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> It's mind boggling that you Please don't do this. > When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened…

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. [1] I was talking specifically about …

Neither is medicine, climate science, nor the marxist interpretation of the labor theory of value I was replying to.

You're missing the point

You're missing the point. The difference between three-year-old and fifteen-year-old whisky is mainly due to capital costs, not labour costs. According to the LVT, capital costs ar…

I fail to see the moral problem with being able to write a book that millions or even billions of people can enjoy. To me that's a feature, not a bug.

> > I could give you examples of how value is created without any work at all. > I'm all ears. Ageing whisky.

> "Mainstream economics" is doing a lot of heavy lifting. As is "mainstream medicine" or "mainstream climate science". If you don't trust mainstream science, you must be either ext…

> The work is the same, yet if the take home is different, you've proven that your income is not in fact earned through work in a moral sense. You could say the same about musician…

As the Wikipedia article states, the labour theory of value (LTV) was replaced by the theory of marginal utility in mainstream economics due to its major inconsistencies. > Take Go…

You have it the wrong way round: In the US the slave owners lived on the farms. The bustling cities were in the free states.

It isn't that simple. The most important thing about a city is the streets and blocks. Manhattan and Barcelona are good examples of cities that have been designed in a way that mak…

Advertising is as old as humanity itself. Asking what people did before advertising doesn't make sense. Also, word-of-mouth advertising is, as the name suggests, a form of advertis…

Not really a counter example: gh.de is a pure advertising platform.

Companies spending money on advertising is just another way of acquiring customers. If they were unable to do that, they would need to resort to other, more costly ways of acquirin…

> When we used to pay for newspapers Some newspapers were 50% advertising. You still had to pay for them.

How? If you don't advertise, no one can see you.

On the other hand, smaller pages mean that more pages can fit in your CPU cache. Since CPU speed has improved much more than memory bus speed, and since cache is a scarce resource,…

I use Postgres JSON functions to return nested results. The database itself contains no JSON; just a well-normalised data model. However, the queries return nested JSON in the form…

Again, performance is not my point. If you want maximum performance, use a low-level key-value store, hence my VSAM analogy. On the contrary, for me it is about simplicity. SQL is …

You will get most of the benefits of HTTP 3 even if your app libraries run HTTP 1.1, as long as the app is behind a reverse proxy that speaks HTTP 3.

> How? Stored procedures? Not neccesarily. jOOQ[1] and sqlc[2] are great options if you don't like stored procedures, but for a small app or a prototype, just having plain SQL stri…

Before the invention of SQL, people wrote software using VSAM files and navigational databases with extremely limited computing and memory resources and it worked. That isn't the p…

> htmx is HTML-driven, Datastar is server-driven As far as I understand, the main difference between HTMX and datastar is that HTMX uses innerHTML-swap by default and datastar uses…