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by bluquark 5y ago
The closest to it today is Finland's "Housing First" policy: https://ysaatio.fi/en/housing-first-finland But even in Finland, housing is only sometimes free and then on a net basis (rent can be canceled
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by bluquark 5y ago
It has to be for the same reason that creating a one-off prototype of a new plastic widget involves a much more manual process than a scaled-up assembly line. This is the first time this process will be performed on a real James Webb in sp
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by bluquark 5y ago
The paragraphs you quoted are at least partially self-explanatory, mostly using common English words like "platform" in a metaphorical sense. Whereas the paragraph the grandparent quoted has several concepts that are opaquely nam
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by bluquark 5y ago
No, only functional programmers sound like this!
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by bluquark 5y ago
> Put it this way: if ebook readers—the devices themselves—cost the same as paper books, but each one could only hold one book, and that one book couldn't be replaced, I don't think many people would choose them over paper book
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by bluquark 5y ago
For those new to Hegel, The Accessible Hegel by philosopher Michael Allen Fox is a great nutshell introduction book. As a software engineer, I was surprised to see how some of Hegel's ideas describe dynamics I've observed in my
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by bluquark 5y ago
Agreed. The only major language I know of where it's fully implicit is Go, which is rarely used for UI. > I would love to see more examples though, or a Kotlin native UI. Jetpack Compose is a Kotlin-native UI framework. Here are s
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by bluquark 5y ago
Kotlin is used to write UI code, and potentially-yielding methods are called with ordinary function call syntax. Kotlin does not have the "await" keyword, but it does have an analogue to the "async" keyword, called &qu
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by bluquark 5y ago
> When people bid up the price of TSLA or GME to stratospheric valuations, the index fund must re-adjust their market-weighted holdings to reflect those prices, creating further money inflows to the asset and thus a self-fulfilling proph
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by bluquark 5y ago
In my opinion Paradises Lost is one of the best books Le Guin has written. If you're wondering which of her books to read next after her two most famous sci-fi novels, I recommend that one.
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by bluquark 5y ago
I found the sudden transition to a pessimistic, depressing tone in Earthsea #4 hard to swallow as well. The criticism of the wizards' arrogance in #4 was indeed overdue but the whiplash was too intense for me. I strongly recommend #5
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by bluquark 6y ago
My secret weapon for bug diagnosis is that when a regression is reported on a system without an automatic bisect tool, while everyone else is trying to reason about the problem with guesswork and code inspection, I sit down and spend 2 hour
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by bluquark 6y ago
Robinhood is a SIPC member. It rarely comes into play, but my understanding is that SIPC is there to ensure securities get back to their rightful owner in the event that something weird happens to the brokerage.
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by bluquark 6y ago
It's one of the hard bits of decarbonization. The current trend is towards lighter varieties of fossil fuel (especially liquefied natural gas). In the long run, it could be fully decarbonized with hydrogen. See https://saf
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by bluquark 6y ago
More than twice as many young adults died of Covid in 2020 than died of car crashes (or any other one cause, including the former top one, opioids). Source: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2
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by bluquark 6y ago
There's another economics aspect relevant here, which is that environmental costs are unpriced externalities (unless the government intervenes). The economic logic of non-circular economy is sound only for the parties with a direct, sh
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by bluquark 6y ago
The list ought to include more of the correct instances of alarmism, and there are plenty to choose from. As they were semi-predictable events (aside from the exact year and severity), it should be possible to dig up roughly correct warnin
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by bluquark 6y ago
The RNC doesn't have a platform in 2020 so we can't speak of a defined Republican position on individual issues anymore. In their previous platforms, they supported expanding nuclear: http://ansnuclearcafe.org/201
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by bluquark 6y ago
The magnitude and extent of the radioactive release was largely unknowable in the immediate aftermath of the disaster. The local authorities were put in an impossible position, either gamble with everyone's health or evacuate at great
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by bluquark 6y ago
That's how Japan abolished the samurai. The Meiji emperor promised very generous pensions to all samurai if they turned in their swords and retired. A few years later, there was a budget crisis and the government cut the pension to a
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by bluquark 6y ago
We are in the middle of a pandemic that the US has been singularly unable/unwilling among the world's developed countries to apply the necessary measures to solve, and still you argue that the real problem is too much harm reduc
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by bluquark 6y ago
Givewell decided to make this recommendation despite ongoing disputes in the literature. There was so much uncertainty about the long-term effects that at least as of 2016, they actually discounted the expected benefit by 100x. See https
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by bluquark 6y ago
I agree the 4% rule is too aggressive nowadays. But every .25% increment lower means a huge improvement in sustainability, so even adjusting down to 3% is profoundly more conservative than the original rule. At 1.5% you are going lower ev
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by bluquark 6y ago
Looks like a case of an attention-grabbing headline not written by the article author. The book review itself seems to argue that the idea of polymathy can no longer be applied at all today.
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by bluquark 6y ago
I'm mainly thinking of elite institutions. I'd first invert the question and ask what problem places like Harvard, Yale, MIT are currently solving. (This small set of elite universities is absorbing the vast majority of donation
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by bluquark 6y ago
A modest proposal: ban donating to them so they need to radically increase their student body (online or offline) to earn their keep with tuition, instead of relying on the donations of the extremely rich parents of legacy admissions studen
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by bluquark 6y ago
> We also just passed what in hindsight will likely be seen as a historic buying opportunity. Almost as likely to be a historic selling opportunity. The 35%-ish bottom isn't close to the bottom of the really huge recessions (and ev
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by bluquark 6y ago
I'm a lot more cynical about the trend. ESG funds serve the sell-side's desire to charge higher expense ratios and the buy-side's desire to feel clean and ethical. It's much less clear that they have had any positive i
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by bluquark 6y ago
Note that Japanese and Chinese already changed to commonly use horizontal left-to-right text (in addition to vertical top-to-bottom/right-to-left text, which is still usual especially in "proper published typesetting") in lar
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by bluquark 6y ago
Save all bash history into a separate file. Even with a high limit, the default bash history functionality has bugs that will destroy your history now and then. With the following .bashrc settings I have commandline history going back a d

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