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velodrome··on SailsJS 1.0 – Rails-like JS Framework
It is very easy to learn and is similar to Laravel.
velodrome··on SailsJS 1.0 – Rails-like JS Framework
How is this compared to FeathersJS?
velodrome··on Toyorm – ORM for Go
> I think sqlx is good enough for most

sqlx is nice but I wish it had query logging.

velodrome··on Gokrazy: A pure-Go userland for Raspberry Pi 3 appliances
This is a repost from last year:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13792287

velodrome··on The Glory That Was Yahoo
Yahoo could not decide whether it was a technology company or media company...
velodrome··on China will soon have air power rivalling the West’s
This is the closest "known" interaction:

U.S. F-22 stealth fighter pilot taunted Iranian F-4 Phantom combat planes over the Persian Gulf

https://theaviationist.com/2013/09/19/f-22-f-4-intercept/

velodrome··on It is possible to detect and block Chrome headless
Bots (scraping, etc) passing as legitimate users.
velodrome··on More than 94% of net new electricity capacity in the USA from renewables in 2017
> An example is Germany (9.2 metric ton per capita) which decided to shutdown their nuclear facilities.

Yes, they replaced it with coal plants...

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-11-14/germany-i...

velodrome··on More than 94% of net new electricity capacity in the USA from renewables in 2017
> I just don't see how nuclear has a bright future in any regard.

How about in space or on other planets?

> And while nuclear is certainly much less CO2 intensive than any fossil-fuel source even a pro-nuclear body's publication shows that wind produces approximately as much CO2/GWh over an installations lifetime as nuclear does.

And what if it's not windy?

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Keep in mind, almost ALL the nuclear power plants built are based on 1950-1960s technology (designed for naval applications). That would be like comparing solar panels from that era with the panels designed/produced today. There is no comparison.

velodrome··on More than 94% of net new electricity capacity in the USA from renewables in 2017
No money going towards nuclear....

If people were serious about ACTUALLY reducing carbon emissions, then baseload power production would be nuclear.

Please look at France as an example.

France: 5.0 metric tons per capita (2013)

US: 16.4 metric tons per capita (2013)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...

Nuclear power is the largest source of electricity in the country, with a generation of 416.8 TWh, or 76.3%[2] of the country's total production of 546 TWh, the highest percentage in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France

velodrome··on Kodak shares up as it announces KODAKCoin cryptocurrency
Is your stock down? Don't worry, create or invest in a cryptocoin and profit...It's cheaper than a stock buyback.
velodrome··on California Introduces Its Own Bill to Protect Net Neutrality
I wish ISPs billed like a utility. Something like $10 connection fee + 10-15 cents per GB.

This will force bandwidth hogs to self-regulate. If you have the ability to purchase 4k/8k TVs, then you should be responsible for the associated streaming costs and not have others subsidize it.

Also, NN does nothing to foster competition - the real problem. All we have are a bunch of local monopolies/duopolies.

velodrome··on Shanghai sets population at 25M
Maybe, this is their way of directing people into the vacant "ghost" cities.
velodrome··on The State of JavaScript 2017
I agree.
velodrome··on The State of JavaScript 2017
Angular 5.x?
velodrome··on The State of JavaScript 2017
Angular should be noted as AngularJS.

https://angularjs.org/

Angular 2 should be noted as Angular.

https://angular.io/

velodrome··on Litecoin and Ethereum buys and sells are temporarily disabled
Perri-Benzene

http://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/10/us/perrier-recalls-its-wat...

velodrome··on Litecoin and Ethereum buys and sells are temporarily disabled
A+ for transparency.
velodrome··on Show HN: Sandglass – Distributed, scalable, persistent time-sorted message queue
How does this compare with NATS?
velodrome··on Jim Cramer says Snap shouldn't be a public company due to its low earnings
No, it will get delisted from the exchange at $1.

https://finance.zacks.com/nasdaq-delisting-rules-7450.html

I think Blue Apron (APRN) listed too early. It's currently at $3 (from $10 at IPO).

By the way, why would you take financial advice from someone who spends 5 seconds thinking about your investment idea.

"Bear Sterns is fine!" @ $60 -> $4 (3 days later)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6u1kG7yuy4

velodrome··on San Francisco Is Losing Its Great, Inexpensive Restaurants
Agreed. If there are more men in the city, women should have more selection.

However, the diversity of men may be limited (e.g. they are all software engineers...). It would be like going to Baskin-Robbins and all they had was various types of strawberry ice cream.

velodrome··on Bitcoin is fiat money, too
How does Bitcoin work offline? Let's say the world goes to hell (assume internet has been taken offline) and we need to trade using a form of trusted currency.

Just curious...

velodrome··on Why competition in the politics industry is failing America [pdf]
> The problem is our obsolete voting system which effectively prohibits a third party from winning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_on_Presidential_Deb...

Multiple lawsuits have been filed by third-party candidates challenging the CPD's policy of requiring a candidate to have 15% support in national polls to be included in presidential debates. While the lawsuits have challenged the requirement on a number of grounds, including claims that it violates Federal Election Commission (FEC) rules and that it violates anti-trust laws, none of the lawsuits has been successful.

velodrome··on Why competition in the politics industry is failing America [pdf]
> The duopoly controlling today’s political competition has no accountability for results.

Sums it up perfectly...

velodrome··on China Makes Chat Group Administrators Criminally Liable for Unlawful Messages
China is an export driven economy. If a crash were to come, it would be because of a sudden lack of trade (e.g. 2008). Chinese companies are already heavily levered.
velodrome··on Americans Losing Faith in College Degrees, Poll Finds
> A large part of the reason my country (Denmark) is as rich as it is because of education

No, it is because they have marketable (in demand) skill(s).

If the whole country received a degree in history, would Denmark be as rich as it is today? They have an "education" right?

velodrome··on A Thorium-Salt Reactor Has Fired Up for the First Time in Four Decades
This technology, if viable, could help solve our current nuclear waste problem. Valuable materials could be recycled (by separation) for additional use.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reprocessing#Pyroproce...

https://youtu.be/oAVCaUonrbE?t=12m7s

velodrome··on Go vs .NET Core in terms of HTTP performance
* > One of the commenters on the original article (https://medium.com/@tarthedark/did-a-custom-bench-between-ht...) changed a few lines of the C# to use some different ASP.NET facilities which more than doubled the reqs/sec and dropped the std dev of latency by 2/3. That provides some evidence that it wasn't really an apples-to-apples comparison. *

It might be intentional. The author of this article is also the the author of the golang Iris framework. Normally I would not automatically discount the benchmark but the author is a well-known bad actor in the golang community.

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/57w79c/why_you_real...

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/57tmp1/why_you_shou...

velodrome··on Google’s War Over the Sexes
Sayeret Matkal, like all elite units, is closed to women. [1]

But it’s difficult to claim that women are equals in the IDF (even the IDF admits that less than 4 percent of women are in combat positions). Many are in “combat-support” positions that can involve anything from opening the gate of the army base to cleaning guns—and which, by the way, command a lower salary than combat positions. And tellingly, there is only one female general in the entire IDF. [1]

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/08/ga...

velodrome··on Show HN: Is the stock market going to crash?
> Bitcoin is legitimately seen as an alternative to gold.

Bitcoin may be an alternative to gold but it is not the same.

1) Gold has intrinsic value.

2) Gold is a tangible asset.

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