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by nateabele 4y ago
Put simply, more powerful isolation than Docker (with explicit, granular managed effects), and a simpler operating model, i.e. no container orchestration. You can actually compile modules from disparate stacks that call into one another in
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by nateabele 5y ago
For as worthless as Stephen Diehl says crypto is, he's spent an impressive amount of time obsessing over it. (Seems like there's a proof-of-work joke in there somewhere.)
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by nateabele 5y ago
Amazing. Only on HN. Technically correct, yet completely disconnected from reality: Forget the propaganda about the financial system that we've all grown up with, blame it on user error, and utterly disregard anyone who doesn't de
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by nateabele 5y ago
> Moderate inflation is a feature not a bug. It drives investment and increases the money supply. Hah! Indeed. By 'drives investment' do you mean massively inflated asset prices (you may have heard the term 'Everything B
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by nateabele 5y ago
Excuse me?
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by nateabele 5y ago
> I trust my bank not to steal my money This is the literal stated intent of the Federal Reserve (your bank's bank) at a rate of 2% a year.
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by nateabele 5y ago
> What? Ownership, and power, is distributed among all the miners, albeit a number much bigger than 7. It still exists and can (and will eventually) be consolidated by a majority cartel. That's not quite true. To the extent that t
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by nateabele 5y ago
You can also `import Html.Attributes as Attr` and do `Attr.style "foo" "bar"`, or `import Html.Attributes exposing (style)` and do `style "foo" "bar"`. Or, you know, since it's a composable ML-st
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by nateabele 5y ago
I grew up 15 minutes from Minneapolis, and have lived & worked in the Southern California area as well as up and down the Northeast (from Boston to DC). It's not that people are specifically ignorant of the Midwest, it's that
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by nateabele 5y ago
My son has autism. I'd say he's slightly below 'moderate' on the spectrum. We first started him on the GAPS protocol ~5 years ago. We've since evolved our approach and moved onto other dietary protocols (of which th
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by nateabele 5y ago
Fair, but there's a difference between creating tools that one may choose to opt into on an individual basis, and attempting to arbitrate truth on a societal level.
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by nateabele 5y ago
> The acceptance of fiat in a transaction is not enforced. I don't know what jurisdiction you're in, but if you happen to have any USD lying around, you'll see a note that says 'This note is legal tender for all deb
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by nateabele 5y ago
Did you and your neighbors every try talking to the guy? Government policy and the marketplace aren't the exclusive ways of managing relationships between people.
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by nateabele 5y ago
No amount of money will ever cure the problem because the stated goal of the system is almost the exact opposite of its actual intent. I highly recommend Dumbing Us Down , by John Taylor Gatto, a 3-time New York State teacher of the year,
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by nateabele 6y ago
Then maybe knowing that Screenhero's founders went on to create Screen[0] will assuage some of the anger. Also, maybe it doesn't make it better, but it sounds like Slack didn't intend [1] to do this. [0] https://s
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by nateabele 6y ago
Appealing to authority is what actual law is for. Everything else is for children.
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by nateabele 6y ago
Yup, this is basically what "The Dream Stack" is about: https://soundcloud.com/elixirtalk/episode-153-feat-dave-luci...
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by nateabele 6y ago
Yeah, great question. Netflix, as you might already know, are sort of famous for being progressive in lots of ways, including & especially HR. I asked a couple friends who work there what they use, and sure enough, the answer was Workda
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by nateabele 6y ago
Workday. There's not even a close second.
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by nateabele 6y ago
> My sister is a DA so I hear the other side of this. Police are people and they can get scared, angry, and make mistakes. Except unlike people in other professions, when police get scared, angry, and make mistakes, other people die. I
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by nateabele 7y ago
See, I take the opposite view: consider that the 'model' is the abstract structure of the data which your application knows about. In your case, contact info is a piece of related data that your application knows about, can traver
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by nateabele 7y ago
Also did something similar[1]. My motivations were a better API (mine is modeled off of Elm's), and better error messages: I have a use case where user's need to be shown raw, dev-tools-style interactive data dumps, with error inf
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by nateabele 7y ago
Agree with many other commenters here that holding this up as a supposed failure of free-market libertarianism borders on absurdity. Cut against the grain of human nature and you're going to fail, irrespective of your philosophy. Also,
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by nateabele 8y ago
> [T]hey got help from an unexpected source: an off-duty pilot who happened to be riding in the cockpit. That extra pilot, who was seated in the cockpit jumpseat [...] Am I missing something here? Isn't it normal for off-duty pi
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by nateabele 8y ago
> The debt is from private lenders, who do have incentive to ensure borrowers pay back. Not necessarily. Private banks issuing federally-backed student loans want you to default, because then they double their money. See here: http:
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by nateabele 8y ago
All excellent questions. Though it has a bit of an anti-capitalist bent, this is the best article I've ever read on the origins of modern law enforcement: https://worxintheory.wordpress.com/2014/12/07/ori
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by nateabele 8y ago
My apologies. The intent was humor, but I realize that doesn't always translate.
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by nateabele 8y ago
> If this is the case, why open source or publish it in the first place? If you want people to read the code, but not interact with you, why not write that into the license? Because there's a difference between 'can' and
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by nateabele 8y ago
My favorite part of Antifragile was where the author defines the 'Soviet-Harvard delusion' as "the unscientific overestimation of the reach of scientific knowledge". Let us know when you find formal proofs for human va
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by nateabele 8y ago
The author just gave a talk at Strange Loop [0] that provides a better conceptual overview than the talk linked in the docs. Pretty interesting stuff. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3xX37RGJKE

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