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541.
by chalst 5y ago
93% is generally evidence of consensus among the sampled group at that time. That time is past, but here and on Wikipedia there are people arguing there is currently a consensus among "economists" (unqualified). So far I have not
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by chalst 5y ago
Lots of supposedly liberal states had Black Laws.
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by chalst 5y ago
European here, who has clocked up about 3.5 years of living in New England: in cosmopolitan areas, I didn't see much racism against what I might call "melting pot" ethnicities although I heard of some, but I often saw and hea
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by chalst 5y ago
According to David Graeber, the concept of race conveniently appeared when would-be slavers in Europe were looking for justifications for enslaving Africans when the medieval Catholic church consistently held that slavery was wrong. The con
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by chalst 5y ago
Without having read the article: the art market is as rigged as professional wrestling. The notional value of a sale might have little to do with what the buyer has to give up to achieve a sale. It is in the interests of acquirers of art pi
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by chalst 5y ago
Withdrawal of this pair of kernel calls was what made it impossible to continue in-kernel support of OpenZFS's cache decision algorithm, hurting OpenZFS performance on mainline Linux. This opinion argues it was a plain technical decisi
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A technical opinion on Linux kernel's withdrawal of kernel_FPU{begin,end} (2019)(phoronix.com)
1 points by chalst 5y ago|1 comments
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by chalst 5y ago
A start is whenever you have the urge to make use of a race-based concept, ask yourself if an ethnic-based concept would not serve better. Personal opinion of a copy-editor of 15 years: the popular understanding of race is so pervaded by ra
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by chalst 5y ago
Not all PC is nonsense. Language is indeed sometimes used as a weapon, and disadvantaged groups are often the least able to defend themselves. Asserting that all PC is nonsense is just the kind of violation of the curious-not-dogmatic ethos
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by chalst 5y ago
> It's what Yuri Bezmenov refereed to as useful idiots Apologies for derailing the interesting ideas, but my reaction to this was: Who? What? Surely this is the concept due to Lenin. Wikipedia-depth research says this is probably a
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by chalst 5y ago
This is a solved problem: look at how the Lua FFI does it. Lua both is capable of exporting its own garbage collector to its counterparty and has a plug-in system for GC so that Lua can use the counterparty's GC. That allows you to eit
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by chalst 5y ago
I misread your comment. I still consider what you wrote contained FUD, at least with respect to the last paragraph.
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by chalst 5y ago
There is no problem at all interfacing Julia's C API to Rust. It's a shame that C++ and Rust are bad fits together, but this actually strengthens the argument for Julia as the extension language rather than Rust, since Julia inter
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by chalst 6y ago
On the facts you're dead right but I reject the cynical framing. This is an important story because we want the truth to come out. It's why, for instance, the first impeachment of Trump was so important, even though you could corr
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by chalst 6y ago
I don't think there's a problem that an antitrust intervention could help solve, rather a lumbering hierarchy where the people who make the decisions don't understand or care enough about the niche. Microsoft wants to attract
556.
by chalst 6y ago
I rather dislike the surveillance capitalism model Google promotes, but the article is a little unfair. As a payload, the snippet of code that calls the GA library is pretty lightweight and there are many ways to make this asynchronous: thi
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by chalst 6y ago
> We're still waiting I don't recall you asking me for a name, but if you insist, is Richard Arnott [1] good enough for you? He wrote the highly cited "Time for Revisionism on Rent Control?" You can explore the reacti
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by chalst 6y ago
And yet this title seems to capture the content quite adequately.
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by chalst 6y ago
Found it - that's remarkably lame: an assertion that there is a consensus, "backed up" by a reference saying to see the "Economists views" section for references, which is a broken internal link. No problem, I edit
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by chalst 6y ago
You have linked to no scholarly papers, and the Wikipedia article seems to carefully avoid stating there is the consensus you claim. Are you aware that there is no consensus in economics that rents are determined by the interaction between
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by chalst 6y ago
Legally enforced gentrification?
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by chalst 6y ago
Best not read on, else you might encounter reasoning like "[These arguments] are all flawed, since libertarianism is right". Well, it is the Von Mises blog...
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by chalst 6y ago
I broadly agree, but various classes of IP law collide in an ugly way in software: - the source code can be kept a trade secret and enjoy copyright protection at the same time - the object code used to be unable to be hidden (+), but it der
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by chalst 6y ago
I posted the original Guardian story yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26825990 but perhaps because of my lousy copyediting of the title it only attracted five upvotes. This follow-up story seems pretty good an
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Facebook removed fake accounts in India until it saw BJP politician was involved(theguardian.com)
230 points by chalst 6y ago|78 comments
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Facebook removed fake accounts in India until it saw BJP politician was involved(theguardian.com)
9 points by chalst 6y ago|0 comments
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Difference: LZ77 vs. LZ4 vs. LZ4HC (compression algorithms)? (2015)(stackoverflow.com)
1 points by chalst 6y ago|0 comments
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by chalst 6y ago
I don't know if we'll see a "real resolution" or not, but Google is currently unpopular with the GOP and this story might have the power to sour many Dems on Google. A bipartisan push for antitrust measures would be very
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by chalst 6y ago
This view from a publisher convinced me in 2017 that Google should not own both the dominant business in DoubleClick's market and in AdExchange's market: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-serf-on-googles-
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Synology DSM 6.2.4 update blocks some users access to Btrfs backups(community.synology.com)
2 points by chalst 6y ago|0 comments

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