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by jchrisa 8y ago
You must live in America. Here in Portland, the bike are winning out and things like a city-wide 20mph speed limit are taking hold. It's faster to get across town on an ebike than in a car, because all the drivers are stuck in traffic
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This is why I think we need to move to a non-commodity accounting of value. The crypto currencies are all a bit problematic in that they carry forward the same notion of commodity exchange. When the tech is so much more flexible, why not ex
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Thanks. :) That was the last thing I wrote before falling asleep... TLDR is that many (not just FaunaDB) cloud databases have a security and connection model that's suitable for connecting from the browser. I know Firebase has been doi
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An alternative approach for user facing apps is to connect directly to the database from the browser. Lambda still has a role to play in such an architecture, but hopefully most of your basic crud operations can go direct, with less commonl
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If we use social media to make the privilege networks more transparent, maybe we can avoid the Tyranny of Structurelessness results you describe.
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Engineering tour de force births programmable optical quantum computer(arstechnica.com)
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Pedestrian friendly _for the Bay Area_. It's still a car-strewn wasteland by most civilized standards. I used to walk to lunch there multiple times a week, and bike to work a few times a week also. I do not care much for the Bay Area&#
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This bright purple ribbon–named STEVE–is an entirely new celestial phenomenon(sciencemag.org)
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If you are interested in this sort of thing, and have already read Debt, the First 5000 Years, learning about gift economies is worth it. And Graeber's Toward An Anthropological Theory of Value The False Coin of Our Own Dreams is worth
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We don’t expect you to see that lag. Other users don’t see it or haven’t reported it. What region are you accessing in and how did you generate the result?
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My employer offers FaunaDB with a pay-per-request pricing model. To bypass cold-start lambda issues, I code the app to talk directly to the database. For certain richer functions I might invoke a Lambda, but for basic crud operations the da
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The problem basically being what happens when you marry the logic of commodification (money, oil, grain, etc equally interchangeable) with the growth requirements of a debt-interest based economy. Either we have to make off-world into the n
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by jchrisa 8y ago
Replying to a [dead] comment... The space program was obvs a war effort. But I view war as one of capitalism's ways of managing the problem of overproduction. When we can substitute other outlets (eg space instead of war) for that part
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It's also worth noting that an all-out effort to help humans thrive in the harsh environment of interplanetary space might have a nice side benefit of curing cancer. Don't underestimate the power of poetry. In the 60s we used the
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Verifying Global Consistency with Jepsen(blog.fauna.com)
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The common origin of family and non-family asteroids(nature.com)
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Higgs boson seen decaying to two bottom quarks(physicsworld.com)
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This is about the FaunaDB operational API and how its commands are designed to take the risk out of topology changes.
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The database that stays up even when you command it to remove the last replica(blog.fauna.com)
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Dynamic Periodic Table(ptable.com)
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Say Hello to Full Employment(theatlantic.com)
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Global warming may be twice what climate models predict(sciencedaily.com)
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Hello. tbh, We’re Moving On(newsroom.fb.com)
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Agree -- the major players already know their customers, so they are more interested in distributed ledger than blockchain. A distributed database with ACID transactions is a more flexible way to implement this stuff: https://blo
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I've written a few blog posts about using FaunaDB from FaaS functions, the steps should be the same for any FaaS provider: 1) Provision a (free) connection secret from fauna.com 2) Import the FaunaDB driver (npm install faunadb) 3) Cre
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Being receptive to such arguments is the purpose of keeping people in poverty, which is otherwise completely optional in today's world.
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One real reason to add distribution is for geographic redundancy or other high availability use cases. At the core of distributed databases is a distributed stream. Here's a comparison between the performance of logical timestamps vs a
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Beyond money, it's the logic of commoditization that is the bad guy.
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Most of the cloud providers moved away from metered database pricing, and into provisioned tiers. SimpleDB is an example of that early spirit. FaunaDB (my employer) aims to fit serverless deployments like a glove. You can get started here:
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It feels like the work we do at database companies. My earlier work on the Couch ecosystem was inspired by the goal of creating a universal data mesh, so user-driven applications could share data. Now with FaunaDB we are closer to the goal

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