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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 checking CVV - Require 3DS - Ban a card after N disputes - Ban an email/other identifier after N disputes - Ban certain payment methods, banks etc - Add a visible or invisible captcha to fight automated abuse/card testing

I suspect Stripe walks a fine line where they want to help you prevent fraud, but they also want to avoid vendors complaining to them that their customers can’t pay.

Context: I worked on a payments team for a short while.

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 property)

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 significant debt bondage than in the past, that’s not an improvement.

The proportion of owned outright homes has been declining in the western world for 30 years.

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 classes

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 middle class and siphoning value off to the 1%

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 have more room for political distractions on the way to giving that customer what they want.

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 dramatically in the past few years.

It's probably important to also consider these prices against the wages at the time.

"Moving figures around on a report" is capital allocation. The history of the 20th century suggests this is a valuable and non-trivial activity.

I'd like to note here that Spring being popular doesn't mean it's good. Also see: nodejs

Another bloody good argument against using such languages for large projects.

Memory mapped files are great fun in C, but Java can't safely unmap files! Refer to this bug that's been open since 2002: http://bugs.java.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=4724038

Quote (December 2016): "I have a plan to implement this, but it requires changes to the Java Memory Model and to the compilers. I didn't get it done in time for JDK 9 because of being distracted by a ton of other things, but I hope I'll get it done by JDK 10."

I'd suggest that OLTP applications where non-trivial amounts of state are shared between transactions are a reasonable counterexample where single core performance optimisation really matters.

Companies violate the law if they are the proverbial bad eggs

I would suggest that in general companies violate the law if the benefits of doing so exceed the costs (risk of penalties, imprisonment of officers and so on)

Is it just men's idea of a "man's role" that's a problem? The article seems to suggest women's preferences are also in play.