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by whakim 4y ago
To play devil's advocate here, do you really think the actual problems with VR have anything to do with "spending time in a made-up universe"? In the future, why couldn't we have VR that didn't require you to wea
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Again though, RabbitMQ and many AMQP consumers are explicitly designed so that you don't have to do this if you don't want to. If you have long idempotent tasks, it is both possible (and, in many cases, recommended!) to set QoS
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I wish you wouldn't speak so authoritatively because much of this is just one way (and hardly the only way) to implement such a system. If you read the RabbitMQ docs (see https://www.rabbitmq.com/confirms.html ) you&#
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I think this is definitely optimal if your jobs take a long time (and if you add in worker autoscaling of some type, you can deal with quick jobs reasonably well too). But if you have a very large number of quick jobs, setting a high pref
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I don't think this behavior has changed significantly. The key issue is that they seem to have correctly identified that they wanted to prefetch a single task, but they didn't recognize that this setting is the count of un-ACK&#x
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Yeah, I agree with this. My family has historically played a lot of Catan, and considering most of them are economists the game has gradually degenerated into a dizzying array of complex financial instruments - options, futures, investments
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TFA never claimed that parquet is superior to csv in all cases. If you have a small file or you just want to be able to read the file, then by all means use a csv. Is your argument that we shouldn't bother developing or talking about s
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by whakim 4y ago
One thing that isn't clear to me (and didn't seem to be addressed in any of the charts) is the percentage of the life expectancy disparity that is explained by the "likelihood of dying before age 40" disparity. To me, th
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That's a fair point; I was simply trying to paraphrase the FT article in pointing out the importance of "social factors" (including diet/obesity/etc. leading to cardiovascular disease) in explaining US life expectan
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The original article points out that the primary difference between the US and the UK (as well as other peer countries) is that you're much more likely to die young in the US. A 5-year-old in the United States has a 4% chance of dying
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by whakim 4y ago
The Iraq War actually made Iraqi oil fields less productive, contributing to a rise in global oil prices - yet another indirect cost of the war.
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This is certainly an issue/annoyance (along with other things I don't care for about React), but calling it a "fundamental problem" and "embarrassing" ignores the vast, vast majority of React users who manage j
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Rowing is certainly an elite sport dominated by the socioeconomically well-off. I was simply making the point to the GP that unlike US institutions where rowers (and other athletes) are specifically recruited for their athletic talent, athl
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Having competed in The Boat Race, this is unequivocally false at Oxford and Cambridge.
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If you zoom out enough then every system looks like a black box and the only thing that matters is inputs and outputs. Messaging systems are no different in that respect from literally everything else. If you're building a messaging sy
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It's fake because the deduplication isn't a property of the messaging system, it's a property of the system consuming the messages. "Your system" is providing a workaround (duplication) for at-least-once delivery, n
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by whakim 4y ago
Yeah, this is basically the true problem. Airbnb doesn't care about guests at all (they recently refused to refund a stay I had booked even though the place I was visiting was experiencing a literal natural disaster, and then deleted
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Does anyone know if it's possible to make this work on RDS (e.g. by getting Amazon to install it for you or something?) Being able to store sentence embeddings in Postgres and compute similarity on-the-fly would save a lot of work!
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I agree that the distinction between property and other forms of wealth doesn't make a lot of sense from the perspective of taxation and mostly exists for historical reasons. Especially because the wealthier the individual, the smaller
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The relationship is that private property only exists because of a system that enforces it and provides many of the services that lend it value. Whatever you think of this system, the two are deeply intertwined.
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The idea that property rights are totally inviolable doesn't really hold water when you think about it a little more. Stuff like electricity, running water, trash and recycling, roads, parks, schools, public safety, the technology behi
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I think the word "additional" is pretty confusing here, because it begs the question of "additional to what?" (ChatGPT still doesn't get it right if you remove "additional")
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Without getting into a debate about what the government should or should not do, I just want to point out that it's disingenuous to argue that a relatively large portion of government spending has anything to do with "getting more
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I speculated about the tax burden in another post, but levels of inequality were much higher in the ancient world then they are today. Putting aside that TFA doesn't really define "average laborer," 20 years of a "skil
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In Capital and Ideology , Piketty calculates that 19th-century European states (such as France and the UK) collected about 7% of their national income in taxes (most of which was spent on defense, courts, infrastructure such as roads, etc)
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My point was that some "bad guys" aren't using encrypted communication at any cost; they're using encrypted communication that's easy enough to use. If you made encryption a bit harder to use (say, by taking away Si
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> That's terrible comparison. To be clear, I'm not arguing that encrypted communication is a 1:1 analogue to license plates. I'm arguing that they both reduce privacy to some extent, and therefore it's not right to si
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> This the same justification that is given for all nanny state laws. If you don't find compelling the proposition that laws disincentivize behavior, then we won't really be able to come to much agreement on anything. > The
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License plates are the primary enforcement mechanism for traffic laws. Traffic laws (red lights, speed limits, etc.) provably save lives, and surveys have shown that people's likelihood of obeying such laws correlates with their perc
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I don't think blanket statements like this are true, and I don't think they're a healthy way to frame the debate. To take a non-trivial example, requiring cars to bear license plates - something almost everyone accepts, at le

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