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by taffer 4y ago
> like Brooks argues, we are mostly hitting essential complexity now I'm a bit skeptical about this. If you look at random backend code, you'll find lots of boilerplate, control structures, error handling, dealing with differen
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by taffer 4y ago
The "Good, not Evil"[1] licence: Crockford started releasing his JSMin software under a custom license, which he created by adding the requirement "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil" to the open source MIT L
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by taffer 4y ago
Looks like the Transaction-Script pattern with an API Layer on top.
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by taffer 4y ago
Except externalities are a thing.[1] Externalities are positive or negative impacts on society that do not accrue to those who cause them. Typically, rail transport leads to an increase in land prices and rents, but these additional profits
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by taffer 4y ago
Yes.
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by taffer 4y ago
That's unironically a good idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_tax
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by taffer 4y ago
Airline tickets are subsidized, but not free. The equivalent would be subsidizing rail, not making it free.
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by taffer 4y ago
Ethernet packages are 1518 bytes or 12144 bits. Maybe we should start measuring network speed in power-of-12144. No honestly: Kilo should always mean 1'000, Mega should always mean 1'000'000 and not 1'048'576.
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by taffer 4y ago
There were also 12, 24, 36 and 48 bit computers. 32 Bit just won because of System/360.
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by taffer 4y ago
I wonder why RAM manufacturers are so generous that they don't engage in deceptive marketing, while everyone else does.
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by taffer 4y ago
How can they sell vitamin c at 10x the bulk price and at the same time undercut you?
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by taffer 4y ago
Sounds like the perfect start-up plan: just open a 50 bucks vitamin C store, and the dominant player will buy you out for $$$. Rinse and repeat for infinite money.
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by taffer 5y ago
> Having scalpers in the mix raising the price for all components worries me that the chip shortage might not end for many years, as they can self-fund by raising their prices to stock up on new supply. How do the scalpers get the supply
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by taffer 5y ago
> As Huang said a few years ago: the more you buy, the more you save This is what wholesalers do: they buy large quantities at low prices and then sell small quantities at high prices.
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by taffer 5y ago
This is mentioned in the article: ...this is not because of outsourcing, as you can see by looking at the trade-adjusted emissions numbers. This is the relevant graph: https://www.nuestromundoendatos.org/exports/produ
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by taffer 5y ago
Another interesting approach is HyPer[1]. HyPer uses many new techniques to combine OLTP and OLAP in one database. For example, to achieve good OLAP performance, a columnar storage layout is used, but the columns are chunked for locality to
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by taffer 5y ago
In contrast to the property tax, the land value tax only taxes the value of the land, not the value of the buildings. A land value tax is always the same regardless of whether the land is undeveloped, a single-family house or an apartment b
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by taffer 5y ago
> To avoid paying the LVT tenants are incentivized to own LVT is paid by the owner of the land. That is the whole point of a LVT, that you cannot avoid it.
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by taffer 5y ago
If people only cared about land area, the distinction between urban and non-urban land wouldn't even exist. What makes urban land special is the infrastructure, schools, workplaces, restaurants, cafés, theaters, libraries. These things
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by taffer 5y ago
> It would certainly discourage the building of houses in the city centre. No, that's not how it works. The value of a property is made up of the value of the land and the value of the buildings on it. If one of these two components
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by taffer 5y ago
On the contrary, a land value tax is often proposed to discourage sprawl. Since a land value tax is the same whether you leave a lot vacant or build a single family home or a multi family home, it encourages density and leads to less sprawl
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by taffer 5y ago
> Usually you will find that they are, because workers are also users and vice-versa. I am sure that the owners and managers of Discord are also Discord users themselves, so I don't see any difference here. > The 8h workday is es
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by taffer 5y ago
You make some good points. I personally have experience with business web applications, i.e. large complex data models with rather simple updates and report-like queries. These types of queries combined with a well normalized data model map
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by taffer 5y ago
If your front-end is written in React and your business logic is written in SQL, is it really fair to call what's left in the middle tier a "core app language"? If you're writing a SaaS application today, you're mor
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by taffer 5y ago
In my experience, such problems only occur when people believe that common software engineering practices do not apply when writing stored procedures. Just have your stored procedures version controlled, tested, and deployed like any other
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by taffer 5y ago
Workers have their own interests that are not necessarily aligned with those of the users/society, such as support working hours only from nine to five on business days, higher pensions and fewer new hires, more job security. If you re
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by taffer 5y ago
The goal of regulation here is to create competition between multiple providers. Remember that only the last mile to your home is a natural monopoly which can be awarded through public tenders. Everything else, such as the backbone and actu
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by taffer 5y ago
Ideally, there is some competition between multiple providers to drive innovation and efficiency, and that's what regulators are trying to achieve. So you get the best of both worlds.
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by taffer 5y ago
I don't understand what point you are trying to make. Why should the municipality be better at providing Internet access than any other company?
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by taffer 5y ago
> why wouldn't internet access be free to access if it's taxpayer funded? For the same reason that electricity isn't free: it's a scarce resource that needs to be allocated in a sensible way. And yes, you are of cours

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