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by nlitened 1y ago
> serve as a distraction from their inevitable uselessness I don’t understand your point. You said that crypto is only useful as long as governments use it for nefarious purposes and money laundering — so basically it’s a guaranteed rele
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by nlitened 1y ago
Carrying around or storing piles of foreign currency is much riskier than having a USDT wallet. You also cannot fly to another country with cash.
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by nlitened 1y ago
I don't know what Cato Institute is and what their talking points are, but you can look up photosynthesis details on Wikipedia or any other place you like.
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by nlitened 1y ago
I agree with you 100% here, and I worry about people causing self-destruction politically (nuclear war, socialism) much more than any climate change.
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by nlitened 1y ago
My opinion is that no change of climate (beyond external impact) would be able to wipe humanity from the face of Earth. Even world-wide nuclear war would merely dent the total human population numbers for a few decades at most. Food product
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by nlitened 1y ago
> I want to represent that a field should never get new null values, it should be treated as non-nullable for the purpose of writing That's a job of DB triggers — arbitrary restrictions that are automatically applied when you create
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by nlitened 1y ago
> By what metric? For example, humans are able to live in most climate zones of this planet, more than any other creatures (though, on land, not under water). Another metric: by total biomass, humans far exceed any other animals their si
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by nlitened 1y ago
Plants stop being able to do photosynthesis efficiently at lower CO2 ppm values (plants need CO2), which lead to massive deforestation. Thanks to current 400+ ppm values, in many places of the world the greenery returned in the past decades
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by nlitened 1y ago
Humans are literally one of the most adaptive creatures on this planet though
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by nlitened 1y ago
> So you either make the column nullable and slowly backfill it over time. Or you find some default value which isn't null but the code understands it to still be empty. And again, you slowly backfill over time. What would be the ju
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by nlitened 1y ago
From my experience, any new field that gets added to existing tables (after a non-trivial system got deployed to production environment with actual clients) must always be nullable. Firstly, it’s more practical and brings fewer surprises to
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by nlitened 1y ago
> you need a concept of absence that's different from null Could you give an example? Null _is_ absence, the way I see it
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by nlitened 1y ago
It's good and predictable that all boolean settings to be false by default (when not set). And the default behavior is the one that is compatible with older version — changing the defaults is a breaking change that should usually be av
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by nlitened 1y ago
> When my function gets an exclusive reference to an object, I know for sure that it won't be touched by the caller while I use it, but I can still mutate it freely. I love how this very real problem can be solved in two ways: 1. Av
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by nlitened 1y ago
as you say, tech enthusiasts only _talk_ about interoperability, but very very few actually care about it. Try interoperating between two pieces of code written in two different languages without spinning up an HTTP server or a separate vir
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by nlitened 1y ago
Developers would say this and then deploy to AWS Lambda or Vercel with a straight face
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by nlitened 1y ago
> To paraphrase Norvig's Latency numbers a programmer should know, if we imagine a computer that executes 1 CPU instruction every second, it would take it _days_ to read from RAM. I think the author probably misread the numbers. If
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by nlitened 1y ago
It would not surprise me if some developers at that time reported to journalists that they had a bug in their code, they'd go to jail for fabricating evidence, cybercrime, stealing of trade secrets, breaking an NDA, or something like t
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by nlitened 1y ago
Not voting is voting for the majority candidate though :)
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by nlitened 1y ago
> Correlation != Causation I agree 100%, and I also like to frame it more productively: strongly correlated A and B mean: 1. either B is caused by A, 2. or A is caused by B, 3. or both A and B are caused by some other common thing C. ↑ t
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by nlitened 1y ago
I’ve seen somewhere an uncomfortable chart which shows that fertility rate is almost perfectly inversely correlated with a single number: average years of women education. Also what’s interesting, allegedly, reducing the average woman educa
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by nlitened 1y ago
Now I’m curious to know whom you’ve elected in your home country
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by nlitened 1y ago
Sir, I've seen whom you _elected_, let's be humble here about preferred choices
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by nlitened 1y ago
If someone is overly aggressive, or rarely fulfills promises, or is very negative about things, or has a very fragile ego — it absolutely makes them less valuable as a person to others. Just look up any definitions of the word “valuable”
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by nlitened 1y ago
No need to stigmatize people, but it is very important to stigmatize bad behavior
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by nlitened 1y ago
Yeah, so how does communism solve the situation when attention of women is limited and needs to be competed for? Does every man get an equal 3-second slice of attention from each girl on communist dating apps?
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by nlitened 1y ago
It would remove one more option of leveling the playing field for short, ugly, or stupid men, no?
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by nlitened 1y ago
How would communism help with that? Make women common property?
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by nlitened 1y ago
> It should be treated like nuclear weapons. Seeing how currently nuclear weapon holders are elected, that would be a disaster
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by nlitened 1y ago
Successful in what?

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