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> what we have today in the west is definitely not democracy

On the metric of "people power", do you think people in the east have it any better?

Just for the record. Is Russia a foreign adversary of the USA as-of today?

Oh yeah "immigration". Can't wait for the immigration discourse in 10 years time, when people all over the world, rich and poor, christian, muslim and jew, white and black, are being displaced because they're homes are literally uninhabitable because the frequency of out of control weather events has gone up.

Will you allow "climate refugees" into your neighbourhood? Will you be a climate refugee yourself?

> not an ally like the UK

Let's see how long that lasts.

Please do let me know where I can live that is guaranteed to be safe from unexpected natural disaster.

In all seriousness, "thankyou for your service".

I'm an absolute middling athlete. In my 40s. Half a life spent at a desk. And then I picked up a bit of running/cycling as one does. And joined a local club, and became absolutely inspired by the people of all ages at the club entering competitions, doing big feats of endurance. Just for the love of the sport, or the thrill of achieving something difficult.

I'm still a middling athlete but now one that makes sure to fit in a bit of exercise each week and continues to make solid progress. So even if you haven't won any medals, you've likely inspired someone into making changes for the better.

> There is a lot of value in being close for many tasks!

horseshoes and hand-grenades?

The thing is, most GUIs by necessity involve fairly deep hierarchies of graphical objects so you're either going to have deeply nested calls like this, or you're going to scatter the fragments across a number of files in a way that they need to be reassembled in the reader's head in order to understand what's going on.

There was a single victim in Depp vs Herd.

The problem with saying a thing and then assuming that people know you really mean another thing, is that some people will believe you the first time (because it's what they wanted to hear) and not be happy until you've delivered it.

See Brexit for how that all pans out.

There's another Clojure rules library worth considering. It has a section in the README about why you might prefer it to Clara.

https://github.com/oakes/odoyle-rules

So funny to watch the US competing with China to be the most authoritarian state.

14ft. Similar to 13ft but implemented in Rust.

Doing this does not preclude publishing that kind of metadata as part of the build/deploy process.

Apparently not a "real proverb" for those as gullible as me who assumed it was :-)

There was a tech talk many years ago when one of the github engineers talked about how fast the github CI tests were (this was way before the microsoft aquisition). Literally seconds. I wonder if they're still that fast.

> the hedgehog is too proud a bird to fly without a kick

Say what you will about Russia but I do love their proverbs.

> Alas, a pipe dream.

Or "tube" dream as it were.

antisemitism "is a passing phase in the history of culture"

https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2012/apr/10/ency...

"like" aka "similar to", aka "shares some features"

An advance is "like" a loan because in both cases, the money is expected to be paid back by the person or group of people who receives it. There's lots of differences. Repayment terms. Exit clauses. Interest rates etc. But seems pedentic to say that the advances offered to musicians are not like loans they take so that they may have a claim on the future revenues of the sales produced by their work.

I don't understand why we're supposed to have more empathy and compassion for people who happened to be born inside some arbitrary line someone drawn hundreds of years ago.

Especially when some of the people born inside our borders had a hand in creating these non-natural disasters that cause so many to flee their homes.

Rich Hickey's talk about "growth" (as opposed to change) of software systems is a good one for this.

Tldr: ok to add things. Not ok to remove things or change things

Maybe a public service dating app makes sense. The alignment of incentives are all wrong for private dating apps. They obviously lose when you find someone and pair up so they're incentivised not to find a match.

You think it's unethical to work at a company and then later create a copy of what the company does. Fairchild Semiconductors would like a quiet moment with you.

Does it still seem unethical if the proposition is inverted? What if a company figures out they no longer need your skills and/or labour. Is it unethical for them to lay you off? What if they actually had to do some work behind your back in order to figure out how to do this?

What do you think about a company that offers people a home for their digital creativity, and then uses that creativity to build technology that makes the skills and network their "users" have acquired over their lives worthless.

You'd expect the users to adapt to the situation, find new skills and get on with their lives right? Which is exactly what replit should do instead of sueing. Apparently they are well funded now so it should be a problem.

Probably not. Which is why the rest of the population should fund their (very modest) consumption until they're ready to be productive again rather than force them into some risky low paid job like delivering pizzas on a push bike so they can generate profits for investors who use those profits to heat their swimming pools and cool down their massive houses. Or lately plough into AI planet heating credits.

The population-level extinction event is coming if we don't change course.

Sshhh. Noone tell the proles that it's perfectly natural to have a bit of slack where many individuals in complex systems are doing nothing and, far from being a leech on society, it is actually essential to keeping the overall system alive.

I couldn't care less about whatever hyped up argument involving OpenAI is the current drama.

I was just speculating on why some hn members might feel like entrepreneurs even though they have nothing in common with Sam Altman. And how it might even be in their long term interest for one man to not be quite so powerful.

Call me old an old fashioned economist but I believe that we all succeed better when there are many small companies. Not just a single big one.

If the objects in S3 are named according to hive conventions, it will do what you would hope and not read any files with no data to match the query.

It will even use range requests in S3 to avoid fetching the entire blob.

See here for the details https://duckdb.org/2021/06/25/querying-parquet.html#automati...

I generate my pl/pgsql using Lisp. Which is another technology that has been dying for decades. The money it generates seems to work just as well as the money I earned writing js.