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Since Cassandra is eventually consistent, how do clients get a consistent sequence of messages?

Do you actually use Cassandra range queries to poll for new messages, or do clients use some kind of queue to get notified?

Say messages A, B, C are created in that sequence. But isn't it then possible that a client asking for new messages only gets A and C, and B only shows up a few milliseconds later, which would be missed unless the client actually asked for "everything since before A"? Or is that not possible?
What was the issue?
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So buy one car for the 10 years in your life where you have kids that need cars seats and then rent for the other 50 years of your adult life. It wouldn't need to cover literally every use case in the world to have a major impact on the economy.
You gave me some reading to do. :) Thank you.
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It could, and has been, argued that the very efficiency that makes capitalism work so well is the exact reason why it will fail. Once total efficiency is achieved capitalism will eat itself.
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So if I believe in luck I will be more inclined to pay high taxes? I don't think that's how it works.

I mean of course people with money who realise not everyone who is poor is poor because they're lazy bums will be more inclined to help a "poor person" than they would if they believed all poor are lazy bums. But does that mean they will accept high taxation? Say I am rich and narcissistic, I believe I'm better than everyone and that my skill put me on top. I then realise that other who are skilled are poor and I want to help them become richer. Do I believe that paying the government to use my money for welfare to be the most effective use of my money to fulfil this end? Probably not in that case.

Furthermore some people are lucky, some unlucky. This does not mean that no effort but mere luck goes into building an empire. If luck was the only factor then sure, this argument or taxation might hold. But there's a lot more than luck to it, which is much more in the control of the individual.
> The only way to kill capitalism is by the state.

The only way capitalism in its current form exists is through the support and use of state power. Private and intellectual property are entirely dependent on state recognition and are propped up by the states monopoly on violence.
Birth rates have taken a massive hit in all advanced economies except for the US. I think we're well beyond the "expanding until food runs out" stage.
Uber is going to make a market for but car manufacturers are going to eat its lunch. When Ai becomes good enough which I think will in the next 5 years they will flood the market with their own cars and taxi services.
This says it all, really:

"PHP, Java and Ruby now have one thing in common: despite obvious usage trends, everybody keeps talking about their deaths."
I don't understand why sites don't make this a simple checkbox on the checkout page.
Elixir:

1. Has a better standard library, plus easy access to all of Erlang's standard library.

2. Handles concurrency, instead of having to rely on an event loop, and does so in a clean and accessible way.

3. Makes it easy to communicate between processes, not on the same machine, but processes running on other machines as well.

4. Is faster and consumes less resources.

5. Is easier to create, manage, and maintain code and deployments.

My last point is subjective, but I like Elixir's syntax much, much better than Javascript's.

In my opinion, comparing Elixir to Node is like comparing a Tesla to a high-end roller skate.
If you want to compare fake news to real news, The Onion (which is obviously satire) is not an appropriate comparison to make to start that discussion. You're making a stupid comparison. Of course people will be biased against it.
But it's very easy to switch to another search engine. I used DuckDuckGo for some days. It's literally 10 seconds to change it.
I think people often confuse capitalism, and competitive free markets.

The later certainly have their place, driving efficiency and innovation, even if it's only between the robots, although they do require regulation and even intervention to keep them dynamic.

The former (individual ownership of the means of production, be it machinery, IP or branding, and therefore the profits generated by other people's labor) is already an anachronism IMHO. Only a single step up from feudalism, except instead of strict heredity etc, in theory anyone with the resources can do the equivalent of build a castle, raise an army, and own serfs.

It's demise wouldn't need to wait for the arrival of robots, in a fairer world.
Capitalism is the most fair (symmetric) solution to the class of multiplayer games in which the participants have asymmetric access to many kinds of scarce goods. [okay, that's somewhat speculation, but I expect it's right.]

Since scarcity ceasing sounds improbable, and I expect people will continue preferring fair systems to unfair ones, I expect capitalism will survive.
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It is a fallacy that you are not maintaining something with your dependencies. It is the hope that you get nothing but benefits from depending on someone else to build strong dependencies. It is as true of a reality that they are pursuing goals that are not yours.

