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MustardTiger··on Why we lost Uber as a user
Yes, and almost always used as pre-emptive optimization that didn't need to be done. Often times even making things slower because the person doing it didn't understand what they were doing, they just heard "denormalizing makes it fast".
MustardTiger··on Why we lost Uber as a user
User sessions is not an example of that, why would your user session have lots of indexes? And sessions don't belong in a database to begin with. I've never made a table like this in 15 years, and can't even think of a reason I would want to.
MustardTiger··on Why we lost Uber as a user
But that is largely incorrect advice, given based on the fact that mysql never implemented any reasonable join algorithms, just nested loops. It didn't apply to real databases.
MustardTiger··on How the food lobby fights sugar regulation in the EU [pdf]
"Googling it brings up things I don't like so I'll call them fabricated". What is fabricated about it exactly? This is a man who directly lies all the time. He claims "sugar is toxic" and "sugar is poison". These are both outright lies, and not claims any respected scientist would make. The data doesn't even support his modest claims, much less his poison lies. http://www.alanaragonblog.com/2010/01/29/the-bitter-truth-ab...
MustardTiger··on How the food lobby fights sugar regulation in the EU [pdf]
>There has been a lot written on the subject

Yes, there has been a lot written. And there is no evidence.

>but I would ask you to try staying away from processed foods and sugar for a few weeks and see if you feel better. It is an easy experiment to do.

95%+ of the food I eat comes from my property. There's nothing processed to cut out. I feel no different than I did when I was eating little ceasars pizza and coke every day for a year. This "experiment" is not an actual experiment, and would not support the claim in question even if it were.

MustardTiger··on How the food lobby fights sugar regulation in the EU [pdf]
>And Candida itself has quickly evolved to affect brain chemistry to induce people to eat more sugar.

There is no evidence to support this sort of chemtrail level conspiracy theory nonsense.

MustardTiger··on How the food lobby fights sugar regulation in the EU [pdf]
Canada has HFCS pop too.
MustardTiger··on How the food lobby fights sugar regulation in the EU [pdf]
The known fraud? Sure, look him up.
MustardTiger··on Cats, dogs starve as web-connected chow chute PetNet plays dead
Most cats who eat that way are massively overweight.
MustardTiger··on Is it ever a good idea to perform self-surgery?
Plumbing is super easy and very hard to mess up. There's no reason to be messing around with copper any more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-linked_polyethylene
MustardTiger··on Twitter's Fucked
He does, he is being deliberately dishonest to get attention. Ironic, given his criticism of twitter as a medium.
MustardTiger··on Twitter's Fucked
You are confusing freedom of speech with "the right to freedom of speech". Me restricting your freedom of speech is still restricting your freedom of speech, it is just legal and does not violate the first amendment. The government restricting your freedom of speech is not legal, and violates the first amendment.
MustardTiger··on Reddit is still in turmoil
"If too many people disagree with me, we need to kill them". How about no? There is nothing wrong with fascism, and suggesting that people whose political views differ from ones own are subhumans who need to be killed is pretty ironic coming from a supposed holocaust survivor.
MustardTiger··on How we broke PHP, hacked Pornhub and earned $20k
I don't know how to be any more clear. Monads are not an example, that is the point. It is like saying in python "Given that all user input/state already has to be handled carefully (for ex: with dictionaries)." It is nonsense.
MustardTiger··on OpenBSD 6.0, to be released September 1
So "pkg_add gcc" then?
MustardTiger··on How we broke PHP, hacked Pornhub and earned $20k
>Not sure what it being a "general interface" has to do with that

I was explaining what monads are. You have read some of the weird misconceptions about haskell and monads and are now repeating them.

MustardTiger··on How we broke PHP, hacked Pornhub and earned $20k
>I'm curious if Haskell's purity helps developers focus on this issue and therefore makes it easier to mitigate

No, haskell's type system does, not its purity.

>Given that all user input/state already has to be handled carefully (for ex: with monads)

What? Monads are not some mythical beast, there is nothing "handled carefully" about it. A monad is just a general interface.

MustardTiger··on Reddit is still in turmoil
Yes, but they were not a boogeyman, like I said. Where you can just say "you are a nazi!" to shut down any discussion of anything you please. There's a difference between "some people didn't like them" and being a boogeyman.
MustardTiger··on Reddit is still in turmoil
>You mean subreddits like /r/european and /r/truecels?

"Many" means many, not all.

