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throwawaythekey··on Good system design
>I would've expected the candidate to at least be able to talk about indexing, tradeoffs of joining in the DB vs. in the application, schema migrations and upgrades, creating separation between data-at-rest vs. data-in-flight, etc.

The problem is that many of these trade-offs only applied to older databases. The more relevant axis is about how distributed the db is, the replication type etc.

throwawaythekey··on U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites
Or at least counterbalance it with

"America arms Israel to attack Lebannon and Palestine"

throwawaythekey··on U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites
- Trump murdered top a top Iranian general (Soleimani)

- Israel bombed an Iranian Embassy

- Iran counterstruck Israel but relatively restrained and with warning

- Israel bombed several high ranking Iranians, especially those involved with the nuclear program

- Iran counterstruck Israel.

None of it had that much to do with America.

throwawaythekey··on U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites
> "To all the resident aliens who joined in the pro-jihadist protests, we put you on notice: come 2025, we will find you, and we will deport you. I will also quickly cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses, which have been infested with radicalism like never before.” President Trump

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/01/fact-sheet-pr...

throwawaythekey··on Startup Equity 101
The first time founders I had couldn't keep 100% of the equity out of the VCs pockets, so YMMV.
throwawaythekey··on Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube
Isn't it obvious that (2) in practice entirely negates (1)?

In Australia we recently had a proposed law to prohibit information that "potentially undermines faith in the banking sector" regardless of truthfulness.

throwawaythekey··on HTAP Databases Are Dead
What's the better kafka/redis? Mongo I know you can just use your favorite relational tool with JSON support if needed (PG/MYSQL)
throwawaythekey··on Cloudflare CEO: Football piracy blocks will claim lives
Not sure but molotov-ribbentrop provides an interesting precedent.
throwawaythekey··on Advice to Tenstorrent
Yes and to me it is a fine tone for all of 'hacker' culture if you will. Perhaps not if you were giving a presentation to your boss, but as this is a message between peers it seems fine.

If it were on x it would seem fine.

throwawaythekey··on Advice to Tenstorrent
Not trying to flame or anything but what is your age?

As someone in my early 30's who grew up on message boards/gaming the language he is using is fairly mild. I think we just have very different social norms.

throwawaythekey··on Advice to Tenstorrent
I'm thinking about him every day lately due to a new set of AMD GPU drivers which has stopped my pc from being able to reliably wake from sleep.
throwawaythekey··on Tariffs in American History
You also have the crazies that initially advocated for the policy now reversing their positions.
throwawaythekey··on xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B
It was a fair bit more than that. From the left-leaning guardian

> The most worrying issue the Twitter Files have exposed is the level of contact between the social media company and state security organisations. The FBI regularly holds meetings with Twitter executives, pressuring them to take action against “misinformation”, even when this amounted to little more than a satirical tweet, and demanding the personal data of users.

Take note of the "pressuring", in line with what was reported by Zuck.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/01/the-tw...

throwawaythekey··on The Demoralization is just Beginning
I agree with the thrust of your argument but the idea that you need to have a really really large pile of gold sitting in a warehouse to fix it seems silly to me.

Can't they just not print so much?

throwawaythekey··on The Demoralization is just Beginning
Is there a fundamental repudiation to Austrian economics?

All I know about them is that they don't like funny money, which to me as a systems thinker is perfectly reasonable. At worst you would expect it to be harmful, at best to obscure what is really going on.

throwawaythekey··on U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts
> Sounds like a line from "OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies".

Thanks I'll check it out.

> Either way, you're certainly not in the middle, you're actually supporting the violent ones to be violent

I think I understand where you're coming from but I would instead state it as supporting first amendment style laws for my country, warts and all.

Would you argue that the first amendment should be annulled?

throwawaythekey··on Intel's Battlemage Architecture
Would the difference in density be more likely due to a difference in design philosophy or the intel design team being less expert?

As a customer do intel pay for mm2 or for transistors?

Forgive me if you are not the right person for these questions.

throwawaythekey··on U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts
We don't ban Maoists or Stalinists or Mussolini style facists. We don't ban Napoleonics or Confederates.

After WW2 there was a period of strong Jewish support for nazi rights. Were they not an open democracy? Is the risk in 2025 stronger than what they faced?

