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by strbean 1y ago
It's nearly guaranteed, even if it is just because customers had to work around the bug in such a way that their flow now breaks when the bug is gone. Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/1172/
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by strbean 1y ago
Obligatory whine that the term NoSQL got co-opted to mean "no relational". There's tons of space for a better query language for querying relation databases.
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by strbean 1y ago
Total tangent, but I think "Canola is a neutral oil" is a lie. It's got the most distinctive (and in my opinion, bad) flavor of the common cooking oils.
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by strbean 1y ago
Different data requires different access controls, and government agencies that collect / deal with a given piece of data on a regular basis are equipped to enforce those access controls. You don't want your local dog catcher to b
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by strbean 1y ago
Countdown to every ad provider registering 300,001 new domains...
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by strbean 1y ago
So they're unoriginal? Okay. What's your point?
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by strbean 1y ago
So you disagree that popular restaurants have long lines regardless of foreign tourists?
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by strbean 1y ago
In many stories, sure. The norm? No. Most people who survived to old age had kids, and those kids lived with them and also had kids. Most households were multigenerational.
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by strbean 1y ago
C'mon, that's obviously generalizing and unfair. Your core stance really just seems to be "people suck and groups of people also suck".
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by strbean 1y ago
Sure, but A) that's an argument against a 100% LVT, not against LVT. Some people (communists) also advocate very seriously for what is effectively a 100% income tax. That doesn't provide a good argument against income tax in gener
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by strbean 1y ago
What is the relevance of that? LVT is not exclusive to land with houses on it. > amusing attempt at using data for an argument Rude and unnecessary, and entertaining when your response seems to be a total non sequiter.
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by strbean 1y ago
The bottom 50% in terms of wealth in the US only own 10% of the land. How on earth is this a regressive tax? The top 10% own over 40% of the land. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1KsUt
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by strbean 1y ago
> taxes incurred by the park go up without recompense to the owner The value of the park is going up, is that not recompense?
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by strbean 1y ago
Wouldn't this same argument suggest nobody would want to increase their income because it will increase the amount of income tax they pay? The property you own is going up in value! That would almost certainly outweigh the increase in
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by strbean 1y ago
> Calling yourself a rationalist is just branding. It means that your opponents aren't rationalists. It's dishonest. It seems like you are equating self-labeling of this sort with claiming to be a paragon of that ideology. Do y
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by strbean 1y ago
The name Less Wrong was at least intended to be aspirational. From the about page: > LessWrong is an online forum and community dedicated to improving human reasoning and decision-making. The goal is to be less wrong. It isn't int
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by strbean 1y ago
> all they get for it is a reduction in their real income because the plot of land their house sits on costs 20% more And, y'know, the value of something they own goes up by 20%...
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by strbean 1y ago
> Retirees have been doing this for as long as humans have owned property. Absolutely not. Extended families lived under the same roof for most of human history. This is a Nuclear Family problem, which only emerged in the 20th century.
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by strbean 1y ago
> No, but thanks for the spot-on imitation of an entitled foreign visitor. The insinuation that somehow it's the local people's fault that they don't want their quaint neighborhood restaurants to become McDonald's is
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by strbean 1y ago
Even if you're only going somewhere for a week, you don't have to see all the major attractions. You also don't have to plan every moment and research what restaurants to visit etc. You can set out to discover cool stuff on y
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by strbean 1y ago
For some reason HN sometimes hides the reply button on leaf comments. I think this only happens for very new comments. You can click the timestamp ("X minutes ago") to view the comment without context, and reply from there.
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by strbean 1y ago
I think eventual 90% (more like 100%) usage is already priced in to nVidia's valuation.
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by strbean 1y ago
Is it possible that a higher concentration of wealth means inflation is reflected more strongly in asset markets than it is in consumer goods? Billionaires aren't exactly buying more eggs when they have more cash, they're cash is
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by strbean 1y ago
Truly amazing that without the "I can't see the number" option you probably could have seen the number.
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by strbean 1y ago
> And for functional programming techniques, we disagree in how we think about the operation. You see it as data processing, I see it as I/O. I very specifically pointed out that I/O is a side-effect. This is a mainstream viewp
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by strbean 1y ago
> (b) This section does not apply to any of the following: > (1) A public utility, or telephone company, engaged in the business of providing communications services and facilities, or to the officers, employees or agents thereof, whe
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by strbean 1y ago
I think the biggest issue by far is that many of the different contextual uses for dB are all in the same domain, or very close. When you're talking about the loudness of sound, in the same exact context you might care about SPL, perce
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by strbean 1y ago
Except the various disasters caused by assuming the wrong units (Mars Climate Orbiter, for example).
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by strbean 2y ago
Have you tried this tool? I just generated two tetris games, one with ascii art and one with WebGL, and I found it quite impressive. Maybe simplistic apps, but still quite impressive with it's ability to create functional games and fix
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by strbean 2y ago
Not quite a decade, and not as broad in terms of what crimes are covered, but much bigger in terms of scope: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proclamation_4483

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