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That's a fair point and it should be taken into account. But at the same time, this is Nate Silver. He's essentially the pre-eminent expert on polling, polling errors, and best practices in that regard. And what's more; when you imagine the different potential political factions amongst the African American community (a practice Dems try not to do); it's not hard to see why 2016 to today could have soured them significantly. Some examples from my family, friends, and extended family:

• As much as Republicans aren't great on "black issues" under Trump Black Labor saw unprecedented gains in employment and income (until COVID hit). And a cohort of black voters are economic voters first.
• The "vaccine mandate" talk from the left didn't go over well in Southern Communities where the oldest (like my grandparents) remember. And Oftentimes knew people that were part of things like Tuskegee (which was also one of many experiments like this. It's just that the exceptional journalistic work and integrity of several academics and journalists brought this one instance to light).
• Student Loan debt affects people from lower and middle-class families a lot. The promise and almost delivery of student loan relief and then the total rug pull of it and sellout of the Biden Administration towards it soured lots of people.
• It's not like Africans don't know what Alzheimer's is. And Biden's refusal to even address the concerns impact black voters as much as they do whites.
• For the BLM cohort; running the guy who designed and championed the three strikes policy that has put so many blacks in jail for life unnecessarily and then running a prosecutor who knowingly tried to keep innocent black people in jail to maintain appearances doesn't sit right. Especially when the other guy made it a habit to pardon wrongly or likely wrongly convicted men and women of color and did so at an exceptional clip.
• Inflation is super high and FED interest rates are 59 times higher than they were when Biden was elected. For "low information" voters that's just Biden's fault. But even for "high information" voters they realize that Trump was willing to bully the FED to keep those numbers down. "Stagflation" killed Carter it can kill Biden too.

It's really not at all surprising that the current Dem ticket isn't going to win black voters at 90% clips.

I hope so! Looking forward to the writeup at the end!

You should be able to take the binlogs and upload them. Then in a restore situation you'd restore your last full db snapshot and replay your binlogs up until the point you lost the server.

If you truly need read/write to scale, multi-masrer clustering with MariaDB Galera is probably the best way to do it. They (MariaDB) also sell a load balancer/query proxy Max scale that can do a lot of surprisingly complex stuff (like publish new data to Kafka or centrally ship binlogs from one place to multiple read replicas).

However generally my advice is that if you're finding yourself trying to build a big relational database and writing to it a significant amount of times, it might be time to consider a different or at least modified architecture. Especially if your use case starts to scale to more than what Galera can handle. At some point, all these solutions become eventually consistent the more you scale. And if you are willing to accept eventual consistency, there are some clever ways to do storage using things like queueing, batching, caching etc that can scale horizontally much further than any relational database can.

Can't be just an oversight. This has to be an intentional design decision. The "simple" (and economical) way to build this system is to build it so that the scan reads the price from a database and that price is then displayed and used to sum the total.

Keeping two prices, a display and a real one, is a design decision that adds a complexity to the system, makes it more difficult to administer and is an intentional design decision, especially if the numbers are allowed to differ.

A coupon not being applied correctly could be a mistake with that coupon. A sale not being taken into account, a problem with that sale or that UPC entry in the database. Those could be issues with data entry and data management.

This is different. This is intentional. And I'd bet, we've just found someone either cheating the tax man or embezzling funds.

If there're two different items calculations one "real" one and "display" that's an intentional choice made because they know there can be discrepancies.

Did they call someone over when they saw the discrepancy? Because, you know, mistakes happen.

Not in software. The software is doing exactly what it was programmed to do.

Biden didn't have to cave, he chose to. He said this thing that I said was a top priority for my campaign isn't a top priority for my administration. And politically he's going to pay a penalty to the faction of his coalition to whom forgiveness was a top priority.

That's what happens when you lie to gain support.

Read the fuck up on what good they have done and i think you'll be suprised.

I understand what they've done. But Biden didn't promise to "do something." He promised broad forgiveness. And it was clear that many Dems were going to hold him to it. He shouldn't be surprised he's not getting credit for half measures, especially when he had the power to keep student loans deferred.

• trying to install any software that isn't already packaged explicitly for Ubuntu is a nightmare because there is no equivalent of the AUR for people to push build steps to and you're quite often left guessing what dependencies you need to install to get something to compile

In fairness it does have the PPA system which predates the AUR and does provide a good job of providing third party amd semi-third party software.

But you're right that Ubuntu has sold out on building snaps for software instead of ppas.

Claiming customers damaged things that were manufacturing issues is fraud. Tesla should likely be shut down for that action alone. But that would never happen.