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monus21on Japan has changed in important and visible ways

This has little to do with economics.

Age 0-18: You are under the care of society.

Age 18-60: You are a productive member of society.

Age 60+: You are under the care of society again.

This is always how humans have lived.

monus21on What’s in a PR statement: LastPass breach explained

I use this and it's convenient but the fact that Google can wipe out my entire digital identity on a whim scares me.

monus21on UK food price inflation hit 16.2% in October – cost of food basics surging

> It’s not clear to me _why_ this has happened

I always assumed it was a combination of WW II, collapse of the Empire and then a series of terrible governments since the 1960s.

monus21on Why did Heroku fail?

A compelling successor to both Heroku and App Engine is Google Cloud Run. Dead simple to setup, no frills and cheap to run.

monus21on What keeps earth from collapsing in on itself? (2010)

Yes but after exceeding ~2 solar masses (Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff limit) the neutron star will undergo further collapse to form a black hole.

monus21on 1.7M Hondas are being investigated for phantom braking

A good number of their engine components these days are made of cheap plastic that just disintegrates after slight use.

monus21on Show HN: No-code alternative to Retool, Appsmith, Internal, etc.

Love dbeaver. The cloud version is cloudbeaver.io

monus21on In defense of flat earthers (2020)

So nature is essentially hedging bets. I wonder if this is unique to the human species?

monus21on I'm getting tired of modern meme culture

Tldr - The author likes some memes and doesn't like others. I'm not sure why this warrants a blog post.

monus21on How JavaScript Works: deep dive into call, apply, and bind

Cool, I never knew that

monus21on How JavaScript Works: deep dive into call, apply, and bind

My one annoyance with these is that they aren't supported in Typescript i.e no return types.

monus21on The terrifyingly prescient ‘Serial Experiments Lain,’ 20 years later (2018)

Yeah, I know what you mean. I've read far too many isekai manga/manhwa than I should have (not super into anime).

Shield Hero was good but FFF-Class Trashero probably tops the lot for me. Really good storytelling and incredible character development.

monus21on SQLAlchemy 1.4

Thank you as always zzzeek for the hard work.

monus21on Why is OOP still so widely spread?

It's funny that this applies to not just programming but a bunch of other stuff like politics and religion.

monus21on RPC Olympics – The Search for the Perfect RPC Protocol

I have a similar implementation of RPC over AMQP in Node.js and 2 things i'd advise. (Similar to my sibling poster)

1) Don't requeue on error. One bad message could bring down your entire service. Better to just push it to Sentry and make a fix for it.

2) Have a timeout in your message handler.

monus21on 600k concurrent websocket connections on AWS using Node.js (2015)

It's not about which is the best technology. The barrier to entry for Node.js is next to nothing and the size of the ecosystem is incomparable to Elixir. Which means tons of companies will go with Node and feed back to the ecosystem and so on...

monus21on New species of ancient human discovered in the Philippines: Homo luzonensis

Also see the brilliant anime Terra Formars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_Formars

monus21on Coin found off northern Australia may be from pre-1400 Africa

It's more of the Portuguese Empire collapsed otherwise they'd still be around till today. FYI, the Arabs in question here were the Omani Sultanate who operated a gigantic slave trade on the East African coast.

monus21on PostgreSQL 11 Released

I used to work in enterprise. There's nothing I miss more than Oracle's automatic partition management.

monus21on Geothermal Energy Production Heats Up

In my country geothermal power plants are run by a state corporation. It's definitely not as easy to scale but in an ideal world I would have it over fossil fuels.

monus21on Worries Grow That the Price of Bitcoin Is Being Propped Up

I can see this happening. Sucks for everyone who bought in at $18K.

monus21on Worries Grow That the Price of Bitcoin Is Being Propped Up

So what is the likely outcome of the fallout of Tether and Bitfinex? I'm guessing the price of Bitcoin will fall drastically?

monus21on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2013)

SEEKING WORK - Remote (Kenyan resident)

Experienced software developer with a history of successful deployments especially for startups. I've worked on a lot of things: websites & web apps, mobile apps,sms platforms. I like using stuff like:

  * Python (App Engine, Flask, Django)
  * Javascript (Backbone), HTML, CSS
  * Java
  * Android
  * MySQL, PostgreSQL
  * Git

Also, If you want a simple proof-of-concept I'd love to get in touch.

Linkedin: http://linkedin.com/in/samkariu/

Github: http://www.github.com/samkariu

Mail: skariu21 at gmail dot com

monus21on Kenya May Be Primed For Wide-Scale Bitcoin Adoption

The OP has made some huge assumptions here but MPESA, even with all its social and economic benefits, only got to where it is today because of Vodafone's deep pockets.Don't really see a similar Bitcoin champion emerging in these parts.

monus21on Serve Your Music Collection Using HTML5, Backbone, and Flask

No I don't.I'm using the Drive API https://developers.google.com/drive/ which is free.I'm still very much testing it out but there's a lag in retrieving tags.I'm curious though how it works for you now?

monus21on Serve Your Music Collection Using HTML5, Backbone, and Flask

cool.I made one that streams from Google Drive on top of App Engine using Backbone. http://tunebanda.com