i know relationships don’t typically have props in a store like neo4j, and moreover you can reproduce that in something like postgres with a foreign key
we had a challenge like what you describe though, and were able to avoid new queries by representing the relationships as objects. in so doing, we leverage row level security and jwt claims, which is an approach to authorization which has high epistemical legibility.
I grew up in Calgary, and after spending the last 14 years in Toronto I have decided to move back.
Income taxes are way lower in Alberta than Ontario; moving my remote-ok tech job to calgary was equivalent to getting a five-figure raise.
Cycling in Toronto is a life-threatening activity, and Calgary has something like 150km of paved urban pathway.
The politics are toxic in both places.
Calgary is just quieter and I like that. I’m sick of listening to construction, sirens, street car clattering, and apt hvac systems.
The water in Calgary looks appetizing - I spent a lot of time in the outer harbour in Toronto and am acutely aware of the water quality advisories.
The shoreline of Toronto’s harbour front is ugly as sin. Chunks of the Gardiner is falling on peoples’ cars, and is a source of horrible, dementia-inducing noise pollution. Anyone with a balcony in Fort York or City Place probably used it for the first time during the pandemic, and otherwise is just their storage locker.
Calgary has a stunning river that glows with mineralized rocky mountain water, and you can walk or cycle along it for exercise because it isn’t so oversubscribed as the pan am path.
Transit is terrible in both towns but living on the subway was great.
I can afford a 1700sqft inner city calgary home with a garage and a yard for the price of a 900sqft 2bed downtown toronto condo.
The recreation opportunities in Calgary are year round, but in Toronto I felt like the onot things to do in the winter were restaurants and the ago.
The food scene in Toronto is amazing. I miss sushi. The music scene too. But Calgary has world class examples of all this, and this stuff is a lower priority than it once was.
Everything is 8 minutes away from me in Calgary. Try getting anywhere in 8 minutes in Toronto, what with the choking traffic, and the fact that all your friends have to move to orangeville and whitby because of rising prices.
Both cities have incredible energy. I was in calgary for the red mile, and at yonge and dundas when the raps won.
I think on balance it actually hurts more than it helps.
The author lists Equifax as a case where an organization “failed to update a web server in timely fashion (a few months)” but a software bill of materials would not have made it any more or less obvious that they were running vulnerable web software an attacker could get a foothold in, and could have made it easier for an attacker to exploit that foothold, pivot, and exfiltrate, knowing what other software is available for them to exploit.
Equifax didn’t “fail” to manage that particular vulnerability, as the author describes, and protect customer data. They neglected to manage the vulnerability and protect customer data.
It’s my opinion that what would actually be valuable (and have been valuable) in the case of Equifax is compliance legislation that places liability on the custodian of PII. This compliance should require companies which are custodians of PII or financial data, or which operate critical infrastructure to have a vulnerability management practice.
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I actually think this is a really interesting argument. Here's some quick napkin math that shows a large enough difference that, I think, you can't just shut this down as a strawman:
17.7M barrels of oil annually by bitcoin mining operations
8.16B barrels of oil by US banking sector employees
These numbers don't count the physical infrastructure, servers, and other plant that these businesses own, operate, heat, keep the lights on in.
Here are my sources:
One stat I just read says that the top 20 North American banks employ 1.2 million people. That's 1.2M people eating and commuting 5 days a week for the purpose of supporting fiat.
With a quick investigation:
-US per capita annual barrels of oil: 6800 (1)
-Bitcoin annual Terrawatt hours: 30.1 (2)
-6800 * 1.2M = 8.16B barrels of oil by US banking sector employees (3)
One of the things I found surprising and curious about bitcoin is that the minimum viable amount is actually the transaction fee, which is maybe around 27,000 satoshis (median tx size x 120 satoshis/byte).
The surprising part for me was that, as a corollary to that, wallets with less than that amount have bitcoin in them which is potentially permanently removed from the total supply of BTC.
In Canada, banks offer fixed and floating rate mortgages; the mortgage rate is always prime + some %.
If you get a fixed-rate mortgage, you're locked in to your rate for 5 years regardless of how the Bank of Canada changes the prime rate. This has been the product of choice for Canadians for the last several years because it protects you against rising interest rates, and rates have had nowhere to go but up.
If you get a floating-rate, your rate moves when the Bank of Canada moves the rate. This is desirable if you think the BoC is going to lower interest rates.
Just a guess, but wouldn't this approach used in isolation result in a high potential for getting stuck at local optima? It seems to me that the success of this experiment is the result of interaction with players in different MMR brackets.
I think what they're pointing to is that the ELO system "true skill" that dota uses is a log normal distribution. To your point I'm not sure that means that player skill improves along the distribution, but I think it does mean their probability of winning increases exponentially.
Yeah, you can increase the safety of handling nuclear waste material, decrease its volume, increase its long term stability, and lower its surface mobility by turning it in to a glass-like material
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022311513...
There's truth found in Ajit's comment, that Americans' internet infrastructure just isn't as good as other countries. Is that because of the regulatory climate? The ISPs receive a lease on the public spectrum; are they expected to meet a minimum service level of quality?
According to this source, the US rates low in many categories of internet access i.e. % of people over 4mbit, and average bandwidth:
I got it for the playoffs, it was easy, and I was ok with the pricing.