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thefounder··on Flyweight: A Node.js ORM Specifically for SQLite
From experience…code generation is not the way. I’ve had my own custom solution both for databases and web services. The maintenance of the library itself and the code you are working as well(always go generate after each change)
thefounder··on The V8 Sandbox
I think you mean the html not the web
thefounder··on Surgeons transplant pig kidney into a patient
The alternative is certain death so not a lot to choose from
thefounder··on Google fined €250M in France for breaching intellectual property deal
>> The French Google office is tiny for such a big country,

And that may be part of the issue. Milking billions and having a postal box as office doesn’t look good for the government.

thefounder··on Apple announces ability to download apps directly from websites in EU
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thefounder··on Apple's decision to drop iPhone web apps comes under scrutiny in the EU
It’s not really a solution. You have only two players. It’s almost like a utility service.
thefounder··on OpenAI Deal Lets Employees Sell Shares at $86B Valuation
OpenAI is not public so there is less pump. You could say both are overvalued. Take the ride or wait the dump. It curious that even with the current rates we still have a lot of pump in the market.
thefounder··on US developers can offer non-app store purchasing, Apple still collect commission
They should as much as Mozilla gets for the online transactions carried out on its browser.
thefounder··on Filecoin Foundation Successfully Deploys IPFS in Space
Why the torrents didn’t move to IPFS already? I think it looks more like DoA than standing the test of time.

From my experience it’s a “heavy tech”/resource hog hog that does not appeal neither to developers nor to end users(it has no killer app)

thefounder··on The $500M Dollar Typo
Think about them fried
thefounder··on Disney, Warner, Comcast, and Paramount are contemplating cuts, possible mergers
Netflix streaming looks worst on my 150" screen. Some shows are watchables but some are simply junk bitrate wise to the point I get huge posterisation effects/pixels. The quality of the content itself is another issue. For movies I just get the disk and store it forever with r.volution NAS(aka old zappiti NAS)
thefounder··on How Africans are changing French, one joke, rap and book at a time
Just been in France recently. The radio really plays only French-African music. At least 90% of the time. I don't think it's anything racist about that. It just that France changed and I think most of Europe will change as well due immigration. We will see more African, Asian and maybe middle-eastern culture.
thefounder··on Training for one trillion parameter model backed by Intel and US govt has begun
>> Looking at our two leading presidential candidates could that be an improvement?

I think it could be better until it won't. Like with dictators sometimes they "do good" but the issue is that at some point they will start doing more harm than good and they may not want to go away.

A succesful revolution against an AGI ruler may become impossible.

thefounder··on Training for one trillion parameter model backed by Intel and US govt has begun
Yeah but AGI would control both in the end.
thefounder··on Vela incident (1979)
Did they? I thought there are just russian troops(with nukes)stationed there.
thefounder··on YouTube may face criminal complaints in EU for using ad-block detection scripts
You have to start somewhere. If you take down something as big as YT the small cockroaches will be gone the next second.
thefounder··on Casino-like apps have drained people of millions
I think it has little to do with earning money. That's just the hook. It's a human condition/disease. Just like the hoarders. You need to experience addiction first hand to understand it, be it video games, smoking, collecting useless stuff, or just any kind of addiction.
thefounder··on Canon's ultra-thin lens "eliminates the protrusion of smartphone cameras"
Flip phones were not big brick phones. Qwerty phones were a niche.
thefounder··on Canon's ultra-thin lens "eliminates the protrusion of smartphone cameras"
The big brick phones went out of fashion before the iphone. Apple resurrected the big and thick phones. I remember I didn't get the first iphone models due their size.
thefounder··on Germany to Pass Japan as Third-Largest Economy, Helped by Weak Yen
I think in the end it's about who you want to be. You could become german by thinking like a german, eating like a german but speaking like a german but that may require considerable effort. What means to be german also changes as more immigrants are arriving.

That aside my point is that it's wrong to put an immigrant on a visa to Germany on equal footing with an EU citizen. The former "may be deported" at any time for various reasons while the later has *all the rights german people have.

Discrimination happens even between different regions, the most common being in the U.S(i.e souther accents). There is also race discrimination even for "native" people. That doesn't make all the black, yellow people immigrants from Africa, Asia etc.

thefounder··on Germany to Pass Japan as Third-Largest Economy, Helped by Weak Yen
>> Is that actually worse than getting a mortgage?

I don't know but I think it becomes obvious that you are not employed the moment you want to move out. The house becomes a prison.

thefounder··on Germany to Pass Japan as Third-Largest Economy, Helped by Weak Yen
To me it seems that you are putting yourself in a box. If you legally have the same rights you are no longer an immigrant. You are "one of them".

Based on your rationale you can end-up with race discrimination and nazi stuff. (e.g even if you are born in the same country your parents were immigrants so you are still a kind of non-native and so on).

The cultural issue goes both ways. The wave of immigration may make the natives feel discriminated as well. That doesn't make them "immigrants".

thefounder··on Germany to Pass Japan as Third-Largest Economy, Helped by Weak Yen
The discrimination is a different issue and depends by many factors.

It's true that you can't vote in national elections but you can vote on local elections[0].

Usually you need just 5 years(on most EU countries)to get the citizenship to able to have this remaining right vote on national elections.

Now my question to you is: are you still an immigrant after you get the citizenship? What's different?

[0] "Every citizen of the Union has the right to vote and to stand as a candidate at municipal elections in the EU country in which he or she resides under the same conditions as nationals of that country."

thefounder··on Germany to Pass Japan as Third-Largest Economy, Helped by Weak Yen
>> I immigrated from my country => I'm an immigrant.

That's not really the case within the EU at least it's not black and white. You have the same rights as the "native" population. What makes you an immigrat? People in the U.S don't say they immigrate when they move from one state to another...they just move and I think that's the case with the EU as well.

thefounder··on Germany to Pass Japan as Third-Largest Economy, Helped by Weak Yen
Doing home chores does not make you employed. You can't get a mortgage with that. You don't get a pension or anything really.
thefounder··on Germany to Pass Japan as Third-Largest Economy, Helped by Weak Yen
Why would that even matter?
thefounder··on Germany to Pass Japan as Third-Largest Economy, Helped by Weak Yen
>> Obviously however software engineering has been a very immigrant-heavy industry in Europe for a long time.

That's news to me. Even in London is not that immigrant heavy unless you consider the Europeans immigrants.

thefounder··on Ferrari Sued a Used Car Dealer for $2.2M over a Replica. It Didn't Go Well
You should tell that to the tech people. They have a thing named DRM and they may "go to jail" if they try to modify even the software not to mention the hardware. They are treated like criminals.
thefounder··on Drones attack US Military base in Syria, US officials say
>> Why is the US occupying part of Syria? Why is the US involved in the middle east at all?

Because it has economic or geopolitical interests(or both) in there and because it can. Even a tiny country(i.e Belarus, North Korea) can play a role in a big conflict so why would U.S give up influence?

If the U.S doesn't show up Russia or China takes the whole cake(influence wise).

Not to mention the 9/11 thing. Imagine the whole Syria ruled by Al-Qaeda or IS

Like it or not America's isolationism ended after WWII began and I think overall it was a good thing for the whole world(at least a big part of it).

thefounder··on Drones attack US Military base in Syria, US officials say
The question should be why the U.S is not doing more not why it has a military base in Syria.

The lesson from Afghanistan is that military alone is not sufficient. Social and political issues(i.e bribery vulnerabilities, education level of the locals, Turkey's relation with the kurds) needs to be addressed as well. However you can't train local troops without a military base in the first place regardless of their education level nor you can enforce social changes.

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