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by jsbg 3y ago
https://www.appliancecity.co.uk/news/updates/is-our-chocolat...
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by jsbg 3y ago
I found Scala to be missing too much of what I liked about Haskell. If I'm gonna lose out on the niceties that are unique to Haskell, then I'd rather go with something more pragmatic, like Kotlin.
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by jsbg 3y ago
> That notification you got about the "20 minutes worth of fuel left" meant before they were forced to divert to the alternate. I believe you but this is yet another reason why it was inappropriate for the pilot to mention this
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by jsbg 3y ago
> Domestically, checked baggage can fly even if you don't. It depends on the situation. I could be wrong about it being illegal, I was just repeating what an (other) airline employee told me. But they did take my luggage off the pla
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by jsbg 3y ago
My guess is there were too many other more urgent flights landing there at the time.
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> What happens if you don't go into the 2nd flight? They took my luggage off the plane and United agreed to put me on the next flight to my final destination for free even though tickets were $750 that day.
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by jsbg 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36854536 > turning off the lights for a landing is regular procedure, nothing unusual. The lights were off for about an hour as we glided toward Pittsburgh. > Your strong language
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by jsbg 3y ago
I have no way of knowing whether or not the plane ran out of fuel. I'm assuming they kept some fuel, e.g. in case they didn't stick the landing on the first attempt.
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by jsbg 3y ago
It was absolutely inappropriate for the pilot to talk about fuel levels over PA.
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by jsbg 3y ago
I was on a United flight in 2019 that had to be diverted due to tornado warnings at the destination (DC). We circled Columbus long enough that eventually the pilot announced that he was still waiting for authorization to land and that it sh
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by jsbg 3y ago
That and the fact that with phone trade-in programs from manufacturers, batteries are much less likely to be disposed of inappropriately.
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by jsbg 3y ago
It's astonishing how few patterns there are for scams on fb/ig that anyone with introductory statistics knowledge could build a classifier for even with hand-collected data, but meta lets them go on for years.
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by jsbg 3y ago
> However, software can be built by one guy in a garage. I'm not sure why Canada just let its dominance in AI "slip away". Could be that Canadian software engineers prefer to move to the US to make much better money.
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by jsbg 3y ago
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/demand Definition 3b. I don't care what you think demand means, you already said you know what I mean and you keep being obtuse about it. I'm not moving demand and s
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by jsbg 3y ago
> Changing the price of a good does not 'decrease demand'. It changes the supply curve - and given an identical 'demand curve' (aka demand does not change), there may end up being less consumption of that good. Demand
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by jsbg 3y ago
> Min wage. changes the supply, not demand. If you raise the price of something–anything–it lowers demand. That's why minimum wage laws create unemployment. > It may or may not yield less employment depending on elasticity. If yo
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by jsbg 3y ago
> Many places, however, have set up sovereign wealth funds which do allow the population at large to benefit from the economy. In which of these places does the economy only go up?
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by jsbg 3y ago
> make sure workers and the state own stock and receive dividends from publicly traded companies and also lose money when those public companies lose value?
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by jsbg 3y ago
> everyone owns a share in the economy People already have that option, as long as they're ok also losing money when the economy is down.
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by jsbg 3y ago
Minimum wage is a price control, and the result is the same as all price controls: it affects the demand. That is, it doesn't make employers spend more, it makes them hire less. Companies deal with rising minimum wage laws by hiring
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by jsbg 3y ago
> I like how we carve out acceptable targets for exploitation, and it's always young people. Working is a two-way agreement, not exploitation. The job market "discriminates against" people with little or no experience. Gai
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by jsbg 3y ago
> I know there are lots of people who do it, but I can't wrap my head about why any normal person pays for drinks and food at the cinema. What's the alternative?
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by jsbg 3y ago
It's a general purpose language, I wouldn't say it's more or less suited to this or that, other than the libraries available for it.
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by jsbg 3y ago
You can get features done very quickly in Haskell after the initial learning curve that most languages have. The type system lets you catch a lot of mistakes before runtime and in my experience things are more likely to work the first time
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by jsbg 3y ago
In production Haskell you need to combine monads using e.g. monad transformers and this is significantly more complicated than just understanding how bind works. It also requires a lot of boilerplate code and any errors there are not obviou
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by jsbg 4y ago
I know about unsafe at any speed. Correlation is not causation. Trends don't mean monotonically decreasing. Was there also a book written in 1931 and in 1945?
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by jsbg 4y ago
did you look at the graph? has he been active in auto safety since the 1920s?
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by jsbg 4y ago
> You can probably thank Ralph Nader for a lot of it, honestly. no https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35341056
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by jsbg 4y ago
motor vehicle deaths have always trended down, cars just keep getting safer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...
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by jsbg 4y ago
> the safety of the individual feels compromised Exactly. I have had zero accidents in 20 years; I'm not interested in a car that will lower the overall accident rate if it increases mine.

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