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by taffer 3mo ago
> It's mind boggling that you Please don't do this. > When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
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by taffer 3mo ago
Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. [1] I was talking specifically about the moral implications of books that can be read with
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by taffer 3mo ago
Neither is medicine, climate science, nor the marxist interpretation of the labor theory of value I was replying to.
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by taffer 3mo ago
You're missing the point
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by taffer 3mo ago
You're missing the point. The difference between three-year-old and fifteen-year-old whisky is mainly due to capital costs, not labour costs. According to the LVT, capital costs are not real. > product is constantly evaporating and
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by taffer 3mo ago
I fail to see the moral problem with being able to write a book that millions or even billions of people can enjoy. To me that's a feature, not a bug.
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by taffer 3mo ago
> > I could give you examples of how value is created without any work at all. > I'm all ears. Ageing whisky.
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by taffer 3mo ago
> "Mainstream economics" is doing a lot of heavy lifting. As is "mainstream medicine" or "mainstream climate science". If you don't trust mainstream science, you must be either extremely smart or just d
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by taffer 3mo ago
> The work is the same, yet if the take home is different, you've proven that your income is not in fact earned through work in a moral sense. You could say the same about musicians and authors. Are they immoral as well?
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by taffer 3mo ago
As the Wikipedia article states, the labour theory of value (LTV) was replaced by the theory of marginal utility in mainstream economics due to its major inconsistencies. > Take Google as another example. The profit per employee has famo
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by taffer 4mo ago
You have it the wrong way round: In the US the slave owners lived on the farms. The bustling cities were in the free states.
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by taffer 4mo ago
It isn't that simple. The most important thing about a city is the streets and blocks. Manhattan and Barcelona are good examples of cities that have been designed in a way that make them walkable and high density.
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by taffer 8mo ago
Advertising is as old as humanity itself. Asking what people did before advertising doesn't make sense. Also, word-of-mouth advertising is, as the name suggests, a form of advertising.
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by taffer 8mo ago
Not really a counter example: gh.de is a pure advertising platform.
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by taffer 8mo ago
Companies spending money on advertising is just another way of acquiring customers. If they were unable to do that, they would need to resort to other, more costly ways of acquiring customers. I doubt that higher costs would result in lower
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by taffer 8mo ago
> When we used to pay for newspapers Some newspapers were 50% advertising. You still had to pay for them.
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by taffer 8mo ago
How? If you don't advertise, no one can see you.
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by taffer 9mo ago
On the other hand, smaller pages mean that more pages can fit in your CPU cache. Since CPU speed has improved much more than memory bus speed, and since cache is a scarce resource, it is important to use your cache lines as efficiently as p
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by taffer 11mo ago
I use Postgres JSON functions to return nested results. The database itself contains no JSON; just a well-normalised data model. However, the queries return nested JSON in the format required by the application, e.g. for rendering an HTML t
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by taffer 11mo ago
Again, performance is not my point. If you want maximum performance, use a low-level key-value store, hence my VSAM analogy. On the contrary, for me it is about simplicity. SQL is the most high level language in common use. It abstracts awa
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by taffer 11mo ago
You will get most of the benefits of HTTP 3 even if your app libraries run HTTP 1.1, as long as the app is behind a reverse proxy that speaks HTTP 3.
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by taffer 11mo ago
> How? Stored procedures? Not neccesarily. jOOQ[1] and sqlc[2] are great options if you don't like stored procedures, but for a small app or a prototype, just having plain SQL strings in your app is fine. My point isn't that th
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by taffer 11mo ago
Before the invention of SQL, people wrote software using VSAM files and navigational databases with extremely limited computing and memory resources and it worked. That isn't the point, though. Some people, myself included, find that p
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by taffer 11mo ago
> htmx is HTML-driven, Datastar is server-driven As far as I understand, the main difference between HTMX and datastar is that HTMX uses innerHTML-swap by default and datastar uses the morph-swap by default, which is available as an exte
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by taffer 11mo ago
> tons of logic _in_ your html That is not at all what HTMX does. HTMX is "If the user clicks[1] here, fetch some html from the server and display it". HTMX doesn't put logic in your HTML. [1] or hovers or scrolls.
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by taffer 1y ago
> HTML is a document markup language No it is a hypertext [1] markup language and it doesn't suck if you actually use it as such. The problem is that we decided that <a> and <form> tags should be the only hypercontrols
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by taffer 1y ago
You are using one right now! > REST [...] is a software architectural style that was created to describe the design [...] of the architecture for the World Wide Web. [1] People forget that the Web is the original REST. You have - resourc
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by taffer 1y ago
> to the point where tried and true RDBMS are shoehorning support for storing and querying JSON documents That was in 2012. Nowadays, NoSQL companies are shoehorning SQL into their products. > All flagship database services from major
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by taffer 1y ago
I respectfully disagree. The BOM is a Windows-specific idiosyncrasy resulting from its early adoption of UTF-16. In the Unix world, a BOM is unexpected and causes problems with many programs, such as GCC, PHP and XML parsers. Don't use
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by taffer 1y ago
> It turned out to have a huge multiplying effect on productivity In retrospect, I am highly sceptical that OOP has had any positive impact on productivity. Its popularity coincided with the advent of automatic memory management, the Wor

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