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by mmirate 9y ago
> and presumably was made easier by the language somehow. Right, and outside a few very narrow domains that are helped by the bolted-on concurrency, Go generally fails to deliver on those presumptions, for the same reasons that Java woul
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by mmirate 9y ago
> there is fundamentally an interest in the fact that something is written in Foo (and this may indeed depend on the nature of X). That speaks to a deficit in human cognition, that slapping Foo's name on something makes it interesti
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by mmirate 9y ago
Aye, that's because being written in Python, C or Go is - in my eyes - a strike against the project in an absolute sense, because it will be more buggy and difficult to maintain due to lacking the functional-programming abstractions
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by mmirate 9y ago
> You seem so confident in your assessment of the value of a bedtime story. I think it's called the dunning-Kruger effect. I wouldn't infer "so confident" from ... hmm, what phrase did I use? ... "slightly-educat
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by mmirate 9y ago
Coal ostensibly has a rather high rate of deaths caused per joule of energy produced, compared to some other non-renewables (e.g. nuclear, iirc?). To the extent that that is true; to the extent that these deaths aren't solely of coal w
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by mmirate 9y ago
The world is indifferent to people's existence. People will only ever mean something if they accomplish something, not because they're people. Why should I, or anyone, see differently? > What's the value of 1 bedtime story
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by mmirate 9y ago
> If all you ever knew is coal mining, that's your condition that prevents you from finding gainful employment. Why can they not expand their knowledge? And if they truly cannot, then ... What productive purpose can we possibly expe
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by mmirate 9y ago
Does that change the start date or the end date? At the place where I'm taking my undergrad education, the semester isn't quite over by November.
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by mmirate 9y ago
Novice American cyclist here: what makes a set of gears "good" for usage in Swiss cities?
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by mmirate 9y ago
At a medium-sized, college campus with no internal roads, my bike is the only way I can reliably travel the 1.5 miles from one side of campus to the other, in less than 15 minutes, laden. And generally speaking, bikes are just like any othe
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by mmirate 9y ago
To use anything that's less symmetrical than a sphere as shrapnel, the munition must be designed to propel the shrapnel facing exactly one specific angle, because the shrapnel will have a bigger impact profile at any other angle. Ball
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by mmirate 9y ago
Meanwhile, there are many other modern ML derivatives (e.g. Ocaml, Rust) which aren't encumbered by the limitations of VMs designed for wholly-imperative languages.
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by mmirate 9y ago
This reads like part of an Economics 101 textbook. If quantity supplied is limited and demand increases, the obvious solution is to increase the price enough to hold constant the quantity demanded.
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by mmirate 9y ago
> It needs to be done locally in order to be secure You know that. I know that. Technical personnel generally know that. "The suits", however, will find some way to profit from collecting biometric data, at which point "
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by mmirate 9y ago
Jokes are for Reddit, not HN.
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by mmirate 9y ago
How do we know? It's never existed in reality. (Of course, I'll admit, neither has "true" Communism ... or so its supporters claim.)
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by mmirate 9y ago
> a robust and efficient free market tethered to a redistributive social safety net. The latter would destroy or corrupt the former. It's a horrible idea.
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by mmirate 9y ago
"Spoiler"? Oh, please, that one gets solved barely halfway through the episode.
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by mmirate 9y ago
Lots of imprecision here. While they did claim that monopolies today are mostly caused by government action, and they did claim that lots of problems are caused by government ... they didn't claim that all problems are inevitably cau
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by mmirate 9y ago
Which society, the customer's or their mortal enemy's?
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by mmirate 9y ago
It's their failure, and one's own frustration is, at least, limited to downvotes-received.
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by mmirate 9y ago
I didn't claim that Microsoft was unique in anything but the 3E strategy itself. Actually, what with Google duplicating more and more of Android's core open-source functionality into their proprietary apps and then leaving the ope
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by mmirate 9y ago
> You've also underscored how productive communication is more than just laying out facts or correcting mistakes. How one does so strongly affects its effectiveness. If someone can't understand a simple list of facts unless it&
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by mmirate 9y ago
> I love lots of what MS does. Does this include the Embrace+Extend+Extinguish strategy? And how does anyone, other than via sheer forgetfulness, think that Microsoft doesn't have similar nefariousness on today's drawing board?
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by mmirate 9y ago
> way more libertarian than can possibly be healthy How is such a condition even possible? This seems to be equivalent to describing, say, a libc, as "way more bug-free than can possibly be healthy". EDIT: there is no way that
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by mmirate 9y ago
> I often use HN to practice writing. ... > The next most common source of down votes (for me) is being argumentative. Interesting. The main thing that motivates me to comment here - other than when someone touches the surface of a to
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by mmirate 9y ago
As long as it's Electron-based, that's basically impossible.
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by mmirate 9y ago
> I still consider C# best language I ever learned. Thus you clearly have not learned F#, nor any other (superior) Standard ML descendant (e.g. OCaml or Rust). (Why is F# inferior, you ask? CLR interoperation requires using types and dat
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by mmirate 9y ago
Ability-to-flag says otherwise. (I have recently been informed here that the downvoting feature is worthless even to those who can use it.)
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by mmirate 9y ago
> Are you feeling picked-on because of what you're saying, or how you're saying it? That's impossible to answer without telepathy. (Aside from topics that generate lots of discussion that weighs one particular way, I find

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