> "Fully backed" might make sense. "Real" is accurate. When gold was used as (real) money, it wasn't "backed" by anything. It's just gold.
> Make it clear what's important to you. Do you think they don't know the tax cattle don't want a police state? If we only let them know, then they'll just stop establishing absolute power over us all? "Gosh, what were…
> How do you explain the GDPR then? I'm not sure what you mean. Is it not obvious that politicians don't want to bust their biggest (potential) campaign contributors for GDPR violations? Isn't it obvious that we don't…
And I'm not a fan of being enslaved, but I guess you are. I doubt you're actually stupid enough not to get the point that there's no good rate for a bad thing to be happening. You've essentially studied to become a…
> I’m saying that without the Fed and the federal government acting to rationally steer markets the markets will go off a cliff and not come back. So how did markets exist at all when the Fed was created? By your logic,…
Do you think ruling over subjects is done to benefit the subjects? Do you think 2% is a good rate for you to be losing your savings' purchasing power? How fast would you like gangrene to spread through your body?
> "Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. - Luke 16:10 Water that is wet is also dry, and water that is dry is…
>> no way to put a number on how much you want something > Counter-example: I do it all the time. No you don't. I mean, sure you can pull numbers out of your ass and pretend to calculate something based on them. Or you…
Yes, benchmarks can give a misleading impression of a database's performance. So what? Somehow PostgreSQL is doing fine despite that. Which is worse publicity for Cognitect: people publishing bad benchmarks or Cognitect…
> Not long ago even European countries had double borders Our current situation might be marginally better than "double borders", but you're probably aware we're headed in a police statey direction all over the world.
You know, in practice, even your passport has always been a "permission to leave". It's also a "permission to enter" some other country. But without it, you won't be flying anywhere. Then you've got visas, which are…
> Pay should represent the value you offer to the company, period. Sure, but value works both ways. "Your salary should represent the value working remotely offers to you" If it's reasonable for you to think that way,…
> Each layer of this cache provides a different value What does that mean? And what kind of actual memory usage should people expect with a "big" database?
It really doesn't take much at all to see that the Austrian School is right and others are wrong. For starters, if you understand that value is subjective, you'll also understand that there's no way to put a number on…
> Pay people what they're worth regardless of where they live. Note that people are fine with getting a lower salary in exchange for being able to work remotely. You could turn it around and say remote employees are…
"Some junk website"? And yet, somehow I still think you're not even trolling! But if not.. Once again, I have to wonder what the hell is wrong with you people. By the way, that wasn't an appeal to authority. It was a…
> I imagine you're referring to Austrian economics here Probably. It's strange how the only school of economic thought that actually corresponds to reality is the one shunned as "pseudoscience" or something. Go see for…
What other purposes and how is it FB's problem?
> I'm not sure if this attempt is just a pathological need to show off or just some MBAtitis. Most likely, the guy is just highly concerned about what's going on with the company. He may be in danger of losing a lot of…
> And how is it connected? How does this system actually work? Look at things and keep asking: "Who benefits?"
> Government subsidies for proper, independent news reporting could help tremendously here. If your reporting depends on government subsidies, it's very much not independent.
> I suppose my cynicism towards the people I’m supposed to trust is the primary thing prevents me from having a more fact based view of the world. How so? Is it not a fact that politicians can't be trusted, and that, as…
And after the proceeds from the IPO have been spent?
Good for you. But you were ostensibly addressing the idea of making it as an independent company - not whether and when revenues and profits might suddenly matter again.
> Take a look at some SaaS companies that have gone public in the last 5 years. Few are profitable. It's all about growth of revenue. Who's kidding? I doubt you genuinely believe we've reached a new paradigm where…
> "Fully backed" might make sense. "Real" is accurate. When gold was used as (real) money, it wasn't "backed" by anything. It's just gold.
> Make it clear what's important to you. Do you think they don't know the tax cattle don't want a police state? If we only let them know, then they'll just stop establishing absolute power over us all? "Gosh, what were…
> How do you explain the GDPR then? I'm not sure what you mean. Is it not obvious that politicians don't want to bust their biggest (potential) campaign contributors for GDPR violations? Isn't it obvious that we don't…
And I'm not a fan of being enslaved, but I guess you are. I doubt you're actually stupid enough not to get the point that there's no good rate for a bad thing to be happening. You've essentially studied to become a…
> I’m saying that without the Fed and the federal government acting to rationally steer markets the markets will go off a cliff and not come back. So how did markets exist at all when the Fed was created? By your logic,…
Do you think ruling over subjects is done to benefit the subjects? Do you think 2% is a good rate for you to be losing your savings' purchasing power? How fast would you like gangrene to spread through your body?
> "Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. - Luke 16:10 Water that is wet is also dry, and water that is dry is…
>> no way to put a number on how much you want something > Counter-example: I do it all the time. No you don't. I mean, sure you can pull numbers out of your ass and pretend to calculate something based on them. Or you…
Yes, benchmarks can give a misleading impression of a database's performance. So what? Somehow PostgreSQL is doing fine despite that. Which is worse publicity for Cognitect: people publishing bad benchmarks or Cognitect…
> Not long ago even European countries had double borders Our current situation might be marginally better than "double borders", but you're probably aware we're headed in a police statey direction all over the world.
You know, in practice, even your passport has always been a "permission to leave". It's also a "permission to enter" some other country. But without it, you won't be flying anywhere. Then you've got visas, which are…
> Pay should represent the value you offer to the company, period. Sure, but value works both ways. "Your salary should represent the value working remotely offers to you" If it's reasonable for you to think that way,…
> Each layer of this cache provides a different value What does that mean? And what kind of actual memory usage should people expect with a "big" database?
It really doesn't take much at all to see that the Austrian School is right and others are wrong. For starters, if you understand that value is subjective, you'll also understand that there's no way to put a number on…
> Pay people what they're worth regardless of where they live. Note that people are fine with getting a lower salary in exchange for being able to work remotely. You could turn it around and say remote employees are…
"Some junk website"? And yet, somehow I still think you're not even trolling! But if not.. Once again, I have to wonder what the hell is wrong with you people. By the way, that wasn't an appeal to authority. It was a…
> I imagine you're referring to Austrian economics here Probably. It's strange how the only school of economic thought that actually corresponds to reality is the one shunned as "pseudoscience" or something. Go see for…
What other purposes and how is it FB's problem?
> I'm not sure if this attempt is just a pathological need to show off or just some MBAtitis. Most likely, the guy is just highly concerned about what's going on with the company. He may be in danger of losing a lot of…
> And how is it connected? How does this system actually work? Look at things and keep asking: "Who benefits?"
> Government subsidies for proper, independent news reporting could help tremendously here. If your reporting depends on government subsidies, it's very much not independent.
> I suppose my cynicism towards the people I’m supposed to trust is the primary thing prevents me from having a more fact based view of the world. How so? Is it not a fact that politicians can't be trusted, and that, as…
And after the proceeds from the IPO have been spent?
Good for you. But you were ostensibly addressing the idea of making it as an independent company - not whether and when revenues and profits might suddenly matter again.
> Take a look at some SaaS companies that have gone public in the last 5 years. Few are profitable. It's all about growth of revenue. Who's kidding? I doubt you genuinely believe we've reached a new paradigm where…