How exactly did they arrive at this estimate? I would like to see a building-by-building breakdown, or at least a methodology. Feels very vibe-researched tbh.

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/15455/backwards-eps...

I'm not sure thats true for Postgres. optimal join ordering is np-hard, and finding an optimal join requires exhaustive search through n! combinations (n=number of joins) - thats why postgres generally uses heuristics to figure out join order. 8 is also the default value of "join_collapse_limit" setting in postgres, so it can't ever reliably optimize over 8 joins at a time. Additionally, postgres starts using "genetic algorithms" aka testing random combinations of joins with 12 joins by default (geqo_threshold setting).

I generally agree its better to use database to its fullest, but I would say 8 joins is probably the "limit". Internally at work I've advised teams to try to avoid anything more than 6 joins for "hot-path" queries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conflicts_in_Europe

in particular state formation in late medieval and early modern europe saw immense bloodshed and turmoil.

middle east was comparatively peaceful in contrast, especially post mongol conquest.

e.g. compare 1700s and 1800s europe to middle east

Can you expand? What was the EIC doing in India?

do you have any perf metrics? throughput, end-to-end latency, etc?

why do you believe you and and your family (parents and sibling) belong in the USA?

agreed.

but i bet i can make a bunch of confounding factors appear.

from 1800 to 1870 gdp per capita growth rate was about 1.1 percent.

from 1870 to right before great depression growth rate was about 1.6 percent.

from start of great depression until 2022 it was about 1.8 percent.

economy and standards of living have gotten better faster as the state has gotten more bureacratic.

source: Maddison project database, see excel file here: https://www.rug.nl/ggdc/historicaldevelopment/maddison/relea...

ray, why are you now cosplaying as someone who doesn't believe in racial hierarchies?

> The key correctness insight is this: any two majorities of nodes must overlap in at least one node. So between any two consecutive global state changes — whether two commits, two leader elections, or one of each — at least one node participated in both.

intuitively makes sense, but would be nice to see this result explicitly derived or illustrated the same way the fano planes were.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5259427

> Passive capitalization-weighted index funds now surpass active management in aggregate investor allocations. Flows into passive strategies cause unrelated stocks to move synchronously, undermining diversification and potentially increasing systemic risk. New flows into passive products mechanically overweight overvalued stocks and underweight undervalued stocks due to market-price weighting, exacerbating momentum-driven price distortions. Rebalancing at the stock level to non-price-based anchor weights may mitigate these distortions and enhance long-term returns.

This is likely why large-cap stocks have outperformed over past decade.

Why don't you live by your principles and return to Bangladesh? To use your own argument (not mine), your culture is both inferior to the American culture and Americans have voted to not have "your kind" here.

One way or another, you are being disingenuous, either through your words or your actions.

isnt this just mcp servers hosted by the saas provider?