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by lucozade 9y ago
> this suggests these governments would not have effective economic means to defend themselves They'll just re-introduce a fiat currency like they did all the other times that this was a problem. Assuming they want to survive. Histo
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by lucozade 9y ago
I don't believe the GP is advocating it. I believe he's implying that you'll get hyperinflation unless you do something draconian to take all the money out of the system. This may well solve the hyperinflation at the expense
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by lucozade 9y ago
I was aware, but thank you for the link. The fact that it can be used in an important use case is a necessary but not sufficient condition that it can replace the incumbents. Same goes for end user computing. Now, it gives me great confiden
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by lucozade 9y ago
That's not true. At all. Almost all scientific libraries resemble template libraries but with bespoke, exposed name mangling and significant portions of the internal data structures specified in comments. They do this, not because it&#
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by lucozade 9y ago
Scientific programming is heavily polymorphic. You just need to look at the interface to most well used libraries like BLAS. Fortran and C conventionally deal with this by adding the relevant type signature to the function name. Scientific
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by lucozade 9y ago
Right but on the quadrants of predictions of timing vs imminence, all the examples are in one quadrant to justify the need to act now. Fair enough for reinforcing a narrative but a tad disingenuous.
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by lucozade 9y ago
What I’ve found when studying ontological arguments is, if you replace god with pink unicorns and the argument still holds, the argument is lacking something. I mentally replaced AGI with zombies in this article and quite a lot of it held u
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by lucozade 9y ago
> imposed structure of adding static types to a project I'm sure you didn't mean it this way but, for me, I think I reach for my pet dynamic or static typed language depending on whether or not I'm expecting to think about
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by lucozade 9y ago
I've done a lot of work with Indian development teams and agencies as a client in both the US and the UK. I've had varied levels of success but the most consistently successful model has been a leverage model. By this I mean that
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by lucozade 9y ago
lua also allows you to define blocks like [=[ ... ]=] but with arbitrary, matching counts of '=' inside. Using this style with your comment syntax handles having nested and/or dangling comment delimiters in the body. It'
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by lucozade 9y ago
The author has opinions on a number of projects in this space including Ammonite. https://github.com/ilyash/ngs#have-you-heard-of-project-x-ho...
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by lucozade 9y ago
Of course it's possible. I mean, arbitrarily picking whatever happens to be a popular comms protocol, with no regard to its functional validity, was how they got to SOAP in the first place. Probably the only thing stopping them will be
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by lucozade 9y ago
Sorry to be that guy but a lot of what we've come to know as OO is more directly descended from Simula because that was a big inspiration for Bjarne. As such, C++, Java and C#, which constitute a significant chunk of OO programming, ar
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by lucozade 9y ago
> the current understanding seems to only deepen the mystery of consciousness Not sure I understand that. What they appear to have established is that, if you sever the direct connection between the two brain halves, functions that requi
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by lucozade 9y ago
Being invitation only, presumably, makes it much harder for someone who has been banned to quickly set up a new account and continue the nefarious behaviour. Shadow banning mitigates that somewhat as it can take a little while for the perso
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by lucozade 9y ago
> that makes this a bit of a dumb study Only if you assume no intent on the part of the study's authors. For example, I wonder if they would have had quite a different result if they'd used, say, 14 year olds. Or a mix of ages.
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by lucozade 9y ago
> 'I love the USA but wouldn't want to live there' I have a work colleague who has a green card but lives in the UK. He gets questioned on it every time he goes through US customs. Essentially, the very idea that someone
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by lucozade 9y ago
I thought that was a very well written whitepaper: clearly explains the problem, why it needs solving, what their solution is and why it's a good solution. Very nice piece of semi-technical writing.
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by lucozade 9y ago
> The good things in life are unpaid At the risk of being somewhat obtuse: poetry, English composition and history can be exceptionally well paid. Ask Taylor Swift, JK Rowling and Hilary Mantel resp. Now, if you mean poetry, English comp
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by lucozade 9y ago
> which means the statistic doesn't count them They do, they're called "not in labor force" [0] If you include the unemployed as well as those who want a job but aren't actively looking, it's around 5% which
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by lucozade 9y ago
Not tested yet. In the Conclusion, they say they're looking forward to testing the X.
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by lucozade 9y ago
There's some evidence that girls do academically better in single sex schools [0]. But there are a lot of factors involved so I don't think it's that straightforward. It annoys me slightly that the narrative is that, when boy
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by lucozade 9y ago
They don't want to be a negative target of DC. DC is currently Republican led and Republican politicians most definitely care what Fox news thinks. My guess is that the profs saw this as such a perfect shitstorm that, if it becomes a m
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by lucozade 9y ago
Maybe. If a kid fucked up and has shown maturity then I would completely agree. It's both beneficial to them and to society. For the person in the article, it's not that clear. There's no reason to believe she'll repeat
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by lucozade 9y ago
To my mind, it's not completely unreasonable to argue that the constraints on the state do not necessarily have to be mirrored as constraints on individuals or companies/institutions. It seems to be similar to the freedom of speec
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by lucozade 9y ago
Normal Irn Bru is just made from sugar and rust (OK, ammonium ferric citrate if you're being picky) so it doesn't taste like ginger. I do recall there being a "spicy" variant a few years ago that did taste a bit like gin
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by lucozade 9y ago
> without engaging on the one result that makes it notable. But that's her point. She, the author, doesn't have an issue with the DNA evidence that the body is female. What she has an issue with is the paper stepping beyond its
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by lucozade 9y ago
As I understand it, the speculation is that they are pieces from Hnefatafl which is a chess precursor.
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by lucozade 9y ago
It's most probably a placed piece. It's unlikely that it's coincidental that the article is a diversity story about someone who runs a company in the diversity field in a news outlet that is currently running a diversity camp
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by lucozade 9y ago
> I think this is Google shooting itself in the foot. Only if it fails. I'm sure this is making Android phone manufacturers nervous but what are their options? Essentially, Samsung would need to revive its mobile OS platform and bui

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