I have found OPA to be a fairly reliable and performant system in production. We were able to build a scalable RBAC solution that used OPA as evaluators. We had around 40k OPA instances serving around 350K qps with p99.9 hovering around 6ms.
The policy bundle were sharded and cached on the client side, so the QPS itself was not much of an impressive data point on the OPA front. On the cache side we were seeing a lot more traffic, ~2B qpm (queries per minute) on daily peaks and p99.9 around 20 us.
Definitely, experience matters. However, I am used to an FTC that turns a blind eye on these Pharma antics. So, as long as FTC takes these kind of cases on, I am all for it.
Even the price of generics are way out of line when compared to the generics you get outside of US.
Similarly, a lot of Mergers have resulted in fewer competition in the market, leading to rampant price inflation. Federal institutes like FTC need to step up their game here.
I guess increasing awareness on the issue is better than nothing. I've just noticed that she has a gift for identifying problematic industries but struggles to come up with clear criticisms that could translate into pragmatic solutions.
Nowhere on the planet Earth do "markets play out as they are supposed to". There exists precisely zero economies without significant public involvement in private markets. Zero.
Am I the only one that finds this branding of the US being a capitalist haven to be complete and utter bullshit? Companies regularly and in the open bribe (sorry, “lobby”) politicians for changes to regulation to give them unfair advantages, externalizer costs, etc etc. Walmart, a bastion of low price capitalism, relies heavily on a workforce on government food stamps to operate. Private and public utilities get politicians to pass laws making it more difficult to install solar. Car dealerships with political clout force companies like Tesla to sell through their channels or leave the state. Etc etc etc. Not a day goes by that I don’t see articles that support this and yet everyone still pretends the US is capitalist to its core!
We are a nation founded upon the love of money. We take Pride in these humble roots, and we celebrate every three-day weekend at the All-You-Can-Eat Buffet.
It is capitalistic in the sense that people with large capital make the big decisions. It's easy to pay off politicians if there are only 2 sides. Heck, a manager from Blackrock just recently blatently stated that its easy to buy a Senator. For just 10k you got him in your pocket.
And what are called "political donations", would fall under the law of corruption in many European countries.
> Heck, a manager from Blackrock just recently blatently stated that its easy to buy a Senator. For just 10k you got him in your pocket.
This is one of many reasons I’m convinced our government is kayfabe at this point. Nobody who was truly making the calls on a trillion dollar budget would sell for that cheap. The general pro wrestling level of discourse is another reason, but there are many more.
It's a matter of degrees. I've been to truly "communist" countries (e.g. Cuba), and lived in several European countries, and without a doubt US has a much more capitalist bend.
Efficient systems are fragile, redundancy and stockpiling are both inefficient but without them you have fragility. Fragility in the food supply means starvation. Anybody who suggests that the food industry should be entrusted to the ruthless efficiency optimizing mechanism that is free market capitalism should be beaten with sticks until they fall quiet.
> Anybody who suggests that the food industry should be entrusted to the ruthless efficiency optimizing mechanism that is free market capitalism should be beaten with sticks until they fall quiet.
That's actually been done before, more than once.
The result was 30 million starving to death in the USSR and 60 million starving to death in China. Plus the odd few million in North Korea, Ethiopia, Cambodia, etc.
I'd rather we not run that experiment again, thank you.
The trick is to have neither unregulated free market capitalism nor communism, but instead a liberal democracy in which the government regulates and subsidizes the industry. You know, like the system western nations already have. Wild outlandish concept, I know. Not jumping to one political extreme or the other is a mind-blowing proposition for you I'm sure. There is a whole world of common sense sitting in between Ayn Rand and Stalin.
When people propose ideological "fixes" to a system which is already wildly successful at producing a massive surplus of food, the correct response is to beat them with sticks until they drop their ideological rambling and start thinking in terms of practical survival.
I see that. But without privacy policy, they cannot be held accountable for changes that can be introduced later on.
I checked that there are no backend communication and there are no open websockets. But still kind of scary to use this without a clear Privacy Policy. I love the product by the way :)
it's a noname "product" without even an "about" page. they cannot be held accountable regardless. a privacy policy in this context is 100% meaningless. you are asking too much IMHO.
Hey, thanks for the question. Haven't really thought about monetization yet. Want to focus on building the best desktop experience for online communities. Would love to be able to focus on it full time at some point (would be a dream). Maybe will introduce some paid features in the future, but everything in this version will always stay free.
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