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by pcstl 4y ago
The issue here is that you're ignoring completely how Twitter was built, and how things like Twitter get built. It's very easy now to say that everyone should get a say in what is done with Twitter, but back when Twitter was first
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by pcstl 5y ago
In my case, it feels like GraphQL has allowed me to handle a product with very rapidly changing needs without turning our network communication into a gigantic mess with dozens of requests happening for every little thing - which is my prev
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by pcstl 5y ago
Guess it depends on use case. When it's not very clear what your client wants to consume and your product is evolving rapidly, HTTP APIs tend to turn into a mess and lead to a gigantic amount of requests just to start the app (which, t
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by pcstl 5y ago
Out of sincere curiosity: Why do you think GraphQL is so bad? I've been using GraphQL for a little while now and I've had nothing but good experiences (although my use case might not be the most common) so I'm interested in k
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by pcstl 5y ago
I believe it was supposed to be "serves".
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by pcstl 5y ago
I do not believe it is the exact same corporations, as China is the single largest contributor to emissions right now and they are not very friendly to the idea of foreign corporations acquiring a significant foothold in their domestic ma
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by pcstl 5y ago
Shrinking consumption would mean either that developing countries would need to stay in poverty forever, or to somehow find a way to greatly impoverish people in the developed nations that would not lead to widespread rioting. Additionally,
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by pcstl 5y ago
You don't need to time it! And this wouldn't be the core business model, just an easy win if/when that happened.
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by pcstl 5y ago
It can be used by a different game. The token is just a token, what it means depends on how it's used. A smart game producer that sees a NFT-based game go down could say "hey, you know all those items you had on <game X>? Co
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by pcstl 5y ago
I actually think in-game content is one of the most legitimate uses for NFTs. It's also cool that since the on-chain data doesn't go away if the game does, it allows for in-game collectables which are not tied to a specific game.
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by pcstl 5y ago
You can still mine ETH on a (high-end) GPU and make a profit. BTC mining is way too advanced for that, it's done with mining-specific chips. Mining with a GPU gives you too little hash rate for it to be profitable. Going a bit more in-
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by pcstl 5y ago
Deleting something produced in the past such that it cannot be found anymore.
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by pcstl 5y ago
For a counterpoint to this, look no further than: https://scholars-stage.org/history-is-written-by-the-losers/ The winners of history are often too busy with enjoying the spoils of their victory and building up their n
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by pcstl 5y ago
I believe they are mentioning the fact that the server cannot unilaterally log the user out in a "naive" JWT-based implementation without storing and checking a token blocklist - which makes the session no longer stateless.
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by pcstl 5y ago
We know these names because the Rosetta Stone (and other dual-language inscriptions) allowed researchers to figure out which Greek letter the egyptian hieroglyphics mapped to. There is also the Coptic language, which is a modern descendent
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by pcstl 5y ago
Because VDOM is useful for writing declarative code. It's DX over UX - and most of the time it won't impact UX anyway.
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by pcstl 5y ago
https://cstoredecisions.com/2011/11/21/the-importance-of-ful... "More than two out of three (68%) U.S. adults would avoid shopping at a particular retail store if they encountered empty shelves"
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by pcstl 5y ago
https://cstoredecisions.com/2011/11/21/the-importance-of-ful... "Only two left" is more common either: - In the context of discounted items, where you want to create a temporary rush - Online, where
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by pcstl 5y ago
I think part of the reasoning behind this is also that people are less likely to buy from a half-empty shelf. That's why markets put so much effort into constant restocking. This way, the shelf can always look full while needing less r
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by pcstl 5y ago
Is there any evidence that "non-neoliberal" countries do better re: governance? Let me explain my situation, which I believe provides a significant counterpoint. I live in a third-world country where government is constantly pushe
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by pcstl 5y ago
Do you have any credible analysis which supports your assertion that governments are more effective than charities at their goals? My conclusion is usually that governments are good _coercion_ mechanisms for dealing with situations where th
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by pcstl 5y ago
In Haskell, main is a value , not a function. This is sometimes overlooked because in Haskell "values" can be thought of as 0-parameter functions and functions can be used as values, so everything sort of blends together, but I f
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by pcstl 5y ago
My response to this is straight from your own post: "It's also foolish to believe that history is a linear trajectory towards something good or better". You seem to state that we need violent revolution to get from one local
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by pcstl 5y ago
The thing is that, if you don't propose radical political action, there is little to no reason to be opposed to EA. The only reason I can think someone might be opposed to EA is that they believe the only way society might be improved
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by pcstl 5y ago
Well, political activism doesn't have to be about that, but EA isn't opposed to activism per se . EA is just, by its very nature, opposed to political activism that believes the only way we might make things any better is demol
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by pcstl 5y ago
Well, I'm pretty sure EA isn't really opposed to moderate change or stuff like organizing for, I don't know, people who need insulin or anything like that. The people who usually oppose EA are those who think that there is no
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by pcstl 5y ago
>for many people the "worse outcome" is no worse than the status quo. Is it really, though? In most cases where the worse outcome did happen, people were convinced they had nothing to lose and went with whatever radical idea
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by pcstl 5y ago
>that's like, three orders off from the kinds of problems that actually happen when you try to do political activism I think this just goes to show how people who live in places with stable political institutions take them for grant
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by pcstl 5y ago
>This risk is inherent in any political action (or inaction) Is your premise here that all actions have the same risk of hijacking by a malicious player? I reject this premise. Solid institutions are usually an effective safeguard agains
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by pcstl 5y ago
This article illustrates a big issue with people opposed to EA - they severely underestimate the risks associated with political change. Of course, we can just assume everything goes well, we agitate for political change, we get a change fo

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