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by snidane 5y ago
I've seen this one in the wild and have objections to it. - why capitalize KEYWORDS. We're no longer in 1970s. We use colors - why waste so much space. Why not just put table on the same line with from. With joins this just
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by snidane 5y ago
There surely is a need for a sql linter, but if it wants to be strict about syntax style, it should better familiarize itself with not-noob styles first. Eg. some people like to align the clauses vertically and use a leading, not trailing,
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by snidane 5y ago
Data lake: you own your files. Data warehouse: database owns your files.
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by snidane 5y ago
Human level AI in 2021 is still "tree climbing with one's eyes on the moon" (Hubert Dreyfus).
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by snidane 5y ago
"best practices" = "common practices" in practice. Not necessarily best. Best practices you get when you apply a darwinian approach in your org and try out several techniques before selecting the best. What is called bes
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by snidane 5y ago
Google: from 'Don't be evil' to 'Support the genocide' in one decade.
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by snidane 5y ago
So are then all browsers committing fraud when they put 'Mozilla' in the user agent despite not being Mozilla based?
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by snidane 5y ago
If you can twist the wording into a fraud, I can twist my words too. I don't 'change' user agent. There is no mandated default value. I 'set' it to a value that the service accepts. I don't set it to avoid bloc
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by snidane 5y ago
The best arrangement is to have business report to business and engineers report to IT, but have them communicate directly. This was they can't be pressured by business into short term tasks, because they are on the same level and not
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by snidane 5y ago
Well, then change your user agent to 'googlebot' when crawling the web, since it now became the synonym for search crawlers?
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by snidane 5y ago
Low ingerest rate resulting in economical growth is a dogma recognized across economic schools, which fails to materialize empirically. Look up Richard Werner on this. The only growth that is observed is businesses which are serving the bu
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by snidane 5y ago
I've been looking for the name of this for years. It's everywhere. People focusing only on things they can measure instead of what is important.
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by snidane 5y ago
Land value tax and ground lease are equivalents. Calling it a lease or tax or fee or whatever is just a political strategy to appeal to the right group. Naming it a tax will surely infuriate right leaning propertarians and common populace.
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by snidane 5y ago
You can build huge amount of buildings if you are a societ style central planner and build a ton of cheap prefabs outside of the city. Further urban sprawl doesn't help being of commuting citizens and city ecology. Or if you are a cen
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by snidane 5y ago
You can't escape a monopoly of such size. There isn't a city where housing is cheap. At best it is a temporary situation or your view is biased by working in a above average income field. Zoning will bever help. Once you make spac
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by snidane 5y ago
Good analysis. What we are experiencing is an inevitable decline in a late stage of an empire. Land and real estate market under current laws doesn't clear, so leaves too many city lots vacant or unused. Lots don't come back to ma
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by snidane 5y ago
It was never for the drivers. It certainly isn't a win for the customer. It is only a win for the state to collect their taxes.
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by snidane 5y ago
The goal of behavioral economics was to prove that neoclassical economics, the current dominant paradigm taught at schools and used by mainstream economists, stand on completely erroneous assumption - that humans behave as perfectly rationa
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by snidane 5y ago
If you believe in ELT over ETL, you want both. Schema on read is good for raw data stages. You want to get the data from external systems in the database no matter what. You don't have a control over it and it can change any time. Just
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by snidane 5y ago
Because programming languages are the most basic piece of infrastructure on software. And every infrastructure projects suffers from the same issue. It benefits from mass adoption, which basically requires the thing to be free and open sour
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by snidane 5y ago
Software errors which are traceable usually get dealt with with ease. The remaining majority are unknown and governed by power law - eg. a bug uncovers a major redesign, but there is no time for rewrites so we have to roll along with it, co
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by snidane 5y ago
> Land is hardly a major category of economic value 1. Real estate market is by far the largest market out there. 99% of people worldwide are involved in it with 10x leverage over their net worth or up to 50% of their paycheck. Real esta
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by snidane 5y ago
The benefits of visual programming are usually that it captures the domain model better than using general programming languages without any guidance. Lot of the value is in well maintained integrations to other systems. Often, if the compo
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by snidane 5y ago
The fundamentals of this are described by Ricardo and George through Law of Rent, which defines 'wage' in the context of rent and limited supply of land. With infinite supply of quality land, 'workers' and 'wages&#x
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by snidane 5y ago
> Because the regulation is crappy. Current regulation and laws is what made them dangerous. Regulation will never work to create better working condition. There will always be more laborers willing to replace you than amazing job opport
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by snidane 5y ago
Somehow taxing peoples' labor is not immoral? From efficiency standpoint, property taxes will be more efficient than income taxes when it comes to expenditures for local infrastructure. Having only income taxes and no property/lan
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by snidane 5y ago
There is no other way to run the world today under democratic regimes. Politicians will never win votes by promising to reduce govt debt. The only sustainable way to run the world is to underreport on inflation using a flawed metric, which
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by snidane 5y ago
Cloud is the new mainframe. The split between infrastructure (platform) and application engineers is back.
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by snidane 5y ago
Chaos Search seems to be doing this architecture already and according to the podcast episode [1], it uses a highly optimized storage layout. Never used it, so would be interested if somebody could comment on it. [1] https://www.
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by snidane 5y ago
The reason why these "taxes" are efficient is really because they are payments for privileges the monopolists get from the government on behalf of the community. They are perfect pay-per-use scheme, the more privilege you consume,

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