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#86 | 2025-12-01 06:41:19 UTC
Re: Real-time gating of user actions
Sam Gödel-Conway

"Today, if you don’t want to build your own ledger, you do have a few options. For example, there are hosted services like Modern Treasury and ledger-specific databases like TigerBeetle. Both of these are impressive and probably a good fit for many. But by using a ledger outside of the main application database, you lose transactionality and atomicity. Namely, you have to worry about orchestrating two systems that can fail independently. What happens if you write your main data, but the ledger update fails? Or the ledger operation succeeds but your app hits an error and fails to write the surrounding data. Integrating with these often requires two-phase commits and other strategies to ensure they stay in sync. And when they fall out of sync, it can be very hard to debug." https://www.pgrs.net/2025/03/24/pgledger-ledger-implementation-in-postgresql

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#28 | 2025-07-09 11:32:11 UTC
Growing Regionalism in Spain 2
Guillermo Pablos Murphy

Spain operates like an asymmetric confederacy in key areas – some regions manage their own taxes, security, as well as schooling and public media – although it maintains that it’s a state of autonomies. I doubt this will be reversed, even if governments halt further devolution. There isn’t the political capital – or narrative – to recentralise power. Growing regionalism is especially a threat to Spain’s national story. The inequality of treatment and privileges between supposed equals can destroy the narrative of Spain as one people, one state. This doesn’t necessarily mean that Spain will devolve into micro-states, but it’s a reminder that de facto > de jure. Brexit, the Catalan declaration of independence in 2017, and UN resolutions are all WEAK politics attempting to play _de jure_. Navarre’s gradual devolution – see log/25/, Catalonia’s collection of income tax, and Norway and Switzerland’s relationship with the EU are STRONG politics that care about _de facto_ reality.

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