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New comment by dubswithus in "High property taxes are good"

dubswithus — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 17:33:39 +0000

Imagine someone offered you a house but the agreement was that you could only sell it for what you bought it for. I doubt you would buy it considering there are other options on the market where you could profit in the future. It's 100% speculation. It's part of the package.

New comment by dubswithus in "Are forum platforms dead?"

dubswithus — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 17:16:07 +0000

When are you going to ban this user? Their username is sexual and offends me as a woman.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=MegaButts

New comment by dubswithus in "Former Coinbase Employee Charged in First Ever Crypto Insider Trading Scheme"

dubswithus — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 16:53:00 +0000

Link should be changed.

New comment by dubswithus in "High property taxes are good"

dubswithus — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 23:31:12 +0000

You bought it to live in for 5 years and then you flipped it for more money than you bought it? That's the definition of successful speculation.

New comment by dubswithus in "High property taxes are good"

dubswithus — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 23:13:30 +0000

All homeowners are real estate speculators.

Wouldn't you also consider anyone buying a "starter home" a speculator? Their goal is to continuously flip their house.

New comment by dubswithus in "VCs are scared when they should be greedy"

dubswithus — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 19:27:34 +0000

Very good points MegaButts. Crypto is VC funded too. Hence the crazy market caps because most of the VC owned supply is locked up.

New comment by dubswithus in "Soft deletion probably isn't worth it"

dubswithus — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 14:25:54 +0000

The business owns your data. Why would they delete it if they don't have to?

New comment by dubswithus in "Soft deletion probably isn't worth it"

dubswithus — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 14:24:23 +0000

There's definitely perfect and perfect for the business. But when large companies have many developers they all have to do something. They will spend their time doing something unnecessary.

New comment by dubswithus in "Soft deletion probably isn't worth it"

dubswithus — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 14:22:10 +0000

I would never suggest archiving unless we're hitting some performance limit. Why generate more busy work? Just leave it there and if need be add more indexes and partitions.

New comment by dubswithus in "Soft deletion probably isn't worth it"

dubswithus — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 14:18:55 +0000

The use case for using the database here is overblown. I've never experienced of heard of anyone using a view for the users table. I suppose it may exist in the wild somewhere.

I wouldn't avoid Ruby features because the applications I develop are in Ruby and it would require a complete rewrite anyway. I avoid the database because there are development speed advantages to using Rails features. And everything works together nicely assuming you do things the Rails way.

https://github.com/rubysherpas/paranoia

> If a record has has_many associations defined AND those associations have dependent: :destroy set on them, then they will also be soft-deleted if acts_as_paranoid is set, otherwise the normal destroy will be called.

It's convenient.

New comment by dubswithus in "Soft deletion probably isn't worth it"

dubswithus — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 01:44:15 +0000

There are Rails gems that can handle this in various ways.

But the easiest way is to deactivate the user account (is_active boolean) and continue to reference the user in internal records.

New comment by dubswithus in "Soft deletion probably isn't worth it"

dubswithus — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 01:36:28 +0000

There are some Rails gems that take care of this by scoping associations (that also have the deleted_at column).

New comment by dubswithus in "Soft deletion probably isn't worth it"

dubswithus — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 01:33:45 +0000

> Using views, stored procedures and other features lets you implement things like soft delete trivially, without it infecting all your application code.

That’s great but some of us actually like to write code. Especially Ruby on Rails where soft delete is a breeze if you don’t overthink it and build something the business doesn’t need.

New comment by dubswithus in "Soft deletion probably isn't worth it"

dubswithus — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 01:30:44 +0000

Every Rails developer knows what “deleted_at” means. I’m absolutely repulsed at the thought of turning the users table into a view. What’s next? No code and we only use triggers?

New comment by dubswithus in "A 100x Investment (2019)"

dubswithus — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 22:01:45 +0000

Lack of support and poor attitude? That's the playbook for Tesla's FSD. So maybe it can work again?

New comment by dubswithus in "FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be removed from app stores"

dubswithus — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 14:59:48 +0000

The US government does not agree with China that the US army created SARS-CoV-2 in a lab. But every scientist and rational person also doesn't agree with China. You're going to have to update your definition.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/vaccines-c...

New comment by dubswithus in "Heat wave kills more than 1,100 people in Spain and Portugal"

dubswithus — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 11:55:58 +0000

Or hang out in the bathtub all day. If you don't have a bathtub put your feet in a bucket of water.

New comment by dubswithus in "FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be removed from app stores"

dubswithus — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 08:17:17 +0000

Trying to get vaccinated at CVS.

New comment by dubswithus in "FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be removed from app stores"

dubswithus — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 08:13:53 +0000

China’s stance on Covid is that America is responsible. I’ll update with the wechat source when I find it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/vaccines-c...

New comment by dubswithus in "FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be removed from app stores"

dubswithus — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 08:12:26 +0000

Because what I claimed is so outrageous?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/vaccines-c...

I’ll find the wechat story when I’m more awake. ADV china covered it though.