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811.
by lmm 1y ago
A series of 10 "baby deltics" were built and ran for some years, although they weren't particularly successful on the whole.
812.
by lmm 1y ago
If it was that simple then no legislature anywhere would ever pass any bill already. Evidently there are countermeasures to these things.
813.
by lmm 1y ago
> Like, the laws are passed by governments. Sure, but do you think the government writes them themselves? Without any input from the industry? > How does this benefit said financial institutions? One of the best ways to get ahead in f
814.
by lmm 1y ago
Financial institutions are far from passive bystanders in the legal process that creates those laws, much less the regulatory process that applies them in practice. Binance is frankly probably the lesser evil at this point.
815.
by lmm 1y ago
The post we're discussing is about a company, so I think that's the relevant case. (And for what it's worth the registry I'm talking about also applies to sole proprietors, at least those who've registered for the a
816.
by lmm 1y ago
> You can't buy food with an IOU from your employer. Historically in times of war or civil disorder it's often been possible.
817.
by lmm 1y ago
Yep. His explanation of the details is somewhat interesting, but his insistence on ascribing all moral responsibility to customers, governments, or random bystanders because none of this could possibly be anyone in the banking industry&#x27
818.
by lmm 1y ago
> In countries where you do have e.g. tax numbers associated with addresses no government agency is going to give it to a random private company. Why not? In my country the company registry is public, anyone can pay a small fee to get an
819.
by lmm 1y ago
> Today, in people who discover things that aren't banks don't act like banks On the contrary, this is a case where Wise is acting exactly like a bank.
820.
by lmm 1y ago
> Giving a one-time majority in a legislature a way to constrain anything the next 10 years of legislatures try to do is a terrible idea. There's no option to do that though. To block something for 10 years you'd have to stiff
821.
by lmm 1y ago
Because it places a higher priority on the desires of that foreign country than on the privacy of its justices and senators?
822.
by lmm 1y ago
If Kakfa had come first, no-one would ever pick Postgres. Yes, it offers a lot of fancy functionality. But most of that functionality is overengineered stuff you don't need, and/or causes more problems than it solves (e.g. transac
823.
by lmm 1y ago
> This only holds if you assume that the hiring process is already fully meritocratic (which it very clearly isn't) and that it isn't missing talented women already (which it very clearly is). Citation needed. Certainly neither
824.
by lmm 1y ago
> Having a language where "func" defines a pure function and "proc" defines a procedure that can performed arbitrary side effects (as in any imperative language really) would still be really useful, I think Rust tried
825.
by lmm 1y ago
On the contrary, train ferries used to be commonplace - for decades they were a great solution to the problem when you need to cross a relatively small stretch of water as part of a long, mostly overland journey. They've gradually fade
826.
by lmm 1y ago
Perhaps technically, but it's a zero-carbon one which is what matters.
827.
by lmm 1y ago
> The purpose of DEI is to rectify the discrimination that is already present. But what's the mechanism for how it can ever actually do that? Suppose there was discrimination that meant some women who "should" rightfully h
828.
by lmm 1y ago
Probably. Or better yet move the code to run where the data is so you're not moving the data around.
829.
by lmm 1y ago
> I have to wonder if programming should have kept pascals distinction between functions that only return one thing and procedures that go off and manipulate other things and do not give a return value. What you want is to use a language
830.
by lmm 1y ago
You'd have to troop everyone on and off (potentially with quite a lot of luggage) in the middle of the night.
831.
by lmm 1y ago
They decouple/shunt the carriages so they're alongside each other rather than having to fit them all in end to end.
832.
by lmm 1y ago
The Orient Express stopped running in 2009 (after it had already been successively cut back to just Strasbourg-Vienna), although it was a "normal train" in most senses (it was a regular EuroNight service, not really any different
833.
by lmm 1y ago
> This is a common incel talking point, and to be honest I don't think it has basis in reality. It's totally fine to share with a therapist and I don't know who would criticize someone for it. If a friend criticizes you fo
834.
by lmm 1y ago
You can, but it's harder, React will at least nudge you away from doing that.
835.
by lmm 1y ago
https://archive.li/Ac70V
836.
by lmm 1y ago
If Apple thinks what they're offering is worth the price they're charging, why are they so scared of having to compete in the market? Their service is worth what people choose to pay for it, and currently that's 0 since no-on
837.
by lmm 1y ago
I think working on that kind of system would be actively harmful for most programmers. It would give them a totally unbalanced intuition for what the appropriate tradeoff between memory consumption and other attributes (maintainability, def
838.
by lmm 1y ago
Maybe he managed to work them out and understand them in the '70s, if you believe him. But he has certainly never managed to convey that understanding to anyone else. Frankly I think if you fail to explain your discovery to even a frac
839.
by lmm 1y ago
> That pressure is largely coming from other men. Not my experience. > I don't know many women who want to date a guy who's unable to be vulnerable. Indeed, at least in theory. Unfortunately they also don't want to da
840.
by lmm 1y ago
> you can be ignorant and survive, or face reality and climb the deeply uphill battle of real growth. > of course you can be paralyzed by it, but no one is advocating for that as treatment Nominally yes. But in practice what are the e

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