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by dmitriid 4y ago
> What a world we live in where government has decreed that business must provide services for free. What the hell are you talking about? You can keep providing ads. If it's a paid service, you can keep providing a paid service. No
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Again you're responding to what you imagine I was writing even when I provided direct quotes from both the website and you. But since this was your last reply, adieu.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> For features, that's what focusing on currently existing web is about, instead of future possible web. The reality is, of course, much more complex. For example, once upon a time Apple wanted web components to be declarative: ht
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by dmitriid 4y ago
This is what the website literally claims: === start quote === Web2 Databases were meant to deal with datasets that change frequently. They have to provide ACID guarantees to ensure correctness. The solution to this problem becomes more com
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> There was a second subplot about how Microsoft was increasingly turning to nasty practices to get back at Google, and fears about using IE to pull some anti-Google shenanigans. And then Google started doing the same, against Mozilla (a
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> And I'd actually be interested in some blog posts about how the authors got such dramatic speedups. You did mention Kafka. They got the speed ups exactly how you get views from Kafka: dump them into a PostgreSQL, have an Elastic
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Imagine having good intentions, I have very hard time imagining anyone working in web3 with good intentions.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> I'm not sure of the larger right term for this Scam. Lies and scam. That is the term for it. > one of a bunch of different providers all offering the same API to the same public data It's not the API I object to.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Does that give access to the full history quickly? It doesn't because no append-only log does. Apache Kafka is that "unique web3-only thing never seen before in traditional systems" that no only has been seen in tradit
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> The solution to this problem becomes more complex with scale. Distributed transactions, sharding, replication, and fault tolerance are notoriously slow. And yet, suprisingly (not) they power everything at scale unimaginable to anything
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> The only thing relevant here is that blockchain data is almost exclusively append-only So, Apache Kafka. Edit: as anyone who actually does this for a living: you never use the append-only log as your source of data. Precisely because i
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Dwarf Fortress in the MoMA(moma.org)
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> No, I don't care to discuss this further. You never discussed anything to begin with. You had several statements with zero intent to support them. Including this: --- start quote --- > There is much more energy spent on protect
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> No, they don't. Yes, they do. Again: the total number of organ transplants in the US is 40 000 per year. For a population of 330 million people > But I'm very well aware that no one actually cares to hear my point of view.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Any stats on "organ transplants vs. literally every other treatment" invalidate your "firsthand experience". I'd bet that even in your "firsthand experience", however skewed it is, treatment was significan
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by dmitriid 4y ago
The main problem with them isn't just that they are ugly. Or that they form no coherent whole. The main problem is that they completely ignore the place they are: the city, the country, the nation. It's the same haphazard collecti
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Nobody would be so critical of iCloud if it wasn't your only sync option on iPhone I sync my photos with Google Photos because they are a magnitude faster and more predictable than Apple's own Photos. My passwords are in 1Pas
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> I think it's hideous and I wouldn't want to live there. This is really no different from "beautful colorful houses in the Nordics" someone gushed about in another comment. You need consistency and care. If you have
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Modern architects are just as aware of proportion as they've ever been. But thankfully they're freed from archaic notions such as e.g. exact golden ratios. It's strange then that these freed minds produce the ugliest bui
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> It’s the silly cutsey name they give to themselves, like metamates or googlers. No on in their right minds are giving these names to themselves. It's the HR "we are all a big family" playbook since forever.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
The question then becomes "Will AGI will want to find a way to fuck you " ;)
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by dmitriid 4y ago
There are currently people in Russia with near-unlimited access to internet (and until quite recently with near-unlimited access to travel) who sincerely believe that the West is hell on Earth. You greatly underestimate the power of propa
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> but you're asking it to do probably about 20,000 times more computation every time you press a key. [citation needed]
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by dmitriid 4y ago
I think it's eye catching precisely because it's so bad.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Do you think it's more likely that Vitalik is mistaken that crypto is obviously useful for humanity, or that he knows it isn't and doesn't care, or that your assessment of crypto being useless is incorrect? As the siblin
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> You are grasping as straws. I am not. I am describing the absolute vast majority of cases on Uniswap. > Speculation in markets are always going to exist. We have people making a living by speculating on the price of commodities, for
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Very simple explanation: imagine you want to start a software company with 5 people you met on the internet. This is sufficiently rare that "traditional" finance hasn't come up with a product for that. Or maybe it has, b
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> These graphs seem to say otherwise. Which graphs? I wasn't talking about 1971 or the largely US-specific chart of not compensating people. I'm talking about deflationary currency . With a deflationary currency people who got
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by dmitriid 4y ago
So my very first comment remains valid. No idea what you're objecting to.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> It's going to take a while. Yes. And blockchains, NFTs snd other useless crap have nothing to do with it.

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