pdonis

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by pdonis 5mo ago
> The other cases are the original request is still in flight or never occurred. I'm not sure what you mean by "in flight". The case I'm asking about is where the original request was received by the server and is b
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by pdonis 5mo ago
> If the original request isn't complete, what are you going to replay? Who says you have to replay? If you get a second request with the same idempotency key, and the original request is still in process, why not just send the cl
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by pdonis 5mo ago
> I'm not assuming anything. Sure you are. You said: "Retries will only receive 409 if the original request was successful. If the original request failed, the server performs the operation as normal on the second request. It
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by pdonis 5mo ago
> If the original request hasn't gotten a response yet, why is it sending a retry? Um, because connections over the Internet aren't 100% always on? Because packets can get lost? Because computers sometimes have to reboot? You
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by pdonis 5mo ago
> That's usually solved with traditional database transactions. That doesn't answer my question. What response do you return to the client in the case I described?
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by pdonis 5mo ago
What if the original request is still being processed when the retry comes in? That doesn't fall into either of your categories: the request isn't successful, but it hasn't failed either.
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by pdonis 5mo ago
> we can have a value system we share that benefits us all If "us all" is a small enough group, sure. It doesn't scale, though.
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by pdonis 5mo ago
> Ayn Rand Is hardly an example of what you're describing. She explicitly supported property rights and the non-aggression principle. It's interesting, though, that she refused to identify herself as a libertarian because she
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by pdonis 5mo ago
> they reject the nature of the limiting impetus on their expression. Says who? The non-aggression principle is a limit on "expression"--you can't "express" something that violates someone else's rights.
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by pdonis 5mo ago
Ah, ok. I can't say I've ever argued with any in person, but of course there's a vast philosophical literature full of such arguments, of which I've read a fair amount. As far as I can tell, no such argument has ever rea
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by pdonis 5mo ago
> It is not possible to "enforce" a "value system". That's not what I said. What I said was that you can't enforce a value system "that benefits us all"--because "us all" will never agr
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by pdonis 5mo ago
> until we collectively redefine and enforce a value system that benefits us all Here's the problem: you can't. First, people have disagreements, often very fundamental ones, over what "benefits us all". There'
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by pdonis 5mo ago
> Everything that Meta owns is either copyright How so? As I understand it, their terms of service (which of course nobody reads, but they're there) say that anything you post on their sites becomes their property, not yours. &gt
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by pdonis 5mo ago
> If you've debated any dualists Dualists in what sense? Mind-body dualists?
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by pdonis 5mo ago
> the largest market which values convenience more To me, having my music library on an USB stick is convenience. I don't have to worry about whether my car or something in it has an Internet connection just to listen to music.
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by pdonis 5mo ago
> Media/information environments shouldn't be thought of in the same way that physical ones are. I don't know why I feel this way. Maybe because media/information environments aren't the same as physical envi
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by pdonis 5mo ago
> the libertarian creed -the churlish assumption that 'rules are the arbitrary imposition of those with power' and that somehow breaking them is more likely good than not This is certainly churlish, but it's not at all &
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by pdonis 5mo ago
> i guess it could be possible to drive South and end up in key west Your compass would be telling you you were going west well before you got to Key West. :-)
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by pdonis 5mo ago
> If you are participating in a free market, then you are subject to corporations. No, if you are participating in a free market, and a corporation is the most efficient way to provide what you want to buy, then you will end up buying
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by pdonis 5mo ago
As long as you can convince your insurance company that you didn't do it on purpose to get a renovation, I guess. :-)
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by pdonis 5mo ago
> The market winning solution, of course, is to put THE entire music library, all of it, everyone's, in the cloud and get to it from any device anywhere. Not in a free market (which is part of "libertarian ideals", or at
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by pdonis 5mo ago
It would appear that they were a "garment-rending disaster" at least to some, like the author of the article.
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by pdonis 5mo ago
I never had the problems with tapes that the author describes--but I still preferred CDs when they came out, and I greatly prefer having my entire music library on a single USB stick that I can just plug into my car. I was able to find my
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by pdonis 6mo ago
> nobody has reconciled MOND with Relativity (not that it's impossible, it's just hard and annoying math, could be a lack of effort thing, could also be a real theoretical constraint that invalidates MOND). My take on this is
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by pdonis 6mo ago
From what the article says, it looks to be political pressure about protecting privacy and "consumer rights". Whether the law actually does what the politicians say it's for, is a different question.
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by pdonis 6mo ago
> The demand curve is different for every customer. No, the price the customer is willing to pay for a given product is different for every customer. But the demand curve is just the aggregate of all that--how many customers are will
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by pdonis 6mo ago
All of this is very nice--and irrelevant to the point under discussion. Under the scenario that the Maryland law is outlawing, the richer customer who is being charged the higher price by the grocery store still finds the product to be wor
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by pdonis 6mo ago
Actually, restaurants that cater to the very rich often don't have any prices on the menu, on the theory that if you have to ask what it costs, you can't afford it.
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by pdonis 6mo ago
The buyer in a grocery store can't negotiate; the store just sets the price and the buyer's only choice is to take it or leave it. Under the conditions described, the product is still worth it to the buyer who the store is chargin
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by pdonis 6mo ago
> the government is regulating prices The government is regulating one particular thing that many sellers try to do (price discrimination). But it is not preventing sellers from adjusting their prices based on supply and demand. The

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