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by flooow 3y ago
It may be ignorant or even insane, but this sort of thinking is also taken seriously in certain places, and even highly rewarded. William Nordhaus won the Nobel Prize for a model which predicts that if the planet warms by 6C - an extinction
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by flooow 3y ago
Every time I hear about another massive hack on Ethereum, I feel a little bit sad that I didn't specialize in software security. For many years there was huge amounts of free cash just sitting on a table waiting to be taken, a victimle
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by flooow 3y ago
It's an interesting philosophical question. Let us take it as read that if you have children, you are morally obliged to work to ensure that the planet is habitable for them and future generations. But if you choose not to have childre
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by flooow 3y ago
Alternatively - capitalism is fundamentally incompatible with the fight against climate change. It will take something more like a war-economy, with the free market reigned in, lots of command and control and lots of government rules. Both
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by flooow 3y ago
Not sure that this is true now, but willing to bet my career that this won't be true in 3 years.
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by flooow 3y ago
That is not a coincidence :) I like Haskell a lot but at this point I am willing to bet that I will never be paid to write it. It fells like community of 'people like me' have collectively decided that Rust, not Haskell, is their
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by flooow 3y ago
The way I have seen it explained before: Rust is not the perfect applications language, but there actually aren't any good mainstream applications languages out there, so Rust is perhaps the best we've got. What I want: * Po
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by flooow 3y ago
Dart 1.0 was a fully-fledged Java-like type-unsafe OOP thing, released at just the time when such things were becoming unfashionable (for good reasons). There was clearly a time where Google could have, and should have, killed it, but inste
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by flooow 3y ago
Fortunately this particular problem should go away soon. Async-fn-in-traits is due to be stabilized in the next few months [1], which means that the use of #[async_trait] will no longer be necessary, which means the compiler will correctly
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by flooow 4y ago
For non-Germans - the Elster is the magpie. According to Wikipedia, in German folklore the magpie is a thief. As a Brit I do not associate the magpie with stealing per se but rather with having a fascination with shiny objects like jeweller
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by flooow 4y ago
TLDR: > In my research, I argue that the diminished sway of the Catholic Church, nearly 30 years before the French Revolution, was the key driver of the fertility decline
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by flooow 4y ago
For what it's worth, I have simply used the picker function of uBlock Origin to remove the comments, sidebars and search bar, then turned off autoplay. I am never logged in (I don't have an account) and don't 'browse&#x2
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by flooow 4y ago
Keep getting LinkedIn messages from Tezos recruiters, quoting surprisingly high salaries. By all sensible metrics (e.g. token value, trading volume, actual real-world usage) they are just another dead crypto project. If I were in charge, I
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by flooow 4y ago
I believe there is a small but persistent contingent who would very much like HN to care about cryptocurrency, because HN is very influential among developers and would lend them much-needed credibility. They may or may not be co-ordinating
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by flooow 4y ago
My understanding is that Tether have repeatedly refused to allow an audit of their holdings, therefore everyone assumes everything they say is a flat-out lie.
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by flooow 4y ago
Thank you for semi-articulately saying my argument back to me.
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by flooow 4y ago
> In the UK, you need a substantial amount of meta-knowledge about the media outlets and political landscape in order to use news reporting to become more, not less or dis-, informed. This is most-certainly true, and an interesting corro
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by flooow 4y ago
> "My role was to identify the voices that were not in the mainstream and to give those voices a stage," Rheem says. [...] > He says the media was hungry for these perspectives. > "Journalists were actually actively
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by flooow 5y ago
Yes, proportional representation would be nice, and might solve some of the UK's many problems. But it isn't going to happen in my lifetime. They won, we lost, and as a result living standards are going continue to get worse for m
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by flooow 5y ago
Pretty obvious what the scam is here. Starmer lied to the membership to become leader, has ruthlessly purged the left including the former leader, and now plans to sit tight doing and saying nothing, hoping the Tories self-destruct as they
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by flooow 5y ago
I ctrl-F for 'cost', then for '$', nothing. Close tab.
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by flooow 5y ago
Pretty soon it is going to become a very difficult decision whether to have children. I would argue we are already at that point, however this idea has not really gone 'mainstream' yet. But I fully expect the birthrate to have plu
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by flooow 5y ago
Somehow I always remember it as being good escapist fun, but it isn't really. But I'll probably watch it again in a couple of years' time.
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by flooow 5y ago
I went to see Manor at opening night. I thought it was OK, I was entertained. Was weird to find out (just now!) that it had got an absolute mauling in the press. It makes me wonder if I have terrible taste, and to what extent the 'qual
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by flooow 5y ago
When someone makes a bad-faith argument, should one go to great lengths to refute it? Perhaps sometimes. Other times, it is better to dismiss it as nonsense and get on with one's day. "Trickle-down economics" is an extremely
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by flooow 5y ago
I agree completely, it's a very strange objection - Rust is one of the very best languages for web servers. I wish I could use it at work instead of Django. I think some C/C++ devs take a perverse pride in their language not bei
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by flooow 5y ago
Yes, sort-of, the supply grows by a fixed absolute quantity every year. I don't really consider it to be a serious attempt at a useful cryptocurrency though. I suspect any coin attempting price-stability (minimum requirement for a usef
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by flooow 5y ago
If the crypto community wants to demonstrate that it isn't a giant Ponzi scheme, why not come up with a non-deflationary token, which will not massively reward 'early adopters' at the expense of everyone else, in perpetuity?
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by flooow 5y ago
We are in drastic damage-limitation mode. Every option is unappealing. Many will result in mass suffering and death. Pick one. (And yes, the current strategy, 'doing nothing', is picking one, probably the worst one). The above str
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by flooow 5y ago
Nah, you don't get your dividend until you are 16.

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