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by tobias3 5y ago
Yes, the US didn't ever have an explicit export ban. But the US government had passed the Defence Production Act, then went to the vaccine manufacturers and made priority contracts with them. What did you think would have happend if th
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by tobias3 5y ago
The German tax system works this way. German authorities specify the rules in a DSL and e.g. https://www.elster.de is generated from them where you can fill out all the tax forms (also e.g. companies). Stuff that they already kn
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by tobias3 5y ago
Already there. E.g. https://github.com/guardianproject/libsqlfs but I'd also count something like s3ql where the data is stored as s3 objects.
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by tobias3 5y ago
There is e.g. [1] which doesn't paint a pretty picture. I'd btw. put blame also on introducing tax incentives for diesel cars in the first place. Without those this wouldn't have happened. And those were to prevent tax arbitr
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by tobias3 5y ago
More realistic is taxing it (increasingly tax what you don't like till it goes away, like Tobacco). Problem is the milk price is connected to the meat price. Which makes half the supermarket more expensive through milk products. Maybe
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by tobias3 5y ago
Maybe they should have asked Brett Redfearn (former SEC director working at Coinbase) about the SECs reasoning. He left Coinbase in July? I guess the revolving door corruption failed (and/or he figured out where the wind is blowing)...
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by tobias3 5y ago
There is no difference in outcome. VAT is paid on every stage on inputs by companies BUT they claim it back and if the input comes from a different country they don't pay VAT in the first place. The only one not being able to claim it
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by tobias3 5y ago
I haven't used seaweedfs yet, but it looks better (and small file/object performance should be miles better). W.r.t. to fsync/durability with the seaweedfs API to a volume server you have to turn fsync on via paramter and it
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by tobias3 5y ago
Minio isn't durable. Any S3 operation might not be on disk after it is completed successfully. They had an environment variable MINIO_DRIVE_SYNC for a while that fixed some cases. Looking at the current code this setting is called MINI
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by tobias3 5y ago
Then you had a different experience from me. Some teachers in e.g. elementary school forbade binding our loaned books with plastic and had us use paper instead even though that broke much too fast and we had to redo it all the time. This wa
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by tobias3 5y ago
Sure, if a technological solution like a vaccine gets developed I'd be optimistic (cold fusion?). But I currently estimate the probability of that really low. What made me pessimistic about climate change w.r.t. COVID-19 was that most
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by tobias3 5y ago
It's also single threaded, i.e. it can only handle one read/write request at a time (fuse can do more but ntfs-3g doesn't implement it). That has kind of acceptable performance with hard disks but with SSDs it is really slow.
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by tobias3 5y ago
ZFSOnLinux just ignores the O_DIRECT flag if I remember correctly. Granted, this is what btrfs should do by default as well since there is an ugly issue where software can modify the O_DIRECT buffer after it was submitted causing btrfs chec
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by tobias3 5y ago
So this comes up every time Windows comes up. I have a "Pro" version, went into Group Policy Editor and changed updates to require user action. This setting is supported by Microsoft and persists through updates. It only updates i
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by tobias3 5y ago
One could see this in action in the Hellwig vs VMWare court case (one of the few GPL court cases). As a first step they had to show that Hellwig had made changes to code that VMWare uses that can be copyrighted. Especially difficult since e
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by tobias3 5y ago
Game servers is an especially bad fit for AWS. They often need a high single core performance for many players + high simulation tick rate. They (mostly) don't need ECC RAM or reliable storage. They do need networking optimized for lat
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by tobias3 5y ago
Being good at writing servicable prose and story. Writing for a genre that has an online following (litrpg isekai in this case). Consistent output (e.g. twice per week -- in this case it is kind of insane: a novella per week). Then post it
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by tobias3 5y ago
I don't know where she gets the idea that serial publishing isn't done currently. Pirateaba, creator of wanderinginn.com has 4342 patreons (10k per month at least). At that point who cares about the NYTimes bestselling list?
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by tobias3 5y ago
WaitOnAddress and co. But that one was added with Windows 8, so it can't take you back 20 years :)
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by tobias3 6y ago
The UK vaccinated old people first. At least here in Germany we had the problem that AstraZeneca was only allowed to be used with people <65. That could be one explanation.
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AstraZeneca: Benefits outweigh the risks despite possible link to blood clots(ema.europa.eu)
3 points by tobias3 6y ago|1 comments
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by tobias3 6y ago
I think the EMA press release is a better source: https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/covid-19-vaccine-astrazene... Specifically it doesn't say "safe and effective", it says "benefits outweight r
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by tobias3 6y ago
No, like io_uring which Linux got in 2019 and still doesn't cover everything yet (e.g. currently mkdirat() is being added). It also often falls back to a kernel-level thread pool, since many e.g. file systems don't implement async
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by tobias3 6y ago
I've used C++ coroutines (with io_uring). They are really useful in this case and allows one to write code like one would with the simple blocking API. And from what I've read they are better than Rusts coroutines for this use cas
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by tobias3 6y ago
Here in the EU, credit card transaction fees are capped at 0,3%. So no shenanigans, but cryptocurrencies would have to fall within this range as well.
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by tobias3 6y ago
Great development! I'm certainly all for this becoming the standard/default. Unfortunately for those relying on fsync() flushing the whole file system (which one shouldn't) syncfs() isn't a great replacement. Last time I
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by tobias3 6y ago
My guess is this (compared to ZFS): With a CoW-file system like btrfs you have to problem that you need new file system space to delete something. This is problematic if the file system is full and you want to be able to write to it again b
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by tobias3 6y ago
Yeah, the accounting is there, but not the actual transfer. I.e. you're not transferring the actual money to France, which the French finance ministry would then have to send back to the German one once it got it from the French compan
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by tobias3 6y ago
If it works the same as in Germany you only pay no VAT if you buy from a company in another EU country as a company. Therefore the EU has both a sales tax and a VAT depending on if you look at individual countries or the EU as a whole.
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by tobias3 6y ago
Intuitively one should be able to approach the max speed for sequential reads via some tuning (queue/read_ahead_kb) even with the traditional, blocking posix interface. This would require a large enough read-ahead and large enough buff

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