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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • Sure if we started the whole tax thing today we may do it different. But it’s culture created over time. Our sales taxes all started during and shortly after the Great Depression in the 1920s. I’m sure store owners likely preferred people realize what they were charging vs the govts take. This is why I like it now. It’s very clear what the govt is taking and what the store is charging. It doesn’t bug me at all to have it added on at the register. It’s all I’ve known for 40 years. Currently I even live in a state with no sales tax (recently moved here), but I’m in a small tourist town that implemented a “resort sales tax” of 1% to help pay for city services related to tourism.










  • Do you have a source for ANY of this drivel?

    I was homeless for years, and have worked with homeless addicts for the last 10 years. Never in my life have I heard of these things happening for the reasons you give. Hell even to this day I don’t update a bank with my new address.

    Could you provide a reliable source for more information about this actually happening to real people en masse? I have no doubt it’s happened to someone somewhere, but would be surprised if this was a real problem and I wasn’t aware.





  • I thought that word might bug someone.

    It’s not just a distributed hash table. That’s not a trustless cache. It’s Byzantine fault tolerant. Trustless.

    It combines game theory with distributed hash tables and makes them irreversible.

    And yes, even satoshi himself was upset he couldn’t get the anonymity perfect. Great strides in other chains to do that, and zk stuff for confidential activity.

    Look, it’s not for everyone. It’s not for you obviously. But it’s a breakthrough for sure - tech, science, whatever category you want.

    It’s the first time man created a system that can’t be reverted. That’s a big deal.



  • Clickhouse has a unique performance gain when you have a system that isn’t operational data that is normalized and updated often. But rather tables of timeseries data being ingested for write only.

    An example, stock prices or order books in real-time. Tens of thousands per second. Clickhouse can write, merge, aggregate records really nicely.

    Then selects against ordered data with aggregates are lightning fast. It has lots of nuances to learn and has really powerful capability, but only for this type of use case.

    It doesn’t have atomic transactions. Updates and deletes are very poor performing.