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by evdubs 3y ago
> Is any major software using skiplists as a standard ordered container or map? Java for concurrent navigable maps. https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/21/docs/api/java.base... > All K
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by evdubs 3y ago
Researchers at the Fed agree: > The case against patents can be summarized briefly: there is no empirical evidence that they serve to increase innovation and productivity https://files.stlouisfed.org/files/htdocs&#x2
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There are plenty of 5 5 5 women out there. Keep your heads up, gents.
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> The problem with learning Lisp is `(a ,b c) If you can understand "String ${interpolation}", you can understand list quasiquoting. > But the problem remains: it only takes one wizard to make reading code impossible by outs
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by evdubs 3y ago
I sort of evaluated Typed Racket before I started writing lots of Racket code, and my experience was that "Contract" Racket (regular non-Typed Racket) was more ergonomic and idiomatic. I think the contract system is great and I us
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by evdubs 3y ago
> Racket is the best for a beginner, but it keeps having that academic, "we made it for the kids" feel of being easy to understand but not very pragmatic for a seasoned programmer. And it is one of a kind, so a good Racket deve
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by evdubs 3y ago
> Because it's weird enough to be off-putting, and it doesn't solve a real-world problem. Nonsense. Quoth Wikipedia, "Lisp pioneered many ideas in computer science, including tree data structures, automatic storage managem
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by evdubs 3y ago
That's what the attestation is. BDO, a top 5 accounting network, confirms that Tether has the assets they claim to have.
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by evdubs 3y ago
If you believe there is more fraud in the securities markets than there is in the Bitcoin markets, I have some stolen North Korean Bitcoin to sell you.
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Where did he give that impression?
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> hedge funds use dark pools to make non-public trades, ensure fund liquidity, equity, lie, cheat, steal; etc. No one is using dark pools to "lie, cheat, steal, etc." Plenty of market participants (including retail) use dark po
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by evdubs 3y ago
BDO Italia attests that Tether has their money. https://tether.to/en/transparency/#reports The Chairman and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, a primary dealer and banking partner for Tether, says Tether has their money. D
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Wall Street CEO on Tether Controversy: 'They Have the Money'(coindesk.com)
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The SEC lawsuit, which alleges (among other things) Binance as having lots of wash trading on their platform, still hasn't been resolved. Using statistical methods, for BTC, ETH, LTC, and XRP, Binance wash trading was estimated at >
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by evdubs 3y ago
Feels pretty green charging an EV at home with solar panels.
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Copyright infringement is about making a copy. It is not making a copy if you read a book. It is not making a copy if you watch TV. It is not making a copy if you listen to the radio. If Denys makes a video/audio file of himself quotin
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by evdubs 3y ago
You seem to be arguing that downloading copyrighted material without permission is not copyright infringement. "Acquire 'unlicensed' copies" is exactly downloading without permission. You are making a copy, thus infringi
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by evdubs 3y ago
If you bought the books and screenplays, you acquired them in a way that doesn't infringe on copyright. If you borrowed them from the library, you acquired them in a way that doesn't infringe on copyright. You don't need a li
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by evdubs 3y ago
Did you, through copyright infringement, acquire your copies of Harry Potter? Did you use Harry Potter source material and a machine to transform the input and produce your parody material? I think it's different if OpenAI acquires lic
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by evdubs 3y ago
With Racket: * I really enjoy using numeric towers and it is upsetting to me every time I go to another language where I can't just work with rationals as a default. * Having statistics functions, a GUI library, and a plot library all
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Java and JavaFX.
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I use Racket (a Scheme) for option trading. https://github.com/evdubs/renegade-way
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The article covers typo resilience in the section "Typo tolerance / fuzzy search". This adds a step between query entry and text search where you find the similarity of query words to unique lexemes if the word is not a lexem
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by evdubs 3y ago
+1 for Racket. omgmajk, if you care to see some random Racket code/projects, https://github.com/evdubs?tab=repositories&q=&type=source&la... has some stuff to look at.
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by evdubs 3y ago
It seems like the big reveal here is that we can see reports from Tether's banking partners (previously reported at https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2023/02/10/tether-re... ): Deltec Bank
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The development has stalled since 2021, but the app still works. There is a tiny community picking it up in the wake of the Reddit blackouts.
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I feel that the whole P2P thing isn't necessary to explain just to get up and running with it, just that it's useful to know when you start digging in to figure out how things work. > Tbh also not a fan of deleting content that
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by evdubs 3y ago
Maybe not the best, and certainly not as popular as some recommended federated services, but Aether (getaether.net) has been interesting to use. It: - is P2P. Everyone using the app sees the same network; no federation keeping communities s
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by evdubs 3y ago
Ok, but Lisp doesn't force you to curate a library of words or require dealing with abstractions. Maybe this example is relevant. Racket defines procedures `filter` and `map` for `list`. Also provided is `filter-map`, which I assume ma
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Racket goes a step further from having types and gives you contracts. The whole language is defined by these contracts. For example, > (list 1 2 3 4) is a way to create a list consisting of elements 1, 2, 3, and 4. This procedur

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