marta_morena_29

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by marta_morena_29 6y ago
It's a tradeoff. The problem is that academia often comes from the angle of abstracting and generalizing everything, which is even more harmful than copy & pasting and using the simplest code possible (mostly because copy & pas
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by marta_morena_29 6y ago
But that is something very different. Nobody censors "new ideas". The censorship in science is focused on journals. I.e. if you want your idea to be published through a standard, accepted channel, it needs to be extensively peer-r
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by marta_morena_29 6y ago
I wonder when people will finally understand that outside of mathematics, there is no "truth" and "falsehood". There is only statements that have sufficient evidence to be considered a fact, or statements that lack evide
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by marta_morena_29 6y ago
Why would you mention Swift, Go and Rust in the same context? I mean Swift vs. Go kinda has some merit, although they have completely different intentions. At least Go doesn't aspire to be a systems programming language. Rust definitel
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by marta_morena_29 6y ago
Except that there is a big difference: If a rich person loses his job and 50% of his savings, he will still go on to be rich and well off for probably indefinitely as long as the stock market works. They will also have an easy time finding
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by marta_morena_29 6y ago
> Amazon expects that users won’t mind sharing a small fraction of their bandwidth with their neighbors. Very interested to see how this will be protected against exploits.
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by marta_morena_29 6y ago
Ridiculous argument. All they need to do is to split their data centers into US and Europe and store all data for Europe in Europe only. This will likely mean a hard graph boundary between profiles in Europe/Everywhere Else. But still