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by rory 5y ago
What a weird example. That was just a shelter in place order. I went to pick up my grandmother across the city in the middle of it and nobody stopped me. https://nation.time.com/2013/04/19/was-boston-actually-
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by rory 5y ago
Well, a large power could have paid. But for reference, even the lower negotiated amount in 1825 was more than the entire Louisiana Purchase.
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by rory 5y ago
Well in this case, B killed everyone that looks like and shares an ethnicity with A. And if C enslaved B and B's family, but C had 1/4 of the same racial ancestry as B, he was spared. So not really a 1:1 comparison.
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by rory 5y ago
Well sure, but they left to escape being murdered. Their main beef was with specifically French white people though. They spared a group of Poles and worked with many white German and USA American traders in the following years.
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by rory 5y ago
Yeah, the "worker" conditions that followed were more like serfdom than chattel slavery. A serf's offspring is still tied to the land like their parents, so the practical difference probably wasn't that great, but it&#x2
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by rory 5y ago
It was less an assassination and more the beginning of a full genocide (a specifically French genocide, not against whites in general) around the country. Dessalines went around the county killing all (fully white) French males. A lot of
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by rory 5y ago
Could the person who made the entry write in abstract? Like what if I say: you shouldn't write or talk about beings that don't want to be written or talked about.
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by rory 5y ago
Interesting that from the article at least, his biggest miss seems to be the nuclear bomb. It must have seemed like such magical thinking in the 19th century to propose we could actually turn matter into energy.
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by rory 5y ago
I originally had trouble with this term because I learned about it after learning the unrelated (afaict) terms "dynamic programming language" and "dynamic typing". So perhaps it's not so much that dynamic programmin
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by rory 5y ago
The plus side of Werewolf as a social activity is that rounds are short and there's no need to strategize between them. It can certainly eat plenty of hours, but I've seen an entire engineering department ground to a halt by longe
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by rory 5y ago
Parent is probably using murder rates because murder is very unlikely to be unevenly enforced, with the implicit implication that these differences extend to other violent crimes (but the data there is muddied by differential enforcement)
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by rory 5y ago
I see an animation where they start in the right place, but then the focus countries zoom in, while the world map remains the same, putting them in Asia. The should probably have faded out the world map when zooming in.
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by rory 6y ago
How much of that value appreciation is derived from income, vs the status symbol nature of owning a team?
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by rory 6y ago
I'm against adding a game, but it's hard to imagine a similar level of pushback for a much more incremental change.
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by rory 6y ago
Yes, sorry, I was referring to the USA specifically. The real estate speculation problem is a lot worse in other Anglosphere countries (UK, Canada, Australia). Outside California, US prices are still somewhat reasonable compared to income
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by rory 6y ago
The home ownership rate is a lot higher outside major cities. It's only 30-40% in most major US cities. Regardless, at current (historically quite low) interest rates, a typical software engineer's salary will qualify you for a ve
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by rory 6y ago
Oh cool, that makes perfect sense, thanks for the explanation!
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by rory 6y ago
Agreed, they're extremely mediocre, but worth $9 to me. Seems like they have better analytics available at a "custom" price, which I assume would be quite expensive. For my use case, minimal analytics at a minimal price works
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by rory 6y ago
Google Cloud SQL. I say magic because locally I need a service key to connect to the proxy, but the production app doesn't seem to need anything but the internal google address.
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by rory 6y ago
I oversimplified a bit. I have a low-traffic "admin" interface that's rendered server-side. The people using that are my direct customers and are the only authenticated users (they auth in a traditional in-app way). I also ha
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by rory 6y ago
First of all nothing important, mostly stuff that's a distraction unless it becomes a need. That said, using a static frontend cached on a CDN in general improves initial pageload and cuts down on traffic to your server by a lot. Netli
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by rory 6y ago
Agreed, would have gone with their managed app platform if I was using one of the supported techs. For search I use a $5/mo meilisearch DO droplet that took almost no time to set up and I never have to pay attention to.
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by rory 6y ago
Makes sense, didn't mean my comment as a criticism of your setup Anthony. The product and infra look very cool! Just highlighting that things can be a lot simpler for those of us with more mundane requirements.
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by rory 6y ago
That's right, I'm exaggerating. At current rates I'll hit that limit at 7.5MM pageviews/month. I've also paid for extra builds once or twice in the past (automatically charges a few dollars when you cross the build
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by rory 6y ago
My one-man-SaaS setup: - Static frontend hosted on Netlify (free unlimited scale) - Backend server on Google App Engine (connecting to Gcloud storage and managed DB via magic) I realize I'm opening myself up to vendor lock-in and incre
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by rory 6y ago
The general trend here seems that browser security improvements are more likely to kill core-function-of-your-app-as-a-service type software products, rather than SPAs in general or in particular.
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by rory 6y ago
The primary forbearance program people talk about only applies to loans held by Fannie and Freddie, which are government-sponsored entities. I'm not sure of the financial situation at Fannie and Freddie, but the government will bail th
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by rory 6y ago
Got it, so in general, they are _actually_ fronting you the asset (although you can't take it out of their control until you've paid up), as opposed to an IOU.
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by rory 6y ago
Personally, I find it easier to parse if the conditional is not only exhaustive, but itself returns a value (functional languages like Ocaml, Scala, Elixir have this). Judging by the number of long, goofy-looking nested ternary expressions
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by rory 6y ago
After not paying attention to cryptocurrency for a few years and then opening a Coinbase account earlier this year, I was SHOCKED how fast and easy everything was. From what I can discern as a user, they've made a great platform. My on

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