ro_sharp

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by ro_sharp 28d ago
This is already required for new books published in the US, and has been for more than one hundred years. It’s called “mandatory deposit”
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by ro_sharp 28d ago
You’re equating something being ubiquitous and affordable with it not being valuable. Yes, there are plenty of books, many were printed, many have lasted a very long time (plenty over 100 years!). That says more about the success and utilit
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by ro_sharp 2mo ago
This sounds great until a businessman arrives with a trawler, takes all of the fish, and buys all of the land in your town.
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by ro_sharp 3mo ago
This is the ideal, but in practice you need to own the business to live this way..
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by ro_sharp 3mo ago
As long as the pollution is a negative externality and the polluting option is (immediately) cheaper, people (especially poorer people) will choose the cheaper option.
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by ro_sharp 4mo ago
All of these may result in you bringing in less $ overall, so it really depends on how much each fraud case costs you, but you could (off the top of my head): - Enable always checking CVV - Require 3DS - Ban a card after N disputes - Ban an
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by ro_sharp 11mo ago
You can sell the asset, so how does anyone inherit nothing? Someone who wants to spend an inheritance is going to do it, whether it’s liquid (cash) or marginally less so (real property)
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by ro_sharp 2y ago
Not sure I follow. In a world with CTEs and views, what do you think is missing for composability?
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by ro_sharp 2y ago
I don’t know why we call having a mortgage “ownership”: it’s not. Across the western world mortgages are getting larger and longer relative to income. More people are in more significant debt bondage than in the past, that’s not an improvem
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by ro_sharp 2y ago
Great, now I’ll get more than two or three of these every day just because I live in a mildly dense city centre…
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by ro_sharp 2y ago
> GPT-4 doesn't seem profitable (if it was, would they need to throttle it?) Maybe? Hardware supply isn’t perfectly elastic
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by ro_sharp 2y ago
> Curious minds wonder what you do to be able to have that kind of time for travel In developed countries outside the US annual multi-week vacations are routine for the middle classes
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by ro_sharp 2y ago
Yep, it’s an international embarrassment
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by ro_sharp 3y ago
The doomsday clock is closer to midnight than it’s ever been https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/current-time/ and now we avoid another 1929 by inflating away the gains of the middle class and siphoning value o
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by ro_sharp 3y ago
Mike Judge was right!
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by ro_sharp 4y ago
> You jump when they say jump Thankfully sometimes 'they' are the customers paying real money for a product or service that's valuable to them. But as you say, larger organizations have more room for political distractions
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From Zero to 50M Uploads per Day: Scaling Media at Canva(canvatechblog.com)
11 points by ro_sharp 4y ago|0 comments
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by ro_sharp 7y ago
Couldn’t this still hit partition throughput limits though?
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by ro_sharp 7y ago
Wouldn’t it be preferable if the DBMS did this for you?
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by ro_sharp 8y ago
Amen. Work without context is demoralising and can lead to micro decisions that don't align with the macro context of the business you're in.
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by ro_sharp 8y ago
But it's also one of the best places to buy secondhand books that are rare and/or out of print.
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by ro_sharp 8y ago
The code is only hard if you can't release it safely.
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by ro_sharp 8y ago
If you’re using the AWS console on the reg, you’re doing it wrong (but yes, it’s a mess)
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by ro_sharp 9y ago
It's a bit disingenuous to draw parallels between 24x7 electronic trading operations and javascript web cowboys.
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by ro_sharp 9y ago
Take a look at ripple
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by ro_sharp 9y ago
I think the use cases you're describing are quite distinct from a "Linux on the desktop" user. The audio experience for this kind of user (myself included) has improved dramatically in the past few years.
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by ro_sharp 9y ago
It's probably important to also consider these prices against the wages at the time.
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by ro_sharp 9y ago
"Moving figures around on a report" is capital allocation. The history of the 20th century suggests this is a valuable and non-trivial activity.
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by ro_sharp 9y ago
I'd like to note here that Spring being popular doesn't mean it's good. Also see: nodejs
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by ro_sharp 9y ago
Another bloody good argument against using such languages for large projects.

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