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by gregw2 3mo ago
There are a limited number of bitcoins and Satoshi started out as a monopolist of them... so Coase expects them to get sold at the marginal cost? There are a limited number of iPhones....? Do either of those examples shed light on where Coa
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by gregw2 3mo ago
The earlier Spanish measurement system that changed to meters in Gaudi's lifetime was, like the English system, more 12-centric than 10-centric. In a way, base-10-centric measurements are the victors of a three thousand year battle bet
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by gregw2 3mo ago
When I saw the emphasis was on 12, I wondered why it was combined with 7.5 so much rather than say, a more 12-centric nearby number like 7.2. 7.2 = 12 * 12 / 10 / 2 But having integers for ones' for lengths (e.g 90m rather th
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by gregw2 3mo ago
It's an interesting time window you chose. Why would there be an anomaly during that window (if there is one)? Perhaps it is due to the outward-facing, civic-oriented values coming out of WW2? There was a lot of reflection in America o
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by gregw2 4mo ago
I don't see the underlying economic dynamics of the relevance of substitution costs driving the way we do things going away. And substitution costs are all about limitations. Abundance and limitations are a bit of ying/yang phenom
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by gregw2 4mo ago
Legalization reduces the risk of violence to sellers and buyers and external parties. This in turn reduces the risk premium and quick score potential of the "business". The problem with the legalization strategy to reduce violence
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by gregw2 5mo ago
I can confirm. Redshift support is mediocre even for a F100 firm with TAM support if the workload is large and complex and you have some needle in the haystack causing problems like you allude to. Practically speaking keeping an eye on lock
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by gregw2 5mo ago
You raise an excellent point. I'd only counter that a number of the factors I raised are manipulated to retain mass surveillance even in the presence of mass encryption. Let's start with manipulating random number generators or co
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by gregw2 5mo ago
It would also be interesting to understand how much "imposter syndrome" seen at Ivy institutions stems from just the inevitable "little fish big pond" dynamic and how much stems from cheating. (And how much that "im
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by gregw2 5mo ago
That's a very interesting call out, the connection between gaming academics and (gaming) finance. They both do have very concrete point systems with a parallel set of less-measured but very real externalities, don't they? This bri
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by gregw2 5mo ago
The light source tech was pivotal, but the supply chain mastery of 100,000 parts and patience to invest "200 billion dollars" in development over decades is deserves massive respect for the Europeans, no? This effort did not start
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by gregw2 5mo ago
This does not work if your communication enpoint is the same as your encryption endpoint. Or you don't control your key material. Or your tech supply chain. Or leave your device unattended. Or aren't susceptible to the same "
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by gregw2 5mo ago
You raise a good point. Skimming the original article, I didn't really understand why the author didn't discuss "WITH" CTEs (for SQL newbies, common table expressions, see https://modern-sql.com/feature&#
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by gregw2 5mo ago
The hidden problem many password managers gloss over is how unbelievably insecure the Windows copy-n-paste is in Windows for decades. IIRC (corrections welcome) Windows's window manager broadcasts the contents of the "copy"
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by gregw2 6mo ago
I have a related question, is anyone developing standards on how agents can proxy the requestor identity to backend database or application layers? (short lived oauth tokens perhaps, not long lived credentials like the ShowHN seems to focus
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by gregw2 6mo ago
I heard about this feature first from Snowflake but there are similar options around in other ecosystems which may be of interest to someone here and one thing to keep in mind with even Snowflake's implementation... Snowflake's i
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by gregw2 6mo ago
Who says it started in 2011? I find that hard to believe. Gates was having interviews with John Brockman's edge.org in 1996: https://www.edge.org/conversation/bill_gates-digerati-chapte... Gates was at The Edge di
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by gregw2 6mo ago
I throw out this observation more to be provactive than persuasive, but I haven't seen it elsewhere.. People before me have observed how Trump's moves all are ego driven, or self serving or serve Putin or Israel or gas companies,
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by gregw2 6mo ago
You articulate your case well, thank you! I always warn people (particularly junior people) though that blindly dropping duplicates is a dangerous habit because it helps you and others in your organization ignore the causes of bad data quic
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by gregw2 6mo ago
MS SQL Server was a cheaper, friendlier plugin replacement for Sybase in the early 2000s. I built apps in an active-active bidirectional replication telecom Sybase environment and was deeply involved in migrating it to MS SQL server in the
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by gregw2 7mo ago
You aren't wrong that Vanguard seems more active friendly these days. But Vanguard under Bogle always played both sides of the fence at least to some extent. They have always had that actively managed Windsor fund, right? And Wellingto
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by gregw2 7mo ago
Rather than switch completely, consider putting your eggs in two baskets?
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by gregw2 7mo ago
Not the parent poster but, while I acknowledge your point on Canada and Europe entering the conflict (and I'd add that the highly motivated Dutch punch well above their weight in intelligence and economic spheres and this whole scenari
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by gregw2 7mo ago
Thanks for the pointer to this 2016 dialog! One part of it has interesting new resonance in the era of agentic LLMs: alankay on June 21, 2016 | root | parent | next [–] This is why "the objects of the future" have to be ambassado
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by gregw2 7mo ago
A bit of "hacker history"... at the dawn of the web 1993 was birthed the first app (that I know of) along these lines: "Buzzword Bingo". It got mentioned in WSJ of all places as news of it spread. For the history+app fro
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by gregw2 7mo ago
It's never been clear to me how effective IAEA can be at keeping out state spies from their midst if the world's best intel agencies want "in". Going back pre-Iraq-war, back when there were "inspections" and &q
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by gregw2 7mo ago
*timeless
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by gregw2 7mo ago
Not to mention that while Parquet fixes the "delimiter problem", it doesn't fix the "encoding problem". In (simplistic) CSV, you have to pick the right delimiter or it mangles some of your data. In Parquet you have
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by gregw2 7mo ago
Where's my new AWS Redshift instance with this? Been stuck on ra3 for 5 years now...
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by gregw2 7mo ago
A kid coder I know can't use free Google Gemini because his Windows laptop has parental controls turned on and his accurate age is associated with his Google account.

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