everyone accepts it in practice.
And I think a lot of people don’t make a careful distinction between the existence of objective truth and our ability to know it. Some people who question the existence of objective truth, what they are really trying to say, is our ability to (confidently) know what is objectively true has been significantly overrated-which is a claim far more worthy of intellectual respect than what they are literally claiming, especially if one restricts the scope of that claim to certain topics.
As a simple thought experiment on objective truth: if we are having a debate about objective truth and you say objective truth doesn't exist is it then acceptable for me to beat you to death with a crowbar?
If not then why?
There is an external reality independent of people's thoughts. We have spend so many centuries insulating people from it that they can believe all sorts of nonsense that would have killed them near instantly in previous ages.
The media reports a subjectively chosen mixture of objective truths and objective falsehoods–always has, always will. That's got nothing to do with the question of whether objective truth itself exists or not.
> Could it be that the younger folks are less inclined to acknowledge the existence of objective truth than older generations?
I tried to ask this part in the conversation. It was their belief that no one producing media demonstrates any interest in trying to be objective. They expressed a belief that no individual or organization ever even attempts to do so, that agenda is ever present. This expression seemed to imply that they believe it is possible, but that no "they" can be trusted to attempt do so.
The company sure made a courageous stance protecting a site which advocates explicitly for accelerationist race wars, and another image board that was notorious for housing child abuse imagery and conspiracies which led to real-world deaths.
The answer to where a company should draw the line isn't 'OMG, slippery slope!' It's 'somewhere.' And preferably the CEO of the company shouldn't agonize about getting rid of stuff like the Daily Stormer and 8chan.
I know you might not be interested in anything chromium-based since this thread is about firefox, but qutebrowser[1] is a great solution for anybody looking for vimium/pentadactyl-like experience.
The only reason I switched away from Vivaldi was the sluggish UI (too many things on the main thread, I guess), but I hear there have been improvements in that area. I may give it another try.
A very interesting follow-up to an insightful post. I think the answer might lie in why the american business culture is more efficient in the first place.
I believe american business is more fluid, allowing for better arbitrage opportunities that ultimately leads to better arbitrage abilities for its actors.
More law and protection has the same effect as more code: it slows things down because it increases dramatically the amount of requirements you have to contend with. A double edged sword indeed!
cassandra struggles to scale horizontally after a while so i am guessing that they also do some sort of application level sharding across multiple clusters