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by axlprose 9y ago
It doesn't even necessarily have to be IO heavy, just Functor and Monad heavy. But even that is reasonable to deal with just using traverse/sequence, fold, and fmap usually.
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by axlprose 9y ago
I think part of the issue that the parent comment was trying to get at here, is that haskell does things the way it does for a reason, and that the type system is much more of an aid to thinking about the problem you're solving than so
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by axlprose 9y ago
> If insight into the target audience's perspective is demoralizing, you honestly should stop and reconsider your priorities. I say that without any kind of sarcasm or criticism in my voice. If the people you want to help believe t
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by axlprose 9y ago
> Lashing out at me for explaining why it's a difficult problem doesn't particularly help solve the problem. You didn't originally explain why it was a difficult problem at all, all you did was insinuate that most people
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by axlprose 9y ago
Here's a post that compares the two pretty well, though it assumes you know a bit of some ML-style language: http://science.raphael.poss.name/rust-for-functional-program...
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by axlprose 9y ago
> Aligning values isn't the same as matching personalities This depends on how you define "personality" and "values". Because for example, according to psychological research, personality traits (as defined by
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by axlprose 9y ago
> The obvious example of an offensive claim is that women are more prone to be neurotic. As a personality researcher, I feel obligated to chime in and clarify that the memo wasn't stating that women are "neurotic", neith
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by axlprose 9y ago
Or even if the number of women just stays the same. Is the effort to level the playing field then deemed a 'failure' if the results don't change in the way they're expected to? That's the important question here, es
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by axlprose 9y ago
Not the OP, but I know there is at least one guy who's delved quite deeply into the concept of multi-dimensional time: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSbZM83_FycPZNJqcFYzW...
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by axlprose 9y ago
> Consumption of red meat is at an all time high and is growing every year. I was curious to see if this was actually the case, but the data doesn't really seem to support this claim. Meat consumption overall appears to have remai
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by axlprose 9y ago
> workplace is not meant to fulfill your social needs as a human It's not, but when it takes up the majority of your waking life at ~60-80hrs/wk, it's not an unreasonable expectation, especially for the mental well-being
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by axlprose 9y ago
> new accounts can't downvote either; you have to build 100 comment points -- which keeps that group think going At least they're more generous than HN's downvote restrictions. But I suspect it's the upvote limitati
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by axlprose 9y ago
Unfortunately, the problem with "professional" relationships is that they're not very good at fulfilling the social needs of humans. It's practical to keep things professional in order to avoid drama, but when you work a
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by axlprose 9y ago
Intuitively, this makes sense. Anyone buying heroin/meth/whatever would've likely also been exposed to the option of buying marijuana just as easily among those alternatives when it was still completely illegal. If marijuana
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by axlprose 9y ago
But that still works with op casually saying it'll last for a different interpretation of the word "lifetime" than might first be expected, namely a timeframe more closely aligned with the lifetime of the product than the buy
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by axlprose 9y ago
ok, but nobody was arguing that they are data points? The parent was literally saying that he wanted to convey a different story to the ones commonly heard, in order to give a more balanced picture. Nowhere does that suggest anything ab
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by axlprose 9y ago
unintentionally, since any outspoken libertarians tend to get caught in the crossfire of these witch-hunts as well, due to the whole debate turning into a simplified 'us vs them' situation.
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by axlprose 9y ago
> Charlie's cog is a very big one indeed so he can make comments like that with no irony or self-awareness. I highly recommend reading some of his writings [0] then, because having "a lack of self-awareness" is the last
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by axlprose 9y ago
The "Recommended Serving Size" for these products can effectively be considered as just another part of the marketing. Comparing them based on their superficial face value is as useless as comparing apples and oranges, you have to
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by axlprose 9y ago
Yes, because like I said: marketing . "Protein Shakes" are a bigger/more popular niche than "Meal Replacements", so naturally a lot of products are gonna double dip and try to claim belonging to both categories. Bu
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by axlprose 9y ago
the meal replacement (or "MRP") is extremely well established. Just walk into any nutrition store like GNC or VitaminShoppe and they'll likely have a whole section devoted to MRPs right next to the protein shakes/bars.
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by axlprose 9y ago
No yeah, I get that. My critique was meant as an example of why implementation matters so much in a product like this. Because without even a rough estimate of how the index would be composed, it's hard to give any kind of feedback r
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by axlprose 9y ago
> fund composed of, say, 50% BTC, 20% ETH, 15% LTC and 15% ZEC > ... buy the top 10 coins weighted according to some measure, and rebalance once a week As a relatively sophisticated investor myself, I'm not against the idea,
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by axlprose 9y ago
What "superinvestors" are you alluding to here? Are you suggesting that getting investment advice from Graham is sufficient to reproduce the kinds of returns he and Buffett have had? Because that seems like an unrealistic expect
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by axlprose 9y ago
Has anybody tried the X200 builds from Libiquity? https://shop.libiquity.com/product/taurinus-x200
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by axlprose 9y ago
Indeed, but then this is somewhat to be expected when the peer review process itself doesn't have much in the way of incentives for the reviewers. Journals ask reviewers to voluntarily put their own work on hold for a potentially non
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by axlprose 9y ago
And here we have one of the most reasonable answers in this thread. It's not about the utility of identifying risks, it's the plausibility of someone as knowledgeable as Musk putting his money and name on the line without having a
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by axlprose 9y ago
> and which is known not to work well This is commonly said about speed reading, but it seems to me like a bit of a misunderstanding about what speed reading even is. Speed reading isn't about trying to retain the same level of co
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by axlprose 9y ago
> The sloppiness of this code is really shocking, "when the Monero client chooses mixins, it does not take into account whether the potential mixins have already been spent." I'm not thoroughly familiar with monero'
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by axlprose 10y ago
> It's certainly easy to falsify my claim. Without a proper definition of what you're looking to be "explained", or a reproducible quantitative metric that you're using to to measure a successful "explanat

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