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I'm not sure there is a staff. Post authors are academic researchers and PhD students around the world. I don't mean to say every article is good. I've just been impressed by what I…
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No I agree, it's just the attitude that seems concerning. Like it encourages not taking these countries seriously, and not looking hard enough at ourselves to see how we can do better too.
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He took a pretty uncharitable view. Maybe BRICS is doomed of course. And I'm not particularly hopeful. But I'd rather hear perspectives either from both sides or from folks who I can trust a…
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Personally my gripe is not so much with Frum as with The Atlantic overall which has been consistently fear mongering. There is certainly a lot of bad in the world but The Atlantic stance seems over th…
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I was resisting criticism of him and The Atlantic this one time. :)
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David Frum being a writer for a US magazine, it seems perhaps worth taking his snickering with a grain of salt.
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The article notes that already Egypt, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Iran and UAE have joined. So the acronym for now will just remain the original countries I guess. :)
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> highly dated Article is published: > June, 2024 I don't understand what you mean.
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This situation was referenced in the article. :)
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rqlite isn't competing with Postgres since postgres does not provide any mechanism for highly available + serializable consistency and that's what rqlite gives you. Postgres does have replic…
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The original post is here: https://www.percona.com/blog/is-oracle-finally-killing-mysql... .…
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Competition is good (not everyone using Linux I mean), and I've ran FreeBSD on my desktop and server for a few years. But whenever Netflix's use of FreeBSD comes up I never come away with a …