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That's like asking why don't we expect burglars to not burgle, they won't, but that doesn't mean walling off a whole neighborhood is the solution either.
it's effectively the same, small banks just shove you out of the building and refuse to open a bank account for you if FATCA applies to you, their compliance is through just not accepting US tax payers.

This is a real issue that leaves US citizens only able to open accounts at bigger banks (with shittier services but enough budget to hire a FATCA compliance department)

I imagine legally would need a lawsuit to set a precedence, and if a license owner sets an over-reaching precedence of what a wrapper is, they risk losing customer trust and companies avoiding them like the plague.

e.g. timescaledb going after a tsdb as a service company offering tsdb behind a graphql wrapper vs timescaledb going after a financial company offering timeseries data collection and viewing.

I think a good border test would be, would timescaledb allow you to offer a metrics and logging service? technically you're offering timeseries database functionality, but it's in a constrained domain, and very clearly a different product, but still effectively CRUDing timeseries data.

Re:Hetzner GPU Server on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @03:27PM (#39446465)
I got this when I first registered, contacted support and it was lifted in a day or two.
Re:Automatic fraud detection is making my life hell on Friday October 27, 2023 @11:00AM (#38039364)
tip regarding google play, each account can have an independent region, create a new google account and set it to your new location, keep the original where it was, it has 0 impact on how you use the apps after installation, if the app uses google auth you can login with either accounts
Re:My Lobotomy: Howard Dully's Journey (2005) on Saturday September 30, 2023 @06:28AM (#37714151)
I think the only think he knew was that he was offering a procedure to turn problematic family members into vegetables, that was the whole business model
Re:TypeScript 5.2's New Keyword: 'using' on Monday June 19, 2023 @05:45AM (#36389142)
typescript is introducing it in a polyfill, which is going to be how a lot of people will first get to use the feature
Re:Why NoSQL on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @06:43AM (#28771455)
CockroachDB, I heard the dev experience of spinning up nodes can be dumbed down to 1 or 2 docker commands, and it's Postgres compatible, continues to have global transactions, although you wont get the same transaction performance as something GPS/clock hardware synced like Spanner, it's still a good self hosted solution.

If you're interested, CRDB writes a lot about how they do their transactions on their blog, it's good to know what guarantees you actually get with your DB's transactions.

Re:Why NoSQL on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @06:21AM (#28771289)
depends on what level of isolation and how it's done, MVCC avoids deadlocks, but if you manually lock any row/table, you can still run into deadlocks. but the DBMS' transaction manager will notice and timeout one of the transactions, failing it.

While MVCC avoids deadlocks, you'll still get a lot of failed transactions if they all operate on the same data at the same time, which you'll have to retry, but I'll take that over data inconsistency