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This sounds great until a businessman arrives with a trawler, takes all of the fish, and buys all of the land in your town.

This is the ideal, but in practice you need to own the business to live this way..

As long as the pollution is a negative externality and the polluting option is (immediately) cheaper, people (especially poorer people) will choose the cheaper option.

All of these may result in you bringing in less $ overall, so it really depends on how much each fraud case costs you, but you could (off the top of my head): - Enable always check…

You can sell the asset, so how does anyone inherit nothing? Someone who wants to spend an inheritance is going to do it, whether it’s liquid (cash) or marginally less so (real prop…

Not sure I follow. In a world with CTEs and views, what do you think is missing for composability?

I don’t know why we call having a mortgage “ownership”: it’s not. Across the western world mortgages are getting larger and longer relative to income. More people are in more signi…

Great, now I’ll get more than two or three of these every day just because I live in a mildly dense city centre…

> GPT-4 doesn't seem profitable (if it was, would they need to throttle it?) Maybe? Hardware supply isn’t perfectly elastic

> Curious minds wonder what you do to be able to have that kind of time for travel In developed countries outside the US annual multi-week vacations are routine for the middle clas…

Yep, it’s an international embarrassment

The doomsday clock is closer to midnight than it’s ever been https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/current-time/ and now we avoid another 1929 by inflating away the gains of the m…

Mike Judge was right!

> You jump when they say jump Thankfully sometimes 'they' are the customers paying real money for a product or service that's valuable to them. But as you say, larger organizations…

Couldn’t this still hit partition throughput limits though?

Wouldn’t it be preferable if the DBMS did this for you?

Amen. Work without context is demoralising and can lead to micro decisions that don't align with the macro context of the business you're in.

But it's also one of the best places to buy secondhand books that are rare and/or out of print.

The code is only hard if you can't release it safely.

If you’re using the AWS console on the reg, you’re doing it wrong (but yes, it’s a mess)

It's a bit disingenuous to draw parallels between 24x7 electronic trading operations and javascript web cowboys.

Take a look at ripple

I think the use cases you're describing are quite distinct from a "Linux on the desktop" user. The audio experience for this kind of user (myself included) has improved dramaticall…