MustardTiger··on Reddit is still in turmoil
Pie is not a fruit, please take your sexist opinion back to facebook.
MustardTiger··on Reddit is still in turmoil
It is always amazing how consistently people will lie about what reddit is "full of" when anyone can just look at the site and see they are lying. Reddit is overflowing with BLM and islamic terrorist apologists, and we're supposed to believe reddit is all nazi KKK grand wizards.
MustardTiger··on Reddit is still in turmoil
Every single thing you said is incorrect. Reddit ranked high when searching for jailbait, that does not mean jailbait was the largest search that brought people to reddit. The "toxic culture" predates the jailbait sub. And stormfront does not recruit on reddit, reddit recruits for stormfront. The insane, dishonest, censorious leftism that runs rampant on reddit is driving people to become racist, and sexist, and homophobic, etc etc. If you are going to be accused of it no matter what, you tend to start resenting the people you are constantly accused of hating. And they ban subs that brigade. Quarantines kill subs constantly, it doesn't help them. Also many of the subs being punished are in no way vile. They are just too popular and not leftist.
MustardTiger··on Reddit is still in turmoil
No, in particular since neither national socialism nor fascism was a boogeyman then.
MustardTiger··on Reddit is still in turmoil
No, we're not. We're talking about everything from center left libertarians to plain old conservatives. It is just that far left authoritarians call them nazis because that is the easiest way to dismiss people they disagree with.
MustardTiger··on Reddit is still in turmoil
>Twitter's problem isn't quite the same as Reddit's. It's because the site is incredibly inconsistent with its moderation.

That is the same. Both are absolutely terrible at consistency. They both have very clear and obvious "protected" groups who can violate the rules with impunity.

MustardTiger··on How I Could Steal Money from Instagram, Google and Microsoft
But the phone company requires ID and bank info to obtain a premium number. And then when you do this, google calls them to complain, and phone company terminates your account, keeps the money, and reports you to the police for fraud. Doesn't seem like a very good exploit.
MustardTiger··on AutoMicroFarm is now open-source
>You do realize that not all water goes to the plants you're targeting, right? Some of it will run off and/or water other plants that you're not harvesting. That was my point about the water.

Yes. And that does not matter at all, which is what I said.

>The burden of proof is on you to prove that virtually all gardeners have sprinklers (the automated ones, anyway... we were discussing automated irrigation systems).

You said they don't have irrigation systems, not that they aren't automatic.

>And even in that case, you need to get rid of the nitrogen build up somehow: either frequent water changes, or bio-filtration (which is a form of aquaponics).

Trying to pretend normal aquatic plants existing in a normal pond is the same as your aquaponics system, and thus your system "wins" is disingenuous in the extreme.

>Sure, it's cheaper when you have organic waste available for free in a convenient fashion (i.e. not something you have to haul from your city's waste center).

How is hauling it from your city's waste center more expensive than your $500 setup exactly? A truck rental is $20.

>If you want to grow fish and veggies in your backyard, aquaponics really is the best choice.

For some people it may be, but this insistence on making unsupported sweeping claims reeks of snakeoil salesmen. I grow fish and veggies. It costs me $0. How would your system be better?

MustardTiger··on AutoMicroFarm is now open-source
>But, you won't get fish

Yes, of course fish is the actual difference. Although you can obviously just stock a pond with fish anyways.

>Also, your irrigation system must be fine-tuned to deliver just enough water to the plants you are growing, so it doesn't drain to other plants that you did not have any intention of watering.

No it doesn't. Even in drought areas the amount of water needed to water a garden is negligible as long as you don't make the mistake of leaving it bare earth.

>In any case, this is a moot point, because most gardeners do not have irrigation systems

Virtually all of them do, they are called sprinklers.

>And if you're just starting out, there is no guarantee you will have good soil

That's true, especially in modern subdivisions where they scrape off the top soil, sell it, and then back fill with clay excavated for the basement, leaving you with no soil and a thin layer of sod that needs constant watering to survive. But I think it is still cheaper to just do a normal garden. All you need is some organic waste to pile up in layers, no need to try to fix the clay below, just ignore it: http://organicgardening.about.com/od/startinganorganicgarden...

MustardTiger··on AutoMicroFarm is now open-source
None of those benefits are really accurate though. Automated irrigation is very simple and has been around for a long time. The difference in water usage is negligible, most people don't use a significant amount of water on their gardens to begin with, and using a cover crop or just leaving the weeds alone instead of pulling them out for no reason largely eliminates evaporation losses. I have seen no studies that support the idea that plants grow better. Only deliberately misleading claims from people selling aquaponics systems that compare to soil with no fertilizer or too little water. Hence claims like yours: "they have easier access to nutrients and plenty of water". Those things are both fine in traditional gardens unless you choose to make them not fine.
MustardTiger··on New haskell-lang.org
>I am engaging in good faith

That is very hard to believe consider the amount of dishonest rhetoric on display.

>I said that if you are engaged in bad faith, and if you will persist in doing so, you need to GTFO

You did not. You said if I continue I need to GTFO. I am not engaging in bad faith, I am being honest and clear, and you are respond with ridiculous strawman attacks.

>If you're in the bay area, I'll buy you a beer (or social equivalent).

I'm in a very different bay area than the one I assume you refer to. I do not see any reason why text is a problem. You simply need to read the words I write and respond to that, rather than read then, make up an imaginary version of me, give that imaginary version of me a bunch of other opinions you don't like, and then respond to those.

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