adamch

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by adamch 7y ago
I wish that were true, but there are already uninhabited islands that have sunk below the waves [1]. There are inhabited ones (e.g. the Carteret islands) which are on their way out and already suffering: "Since 1994, the islanders of t
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by adamch 7y ago
I know, but I have a fence around my house. Once someone is setting up equipment around my house, why not just smash a window and steal my stuff directly?
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by adamch 7y ago
On a long timescale, yes, they will. On a short timescale, many people will die. You can't just move an entire house to a different city (and obviously no-one will be able to sell a house on a drowning coastline). For example, the Paci
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by adamch 7y ago
No. As the report itself says, stabilizing the population (or slightly shrinking it) will help fight climate change, but that can be done very easily without "population control". "make family-planning services available to a
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by adamch 7y ago
"We" won't deserve it. There is a small minority of people who have worked for 30 years to suppress research about climate change. For example, Exxon has known about climate change for decades, but funded denialists [1] Unfor
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by adamch 7y ago
Rising sea levels are unambiguously bad for the millions of people who live by the coast.
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by adamch 7y ago
Perhaps 30 years ago climate change could have been stopped or kept under control by a series of taxes and trading schemes. However, world governments have squandered that opportunity. If climate change continues unfettered, millions of peo
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by adamch 7y ago
This is cool research, but I hope people aren't viewing this as a real-world worry. By the time someone is breaking into my house to set up hundreds of dollars worth of laser equipment, I probably have bigger problems.
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by adamch 7y ago
For everyone asking why Twitter or Facebook should treat ads differently to TV. There are some huge differences between the economics of the platforms that I haven't seen anyone mention. Each TV station has a limited number of ad-secon
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by adamch 7y ago
Historically, yes, that's true. But these days Chrome has a huge lead in the market compared to every other browser, so FF is the alternative again.
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by adamch 7y ago
The article lists several: static typing, guarantee of zero runtime errors, sane error handling using rich enums. Other advantages: async is baked into the framework and isn't an afterthought like React. Immutability is standard and do
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by adamch 7y ago
Turning down millions of dollars in Saudi investment is a pretty big action. Basically the opposite of virtue signalling. It has a real cost for the people doing it. Seems like Google, Amazon and Uber are actually doing something in this si
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by adamch 7y ago
This makes it incredibly easy for me to deploy Elm web apps (which are all static). For a while now, my side-project's backend (Rust) was deployed in a Cloudflare worker and the frontend (Elm) was a Github Page (using Cloudflare for DN
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Which Rust Combinator Should I Use?(jethrogb.github.io)
2 points by adamch 7y ago|0 comments
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by adamch 7y ago
Forgive me if I prefer to base my policy analysis on quantitative studies rather than idioms.
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by adamch 7y ago
A lot of people say "censorship radicalizes" but I've never seen any studies or evidence for this claim. Your comment is purely speculative. There is some evidence that banning extremist content reduces its potential to radic
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by adamch 7y ago
The real-world gestures look pretty nifty. It's easier to wave a finger than say "Hey Google, next track". Obviously it takes more effort than tapping a button, but it's really useful if, for example, your phone is lying
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by adamch 7y ago
18% of the USA voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 election, which is slightly less than 1% of the international population. I have no stats about the popularity of the Trump administration in the knitting community. But I suspect it is a so
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by adamch 7y ago
I'm curious why robocalls aren't protected by freedom of speech. This is the government censoring small businesses from doing direct marketing. I don't actually believe this argument, but I'm curious what self-described
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by adamch 8y ago
"big in the CDN market" is very different to "has enough pull to significantly centralize the internet like Google or Amazon".
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by adamch 8y ago
Probably because many people loved BOTW and it was wildly successful, both critically and financially. So there's clearly a market for that style of game among Switch users.
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by adamch 8y ago
Getting a solid 8+ hours of good quality sleep each night. For me this meant: - Sleeping/waking at the same time each night/morning - Keeping my room cool at night - Relaxation exercises for both body and mind once I get into bed
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by adamch 8y ago
Meditation. Most days I meditate around the corner from work during lunch. It massively improves my mood, gives me new perspective, sometimes gives me a physical body high like a good edible, and helps me focus. I usually meditate again bef
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by adamch 8y ago
Presumably those immigrants also increase demand for food, housing, services, transport, etc. Whether the increased demand outdoes the increased supply or vice-versa is going to vary situation by situation.
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Cloud computing without containers(blog.cloudflare.com)
3 points by adamch 8y ago|0 comments
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by adamch 8y ago
My team at work has been studying CT. Every week we read one chapter of Category Theory for Programmers. Then every Thursday we discuss the chapter and our problem solutions together. It's been very fun. Our discussions help forge link
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by adamch 8y ago
Are all the AlphaGo engineers also top-level Go players?
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by adamch 8y ago
In game-theory experiments, you can be selfish or altruistic. If being selfish wins, people act selfish. If you add a way to punish players, the altruistic punish the selfish, then people stop playing selfishly. OR SO IT WOULD SEEM. In some
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by adamch 8y ago
I worked in Swift for just over a year. Love the language. But unfortunately you can still get reference cycles that leak memory. And they can be basically unsolvable with a large enough app. Merely avoiding GC doesn't fix all your pro
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by adamch 8y ago
Your suggestion reminds me of Eve [1]. I remember when I first read the design/explainers, the closest analogy I could make was "all variables are backed by a database, and all manipulations are SQL". Not a very accurate stat

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