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by taffer 7y ago
> Most(90%+) of businesses sell commodities, or near-commodities, or products that could be compared by a spec. Do you have a source for this number you can link to?
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by taffer 7y ago
Filesystem design and operating system design is full of these kinds of questions. From Unix and Windows we are used that we can insert and delete the end of a file and that we can read, write and seek anywhere in the file, but a filesystem
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by taffer 7y ago
But do you really need the open()/close() semantics for everything? What if we wanted to support a hypothetical filesystem with stateless semantics (e.g. a distributed filesystem), then we wouldn't even need close().
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by taffer 7y ago
I fail to see the parallels between Germany after World War II and China in 2019. China's patent situation is much closer to Germany in the late 19th century and the British didn't throw away their patent system in the 19th centur
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by taffer 7y ago
I think what he's referring to is that you have to publish your invention to get it patented. The idea of patents was basically to get a temporary monopoly for publishing the secret sauce so that anyone can use your invention after the
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by taffer 7y ago
Did the British attitude to patents change when German companies started owning more patents than British companies?
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by taffer 7y ago
What kind of fraud do you have in mind and do you know of a case in which, for example, Azure switched off an enterprise customer due to unusual usage patterns?
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by taffer 7y ago
If a cloud service is supposed to be ready for production, then customers should be safe to assume that they will not simply be shut down, especially not without warning. Otherwise, the provider must make clear that the service is only for
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by taffer 7y ago
Caps or quotas are a better way to achieve this IMO. Random shutdowns do not make it sound as if DO is ready for production.
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by taffer 7y ago
Sure, a backup would have been a significant improvement, but still – a backup only protects against data loss and not against downtime.
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by taffer 7y ago
> If you had an app that would increase plumber productivity by 50%, plumbers would be lining up to get into the Beta. How would plumbers know about the app without advertising? > Find any plumbing supplier [...] they'll tell the
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by taffer 7y ago
I explain why this is a valid counterpoint in the second sentence of my post: Today in the press we have a more or less clear distinction between advertising and content, and I think if we banned advertising it would create an unintended in
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by taffer 7y ago
If there were no explicit advertising, companies would use other, hidden means to reach customers' minds. Today in the press we have a more or less clear distinction between advertising and content, and I think if we banned advertising
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by taffer 7y ago
I see ads like 'Now: The new X with the features Y and Z' all the time.
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by taffer 7y ago
Who says that we should draw the line at species level and not in any other arbitrarily chosen category? Science is not.
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by taffer 7y ago
This is really interesting and raises further questions from me: - Can open source licenses be unilaterally revoked? - Is Google the sole proprietor of AOSP? - If there are other proprietors of AOSP, do they have a say?
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by taffer 7y ago
The OP query was static SQL, you changed it to dynamic SQL. How is that supposed to be better?
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by taffer 7y ago
I'm not sure if I like the idea of using CTEs as an optimization fence. It means using implementation quirks that can be changed in future releases.
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“Immutable Relational Data” by Richard Feldman (2018)(youtube.com)
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by taffer 7y ago
Maybe something closer to APL: https://curtisautery.appspot.com/5776042744610816
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by taffer 7y ago
How many of the PostgreSQL features does edgedb support?
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by taffer 7y ago
> It also helps that nobody says "The SQL server is down" when their mysql instance is down. I've heard such sentences many times from many people.
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by taffer 7y ago
If Oracle DDL is not transactional, what's the point of its Edition-Based Redefinition feature?
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by taffer 7y ago
For a toy project I used Postgres to generate JSON objects for me and a helper function in ruby (db_helper) that parses the JSON into ruby data structures so that the OP example can be written with much less boilerplate code as: def db_
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by taffer 7y ago
I'm far from being an expert in this field, but from what I know, r must be greater than g for investments to make sense in the first place. It also seems that the widening gap can be explained by rising housing prices since the 19
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by taffer 7y ago
> Yeah but he also says that you're better off investing in productive assets, I would regard anything that generates cash flow as a productive asset (and that's probably what Buffet's thinking, too). Unlike gold, for exam
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by taffer 7y ago
> #1 flying, #2 driving, #3 heating and #4 cooling. At least in the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change's Global Calculator[1] the food lever appears to have the greatest impact on greenhouse gas emissions, even more than hea
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by taffer 7y ago
> Most people aren’t going to stay in Greenwich village/SOHO/UES if they are in NY, or similar elsewhere. You can change the assumptions in numbeo too, like for example if you plan to live outside the city center.
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by taffer 7y ago
> that's unlikely given that the payoff is very high for defecting. Trade policy (e.g. through the WTO) can be designed in a way that allows countries to internalise the damage caused by greenhouse gas emissions by imposing higher t
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by taffer 7y ago
Cockroachdb is a proper SQL Database, Cosmos is just a Document Store that also has an SQL interface.

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