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I get the same impression. Relational with ACID guarantees can't be implemented in a distributed system. Depending on which guarantees you want to give up, you might be able to get close. A lot of newer platforms give up guarantees to achieve something like this.

But if you have multiple nodes that have to sync every transaction over a dedicated NIC, well, that's not a distributed system. It's just multiprocessing with extra latency.

Recreating Wushu using low-detail-ragdoll CGI is an offense against Wushu.

I think "respecting the art" is a fine way to describe his decision.

ROCOR's Lenten fast would make a more interesting study.

The tachycardia experienced by skydivers isn't the same sort of stimulation that exercisers are looking for. But it's an interesting thought.

Nah, this is probably BS.

If I had the resources of a government, I could bribe just about anyone who works for a living.

No, they're also abused in MCOL and LCOL areas. And they might be smart and skilled, but most of the ones I interviewed are lousy software engineers.

If we were talking about people with master's degrees from MIT or Stanford, it'd be a different ball game.

But I can't tell you how many candidates I've seen with something like a "Master of Science in Information Systems from the University of South Central Appalachia".

This move is cynical, in bad faith, and contrary to everything that makes the Internet useful.

And if they're trying to lose CDA 230, this is a great step toward convincing lawmakers who might have been on the fence.

Ridiculous distinction.

I can own content. I can print it or burn it to a DVD and give it to a friend. But I can't just send him a link?

Ridiculous.

I'll be cancelling and migrating away from Google as soon as I have a free weekend to identify alternatives and get it done.

Now to find a vanity email domain... My last name is taken, so brainstorming something that is professional and individualized could take longer than the migration...

> These people literally put their lives on the line for public safety.

This is true. It is also true that they don't need to lie to do their jobs.

For the record, I think they're pretty good at their jobs, and 99.999% of the time, they act justly. But they still don't need to lie.

Now maybe they can stop lying to adults, that is, if they want to earn back the public's trust.

> Your family member's instinct that his risks may be higher from the vaccine might be entirely in line with the reality.

Based on the VAERS data, this is probably the case for anyone under the age of 60.

It is definitely the case for anyone under the age of 30.

But everyone gets similarly bludgeoned with population-level data to convince them to make an individual-level decision. If you want to call them selfish, go for it. But they're not stupid.

> It's not mandatory, unless you consider restaurants and travel to be necessities one needs

Have you ever been to France?

Most in the cities live in tiny flats with insufficient space for gathering and dining. The bistro/brasserie/cafe is largely considered an extension of one's own living room.

Travel is also a normal part of life verging on necessity. Families travel for multiple weeks every summer. France even has a nationwide peer-to-peer lodging rental arrangement that predates Airbnb and Vrbo by decades: https://gitelink.com/

The lesson in this article is, if you drive a $50,000 automobile and can't afford to repair it after an accident, you should probably carry comprehensive insurance.

That's one way to keep Greece from defaulting or requiring a bailout every few years.

Please make this a hill that a large and vocal political group is willing to die on.

There are ways to prevent the desertification of the United States, and they don't involve PhDs and lobbying.

If American drug makers fired all the young ladies whose job is to bring coffee and donuts to your internist's office, and they stopped sending your internist away for golf weekends to learn more about why they should be prescribing Rosuvamax instead of Crestulon, I think they could probably bring costs in line with those in other countries...

I intentionally end a lot of sentences with an exclamation point because I have seen this problem and don't want to be perceived this way by colleagues. But in a short message, it can be half (or more) of the message! I probably end up coming off like a dog who's so excited he can't sit long enough to earn a treat!

They may have extraordinary potential, extraordinary problem-solving ability, extraordinary communications skills, and extraordinary critical thinking skills. They may be tremendously resourceful and almost entirely independent.

But all of these qualities only accelerate the learning process that happens in the real world. They don't replace it.

Edit: To be fair, given the choice, I'd rather have an MIT CS grad than some schmuck who barely squeaked through the MIS program at Big State U. But I'd take a good experienced dev over either of them.

It's like the WSJ, except for people who don't like big words.

VAERS has logged another 4,000-ish deaths since April 2021. Scary to think only 14% of those aren't a result of the vaccine.

> “I started observing people in quiet hours in retail stores, and people are just standing there bored. Or taxi drivers that have to wait sometimes for hours in quiet times in the countryside.”

As someone whose job keeps him constantly busy doing boring things, I envy the people in these examples.

This isn't true.

Fargate scales in minutes, not seconds. And it never scales to zero.

I've experienced 50 degrees Celsius in Las Vegas.

But then I stepped back into the air conditioning.

It was a cinch when I had an always-on Windows box. I'd make a request via Takeout, save it on my Drive, and the Backup and Sync app would automatically download it to my local copy of the drive. But that box is now running Ubuntu, and I haven't gotten around to replacing Backup and Sync with one of the other (non-free, non-Google) options.

Internally:

Every once in a while, I move VM images between machines. Even at 1Gbps, it's a drag to sit there and watch them transfer. Not really a big deal, but it'd be nice to see them move faster.

Externally:

I back up my Google Drive periodically. 500GB takes a while to transfer.

You know what might be a great add-on?

A tool to crawl all of the links within a website and submit each one of them to Wayback...

I'd be really surprised if at least a few of them aren't run for the benefit of state-level actors.

With innocuous taps in place, most of the employees of the VPN service could even be kept in the dark about its true purpose.

Reminds me of Crypto AG: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG

A guide is more important than ever. Information is properly assimilated through some mental schema. When teachers talk about teaching people "how to learn", they're talking about helping a student to form those schemata (as well as specific techniques, etc.)

> This puts aside all considerations of intel agencies doing this, as well.

This seems more plausible.

But still, you make a good point about the size of the reward. A low probability of success might be OK if the payoff is measured in billions.

It's almost certainly illegal, but I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know the specifics.