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by gen220 2y ago
It depends on who you're trying to convince. TSA/customs? A prospective employer? The guy who runs the corner store? To varying degrees, the answer is yes, the tools exist.
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by gen220 2y ago
From an alternative angle, it's not tragic but rather a triumph of the people who "actually" live there, to be able to repurpose old structures to modern use. In Napoli, there's a set of pretty old (>300 years, I&#x27
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by gen220 2y ago
I'm unsure about the time scale in question, but something of this magnitude occurred to the indigenous populations of North and Central Americas, with the introduction of urban diseases (smallpox, influenza, chicken pox, bubonic plagu
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Not quite. There was 1 TV in the median household in the 80s and 90s, which made TV a contested common resource from one point of view and a focal point of social gathering from another point of view. The median American household today has
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by gen220 2y ago
> Who's to say they don't have slaves, or don't have good working conditions, etc.? This is what social norms are for, and we have done it forever. The modern era has made this exponentially more difficult. > Eventually
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by gen220 2y ago
You can set the age to arbitrary points in the past, if storage isn't a concern. I've actually found miniflux's search feature fairly solid for dredging up old stuff I've read!
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by gen220 3y ago
I "knew" enough calculus to get good grades in math courses through high school and college as an engineer. But I didn't really "know" calculus until I read a book not too dissimilar from this one, "A Course of
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by gen220 3y ago
Unfortunately we've demonstrated a willingness and ability to throw the 4th amendment out the window (see the Patriot Act) if you can reference a scary enough boogeyman. Normally the Supreme Court as an institution works to keep the ot
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by gen220 3y ago
> In selling his goods, does the man not capture value from his customers? No, because selling goods is not the same thing as capturing value. Jesus is not asking for the man to first accrue wealth and then distribute it, he's askin
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by gen220 3y ago
My impression, as somebody who's had to choose this layer of infrastructure a few times. Many people who "start" with those database choices either (1) "end up" elsewhere or (2) are perfectly content with treating t
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by gen220 3y ago
> But someone who uses their desire of money as a catalyst for bringing world change via a new product, service, knowledge, is well found in their desires and implementation, as they are making the world better while achieving their goal
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by gen220 3y ago
For what it's worth, you can still have an impact on youth without being a parent yourself. There's gradations from adoption and fostering to teaching and mentoring. Empathetic inter-generational experiences are beautiful for ever
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by gen220 3y ago
Just an unsolicited pointer, but if you're US-based you might consider computing the cost/benefit of an Amex blue cash preferred. It carries an annual fee of $95, but the 6% back on groceries (on your first $6000/yr) and 3% o
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by gen220 3y ago
Most "news" in the tech industry is funded by VCs, if you follow the money. It's not a terrible fact, but it's one to be aware of. All the `"X Technology" [that Y VC firm has recently raised $4Bn of capital to
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by gen220 3y ago
I mean I totally agree with you, I just don't think there's political willpower to swallow the pill and actually pass legislation that would increase taxes. Because, all else equal, capital owners (who set the policy agenda in Con
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by gen220 3y ago
I think one part that’s missing from this narrative that’s otherwise solid is that the Clinton administration raised taxes while simultaneously expanding globalization (NAFTA, expanded ties with China). Nowadays, we’d be raising taxes while
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by gen220 3y ago
I do think we can pay off the debt. It would require an increase in taxation that would cause an S&P 500 contraction. When it comes down to it, it'll be a political choice between cutting Social Security benefits (absolutely no way
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Acknowledging the complexity inherent in how the U.S. gov't finances initiatives. However, eventually , the buck stops at the taxpayer. Yes, the federal gov't issues bonds to finance their activities (i.e. deficit spending), but
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by gen220 3y ago
I went down a bit of a rabbit hole to try and find manufacturing stats per fab, and it's pretty difficult to find. First, it's worth noting that most of the <300nm fabs in the U.S. are really new. The Oregon facility was histor
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by gen220 3y ago
Their DoD and Dod-adjacent business (read: high-nanometer) processes are largely in the U.S. Their consumer and server business (read: low-nm) processes are largely international. The wikipedia page you linked evinces this statement. The ph
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by gen220 3y ago
> How about asking the workers in other countries who benefitted from this transaction if they were happy with the arrangement? I'm sure they were happy with the arrangement, they benefitted from it in the short-term. You should spe
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by gen220 3y ago
It wasn't just intel, it was every semi-conductor manufacturer in the valley (hence the inability to find other work). They closed because it was cheaper to build in other countries, or to outsource from contractors who build in other
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by gen220 3y ago
I wonder if there are some other companies that would be better to hold up as paragons to high schoolers. Apple, Patagonia (and its predecessors), WhatsApp (pre-FB), Trader Joe’s (pre acquisition), Yahoo! (pre-‘99) are some that come to min
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by gen220 3y ago
I think this is true for things higher up the "stack", but doesn't necessarily apply to tech like Postgres [and Citus, IMO]. The line separating "build in-house" vs "use OSS" exists, and it's at a dif
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You also benefit from the tailwind of the CitusData team making continued improvement to the extension, whereas an in-house system depends on your company's ability to hire and retain people to maintain + improve the in-house system. I
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by gen220 3y ago
This is my guess of why they didn't use Citus. They weren't interested in the options of (1) going multi-cloud [DB in Azure Cosmos / Backend(s) in AWS] (2) going all-in on Azure [DB in Azure Cosmos / Backend(s) in Azure]
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by gen220 3y ago
For whoever uses PostgreSQL and needs to see this: 1. Please, please use native datetime objects instead of integers. A bigint (needed to represent datetimes past 2038) is 8 bytes, same as `timestamp`. 2. Please, please store explicit timez
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by gen220 3y ago
I’m sorry, but by whose definition are “they” “impoverished”? And what constitutes “autarky” and “local”? I’m not advocating to abolish global trade or whatever, if you think I was gesturing in that direction. Buying (food, especially) loca
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by gen220 3y ago
I have the same questions. I’ve decided the best thing I can do is vote with my wallet (i.e. as a consumer) and vote with my time (i.e. as a producer). Consume commodities that are regenerative and products that are durable. Whenever possib

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