Readit NewsIt feels like there should be a way to tax these startups that exist as vehicles for cash grabs, but are not profitable.
In the Middle Ages, _land_ was the primary source of economic value. Fewer people means more land per person, therefore more wealth per person.
It's amazing.
Snowflake is amazing, but watch out for search optimization costs (it's great for append only), left joins taking FOREVER (avoid left joins as much as possible for large datasets).
It's a goddamn madhouse.
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 and defeats the point.
Interesting. Isn't this a loophole? If I am the baker in question, can I refuse to bake the cake citing the shirt color instead of the real reason, which is that I am homophobic? (I am not, just asking a hypothetical question)
The single best advice is to put limitations on your consumption of climate news. But it's highly personal, some people turn to activism to cope, facing the problem head-on. I did that, but it's very depressing honestly.
A powerful image my wife likes to use is sitting at a loved one's deathbed. You don't have hope, you know he or she is going to die, but that makes the remaining time extra special. We are all sitting at the deathbed of the world as we know it. That makes the time we have left extra precious. And we're running out of time.
Such collective efforts are already underway. One is called the United States, a system where the legal construct property is bounded and compatible with taxation for public provision. The US is a club of people who have banded together for common goals and with democracy as a tool for updating the system. If you don't want to be part of that club then leave.