Questioning where your tax money goes is a good thing, and a necessary activity to be an informed citizen. However the next step is usually "I don't like $THING, therefore I shouldn't have any of my tax money go toward paying for it" which does not work at scale.
At least in the US, we are not a direct democracy so it's not important or even an desirable to have everyone decide where their money goes based on their own individual morals or ideology. We elect leaders and in a perfect world they're smart enough (lol) to see that taxpayer funds are allocated in a manner that best helps Americans (lol).
It's not often that we get to see whataboutism actually start with an actual "What about...".
Less snarkily: even if we agreed that paying taxes makes one complicit on evil acts done with that money, it doesn't mean that person should not avoid being complicit in other evil actions where they can.
The given situation is solvable only by the humans involved. They want different things. Either one of them has authority over the other, or they talk it over.
The obvious answer is a relational structure. In the given example, host, status, path and target should be separate relations. They'll all be tiny ones, a few rows each.
Of course, performance etc are a separate story but as far as the shape of the data goes, that's what the solution is
Media people obviously thought that kill switch meant something that can kill the driver and rushed to reassure the public that no that was not the case.
They're good people at heart. Don't misunderstand them.
It's not as if they don't know that this is a false comparison, specially because generations of Intel CPUs used in Macs also did frequency throttling.
"Unlike traditional Intel CPUs, CPU cores in Apple silicon chips can be run at a wide range of frequencies, as set by macOS."
The use of the word 'traditional' here is essentially gaslighting.
The slowness would be inevitable because the architecture combines the weak point of Redis (network stack) with the weak point of sqlite (disk access).
It abandons Redis' in-memory data and sqlite's in-process speed... for what?
The HN crowd has come a long way from practically hero-worshipping Snowden to automatically assuming that 'state actor' must mean the countries marked evil by the US.
