jmoiron plays the blues

@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: At the low and high end (eg. Redis & Cassandra), the case for NoSQL has been pretty resilient. But we've also seen that SQL, esp. SELECT, has enough familiarity and expressive-power that it's desirable even when you remove those RDBMS properties.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: I think we're moving past that, at least conceptually. DuckDB, Presto, Spanner, et al. have shown you can bring bits of SQL to non-RDBMS storage. MySQL and PostgreSQL have added native support for JSON types to deal with less-structured data. There are a billion distributed k...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: My feeling on this is that SQL vs NoSQL is an outdated framing. SQL used to strongly imply the trappings of RDBMS; strong consistency, secondary indexes, rigid schemas, moderate per-query overhead, limited distributability. NoSQL systems filled niches poorly served by those tra...
@jmoiron.bsky.social The band on the Subway platform just played Watermelon Man followed by El Cuarto de Tula... Have to say it kinda makes up for the lack of actual trains.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: That's not irony, that's the strategy. See also: crime, the ACA, the rent is too damn high, et al.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: Ezra Klein's election podcast recap had no reflection at all on whether or not the traditional media was culpable for vast swathes of the electorate believing outright falsehoods.
@jmoiron.bsky.social Big week for this kind of post: "As a moderate, <a bunch of right wing talking points>."
@jmoiron.bsky.social Don't allow a group that happily says things like "feminazi" to tone-police "toxic masculinity."
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: When you actually manage to say "you could have lost your job if it was a recession, and you'd have no income", people never think it would have been them, because Americans are confident & optimistic (good qualities, usually). They think they'd have kept their job _and_ had low...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: Finally (and there are others), media trust is low. Again, lots of good reasons for this. But it means that it can't effectively perform its function of informing people how this inflationary soft landing differs from the alternative.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: The third is that the economic indicators that the media and political class focus on are macro indicators that tell you how businesses are doing (the owner class), not how people are doing. A lot of reasons for this, but a factor is that we have not had periods of high inflatio...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: The second is that the US has very low civic cohesion. Culturally, people have a very zero-sum concept of success: if they are losing, someone else is winning at their expense. It's a country where writers are compelled to write articles like this: www.huffpost.com/entry/i-dont...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: Unfortunately, there are several problems. The first is that it's hard for people to evaluate the effectiveness of a complex system like the economy, so they end up personalizing systemic effects. If your wages go up, you deserved it. But if prices go up, the system is broken.
@jmoiron.bsky.social This is my biggest concern. The US has had a boom->bust cycle where the bust always led to high unemployment & recession. This leads to long periods of economic misery. The left has always maintained that this was a choice; we could stimulus your way out of it. It turns out th...
by jason moiron, 2026