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buckbovaon A Co-Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks (2011)

Doesn't appear this was intended as an idea to build software from, but a proof on how SQL vs noSQL is really SQL and coSQL.

buckbovaon Ask HN: Why don't we have tags on HN?

Looks great actually.

For the same reason I leave every community (namely digg and reddit), I'll have to leave this one.

Far too much politics and I get sucked right in. I find myself reading and commenting on stuff that's a complete waste of time and energy.

It's great that HN added "hide" at least. Nice way to quickly remove these politically motivated articles.

Does anyone know how to delete my account here?

edit: Just requested an account over at lobsters, but'll just lurk if I'm denied.

buckbovaon Some Uber drivers make so little, they have to live in their cars

The argument they're making is at one point the drivers were making more money and could afford to buy a new vehicle or whatever. Then because of fare reductions and therefore reductions in pay they're now saddled with debt and can't afford housing.

buckbovaon Why Single-Payer Health Care Saves Money

Yes. We'll go with "dearth of resources." Thanks.

buckbovaon Why Single-Payer Health Care Saves Money

"Americans will die needless deaths"

when they're on long wait lists for procedures because of a glut on resources

when they no longer have access to the high quality care they once had

when there's a greater shortage of quality nurses and doctors because of diminished pay

when innovation is stifled because R&D is funded by the government

buckbovaon Why Single-Payer Health Care Saves Money

> In the meantime, Americans will die needless deaths from not receiving basic healthcare

No, it's the typical appeal to emotion nonsense that got the ACA passed to begin with. Now that's going to fail before it's even completely applied.

buckbovaon Why Single-Payer Health Care Saves Money

> Americans will die needless deaths

First off everyone dies. Who's not receiving healthcare right now that would be ultimately saved by the government?

Secondly let's cut the hyperbole and have a rational conversation about this.

buckbovaon [dead]

Dupe.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14744560

buckbovaon Build a Serverless Web Applicaion

Has anyone used RDS from lambda? Don't want to use Dynamo but perhaps for some key Val store.

buckbovaon The Uninhabitable Earth

And in 20 years there'll be a whole new set of doomsday predictions and this'll be forgotten.

https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=earth%20day%20do...

buckbovaon U.S. Malaria Donations Saved Almost 2M African Children

Majority is truly just that, benevolent aid. You want to spin some tall tales conspiracy then let's see some citation on the matter.

http://www.care.org/our-impact/usaid-technical-project-brief...

Sure American companies benefit, sure there's some fraud, sure some of it is a foreign policy decision in the US best interests. But a lot of good is done.

buckbovaon U.S. Malaria Donations Saved Almost 2M African Children

To Israel it's military spending.

https://explorer.usaid.gov/cd/ISR

It's not a secret.

buckbovaon Common Data Structures Explained with Videos and Exercises

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2_aWCzGMAwI3W_JlcBbtYT...

Some more decent data structure vids.

buckbovaon U.S. Malaria Donations Saved Almost 2M African Children

Then why must Africa receive millions in aid from the West every single year? Why can't they help themselves?

http://www.chronicle.co.zw/one-million-receive-food-aid

In 2015, the U.S. provided more than $8 billion in assistance to 47 sub-Saharan countries; and USAID maintains 27 regional and bilateral missions in Africa.

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/foreign-policy/323198-...

buckbovaon A JavaScript browser library fails due to an adblocker blacklisting 'beacon.js'

Good excuse to refactor I'm sure.

buckbovaon Others are speaking up about discrimination at Tesla

> The cons being you are fired (which probably would have happened anyways) or you are outed as a false accuser (very hard to prove in the realm of public opinion).

And probably never getting hired again, at least by any reasonably rational male hiring manager. Too much risk.

buckbovaon TDD did not live up to expectations

Seems a little arrogant to say most developers don't know how to refactor or do it poorly. Maybe it's true. I really can't say one way or the other because what I see is most devs believe they don't have time to refactor.

buckbovaon Internal documents shed light on the guidelines that Facebook’s censors use

> Now the German government is considering legislation that would allow social networks such as Facebook to be fined up to 50 million euros if they don’t remove hate speech and fake news quickly enough.

As an American I can't imagine being arrested for speaking my mind about a race or religion whether it's considered hate speech or not. It's just unfathomable. Thanks to our forefathers for putting free speech on such a pedestal and our government for upholding it for 200+ years.

This can't end well shutting people up like this.

> German police raided 36 homes over social media hate speech

https://www.engadget.com/2017/06/22/german-police-raided-36-...

buckbovaon How I learned to code in my 30s

> Why should that be noteworthy?

Because there's perceived ageism in this industry, so saying you're just getting started in your 30's is interesting.

buckbovaon Moderate drinking associated with atrophy in brain related to memory, learning

Haven't you heard of culling the herd? Meaning, in this case, deliberately killing off weaker brain cells to make the brain as a whole work faster.

buckbovaon Moderate drinking associated with atrophy in brain related to memory, learning

CS Monitor shoots pretty straight https://www.csmonitor.com/.

buckbovaon Zillow forces McMansion Hell to delete posts

> Especially the kitchen with its "update"

Wow. I really expected you were exaggerating but it really is terrible. There's not much square footage why the hell didn't they put in new cabinets at least?

buckbovaon Ask HN: Code examples to find out if a person is addicted to “overengineering”

Don't agree with the approach because using a proven solution can be superior and net a simpler code base than rolling your own.

Fyi, by using webpack, couple loaders, babel, etc I net 100s of dependencies just for the build. Ymmv.

buckbovaon Silicon Valley Women Tell of VC’s Unwanted Advances

Looks like a shame piece for this fellow Justin Caldbeck. Was he given a chance to respond and is that in the article?

buckbovaon Silicon Valley Women Tell of VC’s Unwanted Advances

> No subscription? You’re missing out.

Ha. I'm not exactly in the know but this is the first I've ever heard of theinformation.com.

buckbovaon Venture investors blast US decision to withdraw from Paris Climate Accord

Uh huh.

Paris agreement is non-binding.

China has no obligation for 20 years.

It's not ratified by Congress.

Nothing from agreeing to this was going to affect your descendants other than draining American coffers of billions.

buckbovaon Venture investors blast US decision to withdraw from Paris Climate Accord

> Ultimately the only consequence of the move is optical and political.

Exactly. More faux outrage.

buckbovaon WA, NY and CA Governors Announce Formation of United States Climate Alliance

> because it's something that the entire planet and most Americans believe is a huge problem

The problem is even if I believe this statement (which I don't), the proposed solutions are government power grabs and wealth redistribution.

buckbovaon Trump quits Paris climate accord, calling it a “bad deal” for the U.S

> US will give billions if it continues to pollute. Why not stop ruining our planet instead

Completely wrong. This is why all this outrage is nonsense. Nobody took the time to read the fine points.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/12/12/459502597/...

$100 Billion

"To help developing countries switch from fossil fuels to greener sources of energy and adapt to the effects of climate change, the developed world will provide $100 billion a year," NPR's Chris Joyce, who has been covering the climate conference, reports.

But that amount is identified as a "floor," not a ceiling.

"Developed countries won inclusion of language that would up the ante in subsequent years," Chris explains, "so that financial aid will keep ramping up over time."

buckbovaon Trump quits Paris climate accord, calling it a “bad deal” for the U.S

Read the agreement. The US would be giving billions to other countries yearly as part of this agreement. Of course every country on the receiving end is joining!