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> The barber example is not theft. You cannot steal a haircut. You may be harming the barber, but it's not theft. [...] Words matter! Then why is it legally considered "theft of se…

In theory you can do filesystem-copy-speed population of large seed data using InnoDB's transportable tablespaces feature. For the test db use-case specifically though, unfortunate…

Case sensitivity/insensitivity is a property of the collation, which is configurable on a per-column basis. In Postgres the default collation is case-sensitive, and in MySQL the de…

Regardless of whether they are "truly" stateless, if they have no identity documentation -- which your AI answer repeatedly indicates is a situation applying to a larger number of …

The articles I read yesterday indicated that it would be quite difficult to determine country of origin in many cases, due to complete lack of official identity documentation. The …

Pardon my skepticism, but cursory web searching and LLM prompting is giving me responses like "a significant portion of the European Roma population faces high rates of statelessne…

Which is where, exactly, for the people in question? i.e. what is the legal home country for most Roma in Denmark? Given folks like DHH have such strong opinions about this, I woul…

I meant in the sense that Roma are an ethnicity lacking their own sovereign state, "stateless" as in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stateless_nation

> But that's hard to square with the fact that 7 years since IPO the share price is up 75% Uber has severely underperformed the market. Passive S&P500 index funds had a total retur…

Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49078196 which was posted a couple days ago, and then seemingly revived in second chance pool before getting flagged for obvious slop-t…

Interesting theory, but fwiw synths were quite popular among the Baltimore music scene throughout the 00s. Besides Beach House, there was Dan Deacon, Future Islands, Celebration, a…

If some individuals are committing crimes, why isn't the normal criminal justice system the answer, instead of deportation? And deport them to where exactly, and on what justificat…

> the PostgreSQL MVCC approach is well worth never seeing ORA-01555 like error message. But that's a false comparison; it's not a binary decision. As InnoDB demonstrates, you can t…

If you steal an unpopular product from a store, the damage is also only to "potential profits", so how does that differ? It's entirely possible no one would have purchased the prod…

My point is that the number will entirely vary for each user, depending on how many poor DB-related infra decisions they've made. Some users may save 99%, others may save almost no…

> cut database costs by 40% Where does this number come from? It feels completely arbitrary.

> MySQL You still haven't indicated what version. For example there's a substantial join planner improvement in the latest LTS (MySQL 9.7). And in any case the original thread was …

"Mid thirties" is absolutely not a common definition of mid life. For reference, Wikipedia defines "middle age" as being the age range from 40 to 64, based on citing nine different…

The query planners have diverged between MySQL and MariaDB; which one are you talking about? Both have received improvements in recent years, so the specific version is relevant as…

It's a large ecosystem with multiple server vendors (Oracle MySQL, MariaDB, Percona, VillageSQL) that are relatively easy to migrate between, compared to moving to a completely dif…

I don't see how that would be a realistic risk? Any MariaDB user (including Lobste.rs) could request the source, and per the GPL it must be supplied, so this isn't an effective str…

Some of the cited reasons for moving off MariaDB [1] seem misguided, in my opinion. Especially the part about "K1 are very enterprise-focused, so the database is likely to focus it…

How do you figure? Commodore had strong sales through the late 80s, and the C64 wasn't discontinued until 1994. My family's C64 was the first computer I ever used, and I am barely …

Yeah, this article was clearly written by someone too young to have any solid understanding of the time period they're attempting to describe. For starters, they don't seem to real…