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Just like all drugs, but the downsides of criminalization have been obvious for decades. I don't see a solution that isn't all drugs being cheap and legal.

This is an English-speaking board where people have individualistic preferences so it isn't surprising that people default to an answer from private capital, but in Europe the government does this, and it works. Starting a company in the Netherlands was a breeze, and the tax breaks are very generous in the first few years.

Agreed on all points. I still think RDBM is over-used; it's the default in many shops for any minor micro-service.

It's like using a 20-piece multi-tool for something that only needs a regular kitchen knife.

> I would be surprised if this correlated with a large increase in derailments, as that would have a tremendous impact on average network speed and thus profit.

That would be true in a non-monopolistic situation, but it's well known from the investor side that what the railroads are doing around rates is driven by collusion and lack of regulation.

CSX stock was at $8 in 2016 and is at ~$33.50 now. There is no amount of throughput increase that could drive those financial results. You could lever up your cap structure with tons of debt (even 6-7x) and not even get close to this kind of return on equity.

Throughput doesn't matter when you have pricing power; in fact, abrupt drops in throughput make people even more desperate so that they can raise the freight rates even more.

> You see, relational databases aren’t dinosaurs. They aren’t lumbering prehistoric relics doomed to extinction by a changing world. They are sharks. Apex predators honed by millions of years of evolution into a perfectly adapted creature that is just as effective today as it was eons ago.

RDBM is optimized for file size; it is very much an artifact of its time, when hard drive space was limited. I don't buy it for a second.

People think in dictionaries, so just use one. If you are making a simple app and don't need transactions, aggregations, or multiple connections, then just use JSON in an S3 bucket or something. If you are going a step farther, JSON-based databases are quite feature complete these days. For monolithic business logic applications, relational databases are the right tool IMO, but they are used for every use case when they are absolutely not needed.

Controversial claim: Joins are a foot gun. It is so easy to make too many tables and mis-use unnecessarily complex table structures because it feels safe and "engineery" to do it. I don't know how many young startups I've seen that absolutely struggle with RDBM performance, and almost always they have gotten themselves into some horrible situation joining five tables deep with a spaghetti ERD and no clear pathway forward. It is hard to make the same mistakes with a JSON foundation.

Yeah I read the threads in my comments when I post, probably every 30 minutes.

I spent a lot of time in the Netherlands. Learned the language, worked at a bunch of startups, started my own company. It's certainly a big part of who I am, as you found out ;)

It's funny because I know you're American because of the obsession of going to different countries like you're collecting boy scout medals. Oh, and collecting ancestries too, since Soviet Hungary happened over 100 years ago? How does that mean anything?

And I talk like this because I'm young and it's fun, I was never a 4channer. It's why Elon Musk does it, you should try it. It does seem to work! And yeah, I would like to not be mean, but like you're making accounts to get around reply restrictions, it's kind of ridiculous

Who are you talking to? Why do you have two accounts? It's fun to speak my mind on an anonymous board, sorry if I hurt your feelings

> If the tax is enough to cover CO2 sequestration, where is the problem?

Because the technology doesn't yet exist. You are banking your children's future on a technology that may never come to pass.

The reality is that it doesn't matter. Most people don't hold the cards, the rich and influential do, even in the fairest countries. That effect is even more pronounced in the global South, the large majority of areas near the equator have higher entrenched income inequality than those farther away.

> Can a person from Kentucky and New York share beliefs ? Of course.

What I'm trying to say is that extremism boils down to the same flawed mental processes, whether you are left leaning or right leaning. Once your first culture is "broken" by being immersed in another one for long enough, you realize that it is all a matter of circumstance.

> Are we the same ? Women and LGBTQ+ people might disagree.

If you lived in the South, you might understand that women are the biggest enforcers of the status quo. You imply in a very simple way that it's not in their best interest, but it is, really.

If you are from a wealthy family, being a white woman in the American South is great. You have all the control in the world. It's not hard power, only soft power. But who cares? Your husband with all the hard power is wrapped around your finger... who cares about the recognition? It's a small price to pay for real control. You are also never expected to work, maybe part-time at a flower shop, or at charity fundraisers... you can even hire a nanny and still be a "stay-at-home mom". Who is saying this isn't a good deal?

No offence, everyone is the same in the United States. You talk of left and right but you're both playing the same ball game. I'm from the American South and I lived in Europe for four years with the rest in the Northeast US, so I do actually know. Just because people pick the different color team doesn't make them different than you.

The same unstable people in New York go hard left and the same unstable people in Mississippi go hard right... and the issues just don't matter. Identity politics are some random anti-boomer gotcha thing. Abortion isn't even a subject unless you're Roman Catholic because it's never mentioned in the New Testament... and uh, abortion is legal in Italy by the way. It's the lowest brow, dumbest nonsense you could ever imagine when you come back from living in the real world.

Ever heard of a different language? What about a dialect? How many dialects are there in, say, the Netherlands? Hundreds are commonly spoken, and they are not mutually intelligible. Histories thousands of years old, deep cultural divisions, and we're "the same"? Lol, read a textbook. Hop on a plane, please. For the love of god

Because Italy is an elderly care state with a hierarchy that is so rigid it might even impress the Japanese. No wonder everyone young leaves or becomes an extremist.