It is odd, because the "micro library" world ostensibly fixes this by greatly limiting the scope of a dependency. However, it also encourages chaining yourself to many other entities. And it is always the mistakes that people remember, such that anyone that has been burned will remember how it was enabled by micro libraries.
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Lol, that is highly unrealistic. Where is this magical secure garage going to come from? Underground parking costs $40k per spot to build, above ground is similar. Add in the cost of security and the long term costs of parking are extremely high. The parking minimums in most places force parking to be heavily subsidized, which isn't a sustainable model when it comes to long term matienece of suburban areas, unless we can heavily increase taxes to pay (5x to 6x) for road, water, sewer, and all other maintenance needed.
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This is the case where I work too. I'm guessing that at least 75% of our engineering team now uses Linux, even though everyone were given a MBP when hired.
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The secret to a successful ecommerce store is to understand what your customers want. It’s not only about the products as every product has its own demand in the market and is required by a relevant section of customers. Aligning your business with the ongoing trends is what matters ultimately. Thinking along the lines of ongoing trends in the ecommerce industry, products personalization immediately strikes one’s mind.

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Rawls suggests that you imagine yourself in an original position behind a veil of ignorance. Behind this veil, you know nothing of yourself and your natural abilities, or your position in society. You know nothing of your sex, race, nationality, or individual tastes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veil_of_ignorance
This assumes that the crashes avoided by Autopilot are of similar magnitude/deadliness as the crashes facilitated (for lack of a better term) by Autopilot.

That is, Autopilot makes certain kinds of accidents more likely — those in which the human driver is not monitoring the vehicle carefully enough, Autopilot misses something critical, and an accident results. It is possible, though not necessarily the case, that these accidents tend to be more serious than accidents that Autopilot prevents, such as lane-changing bumps or other less-fatal accidents.

To be clear, I'm not saying that evidence has been presented that the type of accidents prevented are less important than the type facilitated. I'm just pointing out that not all accidents are equal, and that there may be correlation/causation that makes the overall calculus more complicated.
It's actually not, is it? Massive amounts of productivity are wasted on ideas that fail. Massive amounts are used for duplicative efforts. Massive amounts are used in endeavours that are mostly zero-sum, such as marketing or lawsuits. Massive amounts are wasted in the administration of capitalism itself, i. e. financial markets. Massive amounts of potential consumer benefits cannot be accessed because capitalism requires artificial scarcity for goods with 0 marginal costs.

Yes, it's the most effective system we know for some goods. But some people seem to believe that it is somehow provable efficient in an absolute sense, which it clearly is not.
C with pthreads won't look the same, I know because I've tried hard. Java most definitely won't. Which languages are we talking about here anyway?
I would disagree with the notion that Elixir's ecosystem isn't as rich as Node's for two reasons:

1. Node has a lot of packages to be sure, but a lot of them are redundant, and a lot of them are packages that overcome some weakness in the Javascript standard library. Elixir doesn't have as many duplicates in its ecosystem, and its standard library is robust enough that you don't have to search for packaged one-liners to overcome some missing feature that should come standard with the language.

2. Node has access to Erlang's standard library and packages. It is also trivial to include external Erlang code and libraries in an Elixir application.
Yes, and although I'd probably land a job in a day from it - I hate it and will likely delete it soon.
You're right about the cash available, but how much is Google (and its investors) willing to lose to compete with Uber? Are Google's investors willing to put up with another [vastly more expensive] Google Plus?

Because when I say war chest, I mean Uber is willing to lose it all. Rides are Uber's only revenue source, whereas Google has never made a cent in that industry.
Really interesting read for me as an experienced Go developer currently learning Lisp. Not sure if I will ever use Lisp or this for a real project, I see it more as some kind of Sudoku in code, and a indirect training ground for Elixir (which is a wonderful complement to Go for backend tasks).
Not if the storm lasts. Then his setup might be more useful.
Because of security. I wouldn't buy an autonomous car that has an accident rate worse than my demographic. A car that has an accident rate better than average is not good enough. I hope that explains my point.
Not really. The NHTSA report says that auto-braking is initiated only when the radar and MobileEye vision systems both report an obstacle. That reflects poor sensor fusion. Tesla took an off the shelf radar product from Bosch and an off the shelf vision product from Mobileye, ANDed their processed outputs together, and called it a day. They don't seem to have confidence data from each sensor and some means to fuse it. If the radar is reporting "target dead ahead, 3 secs to crash" (radars have range rate data), and the vision system is reporting "unrecognized situation ahead", that ought to at least trigger a slowdown and alert.

This is probably why Musk pulled radar and vision processing in-house. Combining the data from both sensors is more effective, but more difficult, than combining the results from processing both sensors separately.
I think it is important to note that processes are not only isolated at a high level, but also use private memory deep within the BEAM VM; unlike the JVM, for instance, which uses shared memory.
This line of thinking is just basic collectivism.
How can capitalism be fair if the initial distribution of scarce resources are widely recognized to be unfair?

