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   by de_keyboard 6y ago

   Work is not perfectly elastic but time is still by and large tradeable for money. Maybe get on Uber?
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   by de_keyboard 6y ago

   (2) leads to fewer deaths overall than (1). (1) gives better quality of life to the healthy than (2). (3) leads to fewer deaths than (1) or (2), but it requires political will. If you can pull it off, (3) is what you want. That's a big
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   by de_keyboard 6y ago

   The lock-downs imposed in (2) countries were very effective and given a bit more time (and political will) they could have transitioned to strategy (3). Australia and China managed to do this.
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   by de_keyboard 6y ago

   I think there were broadly 3 strategies: 1. Do very little intervention, but perhaps isolate the vulnerable. This was the "Sweden strategy". 2. Do big interventions if cases rise, but only so far as is required to prevent hospital
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   by de_keyboard 6y ago

   If your language has do-notation or something like it, then CPS can be quite readable. With the syntax: cps { let! x = doThisThing let y = x * 2 + 3 let! z = doOtherThing y return z + 1 } Without the syn
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   Has the UK outperformed the EU on Covid-19 vaccinations?(blogs.lse.ac.uk)

   2 points by de_keyboard 6y ago|2 comments
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   by de_keyboard 6y ago

   > people actually don't like to have to rely on public transport for everything I'm not advocating complete removal of private cars, but people need to be able to build daily routines that do not require them. For example, you
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   by de_keyboard 6y ago

   You are assuming that commutes are only possible by private car. Sure some of them are, but it would be preferable if commutes were by foot, bike, train, bus... and private car a distant last. This has been achieved in a few places in the w
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   by de_keyboard 6y ago

   How do you think we got to this state? It didn't happen overnight. Society used to be orientated around walkable neighbours. Sprawl is a relatively recent development and a product of auto-mobilism. I don't think it would be impos
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    by de_keyboard 6y ago

    They are testing your ability to jump through arbitrary (and sometimes challenging) hoops.
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    by de_keyboard 6y ago

    What else can be done? In order to reach climate change targets we must reduce car dependency. How can we do this without nudging people away from cars? And how can we nudge them without taxes?
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    The rise and fall of Canary Wharf(wired.co.uk)

    3 points by de_keyboard 6y ago|0 comments
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    by de_keyboard 6y ago

    I'd strongly suggest looking at https://github.com/isomorphic-git/isomorphic-git It's a newer Git implementation but it has loads of features and it's easier to read than most. An excellent project.
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    by de_keyboard 6y ago

    There are clearly jobs that require high talent and have a shortage of labour that pushes up salaries. This includes things that require mathematical talent, like quantitative finance, but it also includes skills like motivational speaking
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    by de_keyboard 6y ago

    I don't think we can eliminate fossil fuels usage entirely, but we can dramatically reduce our usage. Consider that the carbon output per person in the USA is roughly double that in Europe. Europeans live pretty comfortable lives imo.
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    by de_keyboard 6y ago

    I think it's tooling. But tooling follows from adoption in most cases.
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    by de_keyboard 6y ago

    > why did OCaml not get widely adopted in finance? I think it has been pretty successful. The bigger success story in finance is F# though, which takes a bunch of ideas from OCaml.
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    by de_keyboard 6y ago

    I think so too... but the political fallout from the job loses is too great. It reminds me of the oil industry in America. It's clearly harmful, it and clearly needs to be reduced going forward, but no one wants to be the one to do it,
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    by de_keyboard 6y ago

    How do you handle cases where strict synchronization is required? Banking app is a classic example.
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    by de_keyboard 6y ago

    I think the problem is we keep using the same crappy tools because people are scared to be an early adopter. Meanwhile, there are things sitting on the shelf that solve these problems in a principled way and make things simpler: - ML lang
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    No evidence that London’s Cycle Superhighways worsen traffic congestion(imperial.ac.uk)

    1 points by de_keyboard 6y ago|0 comments
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    by de_keyboard 6y ago

    Clojure is such a different school of thought! Most of the arguments I have heard for Clojure (immutability, thinking in data, etc) also apply to ML though. Still, I hope to try it out properly one day! I wonder what is easier for a strong
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    by de_keyboard 6y ago

    https://www.insider.com/poundbury-prince-charless-nostalgic-...
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    by de_keyboard 6y ago

    I want a statically typed functional language with a big ecosystem. I want to use the same language across front-end and back-end. What are my options? - PureScript on web and Node.js Can use NPM packages! Node.js as a run-time lacks featur
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    by de_keyboard 6y ago

    Nix looks great, but you have to go all in on Nix. Sometimes it's simpler to install a few tools locally but not control the entire environment.
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    by de_keyboard 6y ago

    I have to downvote to hide this.