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by akavi 6y ago
The price in bitcoin of a basket of actual consumable goods went up significantly (ie, BTC's dollar value tanked). How is that not inflation? Or are you claiming that was not "unpredictable"?
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by akavi 6y ago
Seems like bitcoin experienced a whole lot of unexpected inflation in early March this year. And fall of last year. And November 2018. And January 2018. And... well, you get the picture. Bitcoin guarantees the supply remains fixed. But infl
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by akavi 6y ago
They also shipped a block on tweeting the address: https://twitter.com/_akavi/status/1283524504866586624
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by akavi 6y ago
@TitaniaMcGrath is a parody, and not a particularly subtle one.
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by akavi 6y ago
These discussions are always frustrating, because it feels like the people advocating Go's approach are comparing them to Java style Checked Exceptions, while the people most annoyed with Go's approach are usually comparing them t
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by akavi 6y ago
Yeah, it's unclear to me why there's not more demand for them either. I think it might that most go users with prior static language experience are coming from Java, where there aren't sum types either. From my naive perspect
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by akavi 6y ago
Exactly. I don't want sum types becuase they're exciting, I want them because they're the simplest way to communicate to the compiler that "my data can either be this or this and nothing else", so I don't b
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by akavi 6y ago
I've heard that the relative ease of decompiling Java might have contributed significantly, since it made mods much easier than they would've been with C/C++.
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by akavi 6y ago
> Humans achieve their performance levels while only ever observing a tiny fraction of that training data Individual humans only ever observe a tiny fraction of that training data, but our brains are not the products of solely our indi
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by akavi 6y ago
To be clear, pronounced as a German "j" or an English "y", ie /j/, not an English "j", ie /dʒ/.
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by akavi 6y ago
> The residents of Guam are US nationals that can apply for citizenship. Per wikipedia's interpretation of The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, Guamanians are US citizens at birth: https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by akavi 6y ago
This looks amazing, albeit waaay over my head. The introduction says it "is made possible by translating the source language into a dependent variant of Call-By-Push-Value.". What makes such a translation impossible in the existin
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by akavi 6y ago
Is "mild" vs. "severe" dichotomous? I feel like I've usually seen the trichotomy of "mild" => not needing hospitalization, "moderate" => needing hospitalization, "severe" => ne
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by akavi 6y ago
I don't think the set of people whose opinions patio11 cares about would forget about him tweeting that hash (especially given the emphasis he placed on it). The hash concept depends on social norms, and it's a fairly strongly enf
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by akavi 6y ago
Yeah, I'm withholding judgement till "the end of April", but given Japan's doubling time is roughly 10 days, you'd expect there to be ~2.5k severe cases right now. Given that Japan's official count is ~11k, is
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by akavi 7y ago
In NYC, 0.16% of the population's died from it, so that's a hard lower bound.
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by akavi 7y ago
To-go cups are legal in NYC as of Tuesday, so long as they're sold with food[0]. [0] https://ny.eater.com/2020/3/17/21182052/new-york-state-liquo...
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by akavi 7y ago
Hence why `Result` is really valuable. Can't ignore it (plus, the semantics are straightforward)
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by akavi 7y ago
Result types are genericizable in a way that checked exceptions aren't (IIRC), which is huge for ergonomics.
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by akavi 7y ago
It's hexadecimal ascii
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by akavi 7y ago
Ohio's in the "Midwest" even though it's a solid 80% of the way to the East of the continental US. The Middle East is also quite far west in the context of Asia (or even in the context of Eurasia). Geographic clustering
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by akavi 7y ago
Maybe dumb question: How does he specify whom the message is sent to? Or is it broadcast?
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by akavi 7y ago
That doesn't mean that this much parking is necessary, however. I'm curious if the developer chose this much parking, or if land use requirements mandated it.
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by akavi 7y ago
There is no reputable ETF that will give you 15% return. Even 10% real return is incredibly unlikely.
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by akavi 7y ago
What about shoes and roller blades?
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by akavi 7y ago
Schadenfreude’s been an English word for a long time now.
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by akavi 7y ago
I think it might be trained on female voices. I'm a guy, and it called all of my tones "3rd tone" when said in my normal voice, but when I spoke in a cartoonishly high falsetto, it gave me perfect marks.
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by akavi 7y ago
20%, you mean, for federal long term capital gains. Plus 3.8% for Net Investment Income Tax. Plus, he resides in CA, so tack on ~12% (he's making so much marginality doesn't really affect things) in state taxes. ~36% in total, w
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by akavi 7y ago
It feels like Dropbox and Slack have been spoken of positively more often than not. And I'd say Stripe, Twilio, and various other B2B "Infrastructure" companies seem to get the warmest response. You're right though, if H
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by akavi 7y ago
Is it safe to call this "React.js for Rust?", or is there a nuance I'm missing? (Don't intend that to be dismissive; I'm a huge react fan)

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