Lived in Europe for four years and come back to my resident American hellhole and now the gray-haired extremists stacked our highest court so they can ban abortion after they legalized it when they were young and in control of society... slowly but surely turning towards fascism as a last ditch attempt to create the world that they dreamed of in their childhood while talking about "love and peace"... funnily enough just like the old Russians currently throwing a tantrum because their precious dream the USSR died.

Scholz and co. are too self-centered to accept a hit to their economy in exchange for de-clawing the next Hitler. Rutte and co. are too greedy to allow for a deeper union. Macron has a business-friendly "mandate" despite only being elected for not being Le Pen. We are all tired of the largesse of the old and the few.

It's hard to believe that someone can write these sentences based solely on the OP's statement. You have no idea who this person is.

Sure, but have to understand that a limitation of language is that it doesn't convey perfect information. When someone says "anyone can do it", they mean that most people with full-blown "stuck in the house for years" social anxiety, can actually do it, and they meant nothing negative against those who are truly physically disabled. People summarize their thoughts when they speak and try to convey a picture that most people can understand; they are not trying to hurt anyone

but these are very rare things. The person you originally responded to did not mean anything against anyone who has these things. I've met many people in my life that were convinced they were unable to do things that they were quite capable of. Stephen Hawking was still quite expressive despite his limitations, although they did come later in life

You can. All the answers are in your childhood, but you may discover things that you won't be able to forget

> Fair point! I don't know that I have ever, anywhere, read any informal text or technical document that could communicate the nuances of body language effectively and entirely though

If you aren't neurotypical, then read ribbonfarm. Conflict, double meanings, soft and hard power, etc. will be hard to understand without it. Most body language isn't that serious, but conflict is normal and you'll have a much easier time understanding why someone else starts conflict with you. It's long; first two parts are probably enough but it is generally fairly compelling.

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...

This isn't the point the OP was trying to make and you know that. Lesson one: don't assume the worst about people and don't make hyperbolic arguments in order to be "right". You might have more in-person success that way.

> Not everyone understands or can engage in body language. Many people find it ancient inducing that their appearance and movements are under constant judgement. WFH is equalizing for them.

I find that people actually give away more with their body language over whatever conferencing software you may use. When you have all the portraits up on your screen, the little micro things are much easier to spot. I hope I didn't give you even more anxiety! We are just trying to see how people feel in order to manage the situation :)

If I had a nickel for every time the wikipedia link to whataboutism was the correct response to a hacker news comment, I would be rich

As stated elsewhere in the thread, northern Europe bucks this "trend" that the author sees. The nuclear family is as weak as it has ever been, christianity and its ideals are an afterthought, and people have never been happier.

> Second, pretty sure I’d argue the recent riots in Sweden would back up exactly the author’s theory around poorly behaved young males.

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

Front end complexity - Making applications isomorphic so you can re-use code on the client and server

Hacker News commenter: Ugh, why is this problem so over-engineered. It's completely unnecessary

Back end complexity - Two hour Google article from yesterday that goes through layers of C++ and raw assembly that results in a 2-3% speed up by basically using SIMD and turning off branch prediction

Hacker News commenter: Wow! So cool!

Lol why would I attempt a "conversation" with someone like this

Uhhh the generation that we call the Baby Boomers have been in control of their respective societies for over forty years. You can see the age (and the apathy, of course) in all of them. The worst (and oldest, of course) are Japan and Italy, but it's a bad problem everywhere.

I would support a maximum voting age, give the reins over to the next generation and let it go already.

Where is the lack of civility in my comment? It's okay to say that you dislike what someone said without projecting that discomfort onto them. Enjoy your civil discussions with people that aren't me

How are you going to make money as an entrepreneur if you are afraid to take risks? The risk/reward here is obviously good. You say this because you are scared of failure.

There's a lot to unpack here. Western Europe took in more immigrants than the United States did last year, by numbers and percentage. You could make an argument that illegal immigration tips that towards the US, but I don't think that's true.

> relatively ethnically homogeneous societies, which is what you see in Europe

So, this one. It's always hard to say because European countries don't measure "race" in the way that the US does. The concept of knocking on peoples' doors and asking them what race they are is absurd to the average European. It's funny because this discussion kind of lays clear that the concept is poorly defined and the American conception of "race" isn't really true. Other than the phenotypical differences between east asians, blacks, and red-haired whites; there is so much variance amongst the rest that there is hardly anything you could call a "race" if you mean a demonstrably different genetic phenotype.

If you think that the Netherlands is a white ethno-state, then I'm not sure what to tell you. It's not, not even close. Germany brought a million Syrians into its borders a few years ago. The only part of Europe that doesn't have large-scale immigration and white ethno-states is eastern Europe. Even Scandinavia has pretty large-scale immigration at this point, except for Finland (also not a part of Scandinavia really, but important to clarify). They need the people. If you've ever been to Oslo, it is very obvious why. The place is empty.

Yet the EU has better standards and works better for all citizens of the EU in comparison to the United States, despite the cultural and language barriers.

You could have definitely said this twenty years ago and I wouldn't have blinked an eye, but times change. They are doing it... technology and data help governments administrate more efficiently over large land masses. Italy and Germany also have similar federal systems and, again, work better together than we do, although Italy is probably somewhat compareable. At least they have culture lol