jwlato

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by jwlato 2y ago
Absolutely this. And when you look through the bug history of those low-level APIs there's a lot of evidence. That said, the other big difference with Haskell is the low-level API actually provides functionality to solve the exact prob
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by jwlato 4y ago
This depends on the state. For example, teachers in CA and TX aren't eligible for SS. https://www.fool.com/retirement/2018/10/07/why-does-social-s...
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by jwlato 5y ago
If most applications don't satisfy soft real time requirements either, then maybe those requirements aren't really important for most cases. There's only one industrial Haskell codebase I've worked on, and although parts
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by jwlato 5y ago
It's hard to build systems with hard real-time requirements with GHC Haskell. The vast majority of systems people build do not have hard real-time requirements. People have built video games, real-time audio, and all sorts of other sof
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by jwlato 5y ago
You completely missed the point of my comment. The wording describes a specific instance. And additionally, the rhetorical convention implies that there is no instance of the problem for which the description doesn't hold. This part is
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by jwlato 5y ago
I think you're reading the description incorrectly. It is not meant to be a specific instance that may happen differently for other instances. "You" is an abstraction over all players of the game show, there's an implici
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by jwlato 5y ago
Have you seen BNFC ( http://bnfc.digitalgrammars.com/ )? I've used it with the Haskell bindings and really appreciated it. Parser, pretty-printer, and AST skeleton all auto-generated. I've only used it with Haskell
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by jwlato 8y ago
The financials aren't publicly available, but I'd expect PE firms still made money here. The funds probably lost money, but funds are an investment vehicle separate from the managing entity. I disagree that profitable businesses c
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by jwlato 8y ago
The PE fund's capital is partly other people's money too. In particular, fund limited partners (the fund investors) put up most of the initial money. The PE firm itself also puts in money but not nearly that much. This makes it ea
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by jwlato 8y ago
You're missing the key piece: Toys R Us didn't go into debt for any good business reason, it was bought by a private equity firm and loaded with debt it didn't need. This is how private equity works: 1. A PE firm uses a combi
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by jwlato 9y ago
Some resources are scarce, but food in the U.S. is not. We have allocation and distribution issues, with political choices as a major factor, not supply constraints.
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by jwlato 9y ago
And that MacBook is primarily a web browser and/or really expensive dumb terminal.
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by jwlato 9y ago
You're claiming that 40% of their total earnings are lost to federal tax? In this example, what types and how much income are you proposing? Doesn't seem realistic to me.
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by jwlato 9y ago
Publishers already host their own AMP content. Google caches that content, but anyone can go to the publisher's URL and get it directly. Disclaimer: I work for Google and have some involvement with AMP.
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by jwlato 9y ago
No, Britain will have a very poor position in the negotiations that follow regardless. That's why the E.U. is insisting on the payments and citizen's rights issues being resolved first: they want a British commitment to items the
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by jwlato 10y ago
They were charged and pled, that doesn't necessarily mean fraud was actually committed. DAs have wide latitude when charging people with crimes. If you were a foreign national caught doing this, would you want to take a chance with a j
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by jwlato 10y ago
I surely don't know as much as simonmar about this, but I think this is a rhetorical shortcut. My understanding is that when a Haskell thread receiving the exception needs to allocate on the heap, the executing context will instead rai