PythonicAlpha

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by PythonicAlpha 11y ago
As much I know, you are right. But you also must see, that when something (so profitable) is allowed, than it will be used. Such a loophole was long time awaited by the internet providers. They want a legal loophole, so they can better se
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by PythonicAlpha 11y ago
Maybe. I just can speak from those politicians, I saw going there. There are some very incompetent instances in between. I can not see, how they (which I know) could be dangerous -- in spite being dangerous for the whole EU because of their
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by PythonicAlpha 11y ago
The whole regulation was undermined from the beginning by financial interests of big corporations and internet providers. No wonder, when you see, which politicians are in charge. The EU -- I must regretful say -- is just a dumping place fo
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by PythonicAlpha 11y ago
As a former C++ programmer, I appreciate everybody that tries to make programming in this language more logical. I just think, that C++ and particularly the whole template system is just to complicated. I have enough work to do, finding sol
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by PythonicAlpha 11y ago
The problem IMHO is, that even the finance experts do not understand our finance system completely and partly it is more like a believe system instead of real science.
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by PythonicAlpha 11y ago
> Globalization because of technology before first world war was actually increasing and was only stopped by the two wars. I have a slightly different view. The US had some very good presidents. Franklin D. Roosevelt was one of them. He
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by PythonicAlpha 11y ago
The global trend is, that the wealth (in money, shareholder-value, ...) of the world is mostly owned by <<10% of the people. Of course, when you put together all the money of the middle class and also the better of lower class, you ge
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by PythonicAlpha 11y ago
This seems to be exactly what I needed for some of my projects. A simple application that can be used on my dev-system to be used as reverse-proxy for different servers. Of course, I could use nginx, but fiddling with configuration files on
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by PythonicAlpha 11y ago
Of course, everything is interconnected. But I wanted to point out, which financial, social, business and political trend is following and in the same time behind many developments. That technology drives changes and also drives capital acc
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by PythonicAlpha 11y ago
The trend is going on for decades now. The rise of the finance sector is IMHO the main reason. In the finance sector, multitudes more money is flowing today, than in the real economy with products and services. Big money is going, where the
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by PythonicAlpha 11y ago
Really nice, but when you have bigger DB-changes, this might run into trouble, when the old code runs on changed tables or the new code runs on unchanged tables ... At least such cases should IMHO be considered before doing such upgrades.
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by PythonicAlpha 11y ago
Interesting. I just thought, that Rocket was in a business, that seldom any other startup is ... As much I know, Rocket is about starting new startups. I guess, there are not so many startups working in this particular business ...?
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by PythonicAlpha 11y ago
Why not go further? In some old Fortran compilers, names of functions could be at most 6 characters long and I am not sure, if upper and lower case where distinguished, I guess not. But with only lower case letters and digits, you roughly g
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by PythonicAlpha 11y ago
No offence taken, but thanks!
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by PythonicAlpha 11y ago
By asking, you can learn.
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by PythonicAlpha 11y ago
Thanks, did not know that "omnibus" had this meaning. In my language, "omnibus" is just an old fashioned word for "bus" (transportation) ;) -- translation services are also not all the time helpful.
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by PythonicAlpha 11y ago
Yes, I think, the whole news industry will be changing. Also in my country, the big papers are trying to secure their income streams -- with partially idiotic actions -- for example, they pressed the government to make laws that Google must
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by PythonicAlpha 11y ago
You don't need a full blown ORM here. A rather thin access layer would suffice, as much I can see from the API. What I can see here, is that the data store is just a big JSON-file. So the implementation does not scale well (every save
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by PythonicAlpha 11y ago
What is so special about it? We are at the verge of a new area of aristocracy. The new aristocrats are building their relationships and are shielding themselves from the plebs -- just the same as in the Roman empire: The "best" pe
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by PythonicAlpha 11y ago
Larry Lessig definitively has my vote. It is just inconvenient, that I am not an US-American. But if he would run for election in my country, I would give him my vote. The reason: He really takes democracy seriously -- some thing, that I wo
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by PythonicAlpha 11y ago
One side note: The trouble, I see at least in my (Western) country: The main (public) TV programs are in the hand of the state (via regulatory control of the TV channels through political parties) or of two to three big corporations (many c
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by PythonicAlpha 11y ago
The main reason: With all these treaties, the world is going to be gradually reshaped into a world optimized for corporation profits. In such a world, humanity and personal rights (of the less than billionaires) are of no value (your value
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by PythonicAlpha 11y ago
> Military Aged Males are considered enemy combatants. Effectively that means all males ages 18-49 are considered enemy combatants. Since you're guilty by association, your age makes you a target. A German newspaper wrote, that male
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by PythonicAlpha 11y ago
In this case, the British surrendered -- and all free nations are about doing it also.
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by PythonicAlpha 11y ago
Benjamin Franklin, being a big man, but still a human. We must not think, that he could comprehend our future problems. Of course he did only talk about his current problems. Still it is a very good quote that deserves to be seen not only i
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by PythonicAlpha 11y ago
Right. They just reap, what they have sowed. Maybe, some of them might begin to realize what they have done ... but I doubt it.
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by PythonicAlpha 11y ago
Of course the technique itself is not that new, but it is still amazing, because of the real few chips used. Of course the microcode ROM replaces plenty of those, but still it amazes me, how few chips make up for a workable CPU. I guess, th
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by PythonicAlpha 11y ago
That is right. That differs of course from early microprocessor designs, but still it is valid, since today's processors also rely heavily on microcode that is simply stored in ROM or similar areas. I think, you can not give this desig
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by PythonicAlpha 11y ago
Yes, it is a very limited design, but the thought, that it was implemented just using (very few!) standard 74xxx TTL logic is really amazing. And still it runs with 1MHz, the same speed of my first computer ;) with a dedicated integrated CP
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by PythonicAlpha 11y ago
> Making a profit needs to be balanced with the reason the company is in business, (i.e. the needs of its customers), its employees, and the environment. I completely agree. I also don't think, that public sector is always optimal.

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