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by asah 3y ago
This is very important for self-recursion.
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by asah 3y ago
Embedded JS enables pushing down application logic into the database, which can result in shocking gains versus pulling each record out of the database and into the middleware. In one project I worked on, we got 100x performance improvement
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by asah 3y ago
...but with days of delay, where someone else is keeping the interest. And maybe charging a transaction fee.
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by asah 3y ago
Alas, free would still win enough marketshare for it to make sense to spend on lobbyists to delay this. :-(
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by asah 3y ago
The American revolution was opposed by a majority, and man what a screwup, we could've been eating crumpets instead of building a (checks Google) $20 trillion dollar economy. /s https://www.google.com/search?q=was+
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by asah 3y ago
Sure, but what exactly is "privacy" ? That's the debate. No sane person believes that there aren't really nasty, organized criminals in the world, and no sane person believes that said criminals have a right to absolute
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by asah 3y ago
? just enter your credit card info into Uber separately from other apps? also, there's credit cards that require approval for each transaction: https://www.google.com/search?q=parental+control+credit+card...
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by asah 3y ago
Cheap education!
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by asah 3y ago
love citus! this is useful. one gotcha: schemas are a weird old thing in SQL that are kinda the worst of all worlds, basically more like prefixing your SQL object names than a real level of indirection. Schema objects can't be manipul
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by asah 3y ago
"genuine innovations" reveals their prejudice: Uber and Lyft had to drive 100s (perhaps 1000s) of inventions, from mobile and database platform changes to user experience. Legacy taxi companies weren't going to attract the ki
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by asah 3y ago
Exactly: if they double total revenue then NET revenue (after driver payouts) only grows to $1.4M Sounds awesome but currently the net revenue was 700k which means they spent ~$1mm on other stuff besides driver payouts. Some of that will gr
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by asah 3y ago
"almost profitable" ??? "net loss of just $318,000 in 2022" "earned $5.9 million in revenue from 162,294 successful trips — and $5.2 million of that went directly to driver wages" Let's do the math: they e
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by asah 3y ago
google search engineering has entered the chat! https://www.google.com/search?q=google+41+shades+of+blue
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by asah 3y ago
Would this apply to music formats as well ?
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by asah 3y ago
For this use case, I use a burner Google voice number, give that to Whatsapp and don't give it access to my contacts or anything on my phone. Late model phones don't give apps IMEI or real MAC. It's not perfect: when you conn
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by asah 3y ago
why not buy online for delivery? (honest question)
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by asah 3y ago
Yyy. Put another way, the "town square" concept doesn't scale. And arguably, even at small scale, town squares don't lead to decency or better decision making. Things that "sound good" are judged as correct wit
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by asah 3y ago
Ignore the haters - they're too young to remember. I remember different CLI tools working differently on SysV and other variants. I remember AIX and HPUX. Perl meant one thing that just goddamned worked mostly the same way. That and vi
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by asah 3y ago
yep - but even if they did have the intestinal fortitude, it still wouldn't be enough... so there's no need to get judgy when we can come together on this one, accept human nature and start looking for real solutions instead of &q
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by asah 3y ago
geoengineering is the way out of this mess, not lifestyle change. see toplevel thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36616606
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by asah 3y ago
yes! Here's my reasoning: - conservation doesn't work in the developed world: there's simply too much sacrifice required, too quickly. - conservation doesn't work in the developing world: no way will people agree to fre
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by asah 3y ago
(HNers are welcome to visit my profile and decide if I'm legit after 30 years, google, inktomi and numerous startups) Many startups sell and work closely with partners earlier in their lifecycle before their platforms are ready for the
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by asah 3y ago
> OpenAI is a serious threat to Google's 1%, because it can give better answers For now. source: old enough to remember Netscape vs Microsoft and many other examples.
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by asah 3y ago
He was convicted and sentenced with 7 months home detention. https://www.stuff.co.nz/marlborough-express/editors-picks/87...
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by asah 3y ago
Thanks for the feedback, but haha it sounds like it worked actually: you're not the target customer and avoided wasting yours or the company's time :-) At this stage of the company, the goal of the website is to provide a validati
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by asah 3y ago
Can I ask something as an Old Guy(tm)? I thought games were supposed to be fun and entertaining. If the developer makes it un-fun, then why keep playing? why not finding something else fun to do? e.g. play another game? learn a new skill?
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by asah 3y ago
Reported to ADL leadership - while ADL published the survey, something's seems fishy/misleading about these stats.
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by asah 3y ago
It means Elon is a genius about cars and rockets, but apparently hasn't heard of "Cache-Control: public"
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by asah 3y ago
No seriously, I know the team, work with them every day, read the code and have repo access, etc etc etc. The other commenters are social media randos, who actually don't know WTF they're talking about. Lookup my profile and you c
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by asah 3y ago
Indeed, there are terrible actors in this space, but they're not one of them. See above response.

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