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by runeks 5y ago
The question is whether it’s not practical because it hasn’t received the three decades of engineering that relational databases have, or because it’s broken in theory.
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by runeks 5y ago
Go on… What didn’t you like about their product and why does this make you doubt their engineering principles?
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Why it is wise to add Bitcoin to an investment portfolio(economist.com)
1 points by runeks 5y ago|1 comments
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by runeks 5y ago
Which repo?
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Reflecting on the Shake Build System(neilmitchell.blogspot.com)
7 points by runeks 5y ago|0 comments
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by runeks 5y ago
As a programmer, I’d prefer a combination of the two: Dr Johnson kicked a large rock and said, as his foot rebounded, “I refute it thus.”. as I think it’s weird that a punctuation mark inside a quote can end the sentence that contains the
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Ad-hoc container images containing packages requested via the image name(nixery.dev)
1 points by runeks 5y ago|0 comments
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by runeks 5y ago
Do you have any constructive suggestions? It looks pretty readable to me, and I’ve never written any Rust.
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Infection fatality rate of Covid-19 in community-dwelling populations(medrxiv.org)
5 points by runeks 5y ago|1 comments
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by runeks 5y ago
> I am now buying qty 500-1000 of any new part that is getting designed in, before the design is even started. I bet you’re not the only one doing that. No wonder there’s a shortage.
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by runeks 5y ago
Would you also be opposed to a group of pensioners getting together and buying an apartment block, and renting it out to young people who have no savings? That way the pensioners have an income to live on — without slowly draining their sav
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Japan’s Liquid Global Exchange Hacked; $90M in Crypto Siphoned Off(coindesk.com)
3 points by runeks 5y ago|1 comments
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Basecamp 4(world.hey.com)
3 points by runeks 5y ago|0 comments
764.
by runeks 5y ago
> A shortage occurs when price cannot rise. Do you have an example of this?
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by runeks 5y ago
Also, there’s less demand to buy labor for $20/hr than to buy it for $10/hr. So, all else being equal, fewer companies will demand workers if they’re more expensive, which will also reduce the deficit. That’s the theory at least
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by runeks 5y ago
I agree. Compromise: abolish all patents except for drugs for which expensive trials are required by law.
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by runeks 5y ago
> Companies were never paying based on value provided. I’d go even further and say that nothing is paid for in terms of value provided. Price is a negotiation between two parties, where production and use value form the floor and ceili
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by runeks 5y ago
The ratings are in the report linked by OP. Vast majority A-2 or better (S&P).
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by runeks 5y ago
> Why the attraction to USDT? It’s by far the biggest. Both by both volume and liquidity.
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by runeks 5y ago
Interesting. So almost all of their commercial paper is (allegedly) rated A-2 or higher by S&P.
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For programmers, remote working is becoming the norm(economist.com)
3 points by runeks 5y ago|0 comments
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by runeks 5y ago
> Nowadays, anyone can livestream on twitch from their phone in hd, yet most we see are people alone in their rooms screaming at video games. Of course we see a greater number of videos that are easy to create, e.g. someone playing a gam
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by runeks 5y ago
Follow-up question: What are the advantages of sortable UUIDs with embedded timestamps over having an auto-incrementing id column, a created_at column, and using the composite primary key (created_at, id) ?
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by runeks 5y ago
https://archive.ph/0GDQX
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Why regulators should treat stablecoins like banks(economist.com)
1 points by runeks 5y ago|1 comments
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by runeks 5y ago
Bronze coins is in alignment with India’s use of copper coins since around 500-1000 BCE: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coinage_of_India
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by runeks 5y ago
There’s no connection between falling prices and depression. At least that’s what Milton Friedman concluded in A Monetary History of the United States , even though he initially assumed there would be.
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by runeks 5y ago
It would be pretty cheap and easy for copyright holders to publish a bunch of fake torrents — just copy the torrent+file names of the most popular torrents and fill the files with random data — rent a couple thousand VMs on AWS, and seed th
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by runeks 5y ago
Would be better if there were a “create/write to new file” permission which doesn’t allow overwriting existing files.
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by runeks 5y ago
They aren’t allowed to in Germany [1]. I wish more countries would follow suit. [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/14/tesla-autopilot-self-driving...

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