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451.
by slashdev 3y ago
You only really have external interventions because there’s no internal stability and strength.
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by slashdev 3y ago
> I have this impression that the area has not been well governed (for more than a few years a t a time) for millennia; because people in other areas of the world find it convenient that it not be. That’s an odd take. They’re a mess larg
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by slashdev 3y ago
I’ve stayed in hotels where I wanted to pay them directly for the room so they keep more of the profit, but they had to give the lowest price on Expedia and could not match it. They told me to just book on Expedia.
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by slashdev 3y ago
You’re being downvoted, but that’s pretty well supported with data. In fact it’s more skewed than 20/80. Closer to 10/90.
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by slashdev 3y ago
Yeah, I could see that. It’s not common and the tooling is primitive. Same thing I would say about event sourcing. Great in theory, but it’s more likely to get your average team into trouble.
456.
by slashdev 3y ago
I’m sorry you see it as a trash comment, but I hope the discussion it provoked was to your liking. I found it enlightening.
457.
by slashdev 3y ago
If the external tables are views that can combine select columns from multiple tables with computed fields - maybe. In theory it’s good, in practice I’ve never seen it done well.
458.
by slashdev 3y ago
> There's no difference here between the schema/semantics of a table and the types/semantics of an API. There is a big difference. The types of an API can be changed independently of your schema.
459.
by slashdev 3y ago
Technically you’re correct. If you can rebuild the original losslessly then all the original information is present, just in a different configuration.
460.
by slashdev 3y ago
I think the mistake here is to require lossless compression. Humans and LLMs only do lossy compression. I think lossy compression might be more critical to intelligence. The ability to forget, change your synapses or weights, is crucial to
461.
by slashdev 3y ago
For my parents it’s replaced their cable internet which was slower and less reliable. I wish I could get it where I live in a city apartment. The internet is usually fast, but not reliable. The only way to have satellite in an tall apartmen
462.
by slashdev 3y ago
That’s horrific. My wife lost her Instagram account the same way. Really ruined part of our vacation in Paris. Looking back on it though, maybe that was worth it.
463.
by slashdev 3y ago
I try to avoid giving my cell number, precisely because it’s not secure, but also because it changes or I travel, and then I’m locked out of my own account.
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by slashdev 3y ago
That’s meaningless if you can also use it to compute a signature. Just use the signature of a constant string as the id.
465.
by slashdev 3y ago
You’re right, that’s an important exception. To be fair that’s a decent policy in an era before taxes and social programs, and when you’re presiding over a vast, largely empty new territory. I would make the case that the cost of a one way
466.
by slashdev 3y ago
I assume you’re interpreting that to mean there was unrestricted immigration from morroco. I don’t interpret it that way, I’d need to see more evidence.
467.
by slashdev 3y ago
Read it again: > They hold on by keeping people in fear and confusion between the removal of borders and human rights to visit and settle in any nation. You see the word border there.
468.
by slashdev 3y ago
Where did you get your education? Serious question. Borders have nothing to do with colonialism. There is no human right to move and settle where you please, especially in this day and age where that entitles you to many social services pai
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by slashdev 3y ago
Provided you don’t use it to deliberately recreate a substantial part of a copyrighted work. Intent will matter here, and it’s difficult to prove. Even Microsoft is couching their guarantee here with an exception for this very case.
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by slashdev 3y ago
If, like me, you’re wondering what quiescent means in the context of a galaxy, it means it isn’t making any new stars: The observations found that COSMOS-1047519 has a mass of about 60 billion solar masses and a star-formation rate (SFR) at
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by slashdev 3y ago
I think it’s very much this latter. The multiplying force of technology has made it extremely difficult to overthrow a government by force. I do not think it is possible in the West. Governments have never had so much control over money and
472.
by slashdev 3y ago
The thing is it is always technically feasible, even for end to end encryption ( you just do the scanning before encrypting on the device, or upload the plain text copy of all the messages to a government service.) I’m worried that it won’t
473.
by slashdev 3y ago
I have no idea what you mean by that.
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by slashdev 3y ago
Yeah, that makes sense. It’s not about the function, that’s for sure. > Misunderstanding that is a failure to understand essential human characteristics. I’ll add that to the list of human behavior that I don’t really understand.
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by slashdev 3y ago
I pitched this to my wife a few years back. She insisted she’d rather have a smaller natural diamond. It makes no sense to me. Shiny carbon is shiny carbon to me. There’s no real logic in it. But given it’s a status symbol that derives its
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by slashdev 3y ago
Yes, the planet will live on. But what we’re invested in is that it lives on to support ten billion humans demanding an ever increasing amount of resources per person. It’s not particularly fragile (it’s gone through things much worse than
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by slashdev 3y ago
I think a big problem in the West is we don’t have great leaders anymore. The election is between a few nincompoops that all make you kind of sick to your stomach. Where are the Winston Churchill’s or the Abraham Lincoln’s?
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by slashdev 3y ago
I think a federal system would be particularly important to Canada where each province has more trade with the US than the rest of the country. The senate is meant to counterbalance the tyranny of the majority, but in Canada its a decorativ
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by slashdev 3y ago
Democracy is the worst system of government, except for all the others that have been tried. (Churchill?) I’ve heard the same said of capitalism.
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by slashdev 3y ago
Do they? Some 70-80% of the time, it’s the liberal party. That makes Canada almost a single party democracy. On top of that majority governments have almost unchecked power. When the government in power is a good one, they can really get th

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