alter_eco123

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by alter_eco123 8y ago
> How do you explain the GDPR then? I'm not sure what you mean. Is it not obvious that politicians don't want to bust their biggest (potential) campaign contributors for GDPR violations? Isn't it obvious that we don&#x27
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by alter_eco123 8y ago
Pestering GooAmaBookSoft through GDPR complaints is fine, but won't actually accomplish anything in terms of privacy improvements - they're all in bed with governments anyway. The only real solution is to stop letting these compan
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by alter_eco123 8y ago
Good question! I'm guessing typical implementations would involve a lot of caching. It would be nice to hear about people's experiences though.
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by alter_eco123 8y ago
> I’m saying that without the Fed and the federal government acting to rationally steer markets the markets will go off a cliff and not come back. So how did markets exist at all when the Fed was created? By your logic, they would have
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by alter_eco123 8y ago
Do you think ruling over subjects is done to benefit the subjects? Do you think 2% is a good rate for you to be losing your savings' purchasing power? How fast would you like gangrene to spread through your body?
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by alter_eco123 8y ago
> "Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. - Luke 16:10 Water that is wet is also dry, and water that is dry is also wet!
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by alter_eco123 8y ago
>> no way to put a number on how much you want something > Counter-example: I do it all the time. No you don't. I mean, sure you can pull numbers out of your ass and pretend to calculate something based on them. Or you can e
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by alter_eco123 8y ago
Yes, benchmarks can give a misleading impression of a database's performance. So what? Somehow PostgreSQL is doing fine despite that. Which is worse publicity for Cognitect: people publishing bad benchmarks or Cognitect forbidding benc
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by alter_eco123 8y ago
> Datomic is designed for data sets larger than memory Of course. But you didn't answer my question. Let's say someone has an application with 100GB of data in Datomic. What kind of memory usage should he expect for the "p
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by alter_eco123 8y ago
> Not long ago even European countries had double borders Our current situation might be marginally better than "double borders", but you're probably aware we're headed in a police statey direction all over the world.
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by alter_eco123 8y ago
You know, in practice, even your passport has always been a "permission to leave". It's also a "permission to enter" some other country. But without it, you won't be flying anywhere. Then you've got visas,
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by alter_eco123 8y ago
> Pay should represent the value you offer to the company, period. Sure, but value works both ways. "Your salary should represent the value working remotely offers to you" If it's reasonable for you to think that way,
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by alter_eco123 8y ago
> Oracle/Larry Ellison didn't react well to that and decided to forbid benchmarks. So you kind of have to wonder why Cognitect is going Oracle on us.. The most obvious explanation is that Datomic just doesn't perform wel
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by alter_eco123 8y ago
> Each layer of this cache provides a different value What does that mean? And what kind of actual memory usage should people expect with a "big" database?
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by alter_eco123 8y ago
> We are already using Clojure and I would love to introduce Datomic as well but being a commercial database makes it pretty difficult. I don't see why paying for Datomic would be a problem, but if the license is as crazy as it us
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by alter_eco123 8y ago
It really doesn't take much at all to see that the Austrian School is right and others are wrong. For starters, if you understand that value is subjective, you'll also understand that there's no way to put a number on how m
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by alter_eco123 8y ago
> Pay people what they're worth regardless of where they live. Note that people are fine with getting a lower salary in exchange for being able to work remotely. You could turn it around and say remote employees are "paying t
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by alter_eco123 8y ago
"Some junk website"? And yet, somehow I still think you're not even trolling! But if not.. Once again, I have to wonder what the hell is wrong with you people. By the way, that wasn't an appeal to authority. It was a lin
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by alter_eco123 8y ago
And Milton was right about that just because he's Milton? Can you come up with an argument against Austrian Economics in your own words, or are you content trying to discredit it with an appeal to Milton's authority? I could argue
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by alter_eco123 8y ago
> Our mission is to ensure the Internet is a global public resource, open and accessible to all. How do they think they'll accomplish that, short of taking over the world's governments? Hipsters gonna hips. It looks like they
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by alter_eco123 8y ago
> I imagine you're referring to Austrian economics here Probably. It's strange how the only school of economic thought that actually corresponds to reality is the one shunned as "pseudoscience" or something. Go see
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by alter_eco123 8y ago
What other purposes and how is it FB's problem?
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by alter_eco123 8y ago
From an economics standpoint, inflation is an increase in the money supply. What we see in our everyday lives is sometimes called "price inflation", i.e. prices rising, and that can happen disproportionally. As a US-centric exampl
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by alter_eco123 8y ago
> I'm not sure if this attempt is just a pathological need to show off or just some MBAtitis. Most likely, the guy is just highly concerned about what's going on with the company. He may be in danger of losing a lot of money.
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by alter_eco123 8y ago
> And how is it connected? How does this system actually work? Look at things and keep asking: "Who benefits?"
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by alter_eco123 8y ago
> Government subsidies for proper, independent news reporting could help tremendously here. If your reporting depends on government subsidies, it's very much not independent.
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by alter_eco123 8y ago
> I suppose my cynicism towards the people I’m supposed to trust is the primary thing prevents me from having a more fact based view of the world. How so? Is it not a fact that politicians can't be trusted, and that, as you said,
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by alter_eco123 8y ago
And after the proceeds from the IPO have been spent?
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by alter_eco123 8y ago
Good for you. But you were ostensibly addressing the idea of making it as an independent company - not whether and when revenues and profits might suddenly matter again.
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by alter_eco123 8y ago
> Take a look at some SaaS companies that have gone public in the last 5 years. Few are profitable. It's all about growth of revenue. Who's kidding? I doubt you genuinely believe we've reached a new paradigm where bankru

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