randunel

Thank you for this! I agree, but I still don't see the difference between a ledger and a relational DB when both write "Bob withdrew $20". Maybe I'm a bit thick.

You're right that I assumed there would only be one database or one ledger.

The system is a $25k custom build with 8 video cards (4x RTX PRO 4000, 2x RTX 4090, 2x RTX 3090). That price was only valid for early 2026.

I'm surprised there's HN folk without ad blockers, what gives?

I don't see the difference between a ledger (possibly with a unique sequence enforcement) which would take the balance to a negative number, and a mutable row in a relational database with optimistic locking (same unique sequence enforcing). Would you mind helping me out, how would a ledger work better to prevent a negative balance, given that the enforcement isn't specific to ledgers and can be used in relational DBs? After all, both can go to negative balance by applying atomic subtractions, and both can prevent writes with the wrong sequence.

Dacia Spring is also made in China.

Fanboys, including management, push macs down our throats and there's little you can do when apple fanboys are also decision makers, since they don't listen to reason.

It's so annoying that more than half of the videos on there show up as "private" to users from my country.

Name and shame them.

Actually GDPR is exactly what they're asking to. Possession of personal data that is not required for a service's functionality is illegal under GDPR.

I'd like you to familiarise yourself with a legal and societal principle we use in civil law countries:

> de minimis non curat praetor

Which basically means judges are not interested in minor disputes. When you add the USA to the mix, China's actions pale in comparison to the point of being negligible, no point in discussing them given the scale of USA's warmongering, overseas and local crimes. "They never interfered in [...]" is an exaggeration which shows the lack of importance of China's crimes when compared to the USA's, that's all.

The "whataboutism" here isn't a deflection strategy, it shows the hypocrisy and correctly minimises the scale of China's actions in comparison to the hypocrites'.

Clear legal guidelines for which country? Or, better yet, for which subdivision within said country?

That's still the default in my localhost, but I get a warning that it'll change.