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> "Fully backed" might make sense. "Real" is accurate. When gold was used as (real) money, it wasn't "backed" by anything. It's just gold.

> Make it clear what's important to you. Do you think they don't know the tax cattle don't want a police state? If we only let them know, then they'll just stop establishing absolu…

> How do you explain the GDPR then? I'm not sure what you mean. Is it not obvious that politicians don't want to bust their biggest (potential) campaign contributors for GDPR viola…

Pestering GooAmaBookSoft through GDPR complaints is fine, but won't actually accomplish anything in terms of privacy improvements - they're all in bed with governments anyway. The …

Good question! I'm guessing typical implementations would involve a lot of caching. It would be nice to hear about people's experiences though.

And I'm not a fan of being enslaved, but I guess you are. I doubt you're actually stupid enough not to get the point that there's no good rate for a bad thing to be happening. You'…

> I’m saying that without the Fed and the federal government acting to rationally steer markets the markets will go off a cliff and not come back. So how did markets exist at all w…

Do you think ruling over subjects is done to benefit the subjects? Do you think 2% is a good rate for you to be losing your savings' purchasing power? How fast would you like gangr…

> "Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. - Luke 16:10 Water that is wet…

>> no way to put a number on how much you want something > Counter-example: I do it all the time. No you don't. I mean, sure you can pull numbers out of your ass and pretend to cal…

Yes, benchmarks can give a misleading impression of a database's performance. So what? Somehow PostgreSQL is doing fine despite that. Which is worse publicity for Cognitect: people…

> Datomic is designed for data sets larger than memory Of course. But you didn't answer my question. Let's say someone has an application with 100GB of data in Datomic. What kind o…

> Not long ago even European countries had double borders Our current situation might be marginally better than "double borders", but you're probably aware we're headed in a police…

You know, in practice, even your passport has always been a "permission to leave". It's also a "permission to enter" some other country. But without it, you won't be flying anywher…

> Pay should represent the value you offer to the company, period. Sure, but value works both ways. "Your salary should represent the value working remotely offers to you" If it's …

> Oracle/Larry Ellison didn't react well to that and decided to forbid benchmarks. So you kind of have to wonder why Cognitect is going Oracle on us.. The most obvious explanation …

> Each layer of this cache provides a different value What does that mean? And what kind of actual memory usage should people expect with a "big" database?

> We are already using Clojure and I would love to introduce Datomic as well but being a commercial database makes it pretty difficult. I don't see why paying for Datomic would be …

It really doesn't take much at all to see that the Austrian School is right and others are wrong. For starters, if you understand that value is subjective, you'll also understand t…

> Pay people what they're worth regardless of where they live. Note that people are fine with getting a lower salary in exchange for being able to work remotely. You could turn it …

"Some junk website"? And yet, somehow I still think you're not even trolling! But if not.. Once again, I have to wonder what the hell is wrong with you people. By the way, that was…

And Milton was right about that just because he's Milton? Can you come up with an argument against Austrian Economics in your own words, or are you content trying to discredit it w…

> Our mission is to ensure the Internet is a global public resource, open and accessible to all. How do they think they'll accomplish that, short of taking over the world's governm…

> I imagine you're referring to Austrian economics here Probably. It's strange how the only school of economic thought that actually corresponds to reality is the one shunned as "p…

What other purposes and how is it FB's problem?