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Libertarians and mentally speed-running the invention of the nation-state: an iconic duo.

The individuals will get taxed on capital gains afaik. We could also tax unrealized gains (just like we do gains on property)!

IIRC these concepts are more relevant in a service-based economy. In the Middle Ages, _land_ was the primary source of economic value. Fewer people means more land per person, ther…

What makes left joins perform poorly in Snowflake?

Well part of the benefit is rapid development; it's mind-boggling how quickly someone can stand up a dbt project and begin to iterate on transforms. Using Python/SQL/JSON (at small…

dbt and ELT in general are such a game-changer for allowing rapid iteration on business logic by data analysts; the feedback loop feels much more like "normal" software engineering…

When will an ORM be available? Still not sure whether this is serious or not, but it's not really infrastructure as SQL, it's infrastructure as database records which is stateful a…

It's using an implied cross join so each image is deployed onto a t2.micro

IMO if you have to lie, you've already ceded the moral high ground.

tl;dr just ignore it?

Nobody uses HN because it's an amazing piece of software.

I think that's his point; that 5% returns aren't actually that great.

The rate of return on investments is proportional to the risk and/or effort necessary to make it work. Contracting out the management of things like condos, vending machines, etc. …

Because it's easier for the average developer to follow Python code? This is a tutorial/demo, not a library.

Literally any analyst or data science job related to growth or user engagement on social media. https://research.fb.com/category/data-science/

It's probably bad data. 7k vs 13k is reasonable, but nobody is removing tonsils for $300.

Was the editor fired because of a "dissenting opinion" or because Cotton was effectively calling for martial law against protestors? The NYTimes op-ed section has plenty of dissent…

Sure, here https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37254851 Not really sure what you're implying

I do not think that "240k in debt" (he clarifies it was 140k in another comment) actually means owing 240k more than your total assets. As far as the median net worth, that's just …

Or student debt; a doctor going 200k into debt for med school probably isn't exactly in dire financial straits.

So it was really around 100k over four years with the last 40k covered by your acquisition earnings. So 25k a year on a 100k salary (pre/post-tax?). Which is a lot less than 80k a …

The point is that any decrease is offset by the increase in the number of stars. Also your distinction between >1 photon per second and <1 photon per second is meaningless.

I think this is satirizing things like Failory rather than unicorns.

Maybe people working in those industries _do_ share some blame. However, the linked article is not about any of those industries.

What wisdom, exactly? This is neither an original thought nor a particularly good phrasing.