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Imagine someone offered you a house but the agreement was that you could only sell it for what you bought it for. I doubt you would buy it considering there are other options on the market where you could profit in the future. It's 100% speculation. It's part of the package.

When are you going to ban this user? Their username is sexual and offends me as a woman.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=MegaButts

Link should be changed.

You bought it to live in for 5 years and then you flipped it for more money than you bought it? That's the definition of successful speculation.

All homeowners are real estate speculators.

Wouldn't you also consider anyone buying a "starter home" a speculator? Their goal is to continuously flip their house.

Very good points MegaButts. Crypto is VC funded too. Hence the crazy market caps because most of the VC owned supply is locked up.

The business owns your data. Why would they delete it if they don't have to?

There's definitely perfect and perfect for the business. But when large companies have many developers they all have to do something. They will spend their time doing something unnecessary.

I would never suggest archiving unless we're hitting some performance limit. Why generate more busy work? Just leave it there and if need be add more indexes and partitions.

The use case for using the database here is overblown. I've never experienced of heard of anyone using a view for the users table. I suppose it may exist in the wild somewhere.

I wouldn't avoid Ruby features because the applications I develop are in Ruby and it would require a complete rewrite anyway. I avoid the database because there are development speed advantages to using Rails features. And everything works together nicely assuming you do things the Rails way.

https://github.com/rubysherpas/paranoia

> If a record has has_many associations defined AND those associations have dependent: :destroy set on them, then they will also be soft-deleted if acts_as_paranoid is set, otherwise the normal destroy will be called.

It's convenient.

There are Rails gems that can handle this in various ways.

But the easiest way is to deactivate the user account (is_active boolean) and continue to reference the user in internal records.

There are some Rails gems that take care of this by scoping associations (that also have the deleted_at column).

> Using views, stored procedures and other features lets you implement things like soft delete trivially, without it infecting all your application code.

That’s great but some of us actually like to write code. Especially Ruby on Rails where soft delete is a breeze if you don’t overthink it and build something the business doesn’t need.

Every Rails developer knows what “deleted_at” means. I’m absolutely repulsed at the thought of turning the users table into a view. What’s next? No code and we only use triggers?

Lack of support and poor attitude? That's the playbook for Tesla's FSD. So maybe it can work again?

The US government does not agree with China that the US army created SARS-CoV-2 in a lab. But every scientist and rational person also doesn't agree with China. You're going to have to update your definition.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/vaccines-c...

Or hang out in the bathtub all day. If you don't have a bathtub put your feet in a bucket of water.

Trying to get vaccinated at CVS.

China’s stance on Covid is that America is responsible. I’ll update with the wechat source when I find it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/vaccines-c...

Because what I claimed is so outrageous?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/vaccines-c...

I’ll find the wechat story when I’m more awake. ADV china covered it though.

They aren’t just going to surveil you though. They will actively work to promote disinformation to you.

What social media company in the US bans positive coverage of mRNA vaccines?

In the US algorithms ban content, often by mistake. In China a political official or someone working for the government reviews the content personally. Big difference.

The Chinese government censors posts on social media. It’s nefarious by design. Nothing like that happens with FAANG.

They ban them because they won’t censor factual information and won’t promote disinformation.

See how Chinese censorship applies to mRNA vaccine conspiracy theories. A person that debunked them was banned from wechat.

Do you see western governments doing this?

My parents live 4 miles from the nearest city in a rural area. Someone paid for a fiber line and my parents got a free install because it crossed the property. Before this they were using a microwave antenna and getting 10 megabit.

I got an email asking if I would be okay with $2 less after we agreed on an hourly rate over the phone.

I didn’t respond and moved on.

That's unfortunate. I've tried to reset the router but it still loads the old settings. Next time I go back to the US I'm going to bring back mesh routers.

If I asked my doctor about using a CGM as a runner that likes to eat fruits and vegetables he would look at me like I'm an idiot.

I imagine he would say, "So you aren't having any health issues and bought this $100 device anyway?"

People who get pre-diabetes or diabetes (type 2), well, it's usually because they are overweight or obese. There's just not a lot of people getting diabetes in a mysterious way.

Also, saturated fat is linked to diabetes. And cutting that out improves heart health anyway.

Because you have a right to view an article on medium?

I'm in an Airbnb and the access point has the same name for 5ghz and 2.4ghz. Apple doesn't let you manually switch. The only way I've found to switch when one is not working is to toggle the wifi on/off fifty times.

I think there must be some sort of crazy interference going on because I can literally be sitting right next to the router and 5ghz has about 5k of bandwidth available.