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by vectorpush 11y ago
I'd consider the sentence excessive were it not for the multiple attempted murder-for-hires. If someone is intellectually and morally capable of directing a criminal enterprise that funds murder as a calculated business decision, and t
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by vectorpush 11y ago
> Because there is an opportunity cost to having an SD slot. Remember it takes up physical space inside the device, which could be used for more internal memory, battery space et There are opportunity costs for everything, but microsd
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by vectorpush 11y ago
> I think Google and Samsung have decided to ditch sd cards to prevent the user having a shitty experience. This line of reasoning makes absolutely no sense. How could having the option to use an SD card with your device make for a
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by vectorpush 11y ago
I've never known Real Clear Politics to be particularly partisan. edit: why do some have that impression?
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by vectorpush 11y ago
Are there any alternatives to kafka that are also modeled after the "message queue as a log" concept? In particular, I'd like to be able to reconsume arbitrary ranges of 'already processed' log/event/messa
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by vectorpush 11y ago
I'm guessing that by "real" he means "useful", as in it can be "used" to pay for things like medical bills, insurance, student loans, taxes, rent, utilities, groceries etc. Bitcoin is definitely "real
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by vectorpush 11y ago
> I'm saying it's disappointing everyone focuses on volatility, yet everyone dismisses the other advantages of Bitcoin. There are no advantages for the vast majority of people and the volatility disadvantage applies to anyone
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by vectorpush 11y ago
> He keeps going on about SQL not requiring it, but SQL requires it in every statement (the select clause). haha a string of SQL is not the same thing as a type constrained data structure. > I'd hate to be the one who has to m
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by vectorpush 11y ago
I actually agree with you and find that writing queries directly gives better performance, is much easier to debug, makes it easier to integrate more advanced database features (like stored procedures or non-standard features like postgres
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by vectorpush 11y ago
Ok, but what I'm saying is that I didn't have to enumerate any schema in this case. I understand the benefits of doing so, but it's sometimes desirable to just get something running rather than spend time mapping your ORM t
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by vectorpush 11y ago
> I don't find that creating types to make this contract explicit takes much time at all This depends on the complexity of your schema. In my case, I was dealing with a 230 table legacy application where some of the tables had as ma
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by vectorpush 11y ago
On the other hand, this behavior is quite nice if you want to quickly build something around an existing database and you don't really want to spend time reenumerating the entire schema in code before being able to leverage the ORM.
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by vectorpush 11y ago
Bitcoin and blockchain enthusiasts have been claiming that bitcoin (or etherum) is going to take the world by storm any day now, yet all I ever see anywhere are big claims (revolutionizing payments, disrupting remittance, ending wars, f
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by vectorpush 11y ago
In my experience, Ruby (particularly rubygems) is quite a pain in the ass with regard to package upgrades, especially when the previous developer/ops has leveraged rvm to install multiple combinations of ruby/gem versions. I can&#
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by vectorpush 11y ago
It was just a joke, but fair enough lol. edit: i'd just add that even though it's only a joke, a comment regarding (even if critical of) the language used to write the code is absolutely on topic.
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by vectorpush 11y ago
I wouldn't be so sure... it is written in coffeescript after all. God forbid.
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by vectorpush 11y ago
"Offchain" aka marketing speak for a standard relational database.
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by vectorpush 11y ago
> People used to think of Bitcoin as a safe heaven when else goes downhill I don't really think this is true. There might be some bitcoin enthusiasts who hold this view, but I haven't seen any evidence of this belief in the
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by vectorpush 11y ago
The Daniel Quinn novel Ishmael comes to mind.
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It's also been demonstrated that tumblers are not always reliable depending on the implementation and how they are used. There is also the risk that the tumbling service could be seized, hacked or operated by "unethical" indi
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by vectorpush 11y ago
> That seems to me to be more a decision for the search engine to make. I'd argue that it's absolutely the site owner's prerogative to determine which sections of the site can be indexed by a search engine.
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by vectorpush 11y ago
> Are you saying that it is safer to go to streets, than to order online? I fail to see how giving out your personal address to random strangers on the internet is somehow preferable to a face to face transaction that insulates the drug
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by vectorpush 11y ago
> So a more apt comparison would be a section that sells things that certain groups may find offensive - e.g., sex toys, confederate flags, bibles, guns[1] Not a great analogy since the subreddits that are analogous to the examples yo
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by vectorpush 11y ago
> Cue 1 year later where all your libraries have fallen behind and you want to integrate a new library which has dependancies on newer version of your outdated libraries. As I already stated, that's your problem, not the ecosyst
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by vectorpush 11y ago
> the ecosystem around Javascript is so densely layered and frequently changing that maintenance of any project over any significant period of time is going to be a nightmare I hear this sentiment often, but don't really see any t
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by vectorpush 11y ago
armchair musings of a layperson physicist/philosopher follow: the non-interference pattern is the optimized result of a deterministic universe that requires the observation to occur. The measurement didn't reach back in time, the
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by vectorpush 11y ago
template rendering validation routing modular business logic e.g. - calculate total interest paid over the life of the loan provided the client pays x per month etc etc
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by vectorpush 11y ago
Your argument is absurd. My point is really very simple. Poly-marriage is a function of the marriage structure while same-sex marriage is a function of the sex of individuals . persons_table: person_id, name, age, sex marriage
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by vectorpush 11y ago
> The difference between the number of participants vs the gender distribution of the participants is academic. That's incorrect. The difference is critical as it pertains to discrimination against a certain type of persons. Proh
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by vectorpush 11y ago
I don't have any moral objections to poly-marriage, but I don't think it's the same thing as gay marriage. Prohibition of gay marriage is rooted in the identity of individuals , but prohibition of polygamy is based on the

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