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by 9rx 9mo ago
> supply management is far better than the alternatives. Why, then, only dairy, poultry, eggs, and — at least until 2007 when the government bought back the quota — tobacco production? If the farmers growing the foods that are actually
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by 9rx 9mo ago
> But also farmers are in this situation because they chosen to compete in an overcrowded commodity market Hard to predict the future. It was only a few years ago when crop prices were at record highs and some countries were on the bri
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by 9rx 9mo ago
Which patents in particular are you concerned about?
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by 9rx 9mo ago
> it usually just ends up in the pockets of […] Monsanto Who? Monsanto closed up shop and sold off its assets to Bayer and BASF many years ago.
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by 9rx 9mo ago
It is feeling quite reminiscent of the IE6 era, minus the updates part.
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by 9rx 9mo ago
> 25% of a decked out developer Macbook for something that sets the look and feel of an app and forestalls an entire designer hire is an unseriously low price. Potential value bounds the price upper end, but alternatives set what the c
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by 9rx 9mo ago
> MacOS is proprietary Some of the drivers are. The core is open source, though. macOS' particular choice for its graphical user land is proprietary as well, but AT&T's UNIX had no such equivalent, aside from some experim
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by 9rx 9mo ago
> V6 affords enough address space that IPv6 NAT can do 1:1 IP:IP mapping between internal and external. That's the very thing those who consider IPv4 NAT to be a desirable feature don't want.
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by 9rx 9mo ago
Only thing is that Google already publicly announced this exact same fact nearly 15 years ago, and it already filled the news cycle back then[1]. To have it show up again now is like today's news reporting on the movie Frozen being rel
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by 9rx 9mo ago
Around here, temperatures range from -40ºC to +40ºC. The most important information temperature offers is whether it is going to snow or rain. 0ºC being roughly the temperature where that transition happens makes thinking about it seem more
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by 9rx 9mo ago
> what are you basing that off of Observation? Children show clear signs of learning before they even make it through their first year out of the womb. Man, most people don't even consider university as an option until they are ar
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by 9rx 9mo ago
Not to mention that to the extent that it is newsworthy, it was already widely reported decades ago. e.g. https://www.businessinsider.com/google-hiring-non-graduates-... Slow news day, I guess.
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by 9rx 9mo ago
> When I think of an expert I think of an accomplished mathematician or a chemist, someone that can build on existing knowledge to provide new breakthroughs. I think we're on the same page here. Experts have both vision and execut
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by 9rx 9mo ago
NAT has the side-effect of working as a shower curtain. It will mostly keep light drops of water out, but will not stand up to a fire.
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by 9rx 9mo ago
> I believe to count as an expert on something you need to have a ready compendium of knowledge ready to go. You are certainly headed in the right direction, but not quite. To be seen as an expert in the eyes of others you need to hav
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by 9rx 9mo ago
I'm not thinking of either. The profit-seeking people looking to increase their profitability spoken of are neither non-profits nor not-for-profits.
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by 9rx 9mo ago
You're right, but learning can take place when you need it. There is no real advantage to learning something ahead of time. The bottleneck is having awareness of what is out there to learn. You can't learn about what you don'
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by 9rx 9mo ago
> Why would a nonprofit public university be working on maximizing profit? Because 'nonprofit' is only in reference to the legal entity, not the profit-seeking people working there? There is still great incentive to increase
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by 9rx 9mo ago
Going to university isn't how people learn these days, so there is already a real-world disconnect, fundamentally. But that's okay as it isn't intended to be a reflection of the real world.
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by 9rx 9mo ago
> To the C language and to the C compiler, there are no linked lists But are most certainly able to use one. Just as they can use a garbage collector. You are quite right that these are not provided out of the box, though. If you w
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by 9rx 9mo ago
> Making up definitions on the spot and "getting to choose what a word means" is deliberately acting in bad faith. Not quite. Not taking the time to understand what someone means when they use a word is acting in bad faith. U
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by 9rx 9mo ago
> The C language does not use your C code Your impression that there is a semantic authority misses the mark. While you are free to use English as you see fit, so too is everyone else. We already agreed on the intent of the message, so
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by 9rx 9mo ago
> I'm almost 45 and not sure what else I could do, though. I am of the same age. I have some good ideas on where to go, but dread the grind to get things moving. When I was in my teens and 20s the grind that got me to where am now
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by 9rx 9mo ago
> because then it becomes optional Exactly. Optional implies use. So, in case you forgot to read the thread, both Limbo and Rust use GC.
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by 9rx 9mo ago
> it is you writing a garbage collector in C. That's right, you can write a garbage collector in C for C to use. You can also write a garbage collector in C for Javascript to use, you could even write a garbage collector in C for
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by 9rx 9mo ago
Like most words, capitalism has multiple definitions. Among the popular ones, the one that is about capital doesn't concern itself with markets, only capital, so you are quite right that any kind of market goes. It could even be centra
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by 9rx 9mo ago
That is an interesting chicken and egg problem. A strong union requires members who can demonstrate that prolonged work stoppages are a credible threat. If the employer thinks everyone will be starving and begging to come back after a week,
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by 9rx 9mo ago
> so is C garbage collected as developers often add refcounting to their structs. Absolutely, C also can use a garbage collector. Obviously you can make any programming language do whatever you want if you are willing to implement the
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by 9rx 9mo ago
It could be Claude. Or Sally, Joe, or Sue. Whatever name the PM goes by is immaterial.
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by 9rx 9mo ago
I would say that RC is GC, yes, as it is most definitely technically true. But it was pjmlp who suggested it originally (Limbo also uses reference counting), so we have clear evidence that others also see reference counting as being GC. We

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