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"Every company should be owned by its employees" is the definition of socialism, which is social ownership of the means of production. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark…

> For example, we could disable TB's corruption detection/recovery code paths that provide storage fault-tolerance. And then you could zap "a regular database" with a cosmic ray…

This is the purpose of the mixed economy in which most of us live. The government changes the rules of the game to try to align the profit motive with social good, because they are naturally not align…

Will this extension be an open standard so that Android users can also benefit? I wouldn't want a scenario where green bubbles have a worse time calling 911.

I went on your website and discovered your simulator: https://sim.tigerbeetle.com/ It looks cool but is confusing as it's impossible for me to actually "win". Is there …

Would recommend people interested in this start following "metascience". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metascience And read "Why Most Published Research Findings A…

https://youtu.be/_3loq22TxSc PowerPoint programming by Tom Wildenhain. He does not use VBA macros, just shows that PowerPoint transitions and slides are Turing Complete.…

This is something a performer could take pretty much anywhere. Versus a massive 40 foot long crane or complicated wire setup, this is a big improvement.

A company can spend more money to hire trustworthy people or spend even more money to hire managers to micromanage untrustworthy employees.

Here's the blog posts that called out the ASF and prompted them to make this change. https://www.endasfmascotry.com/ https://blog.nativesintech.org/apache-appropr…

My ultimate hope is that this will allow us to store and display color data as Fourier series. Right now we only represent colour as combinations of red, green, and blue, when a colour signal itself i…

You'd love the brilliant parody from The Onion "Porkin' Across America" on his journey to taste pork across the country and destroy his life on camera. https://youtube.c…

Graphite costs $25/month per user and there's no free tier I can use on enterprise. No matter what productivity gains I might derive from Graphite, I will never be able to convince my boss t…

How is ROBLOX adjusting content moderation for 17+ experiences? I see one of the tensors in the model is "DatingAndSexting", but in one of their developer conferences ROBLOX said they expect…

No, he was shot. It's coming out.

> To grantee having a ticket with this system, a wealthy or connected devoted fan can have private arrangement with the artist manager or event organizer to get tickets. This is the system we have …

If you have 10,000 people willing to pay $X to see a concert, but you only have 5000 seats to sell at $X, not everyone is going to get a ticket. Our economic system (arbitrage!) increases the price of…

The simplest way of implementing dynamic pricing is a resale market, where the price of tickets changes based on supply and demand.

I'm trying it, and this library doesn't work on clang 14. Do you have any insight as to why?

Buying something at a low price and selling it at a high price is arbitrage 101 and is free money. The "true solution" is to sell tickets at their actual market price instead of pretending t…

Microsoft is the king of enterprise because they support their products. https://killedbymicrosoft.info/ Skype for Business is still supported!…

A few kilometers into the charge, Richard called for a halt to the advance, relying on his own knowledge of Turkic/Mongol strategy. Some of his leaders kept going anyways and died, though most of…

The "theorem/proofs" are worked examples in this context since that is what mathematicians do all day. The ubiquitous "existence proof" is just about showing an object satis…

If you look at the world's must successful military initiatives, many of them practiced "maneuver warfare" in which individuals were given broad goals and the ability to use their initi…

Drinking water has to be higher quality than water used to shower or flush a toilet. In a place with only low quality water, this can be more efficient than purifying it.

> If you have "mild problems, which would normally heal on their own", buying no medication at all would be even cheaper. American culture loathes the idea of not treating a disease. Prob…

Working as a junior in a C++ codebase is great for my career because the skill floor is so high. Because it's so difficult to do anything there's a lot of room to distinguish myself. No othe…

I read this comment before the post, and now I feel bad. I watched a spy movie from the 1960s recently with someone. We got 20 minutes in before she was confused about why the movie is just about a de…

I don't get why people hate on post-structuralism. The process of reality getting abstracted to the point abstractions stop being representative of reality is extremely common in software enginee…