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lurker458on IQ rates are dropping in many developed countries

better insulation leading to poorer indoors air quality ? put enough people in a closed room and CO2 will build up quickly leading to drowsiness, slower thinking, etc.

lurker458on I'm one of the inventors of RSS and I need your help to reboot the Internet

Do you feel you're sufficiently qualified to make that call on behalf of all your users ?

lurker458on Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5M people's email contacts without consent

You can add willingness to switch to electronic voting to that list. It's sad how many people don't understand the danger.

lurker458on The Mysterious Disappearance of Fan Bingbing, the World’s Biggest Movie Star

trading is suspended once it hits the threshold

lurker458on A backyard mechanic who is taking on Tesla

This already has been decided, and the decision was against the automakers trying to hold a monopoly on aftermarket repairs. They're not allowed to restrict parts or knowledge from third party mechanics.

lurker458on Humans who are not concentrating are not general intelligences

If you're one of the downtrodden, the belief in heaven and hell exists can be a great comfort. You're a good person (even though you suffer now) and will go to heaven while your oppressors (who now lead the good life) will go to hell.

lurker458on Netflix Posted Biggest-Ever Profit in 2018 and Paid $0 in Income Taxes

Don't outlaw lobbyists, outlaw accepting handouts of any form during, after or shortly before being in the senate or congress. They are already compensated for this by getting a generous retirement package.

lurker458on Ursula K. Le Guin Was a Creator of Worlds

The Three Body Problem is famous mainly because it criticizes the Chinese government. it also suffers from a poor translation to English.

lurker458on Add limits to amount of JavaScript that can be loaded by a website

the ability to restrict cpu and memory consumption per page would make more sense

lurker458on It’s Time to Move on from Two Phase Commit

True, but it's O(n^2) complexity instead of O(n) complexity (1000 shards would lead to 1M reads instead of 4k)

If they're not persisted at the receiving side, how does it handle a crash before committing on the receiving node ? Keeping previous versions indefinitely on sending nodes to permit requesting the old values doesn't work, so this introduces a time bound on how long a crashed node has to recover (granted, this could still mean weeks)

lurker458on It’s Time to Move on from Two Phase Commit

Is the cost of doing these remote reads worth the savings in this case ? After all to be correct, they need to run in the same transaction at the sending side and need to be persisted at the receiving side. Also, consider the effort if this gets scaled up to 10 cases (each node would have to do 9 remote reads)