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by DasIch 5y ago
It means now is a great time for the German government to make some investments into crumbling infrastructure, even if that means taking on debt.
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by DasIch 5y ago
> If people put their savings into a bank account, then this savings would nevertheless be available for investments via the banks, arn't they? No, those two things have nothing to do with each other. When you ask a bank for credit
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by DasIch 5y ago
> At least you cant change inflation on a whim there [...] You can't change inflation on a whim right now either or put another way a government can get rid of a blockchain based system just as easily.
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by DasIch 5y ago
Competition is desirable because it aligns with society’s goals of innovation and progress which also imply increased productivity and lower prices. Artificial barriers to entry are contrary to that and if they’re not illegal they should be
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by DasIch 5y ago
Capitalism and centralization of control are not incompatible. The entire point of platforms is to centralize control up to the point of having full control over proprietary markets like Apple with it's App Store.
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by DasIch 5y ago
When you schedule an event in the future like “meet me at 14:00 in cafe foo”, this means local time and it’s going to mean 14:00 local time even when the timezone changes. If you store this in UTC and the timezone changes, you end up conver
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by DasIch 5y ago
I agree that the Mexican peso and the Venezuelan Bolivar are not doing well, certainly you wouldn't want to use them as currency, if you can avoid it. I can also totally see people using bitcoin as a speculative investment. That's
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by DasIch 5y ago
> Many in developed countries don't understand the challenges of a devaluing currency with unlimited supply or the difficulty of being unbanked. I have to admit, being in a developed country, that I genuinely don't understand w
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by DasIch 5y ago
> Why do you need to make the dependence on Redis a part of the public API? You don't do that with the service API, so why do you have to do it with the library API? Where does the redis instance come from? How does the library get
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by DasIch 5y ago
Let's say you want to add redis for caching purposes. If a service does that, users of that service don't have to be aware of it. If a library does that, users of the library do have to be aware of that. Same problem applies, if y
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by DasIch 5y ago
A library can be stateful or have a data store but that means the user of that library has to be aware of changes beyond the API and hat to operate this data store. > And if you have to set up and migrate a client/server DBMS for th
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by DasIch 5y ago
There are many reasons for why a library might not be sufficient. The most common one is that what you’re doing is stateful and requires some sort of data store. That has a huge impact because now you need to set up the data store and poten
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by DasIch 5y ago
Big organizations do microservices because it reduces the number of people who you need to coordinate changes with to a reasonably small number per service. This is critical for the ability to effectively maintain services and make progress
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by DasIch 5y ago
If you care about privacy, "well-behaved adtech companies" is an oxymoron.
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by DasIch 5y ago
Let's assume for a moment self-referential references were allowed. Let's further say we have such a struct containing self-referential references and we move it. Moving actually moves things in memory, including the thing those r
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by DasIch 5y ago
60k for a senior engineer in Berlin is too low. 75k at the lower end is quite reasonable and 80-90k is definitely possible, if you're good at what you do.
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by DasIch 5y ago
What political successes did the FSF have in the last 20 years and what role did RMS play in those?
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by DasIch 5y ago
One person is not a movement. It's not enough to find someone else. The organization, the entire group of people it consists of, needs to be able to its job.
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by DasIch 5y ago
What if, RMS is hit by a bus tomorrow? The FSF is not a new organization. That it cannot function without RMS means it's failing to stand on its own. That may be acceptable for a new organization but in case of the FSF that's just
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by DasIch 6y ago
This is already happening. Squarespace, Shopify and to some extent Facebook certainly have an impact on the lower end of web development. Once upon a time you needed to hire someone to get a website for a small business going, now you can d
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by DasIch 6y ago
If bitcoin stopped existing today, the environment would be better off because right now the impact is negative. It could only become net-positive, if there are changes in the future. Even if you believe such changes will happen, I think yo
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by DasIch 6y ago
> Is there something better than minting new money that we should be using this energy on, and to which we can economically distribute said energy from locations with excess capacity? CO2 extraction from our atmosphere for long term stor
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by DasIch 6y ago
> No additional tanks, armies and nuclear weapons needed. Of course not. The existing ones you depend on to protect the necessary infrastructure and servers of bitcoin are already sufficient.
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by DasIch 6y ago
Bitcoin being a net-negative investment doesn't exclude the possibility of a few winners. Much like some people do actually benefit from pyramid schemes.
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by DasIch 6y ago
I haven't downvoted you but there are a couple of problems here. > How can anyone doing business with China look the other way on Xinjiang simply by saying "our factory isn't there". In many industries not doing busin
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by DasIch 6y ago
You want to run a transaction in production and you're unsure about the impact because it might take a lock and block other transactions for some time. In that case you may want to spin up a separate database with fake data and test it
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by DasIch 6y ago
> [...]every six weeks you'll get this ping, you need assess what changed and whether you need to take action. Rust's stability guarantees mean that you don't need to take any action at all. Breaking changes (unless soundn
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by DasIch 6y ago
Do they pay an appropriate price for the energy the use? Do they pay a price that takes into consideration CO2 and environmental costs?
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by DasIch 6y ago
As you can probably tolerate reads being a bit slow for logs, S3 is a good option. It's cheap, trivial to operate and you can query it easily with Athena.
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by DasIch 6y ago
C is more portable than Rust when you define portable as "it compiles". If you define portable to mean "works correctly" I expect C is about as portable as Rust in the context of most applications.

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