The current distribution of resources and capital have arisen as a result of hundreds of years of human history and unfair practices, from feudalism to slavery, colonialism to imperialism, racism and casteism to sexism.
Yes exactly, it would be interesting to see fair comparisons of people of the exact same profile (both driver and car) tesla vs others. I don't like that so many people seem happy enough to compare autopilot against the total average of accidents in the road and say "they save lives". When you are going to buy the car you want to know if it's going to be better than you.
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I agree! It's a net positive, and I'm in favor it.

But it doesn't mean that people dying from faults "don't matter". Every HAI-caused death is a tragedy, and they certainly matter.

The issue is much less black-and-white than the GP's simplistic view.
This is a fairly technical analysis, and the terminology used in many cases is above what I know about networking. But the one quote that will stick is this.

"There is no such a thing as a temporary change or workaround: In most cases, workarounds are tech debt."
Google may be a competitor, but it may be more of an enabler of competitors to Uber, by way of, e.g., it's ridesharing feature in Maps.
I believe so. But it will be accompanied by an UBI and markets will simply shift to higher level functions being sold in a capitalistic markets by people whose basic needs have been taken care of through robots.
Two fixes:
1) find an opensource one, compile it yourself, verify it's behavior, install it yourself
2) find one that works without using network, don't approve adding network permissions ever, run it in a jail without network, on android you can deny the network permission.

This works again random software companies, but not against google.
The opportunity to create something, exercise my mind, work with smart and nice people.

Sufficient income and vacation to live well, take care of family, and explore the world.
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You'd also be surprised at how little evidence there is that diet is an effective long term weight loss strategy.
Energy and water?

We are fully capable right now to recycle all our water, both in the home and on farms, it just cost a lot in materials and energy.

I don't see why energy will be scarce when we could cover the worlds oceans in solar panels (if we really had to)

Cheap labor will do amazing things, it's exponential.

Robots are cheap, solar panel installation is cheap, energy is cheaper, robots are cheaper, mining/materials is cheaper.....
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> This is all pretty deep in the weeds for a nonspecialist audience though, I think.

It's the tip of the iceberg perhaps. Deep in the weeds for sure but rather influential. Clearing is important but really what this is saying is "business as usual".

The UK would be wise to play chicken as not cooperating with the UK is bad for everyone (The EU knows this but they have to posture). The UK will smartly make some concessions that especially punish the districts that made this happen (No one will really talk about this). British Sterling will suffer for awhile as being less global should make your currency less valuable and it will - expect parity with the USD in the short term. Those who don't travel won't care and those that can won't notice.

Everyone wins then. The will of the people is had, the people that are affected contain the blast radius and life goes on, business as usual. Which is good. And we all live on.
Ya, in that point, everyone should watch the Simple Made Easy talk by Rich Hickey, creator of Clojure. One of the best talk ever in my opinion.
I've started a list of government positions that AI could take over. Probably do a better job. It would save tax payers some money.
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> The title should have been "Clearing in dispute as Brexit moves on". But that probably is not what the flavor of the news source wanted people to reflect on.

Why would anyone who is actually really affected by these esoteric things make it harder on themselves?
> The only way capitalism in its current form exists is through the support and use of state power.

Capitalism fundamentally is the application of state power to protect a particular class through defense of a particular structure of property rights.
If google does a good eough job, then may be i will continue not to care?
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You are getting downvoted because in complaining we are below your technical baseline, you've ironically revealed you're not familiar with the rather more interesting CSP.
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This is an interesting point. We at Realm have actually spent significant time thinking about it, and it is absolutely true that there is no easy way to prove the correctness of a system using OT.

But it helps to understand the fundamental constraints - for example, that operations must be commutative. In our case, we have had the luxury of designing our own database system, which means we could pick the semantics that we knew would lend themselves well to operational transformation. We have also made an effort to reuse semantics at multiple levels, limiting the number of OT instances that we had to convince ourselves would work.

Then of course, and for me at least, formal arguments are not enough, which is why we have spent a remarkable amount of resources on testing the system, including guided fuzz testing. :-)
This often is a euphemism for "making money is good". Except for the worst cases of rents (or scams), if you're making money, this means someone found what you do valuable, so hey, you're creating value. The tacit corollary is, if you're not making money, you're not creating much value (not logically correct obviously, but here it goes).

