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by cannabis_sam 3y ago
This is just the desperation that comes with poor understanding. The strength of a type system should ideally be that you could confidently execute the underlying code even with full type erasure, and while I realize that TS has already sac
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by cannabis_sam 3y ago
I mean, what else would anyone expect after capital started siphoning off larger and larger amounts of money from labor in the 70s. Repaying labor with a relative pittance due to growth and simultaneously lowering taxes, just to hoard capit
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by cannabis_sam 3y ago
In the same way, any ripple effects are just the natural consequence of a market economy. We chose this, and we’re getting exactly what we ordered.
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by cannabis_sam 3y ago
This reminds me of learning Haskell… Having transitioned from Java to Python, because the type system in Java had very little bang for the buck, I was under the wrong impression that types sucked and dynamically typed languages were superio
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by cannabis_sam 3y ago
It’s just the continuation of an American tradition that has been with the US since the founding fathers. Benjamin Franklin objected to “swarthy” german immigrants: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2008
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by cannabis_sam 3y ago
No, I’ve seen two versions of that image. The one with 71/17 looked most obviously edited to me, but I was asking to get any more substantial confirmation either way.
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by cannabis_sam 4y ago
A BASIC prompt does not appeal to most people, a smartphone does. If you wanna make youtube videos, I’d take an iPhone over a BASIC prompt any day.
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by cannabis_sam 4y ago
>It does confirm that Ukraine is losing the war badly, I think it was like 7 Ukrainians dying for 1 Russian. Are you referring to the picture with 17k russians vs 71k ukrainians? I thought that was the one that had been edited/falsi
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by cannabis_sam 4y ago
I literally can’t believe this comment actually got upvotes; at least this restores some sliver of faith in humanity for me..
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by cannabis_sam 4y ago
It’s not complicated, housing is being used as an investment vehicle for narcissistic speculators to make bank, while clueless homeowner assholes are desperately clinging to their mortgages. This is a constant across the western world, and
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by cannabis_sam 4y ago
An inspired and progressive programming language, trying to advance the status quo, in collaboration with industry professionals… Of course insecure middlebrow devs are gonna complain!
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by cannabis_sam 4y ago
Of course they do!?! How is this even a question? Unless you’re a run of the mill mba grifter desperately trying to push short-term “shareholder value”..
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by cannabis_sam 4y ago
Don’t forget desperately fawning over political extremists that are fanatically stroking your ego … It’s an immensely seductive and soothing balm for a bruised, narcissistic personal image.
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by cannabis_sam 4y ago
It’s inevitable. The share of, at best clueless, but more likely spiteful and cruel, old people who ensured the absolutely inane brexit majority decision, before they unceremoniously were reduced to the fate of just dying off, is monotonica
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by cannabis_sam 4y ago
KF defenders are always the true “lolcows”! Have they and/or their nihilistic and sadistic salivation over victims of harassment been made illegal…? Turns out, no… Are private businesses choosing not to service their reprehensible need
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by cannabis_sam 4y ago
Writing essays is not the problem, grading the essays and grades in general are the problem. Feedback is obviously invaluable, but the point of grades, as used today, is solely to gatekeep who are allowed access to the next level of educati
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by cannabis_sam 4y ago
>I'm reading online that I was stupid for buying a house in a bubble and that rates need to go up and house prices need to fall. Would you rather have perpetually increasing housing prices? Wouldn’t that be even worse for your youn
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by cannabis_sam 4y ago
Your views on programming languages are deeply appreciated, regardless of whether I agree or not.
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by cannabis_sam 4y ago
The complete and utterly unbridled hate and insanity of these people, who are ferociously fighting, tooth and nail, to deny their fellow humans housing, is truly a failure state of humanity.. At least people like this legal fund are fightin
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by cannabis_sam 4y ago
>If you can’t say global warming is bogus because it’s particularly cold out today, you also can’t blame global warming on it being hot or rainy. How does this in anyway whatsoever, relate to the multitude of supposedly rare (outside of
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by cannabis_sam 4y ago
>Static typing everywhere. It's utterly baffling to me. I find it far more baffling that people don’t want to offload the trivial parts of the mental work of ensuring the programs they write makes the minimum of sense. I also jumped
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by cannabis_sam 4y ago
Hilariously this is a business opportunity, far bigger than any crypto startup being funded by yc…
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by cannabis_sam 4y ago
I agree, but none of these trust issues are solved by using blockchai based solutions…
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by cannabis_sam 4y ago
These CEOs are by definition not deserving of their exorbitant compensation. In an actually functioning market they would have been kicked to the curb, long long before making these kinds of embarrassing excuses for their incompetence. If
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by cannabis_sam 4y ago
>Honestly even if he isn’t famous why can’t Wikipedia keep his entry? The answer is Deletionists, people who are unable to contribute with actual knowledge and information, so they have decided that their contribution is destruction of k
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by cannabis_sam 4y ago
Switzerland pioneered this approach, and it has been implemented in Germany, Netherlands, Canada and Denmark.[0] What does Portugal have to do with it? [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin-assisted_treatment
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by cannabis_sam 4y ago
This blogpost and a lot of comments in this thread (but absolutely not all) don’t seem to realize that monads are an abstraction over lots of different, but common programming constructs. - Read-only values (e.g. environment variable, confi
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by cannabis_sam 4y ago
You’ve got it exactly backwards, the question you should have asked is: Is anterograde amnesia, an, or indistinguishable from, a statistical model? This way the burden of proof is on the correct claimant.
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by cannabis_sam 4y ago
Since you don’t even mention Daszak, while regurgitating the position he established years ago, you are per definition arguing in bad faith. Please, for the love of us all, stop attacking humanity..
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by cannabis_sam 4y ago
>Bananas used to have seeds. Bananas is also an example of this process of “GMO-by-hand” stopping due to economic reasons, leading to monocultures susceptible to disease, twice as I understand it.

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