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by slang800 7y ago
Calling `join` a relational database is a bit "click-baity". Yes it's a cool command, but you don't get any type of constraints or indexing or atomic updates or any of the important things that people expect from databas
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by slang800 7y ago
It's a tradeoff between latency and throughput... Also, there are some small advantages for people who are claustrophobic, and in cases when the power goes down.
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by slang800 7y ago
Or one real estate observing the alien culture of a generation he has no connection to, and making wild assumptions to fill in the gaps.
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by slang800 7y ago
No, open source is a different term representing a different set of ideals. Here's an essay explaining the difference and the cases where open source software is not free software: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/op
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by slang800 7y ago
> People value the convenience of Google's integrated services So, short-term convenience should prevent us from breaking up a monopoly? The long term benefits of having a competitive market far outweigh the inconvenience of having
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by slang800 7y ago
Why wouldn't breaking up Google and Facebook be in the interest of the public?
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by slang800 7y ago
Maybe readers aren't the customers and newspapers are actually selling narrative control.
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by slang800 7y ago
That is untrue. The term "free software" was effectively coined by RMS & The Free Software Foundation. It is used explicitly when referring to copyleft licenses, which restrict certain uses of the licensed software in order to
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by slang800 7y ago
I don't see landing on the moon in 2019 as quite the same technological feat that it was in 1969, so I doubt that it will abolish any notions about the Indian tech community. If anything, it establishes the notion that India is willing
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by slang800 7y ago
Here's the original article, which goes into much greater detail than the summary on the Verge: https://www.eldiario.es/tecnologia/Liga-Futbol-microfono-tel... Sadly neither article investigates how effective this
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by slang800 7y ago
I'm using ancient empires as an example because pretty much everyone agrees on what happened in ancient history. It's not a controversial / political issue to talk about Rome falling because nobody who was involved in those e
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by slang800 7y ago
> Humans have faced lots of problems over the millenia, but the reality is that our lives continue to improve as a whole That's untrue. Human civilizations tend to go through cycles. They rise, eventually stagnate, and then decline
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by slang800 7y ago
[citation needed]
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by slang800 7y ago
Maybe we need to care less about keeping up the pace at which the modern world is changing and more about maintaining a nice culture. I'd be willing to take a reduction in the GDP or a slow down in scientific advancement if it meant th
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by slang800 7y ago
If successful people are having fewer kids than unsuccessful people then haven't we created a dysgenic system?
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by slang800 7y ago
Alternatively, use Jupyter Notebooks & Pandas for this type of work. It has the same interactivity & visualization as Excel, but is far more powerful and you can reasonably move the code you create into your final product, rather th
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by slang800 7y ago
Why do we need to reinvent Notre-Dame? Why not just rebuild it as it was, accurately matching the original design?
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by slang800 7y ago
> Entertainment doesn't count.
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by slang800 8y ago
So, rather than using our existing copyright / trademark system to handle cases of brand impersonation or stealing content, we're just going to rely on payment processor companies to punish people? That sounds like a really bad id
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by slang800 8y ago
They just seized the marketing sites domain names? How is this a victory? If the people running these sites are still able to continue their operations then they'll just get a new domain name and host a new signup page. The only thing
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by slang800 8y ago
Last time the EU tried banning pesticides it did nothing to help with bee populations. These regulators have no clue what they're doing. https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2015/01/27/pests-invade-e...
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by slang800 9y ago
Presumably the crime couldn't be proved to the standard that the justice system requires, so getting Microsoft to implement a punishment based on her allegations and public opinion is the next best thing.
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by slang800 9y ago
Well, it ended up getting archived before the list was removed. Whether that's right or wrong, the info is out there: https://web.archive.org/web/20170821212745/https://github.co...
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by slang800 9y ago
> It's been stretched quite far through the commerce clause... Yeah, and there's no limit on how far it can be stretched. States only have control over what the Fed isn't already in charge of. > Practically it does not
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by slang800 9y ago
> It seems there was a law passed in the 20's that originated this, reversal/change in 65. Yeah, the Emergency Quota Act in 1921 and Immigration Act of 1924 introduced the quota system. However, laws like the Chinese Exclusion
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by slang800 9y ago
> The Federal government has little power inside the country The Fed has the final say on every matter. Read the supremacy clause (article 6, clause 2, in the constitution). States that say "weed is legal" are only "gettin
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by slang800 9y ago
> the US can not deport illegals en masse Are we unable to, or do we choose not to? It's not like we're lacking in transportation infrastructure or the ability to track who is or is not a citizen. In most cases we wouldn't
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by slang800 9y ago
> creating a self-reproducing 2nd class citizen population I'm pretty sure that the children of non-citizens would just be deported along with their parents.
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by slang800 9y ago
> In the 1800's and early 1900's, immigration was open and considered nowadays to be one of the great processes that got america to be what it is. That is incorrect. Before the Hart-Celler act in 1965, immigration was restricte
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by slang800 9y ago
Actual arguments used by the judge: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3514379-Order-Denyin... From a brief reading, it seems like the complaint is delays/errors in document entry by clerks (like updates to p

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