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by dimitar 7y ago
When the US (east coast) was first settled, it was largely by indentured servants and prisoners. The settling of the US west parallels the cossack settlements - these guys were free to take land and paid few taxes, but were expected to defe
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by dimitar 7y ago
Its about the appearance of serfdom in the early modern era, just as western Europe was freed from it, which in turn is partly driven by population-density. This is far from a new idea BTW, and largely drove the abolition of these instituti
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Clojure Don't: Buy into Principles and Opinions(vlaaad.github.io)
5 points by dimitar 7y ago|2 comments
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by dimitar 7y ago
I wonder how many were economists. This line of thinking is the old Malthusian catastrophy, expressed in terms of climate change instead of famine. Malthus did some extrapolations and decided that population growth would outpase food produc
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by dimitar 7y ago
what are the benefits of using k3s in Azure as opposed to AKS?
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by dimitar 7y ago
Exactly, this is some variant of No true Scotsman
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by dimitar 7y ago
It sucks that you cannot have several partner ids. Partners have to fight over who will get their partner id at the end. Hashicorp at least allow to specify a different one in their software.
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by dimitar 7y ago
They informed authorities, just as required by GDPR article 33, a good question is whether they reacted within 72 hours of finding out, given that the breach is from 2015. They seem/claim to be compliant with article 32, but I guess th
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by dimitar 7y ago
Slightly off-topic - why doesn't FB just ban all political ads? Is it really worth continuing to display them? Either have a coherent policy that the CEO can explain or just don't do it.
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by dimitar 7y ago
Wouldn't EV increase electricity demand in the evenings when people get home and plug in their cars?
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by dimitar 7y ago
This applies to Photovoltaics only, not to wind or concentrated solar, and looks like something that is pretty specific to California's energy mix and policies. If we replace fossil fuels during the day and turn on hydro and other duri
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by dimitar 7y ago
Contractually binding SLAs are usually not worth sewing someone over. And in fact the vendor may drop you making things worse if you insist on getting them. So in many places they are routinely measured very conveniently for the vendor, or
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by dimitar 7y ago
Definitely put a number on it! And track how close you actually are. I think 10% of revenue will be deemed too much for most organizations. Usually Support is seen as a distraction to new product development or whatever the strategy is, but
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by dimitar 7y ago
No opinion on Estonia and its e-government, but running a country like a tech company sounds like a plot of a comedy set in a dystopia. I certainly hope that Estonia is ran better than most tech company Tech companies have many problems tha
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by dimitar 7y ago
I feel like there are more alternatives to a 30M lease. Maybe a a second, smaller site? Maybe allowing everyone/some-group/rotate-people to work from home? There should be an executive other than the CEO who can solve the problem
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by dimitar 7y ago
Most of the examples appear to be NoSQL datastores. Now it is kindof obvious why Datomic is not open-source. And yet software like Wordpress has thrived for many years without their creators being tempted to change licenses (Wordpress.com w
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by dimitar 7y ago
The plants and mines around the city have a double digit percentage share of the world production of platinum, palladium, nickel, rhodium, cobalt and other metals. The area is extremely rich in resources. Looking at the way people live t
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by dimitar 7y ago
Clojure has a focus on concurrency, is functional and it embraces JS and Java, the dominant platforms.
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by dimitar 7y ago
What if the code is written in Delphi, committed in SVN and you have to figure out how to build it? True story..
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Behavioral Economics and Clojure(humorless.github.io)
3 points by dimitar 7y ago|0 comments
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by dimitar 7y ago
Not at all - both sides benefit from trade. And also 3rd world investors buy a big part of that stock (including a part of my savings). AFAIK developers in the first world still get better than the average salaries.
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by dimitar 7y ago
Isn't the term moon devalued too much by now? Isn't there terminology to classify these newly found 5km natural satelites differently from the massive moons like ours, Ganymede, Europa and so on? Something like dwarf moons or micr
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by dimitar 7y ago
I think a modernized Lisp (the program is composed of many tiny expressions that can be reevaluated) can shine when hot-reloads are highly desirable. Isn't static typing kindof clashing with the hot reloading focus anyway? Maybe make i
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by dimitar 7y ago
BG has problems, but it is not a kleptocracy.
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by dimitar 7y ago
Bulgaria in 1989 had only 19% of the population working in Agriculture, about the average for the region: https://books.google.bg/books?id=Bg3aBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA145&lpg=P...
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by dimitar 7y ago
Great points, I also think the big waves of emigration have passed and the population will stabilize soon. It might even start increasing a little bit.
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by dimitar 7y ago
This is because Bulgaria still accepts Soviet passports with "Bulgarian" in 5th point as proof of Bulgarian origin, its complicated by the fact that there are still plenty of ethnic Bulgarians in Ukraine. Some of them, unfortunate
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by dimitar 7y ago
This is about the government, not the people. The Russian government is well known for intervening in the affairs of other ranging from invasion (Georgia, Ukraine), to corruption schemes and funding alt-right organizations.
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by dimitar 7y ago
I'm living in Sofia and I wouldn't live anywhere else. I got a comfortable job in IT which makes me a outlier though. I pay around 20% of my income in taxes and national insurance funds, excluding VAT. I actually believe I should
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by dimitar 7y ago
I don't get why he doesn't simply apologize, take a few months break from publicity to think things over and then move on. Instead he seems to prefer to step down from what he has been doing for the last 30 years. Does he really r

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