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by at_compile_time 3y ago
Communism only looks good on paper if you know nothing about human behavior. Georgism aims to take the best aspects of capitalism (market-driven optimization) while restraining some of its worst qualities (speculative bubbles driving higher
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by at_compile_time 3y ago
If the rental value of the land were taxed away (replacing other, less-efficient taxes), the primary beneficiaries would be all those who can't currently afford to own their own home. The market doesn't care if you never intend to
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by at_compile_time 3y ago
Plugging bivectors that square to -1, 0, and 1 into the exponential power series and seeing rotations, translations and hyperbolic rotations come out the other side was a mind-expanding moment for me.
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by at_compile_time 3y ago
>I don't see how any of this solves hard problems. You need to know a formula to compute what you want regardless of the underlying representation. The thing with geometric algebra is that the function is the same regardless of what
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by at_compile_time 3y ago
I would think that the advantages are conceptual. I never learned quaternions on their own (unless I've repressed those memories), but I was aware of them as I was learning geometric algebra. My experience with learning complex numbers
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by at_compile_time 3y ago
I think that's one downside to that kind of implementation. Computational performance and everything either requiring heap allocation or 2^n values, most of which which are zero are others problems. My implementation generates a struct
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by at_compile_time 3y ago
Perhaps the lesson is to be careful of vegan foods that require labels in the first place. Most of the healthiest food are so obviously vegan that it would be absurd to label them, as is the case with legumes, fruits, vegetables, and whole
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by at_compile_time 3y ago
Economic growth raises property values, speculators pile on hoping to make money for nothing, property values rocket upward taking rents with them, rents exceed their productive value, businesses close and people leave because the rent is t
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by at_compile_time 3y ago
What's it do?
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by at_compile_time 3y ago
>Another example when an invention goes against the established logic would be quaternions. How so?
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by at_compile_time 3y ago
Ah, so when people disagree with you, it's because they're conspiracy theorists and you're ready to make wild assumptions about their motives. How perfectly reasonable of you.
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by at_compile_time 4y ago
Interests aside, it is very important that everyone has B12 in their diet. Most people get it from animal products, so vegans need to be sure they're getting it from somewhere. Without B12, all of the health benefits of lower BMI, high
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by at_compile_time 4y ago
mTOR makes children grow faster, but everything I've heard suggests that it doesn't make them any taller as adults. Meanwhile, obesity rates in children keep growing, and atherogenesis doesn't wait until adulthood. Heart dise
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by at_compile_time 4y ago
Rust is an expression-based language, so a loop block is just an expression. Break exits the loop and returns the expression following the keyword, which is the integer 1 in this example, but it could also be nothing if the loop returns not
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by at_compile_time 4y ago
They're referring to the mythical animal, using a metaphor to express that such a company is mythical or non-existent. Coincidentally, this is same metaphor that the person who coined the term "unicorn company" was using. Giv
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by at_compile_time 4y ago
>One issue with this technique is when the set of characters grow above 64, so you can no longer give each one a unique bit. You can xor arrays of integers.
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by at_compile_time 4y ago
Code may not be art, but there is beauty in design.
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by at_compile_time 4y ago
And I think that we're all living inside a giant cosmic blueberry pie. Modern humans are able to bake simple pies today, but there's no telling what will possible with the ovens of the future. Now, you may be thinking "that&#
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by at_compile_time 4y ago
>if it is possible for our society, someday, to simulate a universe with the fidelity that we ourselves observe in our universe That's the biggest if I've read all day.
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by at_compile_time 4y ago
I'll second this recommendation. I've had the same pair of $35 glasses for 5 years now, I wear them every day, and they're still good as new.
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by at_compile_time 4y ago
It doesn't help that i is given names like "imaginary" and "complex". We may as well call them "too-hard-for-you" numbers, and laugh condescendingly when students ask about them. Same with quaternions and
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by at_compile_time 4y ago
Judging by the simplicity of tasks our ERP can't automate, the office jobs that it replaced much have been some mind-numbing shit.
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by at_compile_time 4y ago
I was using CE earlier today to verify that rustc was optimizing the way I thought it would. It's a great service!
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by at_compile_time 4y ago
>do I really need to implement the Into<T> trait and use x.into() to do a conversion? Isn't it better if I just write the function that I'm using explicitly? Firstly, you would implement From rather than Into. Into is bla
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by at_compile_time 4y ago
>Methane, molecule per molecule, has an infrared-cross section about 20 times that of carbon dioxide. How do you square that with the IPCC estimate that methane is 84 times more potent than CO2 over a 20-year period?
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by at_compile_time 4y ago
My favorite are the gratuitous animations that the program is too bloated to render smoothly.
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by at_compile_time 4y ago
I laughed until I had a coughing fit at "open-plan fartbox".
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by at_compile_time 4y ago
Takes one to know one
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by at_compile_time 4y ago
What are the advantages of complete immutability when we can write compilers that specifically prevent shared mutability? You're avoiding the dangerous quadrant but also excluding a valid one. I'd definitely prefer FP's solut
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by at_compile_time 4y ago
The poor widow argument against land value taxes has been a mainstay of the landowning class for over a century. [Winston Churchill had had enough of it back in 1909.]( https://web.archive.org/web/20010728120002/htt

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