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Your original argument was the government caps the number of doctors (not taxi drivers). I am not finding anything that would show this. There is a cap on the total amount the gov …

The US government caps the number of residencies it is paying/subsidizing. Yes, you have to go through residency, but there's nothing stopping the private sector from taking on thi…

The government does not cap the number of doctors. There's no law that you can only have X doctors. What it caps is the amount of social help it's willing to subsidize. This is lik…

> I'd rather pay a little more to a corporation It's hardly "a little more" though. We're spending almost twice as much and get almost half as little back. Objectively speaking the…

These kinds of changes just make the OS look cheap (like a bazaar of sorts). They're visually ugly, but easily ignored (I rarely open the start menu). What I'm more concerned / ann…

That depends on how authoritarian the regime is... However, I was talking about putting a price control over the level/amount of profit. If you look at the financial reports of lat…

There's historic precedence that increasing rates controls inflation. Yes, it's a very blunt and crude instrument. However, when you know this tool works, trying another tool is to…

I'd put taxation in the same bucket as price control because for this to be effective the taxes would need to be on the rich (in effect to drain liquidity) and that's as likely as …

It's the only way we know of to stop greed/fomo running rampant. Folks need to be put in a time-out to cool off and force them to reprioritize. We like to think of the market as th…

My understanding is that the .NET version is a port and only related in the style/approach. However, if I was them I'd consider renaming the lib. Looks like the name "Akka" is tain…

If they serve them locally (same domain as / part of the main site) they could still track you on the backend and you wouldn't even know it.

Depends on how the PG team decides to implement this feature. If they're OK with a virtual order (for "UI" purposes) while keeping the true order hidden then this would not require…

Views are not a good solution for this. The point is to be able see a specific order in 3rd party apps and when writing quick add-hoc queries (select *). Writing views for every ta…

The problem is that we hear a lot of different features touted as "the crucial missing one" -- I would definitely put this into the polish category, but items in that category are …

I've worked with DBs for 20+ years as well. This is a quality of life type of improvement. If you've worked mainly with DBs that don't make this easy it's hard to know what you're …

I'm not sure how I could show if something is easier/harder to work with. Speed in this context refers to human processing speed, not database speed.

Yeah with maybe an option to manually optimize (that would rebuild the table if needed).

The trouble is when you need to add a new column you can only add it at the end, so you'd lose the alphabetical ordering.

With SQL Server the management tool does give you a way to do this. Yes, it does a table rebuild behind the scenes. The point is that it's easy. Don't have experience with the othe…

Exactly... You gain so much speed by having everything in the right order.

Oh, absolutely; I'm just trying to raise the awareness/importance of this missing feature. Most devs that I know IRL that looked at PG had a very similar reaction to mine.

I'm not talking about the physical layout of the data, just a thin UI layer that the DB tool could use. Maybe we could have two modes: physical vs UI ordering?

Soothing my OCD is important, but it also helps when working in a team and having a shared ordering style. For example, we have certain types of columns that are always at the bott…

Since we have some PG devs here: Can we please have a way to reorder columns? Coming from MySQL, this is one of the first missing features one hits. It's like moving to a new house…

There's this constant tug of war between supply/demand (also applies to powerful/regular folks, those with money/without, etc). Inflation is the delta by which one side is winning …