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Because in the 2 decades I'm in the industry I see RDBMS make the world spin and NoSQL DBs destroying companies and families.

MongoDB and CouchDB eat data for breakfast, I know that from 1st hand experience. And all the others DBs that claim that do not keep cropping up in Aphyr's blog.

I ain't saying that all NoSQL dbs are useless. I'm just saying that proposing and choosing an RDBMS solution is going to be the right choice for 99% of the projects.

Yes, most people think that they belong in that 1% where they have the infrastructure problems and big data of Google, FB and Twitter but.... they don't.

Even though what you say it's true, my comment is still correct and relevant to the OP.

Also, of the NoSQL DBs that support ACID, I wouldn't touch them for any serious work or primary data at least. None of them are battle-tested in the same way Postgres is for example.

And again, people who really need these type of DBs fall into the 1%, and I'm being very generous.

> It is however interesting that we used relational databases for virtually everything for decades even though SQL is suboptimal at most things

You have no clue what SQL or ACIDity is. For 99% of the cases SQL/RDBMS is the right choice. You probably think you belong in that 1%, but from your comment, I suspect you do not.

> I choose to use NoSQL for virtually all my projects

That's because you have no important data to store.

When you get to store data that are important to your customers you're gonna have a big revelation.

OT: why is an IRC server I/O bound? That really piqued my interest.

I think there's no mystery there. Video ads are fewer and cost more and Google needs to present "impressions" to their customers.

So... are you a human? Then this ad might be of interest to you :P

Fair answer.

And another one a bit more provocative :D

You alleged above that your parent commenter would think differently if the driver was a friend of theirs.

If the passenger/client was a friend of yours and you knew the driver had priors, would you advise them against getting into the car or not?

Legit question: Let's say that we'd do what you suggest and we'd allow them to drive, unsupervised, random people back and forth.

Let's say that something bad happens and they assault a client or whatever.

Client finds out they have priors. Asks you if you think you made a wise choise, or if you'd change something in your hiring process.

What would your answer be?

And PostgreSQL is a better MySQL so... all is settled?

Yeah I forgot to address the LSD part that I saw in the links you gave me.

So all bets(and my opinions) are off, when LSD enters the game :)

I was only discussing pure hypnosis, so I can concede whatever you want if you put LSD into the discussion.

My standards are a bit high, but not unattainable. In general, I stick to what is the current scientific consensus. I appreciate any research in all directions, but until that research produces tangible and specific results, I'll abstain.

Mostly because I've seen what happens when people run wild with their assumptions and imagination. e.g. homeopathy, various other medical conditions(leaky gut syndrome) and other less worrying stuff, like aliens or super-secret technology.

Add on top of it various funny facts, like that CIA has also experimented with telekinesis, telepathy, etc and all kind of crazy loony-baloney that, of course, resulted to nothing, and you've got an explanation about my strong stance against extraordinary claims.

Also keep in mind, just at the back of you head, that no government agency that sunk gazillions of dollars into crazy shit, would like to admit that it was all for nothing. Ain't saying that it's all fabrication, but if it were... it wouldn't be the first time. Better to get caught doing "despicable" acts, rather than spending tax dollars that amounted to nothing. And of course, don't forget that you must terrify your enemies.

My 2 cents, and I'm off for now. See you later.

First of all, thanks for the links. I admit I didn't read the 147-page pdf, but I think we can classify it with all the rest, at the same level of "evidence".

As far as I can see there's nothing new here, other than the usual super-secret 3-letter agency experiments, full of material for great spy movies but thin on substance or evidence. I think you'd agree that the same quality of evidence is abundant for aliens, area 51 and all that.

>I believe that counts as doing something against ones will.

Um nope :)

Hypnotize someone and instruct them to do some kind of self-harm. Jump off a roof. Shoot themselves or whatnot. It won't happen :D

So maybe I wasn't clear earlier. I am aligned with the scientific consensus at this point. And that, at the moment, is that this is hocus-pocus, placebo effect and the usual trait of humans that they need an excuse to justify actions that would usually never do. You know, kinda like "oh no, the alcohol did it!"

Maybe we'll have stronger evidence in the future, but right now it's all smoke. Nevertheless, interesting.

cheers

I promise I'll read all of them and get back to you, after a few hours.

It directly contradicts all that because if you read my comment, what I'm saying is: a) the general population is at state FOO, b) Trump is at state FOO, ergo no persuasion needed. They just happen to coincide. It really wasn't that hard to infer what I was saying.

To everything else you're saying: if you think Trump's past displays awesome management skills and strategy, well ok. We just disagree I guess?

Personally, to people like Trump, I wouldn't even trust them with carrying out the simplest of tasks. If you think he has achieved much, I'd refer you to his family's wealth and connections. If you still disagree, then we just agree to disagree.

I don't know what people know from movies, but personally I've researched hypnosis.

And as with all other evidence around it, I agree that the "altered state of mind" part is total baloney.

If you have evidence to the contrary please share, thanks.

OK, to wrap it up: I'm positing that hypnosis CANNOT force a person to do something that goes against their will.

