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by derriz 6y ago
I think it's fairly widely acknowledged among those with any interest in history? Reading popular historians like Antony Beevor would leave it in no doubt. It's also interesting that the Soviet Union would probably not have been
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by derriz 6y ago
I don't think I get your point. Correct me if I'm wrong but it seems to be that you're suggesting that if I want to sell some of my shares, for example, that I should wait until volatility is low? If I had a way of knowing w
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by derriz 6y ago
"John MacFarlane announced the company's shift to streaming music services and voice control instead of local playback" That's all fine and best of luck with the pivot. Businesses change focus all the time. What is has
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by derriz 6y ago
It's pretty arguable to claim that C++ is the only language with RAII. C# has "using", Java has try-with-resources, Python has the "with", etc. - all of which support RAII patterns.
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by derriz 6y ago
That's an interesting coincidence - the biggest parser I wrote was also an SQL parser using Antlr. In fact, SQL was only part of it - it was a programming language that supported multiple flavours of embedded SQL (DB2 and Oracle). I
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by derriz 6y ago
What do you think is special about recursive descent parsing that makes you more likely to screw up unless you know what you're doing? My experience has been the exact opposite - particularly as the language gets complicated and/o
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by derriz 6y ago
Yes - Pratt embedded in a recursive descent parser is hard to beat. I say this after writing parsers on and off for years. Like the author, I also went through a cycle of tools but in my case it was recursive descent, LR (Flex/Bison),
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by derriz 6y ago
I'm curious (having some basic German) what's wrong with the German examples? Isn't most of the German taken from the article he is responding to? edit - actually I think I see it - he's not inflecting the articles corr
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by derriz 6y ago
Traces of recursion have been found in animal "language" also - https://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/cognoculture/the_less_h... describes recursive elements to certain bird song. More recently here&
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by derriz 6y ago
Here's Evert's response to the rebuttal: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/215992069_Cultural_...
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Ferrofluid Controlled by MIDI / Electromagnets(youtube.com)
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by derriz 6y ago
I’m talking about non-experts approaching a subject with genuine curiosity and an honest desire to form a balanced perspective. I don’t have a PhD in climate science nor biology nor history so I believe the most reasonable starting point i
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by derriz 6y ago
You can find articulate and sometimes convincing “skeptics” to suit any scientific viewpoint you want - for example evolution denialism or Holocaust denialism - but that’s just an example of using selection bias to confirm your belief. No r
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by derriz 6y ago
But docker builds themselves are generally not reproducible, so I don't really see the gain? Yes with some effort, they can be made reproducible but the vast majority of the dockerfiles that I've encountered do not pin the version
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by derriz 6y ago
Given by whom? Economics is regarded as one of the major social sciences.
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by derriz 6y ago
I'm not expecting anything really and I do appreciate your work and effort. And it's a specific use case for arrow, I guess. But at your landing page, it's claimed "Apache Arrow defines a language-independent columnar m
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by derriz 6y ago
Parquet/arrow is a great format for Pandas - fast and nicely compact in terms of file size for those of us who don't have the luxury of directly attached NVMe SSDs and where I/O bottlenecks are a consideration. Even after iss
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by derriz 6y ago
A deposit is not an asset for the bank - it’s a liability - have you ever even looked at the balance sheet of a bank? I even provided a link which demonstrates that deposit accounts are listed as bank liabilities. is There is simply no que
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by derriz 6y ago
Are you really claiming that a deposit account is NOT an asset for its owner or that a bank's deposit book is NOT considered a liability? That's what "doesn't actually reflect how it works" is suggesting to me? Yet
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by derriz 6y ago
Indeed - it's mumbo jumbo. A deposit in a bank is an asset for the holder of the deposit but a liability for the bank. From this simple fact, the author ties themselves in linguistic knots of their own confusion.
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by derriz 6y ago
Do you live in Switzerland? Only a fraction of what’s listed on amazon.de or amazon.fr will ship to Switzerland. Pretty much no electronics will ship to for example. The China loop hole was closed recently so that alibaba and the like are
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by derriz 6y ago
I didn't mention hand-written letters at all so I've no idea why you're asking that question. Your original message seemed to express concern that the original purpose of the rules for international shipping was to support pe
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by derriz 6y ago
Because she's one of the biggest proponents of Modern Monetary Theory and most economists view it as snake-oil. MMT claims to offers a fix/cure all our economic problems - everyone can have limitless money to spend as long as &qu
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by derriz 6y ago
Why is ridiculous or even remarkable? Pretty much every 3rd party service that an American-based company uses costs significantly more than an equivalent in China. And most of these costs are far more significant than the cost of postage
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by derriz 6y ago
If you are concerned about maintaining access to the international post system for poor people, how is this change going to help? Surely it does the opposite - someone living in the poorest country in world would have to pay rich-European c
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by derriz 6y ago
No bank is getting killed by Citadel. The numbers are on a different scale completely. JP Morgan makes over $40B a year. The entire proprietary HFT industry globally makes a fraction of that. Citadel almost certainly less than 5% of that
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by derriz 6y ago
I find WSL sits uncomfortably in that space between cygwin and running a fully isolated VM using VirtualBox. My initial “wow” response evaporated quickly - especially the rough edges around accessing filesystems and I quickly went back to C
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by derriz 6y ago
That analogy doesn't really work - software doesn't get worn out from interaction with users. If software is working and in use, then it's age doesn't matter. Evolution/flux is not the natural state of all software
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by derriz 6y ago
If BEVs capture even a fraction of the market then you've effectively a massive distributed battery which could help soak up the excess renewable electricity. Quick estimate - if 1% of the US passenger vehicles were BEV each with 50KW
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by derriz 6y ago
zhte415 comment covers two cases: lending out no gold and lending out one unit of gold. I don't see it supporting your argument that a bank can loan out more gold than it has borrowed. The reason I welcome zhte415's comment is th

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