I don't know really, is it that every era needs a boogeyman or is it just that we are on a grand cycle away from liberality? Both maybe?

throwawaythekey··on U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts
I'm not deflecting I think we just have different points of view.

> The point ... is to defeat them while you can.

That can be your point, and with that framing almost anything is permissible! My point is generally to let free, open democracy run its course without putting our fingers on the scale too much.

I'm not scared of people doing a salute in the style of a movement that's been dead for almost a century. I'm not scared of communists flags or chants, or people chanting from the river to the sea. I think it's all healthy as long as it's non violent. The argument that it leads to violence is not logically sound and very minority reportesque.

throwawaythekey··on U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts
No, the neo-nazis can defend themselves. I just support personal freedoms.
throwawaythekey··on U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts
This week we've had the federal laws strengthend to a one year minimum jail time for nazi salutes. I think saying "punch a nazi" unironically could now also get you a year in jail, but I'm not sure about that one.
throwawaythekey··on Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed
Personally I enjoy slippery slope arguments which is why I didn't use the term fallacy. What I dislike is the reddit framing of having already slipped!
throwawaythekey··on Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed
Calls to violence have no place in a civil society. Perhaps as a response to real, physical, violence it would be ok.

I also had trouble with all the far right wingers who kept talking about civil war.

throwawaythekey··on Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed
It's a shame it's become hard to make free speech arguments on reddit. RIP Aaron Swartz.
throwawaythekey··on Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed
Let me put it another way. Trump is likely to try many outrageous and unexpected things.

As someone who tries to be non partisan, and isn't even american, I am fatigued by all of the claims that the world within the USA is ending. Whenever I take the time to examine any of the claims they tend to be fairly hollow or making slippery slope arguments.

As an international user of reddit, there are many of us I presume, I want the outrage to be saved for Trumps undeniable and worst offenses. In my eyes the memecoin was worse than anything which has happened since he became president and yet it has completely left the collective focus. Everything since then has just been a mix of people allowing trump to dictate the media cycle and the deep state deploying its immune system.

throwawaythekey··on Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed
Yeah "packed full" is probably a bit too heavy here. To pick a few examples though:

- The nazi punching thread had several moderated comments ranked near the top which were presumably calls to violence.

- The Mitch McConnal thread has many people looking forward to his death, hoping he goes to hell, and a few deleted comments.

- A musk thread has "eat the rich" and storm the capitol. Not super highly ranked.

I didn't go through all of them but it certainly is a bit odious.

Also note though how there's only 1 non political thread and the remainder are anti trump. This is on a general interest sub and what is likely to be an unremarkable day in the administration!

throwawaythekey··on What's Going on at the FBI?
My bad for using an ambiguous term but please note that "usual" is the first listed definition for normal in many dictionaries. Using norms to mean rules seems to be more archaic.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/normal

throwawaythekey··on What's Going on at the FBI?
I understand that a self-coup could happen but to describe it as already happening seems premature... there are some things that will go to the courts sure but even democrats agree the courts are likely to find in Trump's favour.

Does that mean that the real coup happened when Trump picked the supreme court justices? Perhaps, but again it was very legal, and not particularly out of step from previous norms.

If you compare that to germany in the 1930s, a common example of a self-coup, you'll see some similarities but also large differences...

> The Reichstag building... caught fire... Hitler immediately accused the Communists of being the perpetrators... Using this justification, Hitler persuaded Hindenburg to enact the Reichstag Fire Decree. The decree abolished most civil liberties, including the right to speak, assemble, protest, and due process... the Nazis declared a state of emergency and began a violent crackdown against their political enemies... Hitler submitted a proposal to the Reichstag that if passed would immediately grant all legislative powers to the cabinet... allow Hitler's government to act without regard to the constitution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933 (Edited for brevity)

throwawaythekey··on What's Going on at the FBI?
In my mind democratically elected and coup are antonyms. If you are against trumps style of cleanup then I would probably stick to illegal, although that is TBD, radical or destructive.
throwawaythekey··on What's Going on at the FBI?
> The US Constitution grants Congress, not the executive branch, the power to determine how the federal government’s money is spent.

With regards to the constitution specifically the power of the purse seems a little vague. In 1974 the Impoundment Control Act was passed as a response to, and to prevent, presidents from unilaterally impounding.

https://protectdemocracy.org/work/impoundment-threat-explain...

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