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by mseebach 9y ago
So you suggest that transpilers are a subset of compilers, where I suggest that they are disjoint sets. No need for snark.
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by mseebach 9y ago
I would argue that it isn't, if it is, then what's the distinction between a compiler and a transpiler?
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by mseebach 9y ago
I'd argue that it's a compiler if it treats JS as a lower language - that the output is simply an intermediate artefact for executing Scala on a JS engine, and not meant for human consumption. If, on the other hand, the output is
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by mseebach 9y ago
There's also the etymology, ie. the pre-computing dictionary definition: you compile eg. a list, ie. make something smaller/shorter from a larger input. You also write a book when it's an original work, but another author or
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by mseebach 9y ago
Yeah, that's the distinction I'm trying to make. Using a gun/bomb is overwhelmingly negative, having one is significantly more ambiguous.
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by mseebach 9y ago
Guns and nuclear bombs are still "just" force multipliers, but they are multipliers of predominantly or even overwhelmingly negative forces. The problem isn't that trivial conclusion in isolation, it's what happens in a
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by mseebach 9y ago
> Unfortunately, Apple doesn't make it easy to see whether a phone is iCloud locked. They used to have a convenient online tool for this, but took it down. Huh, that seems like an obvious thing for Apple to not just provide, but to
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by mseebach 9y ago
Indeed. The counter argument, however, is the suggestion that Jane's higher returns are at least partially due to her ability to extract favours from the government. Perhaps her mis-managed bank was shored up in a crash, while Jo'
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by mseebach 9y ago
The winds may blow leftward, but that's a far cry from a 1917-style workers uprising. Some bad news: Bernie Sanders' support is substantially middle class. His policies are only very generously described as socialism at all, cruci
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by mseebach 9y ago
Fast food? Actually, literally feeding people? It's contributing a lot to the economy.
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by mseebach 9y ago
Well, there's me and Michael Moore. https://michaelmoore.com/trumpwillwin/ > Who are you thinking they are striking against, themselves? Being right is not a prerequisite. The workers that rose up in communist
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by mseebach 9y ago
It has nothing to do with nerves being struck and everything to do with your 150 year out of date social analysis being so absurd that it's not even wrong. By the way, the lower class is striking back, but it looks more like a fake tan
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by mseebach 9y ago
> They find that enacting any of these policies by growing the federal debt — that is, without raising taxes to pay for it — would substantially grow the economy. The effect fades away within eight years, but GDP is left permanently high
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by mseebach 9y ago
Yes, used right it does. A lot. Sure, you can use it for goofing off, too, so you should have some etiquette in place for which channels are kept serious, which aren't (and can safely have notifications turned off), which announcements
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by mseebach 9y ago
> I couldn't put out press release on my amateur research and expect to get articles printed in several national papers, simply because they wouldn't take me seriously. "Expect?" No. But: - Write a press release with
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by mseebach 9y ago
It seems that what you're describing is "simply" meeting existing unfulfilled demand, not creating new demand. Creating new demand would be when you move to a part of town with poor public transport because you can now Uber
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by mseebach 9y ago
XMPP just wasn't a very good fit for the problem we needed it to solve. It is a verbose, XML-based protocol (reflecting the time in which it was conceived), and it's a mess of extensions (possibly the designers getting carried awa
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by mseebach 9y ago
Regardless of tax policy having been reformed several times, tax revenue relative to GDP has steadily increased. The problem is that the money is spent on other things, not that it's not being collected. http://www.usgovernm
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by mseebach 9y ago
The premise is that you are as productive, or even more, in four hours than you are in eight, so how well you're paid should be irrelevant. The fact that journalists often work crazy hours would imply that they can indeed produce more
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by mseebach 9y ago
There are various levels of trust, of course. The packages in Debian or RedHat are more trustworthy (there is a process) than those in NPM or Maven (free-for-all, even if you have some assurance that the package you're downloading is t
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by mseebach 9y ago
I'm not assuming that, I'm observing that the review doesn't reference any of them, and wondering why (just like when we'd read an article about how some super-successful startup founder owes his success to broccoli, we&
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by mseebach 9y ago
The book specifically talks about intellectual and creative work, so it doesn't apply to customer service or any of a lot of other areas. The six-hours work day experiment in Sweden also doesn't apply (in this context, there are o
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by mseebach 9y ago
Whenever there's a pop-business piece on here, commenters are very eager to point out the obvious blind angles, typically survivorship bias. Let's hold pop-psych to the same standard: Once you look at people who actually have skin
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by mseebach 9y ago
And much lower availability of fucking toilet paper . Get over yourself. (yes, I know, it's a "manufacturered shortage" and also big bad USA)
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by mseebach 9y ago
Gains? I, uhh, wouldn't. (And also $100 oil).
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by mseebach 9y ago
Amazon prime is consistently next day in the UK (and I'll happily pay a non-trivial premium to order something on Prime) - even sometimes same day, although that's never promised, just an occasional nice surprise. GP is talking ab
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by mseebach 9y ago
Austerity is the policy for when the money runs out. Neoliberalism is the convenient scapegoat for that fact. Practically all the countries that are under "austerity" (few of the policies actually implemented in these countries fi
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by mseebach 9y ago
> Basically, Neoliberalism doesn't seem to be societies natural order. That's probably right. The human instinct is tribal and quite suspicious of outsiders, so oppressive conservative totalitarianism is probably the "natu
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by mseebach 9y ago
The issues I've had (in the UK, indeed) has not been with the delivery time itself (which is often stated, correctly, as "next day" or "2-3 days") but with the time to process my order, some times taking several day
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by mseebach 9y ago
The space (from my online shopping experience) seems to be divided between Amazon (with one click checkout, fast delivery etc) and everyone else (42 click checkout and one week delivery, if you're lucky). If the one-click patent was a

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