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A different perspective is that tax policy is intended to also shape behavior. Raising taxes on behavior we want to disincentivize, and lowering it on behavior we want to incentivi…

One option is TiDB. It has support for columnar data alongside row based data. However, it is MySQL compatible, but not based on MySQL code so not quite what you asked for.

I had the same issue, decided to remove Roku instead… I used to have a Roku TV, plus a a few of the standalone Roku Ultras for my other (non-Roku) TVs. I got a full page advert whe…

There are also distributed databases that use RAFT but can still scale while delivering distributed consensus don’t is not a challenge that can’t be solved. For example, TiDB handl…

When I used to work in credit control and accounts receivable, the use of D-U-N-S numbers was how we tied a lot of this information together. It is similar to how SSN are used by c…

I am not sure what is going on with that screen, but the whole page seems to be "vibrating" in a very distracting way, never encountered that on another site before! It appears to …

The context in the related AP article shows that they were CEO of Cadence during the time when that company violated export control rules by selling certain technology to Chinese o…

> It's also a hoot to just see LDS missionaries waiving their iPhones around with the Genesis Apple clearly visible. To be fair, the LDS doctrine around the fruit from the Garden o…

Surely the dairy capital is California? They out produce Wisconsin by a significant margin - https://wisconsinwatch.org/2023/02/does-wisconsin-produce-mo...

I do want to clarify a few points, on the project page it does provide the following information: > Distributed Transactions: TiDB uses a two-phase commit protocol to ensure ACID c…

Yes, corrected!

Yes, I am still getting up to speed after a long break for Christmas and New Year!

There are quite a few. Pinterest, LinkedIn, Plaid, Mercari, and Rakuten shared their experiences with TiDB at PingCAP's annual event last year (2024) - https://www.pingcap.com/htap…

It may not be as popular but they do have Amazon WorkDocs > Amazon WorkDocs is a document storage, collaboration, and sharing system. Amazon WorkDocs is fully managed, secure, and …

> The answer is zero If autopilot is 10x safer then preventing its use would lead to more preventable deaths and injuries than allowing it. I agree that it should be regulated and …

> ESPN has a history of noncompliance with the Commission’s EAS rules and was fined in 2015 and 2021 for EAS violations. Sounds like the previous fines didn't sufficiently motivate…

Model X is no where near as spacious inside as a minivan. I have had a couple of Odyssey’s and they are much more spacious, particularly for the third row seating. I eventually mov…

You could check out the A500 mini, more of an emulator though - https://retrogames.biz/products/thea500-mini/

A lot of heating in the UK is gas (so wouldn't drive electricity consumption) and a lot of homes in the UK do not have AC (recent news reports suggest it is under 5% of the homes h…

> It is commonplace now that young people at the workplace produce 5x as much as their older colleagues. This does not sound connected to any reality I have seen, and seems faciall…

SQL also turns 50[1] today, I think that it has much wider active usage today than many of its contemporaries. [1] Archive of "SEQUEL: A STRUCTURED ENGLISH QUERY LANGUAGE" https://…

I'm not sure how much funding they were getting from their partners, but one of the most tech focused on the list* was VMware who were recently acquired by Broadcom and have been g…

The following page provides a good overview for the US https://www.uscourts.gov/services-forms/bankruptcy/bankruptc...

Your personal observation may be influenced by other factors. Looking at this data from the US you can see that as family income increases, the birthrate drops - https://www.statis…