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by chowells 4y ago
I would recommend getting a vaccine instead of unknown chemicals. Then you know what it is and that it's helpful.
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by chowells 4y ago
So I was talking to a friend about this, and he thought this was a parody because of all the obviously incorrect results you were highlighting in the Twitter thread. Other people have mentioned the \ escapes going missing, but my friend cal
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by chowells 4y ago
Ah yes. Appeasement. Always a winning strategy. Ukraine has had its own independent culture for thousands of years. Russian propaganda doesn't erase history. Russia's ultimate goal is to erase Ukraine. What's the compromise b
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by chowells 4y ago
The execution model needs something that actually drives execution. There needs to be something that explains how IO actions are actually run. The state approach kind of works until you need to explain multiple threads, then it falls over
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by chowells 4y ago
Even real-time games are often best implemented as a pure function of state. This has a lot of advantages for keeping track of everything, especially in games with a network component. Of course, it doesn't mean the function from state
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by chowells 4y ago
In a language like Haskell, pattern matching was explicitly chosen to be a primitive operation. It's not that there's no way to put it in a library; it's that it was chosen to be one of the small set of ideas everything else
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by chowells 4y ago
Why so binary? There are states between full control and no control. You can learn about yourself and make changes without silencing unconscious thought. In fact, intrusive thoughts can be a valuable tool. Last week I found myself wondering
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by chowells 4y ago
It seems like what should follow from this is rejecting the idea that the brain should be under conscious control. Brains just don't work that way. Why not find a way to make use of that?
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by chowells 4y ago
This is such a good presentation. The story it tells of the derivation of the type is ahistorical, but it makes a lot of sense. If you are looking for an intuition of how the types work, it's just fantastic.
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by chowells 4y ago
Lenses are not fancy or complicated. They require no language extensions to create or use at all. Heck, it require no libraries beyond base to create lenses for others to use. There's a bit to learn, but there's nothing fancy. It&
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by chowells 4y ago
There are a couple type errors that are weird, like complaining about missing Monoid instances when you try to use a Fold as if it was a Getter. A few other things can have error messages that only make sense if you ignore the weird type al
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by chowells 4y ago
And I'm saying that enabling ransomware is actually doing worse than the alternatives. It turns out censorship of transactions has value.
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by chowells 4y ago
This is the strawman-iest strawman I've seen in a long time. By this logic, there's a use case for getting stabbed in a back alley. Some people need surgery, after all. The proper question is what does cryptocurrency do better t
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by chowells 4y ago
The formatting python enforces is just "layout reflects control flow". It's really not any more difficult than that, and it's a lot better than allowing layout to lie about control flow. https://www.synopsys.
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by chowells 4y ago
> It would be "compassionate", but it would also encourage people to make risky and stupid decisions. Tough love I suppose. What you call tough love, I call inflicting trauma that makes everyone worse off. No one should ever ri
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by chowells 4y ago
Why do you believe that victims should be punished? Wouldn't it be more compassionate to recover their losses and punish the perpetrators? Trust shouldn't be seen as a weakness. Trust powers all the best things humans can do. Trus
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by chowells 4y ago
That seems basically impossible. Black holes are either so small (in diameter) that you'd have trouble hitting them if you tried or so massive they're going to noticeably throw off your navigation well before you reach the event h
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by chowells 4y ago
And conservatives are flat-out wrong, as usual, because they're arguing against strawmen they've invented. No one is talking about individuals. The discussion is about group statistics. Individuals are irrelevant to the discussion
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by chowells 4y ago
How is it anything other than out of whack if observed reality isn't statistically aligned with potential? Simple economics tells us that we get the best outcomes by aligning those. (And... motives and incentives are part of the system
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by chowells 4y ago
What is this mysterious "nature of people" that is neither physiological nor the result of learned behavior?
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by chowells 4y ago
That's a non-sequitur.
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by chowells 4y ago
That's definitely a description of GHC Haskell. All network IO in Haskell goes through a subsystem called the IO manager, which makes use of platform appropriate high-performance non-blocking APIs. (Actually, I think windows isn't
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by chowells 4y ago
Nope. That's exactly my point. The fact that they aren't somewhere around 50% is sufficient to show it. Filtering does not happen solely at the interview. It happens at hundreds or thousands of steps along the way. It's a sys
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by chowells 4y ago
Of course. Women are not physiologically better at QA than other roles in tech companies. That's it. That's 100% of the information required to determine that this is the result of sexism. However, a lot of people seem to think th
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by chowells 4y ago
You can't just short something you know is worthless. Maintaining the position has costs, but that's not even the problem. If the asset collapses to zero like you believe it should, that usually comes with a halt on trading it. Th
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by chowells 4y ago
The really hard part is the combination of the very short range of light transmission underwater and the very large size of the oceans. How many centuries are you willing to spend on the project?
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by chowells 4y ago
Why is it so important to you that a conspiracy must exist? What pushed you to ignore evidence so hard that you appear to think that a question I'd already answered is some giant gotcha? (What's different now? The market has coole
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by chowells 4y ago
> Would be much more interesting if he had personally experienced or orchestrated what he discusses. Like if he had worked at Goldman-Sachs and had direct experience with how large financial institutions function or something?
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by chowells 4y ago
It's not a big secret that the SEC doesn't like SPACs. They make these things really clear before they start taking action. They specifically have an issue with the fact that the prospectus for a de-SPAC merger isn't (yet) su
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by chowells 4y ago
I think you've got cause and effect backwards. We told people that housing is an investment, and now people fight tooth and nail to protect the value of their "investment". Of course housing availability has fallen precipitou

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