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ristret.com is a personal blog at ristret.com about data, systems and philosophy. Since 2018, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “A History of Transaction Histories”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog's posts on Harberger taxes, including their application to copyright and IP, and on computational complexity in fiction. The comments cite these posts as references rather than judging them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- A History of Transaction Histories3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-03-27
- The “Open Source” in CockroachDB2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-05-08
- /s/ftmbkg/harberger_taxation_has_elegant2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-07-03
- Why is CockroachDB compatible with PostgreSQL?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-05-16
- The Philosophy of Computational Complexity2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-05-29
- The Philosophy of Computational Complexity2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-06-01
What Hacker News says?
For me, I would like to have the Focus available, lock up a few hundred volunteers somewhere for a few months and have thew rewrite the Linux kernel in Rust or something... "A Fire Upon the Deep" and its differentiation are referenced in this interesting article [0]. [0] https://ristret.com/s/qk8wpt/philosophy_computational_comple...
Comment linking /s/qk8wpt/philosophy_computational_complexity
on “Hard comp-fi reading list”Submitted The Philosophy of Computational Complexity as a story · 127 points
HN discussionPure Harberger taxes aren't a perfect fit for copyright--7 initial years free* is what one fan of the original paper proposed--but I can't see how, compared to existing copyright law, they encourage dishonesty, get messy, or require new industry (a sufficiently large IP company might shift some spending from lawyers to valuation and risk assessment). > A competitor to Disney could wait until they announce a new movi…
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on “What will enter the public domain in 2022”Submitted A History of Transaction Histories as a story · 47 points
HN discussion>I think as a first approximation you could let the IP owner set their value, and assess taxes based on that. However, that would mean the owner couldn't sue for another larger amount if their rights are violated. You can make this even more elegant by making it a Harberger tax: https://ristret.com/s/ftmbkg/harberger_taxation_has_elegant
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on “Libertarian Party of Colorado First to Officially Support Ending IP”Submitted A History of Database Transaction Histories as a story · 9 points
HN discussion1. Comparing numbers from one system (Cockroach) that adheres to strict durability requirements to another that does not (MemSQL) is apples to oranges, especially, as you point out, you see a 2x performance hit when you impose that requirement. 2. What you're looking for is the 'Think Time' mentioned in the TPC-C spec[1] (table in 5.2.5.7). From 5.2.5.2, I quote: > for each transaction type, the Keying Time is const…
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on “A Bunch of Money on AWS and Some Benchmark Results”Submitted Why is CockroachDB compatible with PostgreSQL? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Brief History of Log Structured Merge Trees as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Philosophy of Computational Complexity as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data Stuff: Universal Truths as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The “Open Source” in CockroachDB as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The “Wow” effect in CockroachDB as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A History of Transaction Histories as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The “PostgreSQL” in CockroachDB – Why? (2018) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reporter might have to rollback Aurora story as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Mild Generalization of Linearizability as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Philosophy of Computational Complexity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The “Open Source” in CockroachDB as a story · 1 points
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