mchaver

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by mchaver 5y ago
> it's the cultural focus on theory rather than humans that I don't like. That's completely fine. Haskell is not a single community. There are two big camps that often interact with each other, the academic and the industr
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by mchaver 5y ago
This is a great resource (Learning Emacs Lisp by System Crafters) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEoMzSkcN8oPQtn7FQEF3...
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by mchaver 5y ago
> I never understood that concept. No problem! It certainly doesn't make sense if one approaches it from a Western Christian mindset. I am not trying to imply that is how you are approaching it, rather I mention this because Judaism
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by mchaver 5y ago
> All the semitic languages omit vowels (although there are some mater lectionis). I think it is just most. Maltese uses the Latin alphabet. Amharic and Tigrinya use Ge'ez which encodes vowel information. Also Arabizi, Arabic in Lat
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by mchaver 5y ago
Hangul is one outlier I can think of.
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by mchaver 6y ago
I dislike that the burden of proof is put on the targets of this style of advertisement instead of on the companies themselves. There are plenty of studies on the impact of propaganda and advertisement on society and individuals. In the mea
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by mchaver 6y ago
But positioning as such doesn't necessarily make it true. Just because Haskell isn't advertised as the "data transformation" language doesn't mean it does better or worse than any other language at it. In my persona
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by mchaver 6y ago
ReScript (formerly BuckleScript/ReasonML) is a nice option, but I agree in an ideal world these features would exist in the JS standard.
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by mchaver 6y ago
> Why shouldn't they be allowed to? It's just a secured loan. From the perspective of a bank it's a great deal. Either they get the premiums and interest on a loan or if the landlord defaults, they get the asset. But thin
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by mchaver 6y ago
Honest question. Why should society allow banks to give out mortgages for the purchase of residential property for use as a non-primary residence? It seems like this will lead to increasing the cost of rent because the renter pays the mortg
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by mchaver 6y ago
A wealth/inheritance tax does not necessarily mean 100%. The flip side of everyone working lots of hours would be the chance to spend more time with friends and family. That also seems valuable for future generations.
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by mchaver 6y ago
My apologies for misinterpreting what you intended to say. > Minor inconveniences are not the same as a loss of rights, and it’s astonishing that anyone would try to conflate the two. They are not entirely the same, but a world with less
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by mchaver 6y ago
> And it’s quite egotistical and “in the bubble” to say that opening your devices is something everyone should be able to stumble into. That makes no sense. It is selfish to have a right to open a device you have purchased? > If you a
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by mchaver 6y ago
You're only looking at the positive side of things and ignoring well known issues that will lead to global catastrophe. Consider climate change, loss of biological diversity, soil erosion, mineral resource exhaustion, pandemics, etc. T
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by mchaver 6y ago
> Meanwhile, I’ve seen e.g. Mexican and Chinese ESL speakers have very bad mutual intelligibility, because they make very different mistakes. That's true. Assume a monolingual learner. You can predict the kinds of mistakes they will
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by mchaver 6y ago
I suspect this is true for most non-native speakers of a language. They will find speaking with other non-native speakers because they will use less culturally encoded language, probably speak slower and are accustomed to speaking with othe
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by mchaver 6y ago
> Puerto Rico has voted repeatedly to not become an official US state. That's not true. Look at the results from the 2012 and 2017 referendums: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Puerto_Rican_status_refer... h
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by mchaver 6y ago
I think it is cruel that their language was taken away from them, but I find it inspiring they are trying to rebuild their linguistics community. Not every child will like what they are taught, but if they can create an environment where th
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by mchaver 6y ago
Ojibwe is better described as a language continuum consisting of multiple languages. The larger the geographical distance between native speakers, the less likely their spoken form will be mutually intelligible. Like the Romance languages.
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by mchaver 6y ago
Continuing on your line of thought, and being a bit pedantic, the title says missing from the internet, but it looks more like missing from websites. There is a lot of internet interaction that happens privately/semi-privately in chat
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by mchaver 7y ago
Unfortunately for him life is political, and the UN and WHO very much so. I think those organizations should have space for governing entities that might not have complete international support or they aren’t really representing the world p
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by mchaver 7y ago
One thing that has always seemed strange to me is you have to prove you have an address to access many parts of society like banks and schools. This leaves out the homeless and people who have a residency but for some reason (bad landlord,
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by mchaver 7y ago
It isn't at the core of the CS curriculum, and neither are general requirements, but it is highly relevant to the course work and I am willing to bet it does not only help people interested in software engineering, but also people who
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by mchaver 7y ago
Hmm, I think the other countries in the Americas have been pretty successful at integrating immigrants as well. The prosperous ones also offer opportunities for those immigrants. I think being the largest economy and being so influential is
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by mchaver 7y ago
It seems like when you grow up with some important but finicky technology, it tends to sow a certain amount of knowledge in the populace. I notice there tends to be a lot more car and mechanic knowledge in the older generations than say tho
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by mchaver 7y ago
Let's collect all the internet's historical pizza moments. I've collected a few from the comments here and added a few. - 1990, Don Hopkins uses the PizzaTool to fax a pizza order. - 1992, Snow Crash is published. Readers ima
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by mchaver 7y ago
Do you know the name of that Roman principle or have some sources? I would be curious to learn more.
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by mchaver 8y ago
Probably the same for rust, looking at the October 2018 data set with https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/ rust gives 50 results, trust gives 21, \brust gives 26. Similar results for scala.
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by mchaver 8y ago
The other question is, are there really any countries that are easy to immigrate to without the right to abode or right to return (for certain groups)?
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by mchaver 9y ago
Thanks. I knew of the book, but not the acronym.

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