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by erpellan 6y ago
The object syntax example looks very like what is already possible in Kotlin: https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.html html { body { div { a("https://kotlinlang.org") {
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by erpellan 6y ago
If someone showed you a picture of a morbidly obese person and ask you what you thought they ate, what would your first thought be? I'm fairly sure it wouldn't be 'they need to cut down on the vegetables'. How many super
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by erpellan 6y ago
Fresh vegetables are great but yes, mostly water. Beans, rice, lentils, grains (in dry form) cost less per kg than chicken, don't need refrigeration and will make many more meals.
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by erpellan 6y ago
Something like 70% of farming is growing crops to feed animals which we then eat. Meat is an incredibly inefficient way to turn sunlight and water into calories. If we all switched away from meat and ate mostly plants instead we’d have more
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by erpellan 6y ago
Meanwhile the pesticide manufacturers are following the cigarette company playbook and busily funding bullshit research and top notch PR to deflect blame. This is what happens. We blanket our fields and their surroundings with chemicals spe
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by erpellan 6y ago
It can be structured as an income tax that starts out negative. Everyone of working age is paid the UBI, which is designed to act as the safety net. This frees up a ton of overhead as means-testing, benefit fraud, etc. all goes away. Then w
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by erpellan 6y ago
The mistake we all make is thinking the market includes us, the patients. If there is anything resembling a 'normal' (price discovery) market, it's between hospitals and other care providers and the government. The entity wit
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by erpellan 6y ago
That is nowhere close to how ruthlessly they crushed competitors well before that. Microsoft are why you've probably never heard of Supercalc, Lotus/123 and WordPerfect. All superior products in the 80s and 90s, all crushed by MS
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by erpellan 7y ago
Yes, and what does that buy you? Instead of a single deployable unit that owns the database, there are many deployable units, none of which can own the database. That doesn't seem like an improvement.
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by erpellan 7y ago
Or nationalize the insurance companies and set up a national health service.
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by erpellan 7y ago
The really stupid part is that keeping the delivery workers safe is ALSO keeping the wealthy consumers (and owners of those businesses) safe! If you're holed up at home and SARS-CoV-2 strolls in your front door on the outside of your t
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by erpellan 7y ago
If the application is stateless (all state lives in the DB) you can run as many copies of the monolith as required behind a load balancer.
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by erpellan 7y ago
Aircraft toilets always sound pretty damn loud to me. And their main reason to exist on planes is the lack of available water. Pretty sure that is not an aircraft carrier’s constraint.
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by erpellan 7y ago
Thanks! That makes a lot of sense. Certainly more than the pundits currently lambasting the UK health services for their strategy of flattening the curve. The current argument against being (I kid you not) that the health authorities are so
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by erpellan 7y ago
Herd immunity until now referred to immunisation (ie vaccination). It is not at all clear that allowing people to get infected and recover will achieve the same result.
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by erpellan 7y ago
A car has brakes. An engine breaks down. Apart from that I agree. We forgot the ‘enlightened’ self interest part of capitalism. My wealth means nothing if the planet has to die for me to get it.
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by erpellan 7y ago
The thing is, oil and gas are super useful raw materials for everything from clothes to furniture, fertilisers and pharmaceuticals. Setting it on fire to keep ourselves warm will look like insanity in 100 years time.
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by erpellan 7y ago
A lot of financial firms use an integer of the smallest indivisible unit of currency wherever possible (stripe is one). This has the handy property that string and numeric representations are identical so no risk of being flipped into scien
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by erpellan 7y ago
Boring. The word is boring. Boring companies whose stock prices do nothing for 30 years but gently drift up and down with the market (or not), steadily yielding 5% dividends year after year. Usually they sell things like toilet paper, soap,
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by erpellan 7y ago
When I invest it’s usually because I think “I like this dividend yield.” I can buy, forget and auto-reinvest the dividends. Stock price swings are not particularly interesting if you never plan to sell.
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by erpellan 7y ago
The scientific publishing industry is a racket. It’s defending a pricing model that was steep when all journals had to be typeset and printed. Now it’s inexcusable. All Open Access does is shift the cost to the authors of the paper (usually
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by erpellan 7y ago
Phrased another way, given the figures of 40 for cars and 117 for planes, unless everyone on a flight all travelled to the airport together in no more than 3 cars there’s a higher risk of death on the way to the airport than on the flight i
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by erpellan 7y ago
That’s because when a car crashes it’s not typically travelling at 500mph with 250 people on board.
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by erpellan 7y ago
Yes, NASA was funded to collect the actual data until Trump arrived. The facts don’t care if you don’t like them and they don’t go away if you cover your eyes like a child and pretend they’re not there.
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by erpellan 7y ago
- Phone generates public/private key pair. - Phone registers public key with backend during signup. - Phone generates ticket signed with private key. - Backend checks signed ticket against registered public key to charge customer. Frau
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by erpellan 7y ago
4xx errors are no better or worse than 5xx. They just mean different things. Generally, 4xx errors means 'Client screwed up'. There's probably no point sending this message again, it isn't going to work until something i
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by erpellan 7y ago
I owned a fingerworks keyboard in 2003. The multi touch and gestures were amazing. And it was physically painful to type on. Try touch typing on a solid surface for any length of time. Fingertip bruises are no fun. The company mysteriously
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by erpellan 7y ago
The same OCD tendencies that are conducive to technical expertise can also be aimed at other aspects of life. I go through occasional boughts of dressing smarter, just for the satisfaction. And the nice shoes. Life's too short for bori
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by erpellan 7y ago
Excel was considerably inferior to Supercalc for many years, only winning because it was almost impossible to buy a pc without windows and office preinstalled for a chunk of the 90s
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by erpellan 7y ago
That's fine, and extremely common! I know some accomplished speakers and more than one of them have shaking hands for the first few minutes of a talk. They're just used to it. Some people get over their fear of public speaking, ot

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