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by richbell 4y ago
Would "Microsoft" be Skype for Business, Microsoft Teams, or both? We migrated off Skype to Teams. Cisco Webex Teams, that is. :(
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by richbell 4y ago
The problem isn't that values aren't consecutive, it's that the sequence is exhausted quicker than you'd expect. Someone could define a PK as `int4 GENERATED ALWAYS AS IDENTITY` because their expected number of entries i
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by richbell 4y ago
It's been a while but I'm pretty sure that's exactly what we ended up doing. The advisory lock was because downstream logic required returning the primary key — basically https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by richbell 4y ago
I'll do you one better. ;) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33204788
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by richbell 4y ago
This is my gripe as well. We used `ON CONFLICT ... DO NOTHING` for a table with ~10k entries that are frequently upserted. By the time we reached a few thousand entries, we had primary keys in the millions. I personally don't care that
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by richbell 4y ago
> Sure some people get a better lot by emigrating, but in the process there is brain deain and such. So instead of them helping their own country to better themselves, their own country gets worse. I've met a lot of smart immigrants
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by richbell 4y ago
> Definitely not a decade and a half of virtually free money and endless liquidity that encouraged people to chases returns outside of stocks and bonds. >No, it's those blasted algorithms. You're spot-on about free money enc
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by richbell 4y ago
> Maybe I shouldn't have used the word exploit. I didn't mean that the tenant is cheating the landlord, I just meant that there is an inefficiency in the market and the tenant is able to use it to their advantage. And that&#x27
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by richbell 4y ago
That was also my first thought; I'm having a hard time decoupling the OP's thoughtful metaphor from that absurd sketch.
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by richbell 4y ago
> Is your point that Supply & Demand are actually in play? I never claimed they weren't. However, there are a significant number of external factors that you refuse to acknowledge, like government regulations specifically enact
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by richbell 4y ago
> Airlines discount tickets at the last minute. That's because flying an empty seat around doesn't make any money. > Magazines sell ad space at a steep discount the day before it goes to press. Same reason. > Stores have
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by richbell 4y ago
> In my example, the friend is only "fixing" the rent in the sense that it was broken (artificially low) before ... For some reason you're assuming that anytime rent is raised it's a violation of the tenant's rig
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by richbell 4y ago
> Why not? Demand is inelastic, and people will be forced to pay it. Right? You're clearly not engaging in good faith so continuing this discussion would be pointless.
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by richbell 4y ago
Why?
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by richbell 4y ago
> If I have a friend that owns a rental property, and I tell her: "you're only charging $1k for rent? you could get $2k easily". Am I helping her exploit her tenant? Now what if she owns 10 rentals? 1,000? 10,000? > ...
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by richbell 4y ago
>>Modern big data and ML capabilities > But for the most part this stuff doesn't work. Yeah, not a great example when ML is frought with discriminatory biases or bizarre edge cases like Twitter banning people for posting innoc
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by richbell 4y ago
> Since the market is inelastic, and landlords can charge whatever they want, make it 10x. They'll get there, slowly and steadily. You obviously cannot snap your finger and raise the rent 10x in an instant. You have to boil the frog
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by richbell 4y ago
> You're not going to like this answer, but...the market does. In other words, nobody is culpable and the people with money and resources are able to exploit those below them with impunity. > The point is that no software has to
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by richbell 4y ago
> Yes, informed. The output of this software, and Zillow's algorithms, is only information that still needs to be applied to the real world ("the market"). The algorithms just provide information that wasn't as easy t
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by richbell 4y ago
> So, why don't landlords just double the rent? Heck, why not triple it? I'm not sure where you're from but the rent in my area HAS more than doubled in the past few years.
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by richbell 4y ago
While I don't know your intentions behind this comment, I'll add that high immigration is a core policy in places like Canada explicitly so they don't have to solve any problems around labour or financial policy. Skilled immi
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by richbell 4y ago
> Bottom line is that this service is not responsible for higher rents, the market is. This service is directly and indirectly responsible for landlord's increasing rent for their tenants. Blaming "the market" is a conveni
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by richbell 4y ago
> In an SPA, if you secure the backend logic you are safe no matter what mistakes are made in the frontend. If . The problem I've observed is that people treat the backend as a dumb pipe for data and focus entirely on the frontend.
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by richbell 4y ago
Relevant story from earlier this year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32377063
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by richbell 4y ago
The operative word being good , which most APIs unfortunately aren't. You could make the exact same argument about APIs that you made about HTML endpoints, and vice versa. The problem, imo, is that writing a fronted is a lot harder fo
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by richbell 4y ago
Conversely, a poorly optimized SPA may not even load in a reasonable time span.
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by richbell 4y ago
This post is apropos: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33215316
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by richbell 4y ago
~$0.05 per person affected is a pretty compelling cost avoidance versus having to pay for security and compliance personnel, not to mention potential reputational damages and lost revenue from actually following the rules and telling people
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CVE-2022-42889: RCE in Apache Commons Text prior to 1.10.0(lists.apache.org)
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by richbell 4y ago
> If User A (who uses the signal app) regularly communicates with User B (who doesn't), then this change might encourage User A to ask User B to join signal. It makes a stronger network effect, and will increase viral growth. Conver

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