If you have evidence that suggests, or better yet proves, otherwise please paste a link.

EDIT: lately it's become apparent to me that whenever you ask for citation, people downvote you. People, just because you disagree you don't have to downvote. Just offer some evidence to what you're supporting.

I'm saying he was the epitome of a successful and happy person by today's American standards.

Of course not!

But no hypnotist says that hypnosis is placebo!!!

I totally agree that it is.

No I didn't say that, sorry.

Um... curious to see your evidence. I've "hypnotized" people too. Everyone can "hypnotize" some people. All evidence goes against any kind of altered state of mind though. More like submissive role-playing.

Also, for future reference, things that should make your alarm bells go off:

a) something works on someone only when you describe it to that someone

b) something works only on some people, not all of them and you don't know why.

EDIT: some people didn't understand that what I'm implying with the above points is that hypnosis is more akin to the placebo effect than anything else(altered state of mind etc).

Yeah surprise!!

What I didn't know until very recently is that S. Adams subscribes to every New Age bullshit under the sun. I mean, the whole lot, law of attraction and all that crap.

One would think that all this goes against his Dilbert character and aligns more with something his PHB would believe... but yeah... surprise!!

As much as I love his comic strip, I'd be wary of his political analyses.

He thinks he's a trained hypnotist(hypnosis is total baloney) and he thinks he has awesome persuasion skills. Oh by the way he thinks that Trump has awesome persuasion skills as well.

I don't think there's much analysis that needs to be done for the Trump phenomenon. He is a narcissistic douche, exuding "success" according to the contemporary American standards. The mass has been completely brainwashed for the past decades, with regards to what happiness and success looks like. Case closed.

There are no magical persuasion skills at play here.

And then there are people with basic intelligence that understand that, basically, yes they take that money from the rest of the people. You know, mostly because money doesn't grow on trees.

When a certain part of economy inflates some other part deflates. And that other part might be more important than unicorn companies that are pure bubbles full of hot air offering exaclty 0 in the society.

I hope you cheerlead with a lot of gusto for the golden boys. After all they didn't take money out of your pockets? Right? Right???

Your condescending attitude is worse than being rude. Your ignorance is astounding too.

BTW, I left you the, surprisingly hard(took me 3 minutes) to find, evidence you asked in the other comment.

As an American citizen, you have the responsibility to get educated about the simple facts and not ask of others to do that for you.

Laura Poitras is an American citizen too. Is she credible enough for you? Can you tell me what are her thoughts on the TSA?

No? Do you even care? If you do care, then put the effort to learn what is already accessible to you. Otherwise what's the point in engaging in discussions with comments "oh yeah you read it on the Internet derp derp"

Here, have a freebie from Bruce Schneier: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/04/hacker_detain...

EDIT: it seems, when facts come in, downvotes are cast! Ouch. It burns

As a citizen of the world I'm stunned that nobody you know would believe that story.

A 5 minute search on the Internet would be... enough?

As if all similar stories are part of some global conspiracy?

Like... you only know how good, efficient and super cool the people at the TSA are?

Really?

Wow. I'm getting infuriated just at the thought of it. And yet, were I in the same spot, I'd suspect I would shut my mouth and take it, out of fear I might end up in Guantanamo or whatnot :D

I've heard these stories before but every time I stand in awe as if it's the first time(I've never traveled to US and I'll never will).

Do they ask you about your FB/Twitter account or do they already know them?

How's that a counter-argument?

My argument is that "offer me whatever you want; I'll accept whatever I want".

I don't need a justification or a lecture on why I should consider your offer as a generous one. That's how much you can give for my services at a certain point in time. Even if I consider your offer low, I won't find it insulting. But I will find it insulting if you think that I should accept your offer because based on your opinion this is how much I should make because of where I live.

No thank you, I'll be the judge of that.

Both phrases are quite presumptuous. As if I don't know what my cost of living is.

This is how much I charge. Thanks for your offer, it's way below of what I think I deserve for my services. Nah, I don't need a lecture from you on why I should find this generous. Nope, I don't care why you make me such a low offer. What does it matter if I can actually find people who pay the rates I charge?

The market will balance this out. Thanks for your time, have a nice day.

...said the keyboard warrior.

>I hardly can imagine a company that had invested only in Go and will need fat Go gramework. Seriously.

I don't know how to reply to this because I really don't see what's hard to imagine, but ok.

> And startups will hardly chose Go as their starting point for obvious reasons.

Well that's obviously false, or you haven't been paying attention to HN, or job listings :P

> How so? In comparison to Python, for example.

Static typing. In the case where you'd like to counter that point, I'm sincerely sorry, I'm tired of arguing over that point. I'd prefer if we left it at that and say "we agree to disagree".

> Hey, I'm not saying people shouldn't write fat Go framework, or stop doing if they've started already. If stars are lit - it means there is someone who needs it. I just don't get why would you use something like Go for this.

Fair enough. Sometimes I just like to elicit responses in order to gain new perspective/POV etc.

Cheers