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901.
by moomin 3y ago
This is, bluntly, dumb. The only way you can justify having UBI be below poverty is if you don’t accept any of the philosophy or studies of how UBI actually works and stick with the long-since disproven approach of “let people starve”. Geo-
902.
by moomin 3y ago
Except, as pointed out, a lot of the tech was literally developed at Google. It’s like Xerox Labs all over again.
903.
by moomin 3y ago
It seems from the article that GEMs are an interesting research area, but it doesn’t explain why. Could anyone ELI5?
904.
by moomin 3y ago
I was thinking “$800m sounds like a lot” but then I realised I was thinking in terms of a stock’s market depth. You’d need a LOT more than that to move the Euro.
905.
by moomin 3y ago
The funny thing is this has already happened. They erected a platform 9 3/4 at Kings Cross. The only problem being that a) it doesn’t even vaguely correspond to the description in the book and b) in fact, from the description it’s like
906.
by moomin 3y ago
Guarantee you there’s a third admin account. And maybe a fourth.
907.
by moomin 3y ago
I had a think about how you could best deal with this and then realised I was probably just designing a worse Nix. I think, unfortunately, the Debian model just can’t scale to the sheer volume of what it’s being asked to do. And, as pointed
908.
by moomin 3y ago
A monad could. ‘course, you don’t have monads.
909.
by moomin 3y ago
a) As with all of this material, it's stuff they chose not to publish, even later on b) Unlike "Free as a Bird", this one has been done with no sympathy for the original sound. It just sounds weird with those modern compresse
910.
by moomin 3y ago
Yet another dude who’s dressing up the idea that the working classes are “noble savages” in a lot of fancy words.
911.
by moomin 3y ago
My take is that the Republican Party is in such a great position of power now that splits are inevitable. To date, the famous Republican lock-step unity has been in everyone’s interest because otherwise they lose to Democrats. But if you ha
912.
by moomin 3y ago
Can you imagine going back in time and telling Brunel that by 2023, Britain can’t build a rail line from London to Birmingham?
913.
by moomin 3y ago
I recently got into an argument with someone who insisted that since “undefined” could be considered “non-terminating” there was nothing wrong with the current behaviour.
914.
by moomin 3y ago
I’m not sure why you think config files should be self-describing?
915.
by moomin 3y ago
The facts and honesty I was talking about are exactly what gets characterised as alarmist, so I’m not sure which side you’re arguing.
916.
by moomin 3y ago
One thing that scientists have learned over the last year is that facts and honesty don’t help. There are many financially motivated people trying their best to keep the temperature rising unchecked, and they know that complex, nuanced mess
917.
by moomin 3y ago
At most firms that employ > 20 people, there are _plenty_ of people who make powerful, serious contributions to their firm and the CEO will never know who they are.
918.
by moomin 3y ago
A footnote to this is that ClojureScript bet heavily on the Closure compiler, at a time when, IIRC, it wasn't even open sourced. In particularly, it was not just a bet on the technology, but the underlying methodology, so ClojureScript
919.
by moomin 3y ago
As I say, I really don’t understand and this probably isn’t the place to educate me, but this isn’t the only article I’ve seen that regards Send + ‘static as a) mandatory and b) problematic.
920.
by moomin 3y ago
Speaking as someone who is very good at these questions: they’re not a good predictor of dev capability. They are, however, pretty good at determining if you put several weeks of work in. Which you might think is a good proxy for determinat
921.
by moomin 3y ago
So I know _nothing_ about Rust, but I know Tasks in C# and one of the most important concepts is that a variable can be “async local” i.e. local to the async “thread”. So I wonder if the problem is that rust doesn’t have a lifetime specific
922.
by moomin 3y ago
This is a good read: https://www.britannica.com/topic/international-law/States-in... The TL;DR of this is, ultimately, that a state is whatever other states say is a state, and they're generally wary of recog
923.
by moomin 3y ago
I think there's a close correspondence though. What you naively think of as a knot is a mathematical knot if you join the ends together, and I think any given mathematical knot can give rise to a regular knot. I know very little about
924.
by moomin 3y ago
Anyone feel like the authors haven’t read “The Naked Sun”?
925.
by moomin 3y ago
IIRC, Idris 2 uses Chez Scheme for its backend.
926.
by moomin 3y ago
Thankyou! I have stuff to check out.
927.
by moomin 3y ago
Imagine if DC purchased it and started running plots with Lady Eboshi having a smackdown with Ozymandias.
928.
by moomin 3y ago
I want to see more from Hiromasa Yonebayashi, though.
929.
by moomin 3y ago
Well, the UK does both. It has both incredible barriers to entry that exclude anyone other than consulting firms whose central skills is dealing with them from participation, and it also has VIP lanes for routing work to your mates.
930.
by moomin 3y ago
Meh, give me a Firefox extension connecting to lichess anyday.

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