So one should define how you measure value, and what cost (social, externalities etc.) we should be ready to accept for each type of value.
This also suggestsa subtle long term strategy for shifting people's political persuasions. Convince them that luck or effort has more or less to with outcome, and perhaps their political convictions will soften or harden to match.
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How is delusional? If the EU wants it, they pass the necessary regulation and /bam/, it's the law and it's done.

But maybe just the power to do so is enough to secure the EU/ECB's objectives. Doing it just for the jobs would be a bit petty.
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This actually makes a lot of sense.
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This is basically the new Industrial Revolution. It survived the first one pretty well. It will take the workforce a bit to adopt to it but I think it will survive.
I believe that capitalism is doomed. The sooner the better for humanity because capitalism is more dangerous than communism.

The best way to expose the problem of capitalism is with this joke "Give a man a fish, and he will eat for one day. Learn him to fish, and you destroy a market." Capitalism is also leading people to harm (health) and exploit other people.

Communism was clearly a false good idea. Liberalism and capitalism (with competition) clearly provide a motivationnal power for which owe most of the health, technical and scientifical progress.

However, it also come with its perversion like the war, junk food and entertainment business and human exploitation as producer or consumer.

Humanity is going through a continuous evolution process and capitalism is one stage of it. New models will emerge fixing the problems of previous models and preserving their good properties.

It's a long time that I think about this and try to find what could be the next evolution step.

My conclusion is that the working model used in science and more recently with open source could be a good candidate because it provides exponential growth which beats capitalism. Some kind of high level control will be needed so that humanity doesn't shoot itself in the foot as would happen soon or later with pure liberalism and capitalism. It already exist today but it is currently frequently corrupted by greeediness of capitalists.

The robot revolution will not suppress all human work. So I don't think that it might affect capitalism that much. I believe that it would make trade business more prevalent.
Google Cloud is also pretty great, but suffered from AWS's First Mover advantage.
Yes, it will: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy.

"There is no limit to the amount of work to be done as long as any human need or wish that work could fill remains unsatisfied. In a modern exchange economy, the most work will be done when prices, costs, and wages are in the best relations to each other." (Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson)
Someone else's decision is still luck, however - it's beyond your control.
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As an engineer, I have found no other search engine better for programming related issues than Google. I've tried Bing, and DDG (which is my default on my work browser), and neither have performed as well as Google.
That's correct. I also believe you could in theory forgo partition tolerance, it just wouldn't be a very useful system. Maybe there are use cases out there for it.
> As long as you understand the code and it solves your problem, owning is an advantage

Because the cost of acquiring an understanding of code that solves your problem might be much higher in Lisp than other languages, if the hypothesis is correct that the language facilitates the creation of bad half-baked libraries.

Just to give a somewhat figurative example, the jungle is a much more hospital environment for life in general than temperate environments (it's warmer, full of nutrients, bathed in constant solar energy).

However most humans didn't manage to really expand into the jungles successfully until the advent of modern medicine, because the life there was so prolific that there were all sorts of nasty parasites and diseases, and everything you build sinks into the jungle within years.

Lisp is like that jungle -- everything just grows fantastically easily, but paradoxically that makes it harder to separate the chaff from the wheat.
> Google doesn't do anything well but search.
I beg to differ too. It's increasingly difficult to use google search effectively - it has no concept of content vs sidebar/nav, so searches (particularly technical) often turn up a plethora of unrelated* top ten list blog posts.

They're still the best in the game - but that doesn't mean they're still doing it well. Just better than the competition.

* "term A" is in the body, and "term B" is in the navlinks but has no bearing on "term A". Google search sees that the body includes both terms and include it in the results.
Exactly. I could easily get into Vue. But not to React.
Perhaps its my plain js affinity speaking.
How do you know whether timestamps are synchronized if network is partitioned?
But it's DATA SCIENCE. You know it's SCIENCE because they called it SCIENCE.
What would be a good alternative to capitalism? Employee-owned corporations? Worker cooperatives?
LinkedIn has allowed me to experience what it's like to be a pretty girl on a dating site, except that my suitors are idiot recruiters offering terrible jobs I don't want.
I like the concept of a universal basic income. AI could also handle service jobs. I picture myself having more time to travel, continue learning the things I'm interested in, and sailing. I can keep myself quite busy without the need to work for merely a pittance.
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I don't think that's possible, I'm not a programmer so I can't be sure but I read somewhere that the way Chrome is built it can't be done.
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