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by valzam 6y ago
So basically we are reinventing DRM but call it NFTs now because...blockchain?
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by valzam 6y ago
Very interesting book to read, highly recommend it!
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by valzam 6y ago
The first time I went to Stockholm my expectation was for it to be very similar to Copenhagen. It could not be more different. The downtown highway area reminds me of some dystopian hellhole.
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by valzam 6y ago
If I recall correctly https://www.foundationdb.org/ is also built on "distributed sqlite" at it's core.
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by valzam 6y ago
The problem with almost all alternative crytpo currencies is that somewhere deep down non-decentralized skeletons are burried. Either the protocol doesn't scale to more than a dozen validators, or there is some key node hosted by the d
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by valzam 6y ago
I think when most people say NoSQL they don't mean S3 (even though it is like a database). In general I think - S3 - Redis/Memcached - Elasticsearch aren't really NoSQL databases in the Marketing sense since they fulfil such
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by valzam 6y ago
However, Amazon never pays dividends. And you probably cannot really vote on anything with your stock either. So what's the point? There is an interesting article about Facebook with a similar opinion. Zuck owns the majority vote and t
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by valzam 6y ago
I don't really get what's so special about this. But I am always surprised by how extremely scalable Redis is, scaling the stateless chat servers is trivial, scaling state is hard.
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by valzam 6y ago
To add to this, we use Phoenix in a typical dockerized, stateless Loadbalancer- X Webserver - Postgres/Redis setup and it works great. Deployment is exactly the same as any other dockerized webapp. What OP is using is the "next le
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by valzam 6y ago
Oban uses Postgres for persistence https://hexdocs.pm/oban/Oban.html
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by valzam 6y ago
Hosting the videos is not the issue but discovery. Not being on youtube might work for big channels but even they probably get a large % of their views from searches/recommendations.
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by valzam 6y ago
I totally agree that the getter/setter scourge in Java is terrible but better languages like Scala or Python allow you to access fields with simple dot syntax and still inject getter/setter code. My point was that without having a
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by valzam 6y ago
Do people actually build large codebases with the 'hash map first' approach? It works for scripts but I always find it very difficult to follow code that transforms a bag of stuff into another bag of stuff.
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by valzam 6y ago
I suppose then there is the whole thing about a company having to have a profit motive to be treated as a company. Otherwise it's 'Liebhaberei' and any income/cost does not have an impact on your taxes. https:/&#x2
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by valzam 6y ago
The problem is that you need to charge market rate, which the state then taxes as income. I would think it's unlikely to save you money. (If you don't charge market rate the tax office will either assume it's a gift and tax t
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by valzam 6y ago
The sad part is that all these tax gimmicks are there not because the state wants welfare but because they want to put up a free market charade. You don't directly encourage additional supply but 'let the market build housing&#x27
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by valzam 6y ago
I would argue that Oracle had more to do with that than the fact that it was free... Using the paid version would probably have been even more difficult.
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by valzam 6y ago
As mentioned otherwise in this thread (but it warrants repeating) their T&C say that they have absolutely no obligation to give you USD for your tether, so it's even worse.
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by valzam 6y ago
I signed up in app for they $1 a week or whatever offer during the election cycle and also had to go through this ordeal, although it wasn't as bad. Initially it sounded like you had to call them or fax your cancellation, so I was alre
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by valzam 6y ago
My partner has a ReMarkable 2, I have an Ipad pro 11. I got mine earlier and thought writing on it was pretty good. But it's not even close. ReMarkable feels 90% like paper, it's crazy. Ipad (at least without one of those paperlik
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by valzam 6y ago
I haven't used it heavily but one of our newer microservices uses Quill for read-only access to Postgres. I have found it to be great to work with, to combination of "just use case classes" and a DSL that feels like writing S
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by valzam 6y ago
I don't buy this argument. Saying "because they banned parler they might lowball you on an aquisition offer and deny you service if you don't accept" is a complete non-sequitur. As a society we make value judgements all
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by valzam 6y ago
The German model is really quite interesting, even though some aspects are extremely strange (like high income earners opting out of the public system or public servants mostly using private insurance). I like that public insurance companie
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by valzam 6y ago
There is a middle ground (this is how most dental care in Germany works): Regular cleanings are not covered by your insurance, giving an incentive for price competition. However, if you need major dental work your insurance might not cover
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by valzam 6y ago
Quick note: There is also FTSE Developed World, which has outperformed All-World over the last few years AND has a lower TER than most All-World indeces. You can always hold 10% Emerging Markets + Developed World.
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by valzam 6y ago
The difference is that with a union not even the manager can fire them if he notices that they are lazy
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by valzam 6y ago
Reminds me of There are only 2 hard things about programming: - Cache invalidation - Naming things - Off-by-one errors
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by valzam 6y ago
Found the LISP programmer
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by valzam 6y ago
I don't think it's all that surprising: - The PC version is by far the most playable - CDPR games haved worked well on Linux through proton in the past - Stadia targets are very narrow set of hardware and I would assume Google add
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by valzam 6y ago
Since the day rate varies wildy I wouldn't say that you can't compete if you stay in the public system but your baseline cost will be 5-7% higher than someone who switched to private. Also private insurance is typically considered

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