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by nathan_long 7y ago
"Always violate your conscience" does not sound like good advice. Maybe you're working on the assumption that you "feel guilty" about deals that are actually fair? Besides which, economics is all based on the fact t
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by nathan_long 7y ago
> The jury has decided, it's successful Hypothetically, what if it never begins earning more money than it spends each year? At some point wouldn't it be unable to borrow any more (from banks or investors) and be forced to sh
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by nathan_long 7y ago
These style of exploits remind me of "The Free Lunch Is Over: A Fundamental Turn Toward Concurrency in Software" (2005) - http://www.gotw.ca/publications/concurrency-ddj.htm > Chip designers are under so m
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by nathan_long 7y ago
> Once solar and wind, without any subsidies, are cheaper than coal, then societies will switch purely out of self interest. If coal prices included the negative externalities costs - in other words, if we charged coal companies for dump
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by nathan_long 7y ago
> We don't really subsidize fossil fuels. If we allowed a restaurant to dump its trash for free in a public playground, we would be subsidizing that restaurant with taxpayer dollars. When we allow fossil fuels to be burned and dump
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by nathan_long 7y ago
> Carbon taxes are artificial barriers to using fossil fuels. > On the other hand, when technology improves so that electric cars cost less per mile than gasoline cars, people won't necessarily buy them to be green, they'll
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by nathan_long 7y ago
What's the concurrency story in PHP - does it use 1 thread per incoming HTTP request?
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by nathan_long 7y ago
Can anyone give context on these statements? > When combined with their previous development of “water-in-salt electrolytes (WiSE)”, they claim that they can achieve an impressive energy density of 460 Wh/Kg. > Some soldiers hav
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by nathan_long 7y ago
See also: ARPANET, forerunner of the internet. > The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was an early packet-switching network and the first network to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite. Both technologies became th
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by nathan_long 7y ago
This example of tracking is tiny and harmless. But there's a wide spectrum of tracking behavior from sites. > whiny, entitled users who think they have a right to use any website they want on their terms Users do have a right to u
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by nathan_long 7y ago
> What about Romeo and Juliet? What about the Bible ( Jesus )? What about Socrates? Our cultural icons committed suicide. Jesus didn't commit suicide; sacrificing yourself for others is quite different from deciding you don't w
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by nathan_long 7y ago
> In general language diversity at a company is a big negative I agree. It really increases the difficulty of understanding the whole system. But it's a negative that has to be considered alongside potential benefits. > If you ha
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by nathan_long 7y ago
The thesis itself is at http://erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf
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by nathan_long 7y ago
But people are paying it.
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by nathan_long 7y ago
I tweeted this about Joe: > I wish I'd gotten to meet @joeerl. So bright and enthusiastic. Erlang embodies so many insights that seem obvious in hindsight. Eg, you can't prevent all programmer mistakes. You can't ensure co
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by nathan_long 7y ago
As a Ruby dev turned Elixir dev: no. I mean, they both have `do..end` blocks, which I don't love in either language. But the similarities pretty much end there. Here's the view of someone who went from Erlang to Elixir: https:&#x
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by nathan_long 7y ago
> I doubt we’ll start using Erlang though, it’s just too risky when you can’t hire anyone Can you train them?
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by nathan_long 7y ago
Friendlier tooling and documentation are a couple of reasons. Elixir's whole reason for existence is to make the Erlang programming model easier to use. Try it and see if it does.
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by nathan_long 7y ago
You can use Plug instead of Phoenix if you like, but why do you object to Phoenix? It's quite customizable. Generate a new Phoenix app. Open up the endpoint file. Don't want routing? Comment it out. Don't want logging? Commen
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by nathan_long 7y ago
I don't recall ever hearing that Facebook made a mistake which decreased the amount of data they collected or their usage thereof. Can anyone provide an example?
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by nathan_long 7y ago
Presumably he enjoys running a powerful business built on privacy violation more than he thinks he'd enjoy philanthropy. The BS you refer to is his creation, not some accidental thing that happened to occur in his company without his i
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by nathan_long 7y ago
Planet Money did an episode ( https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/06/27/623990036/epis... ) about fake reviews and talked with the creator of ReviewMeta ( https://reviewmeta.com&#x2
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by nathan_long 7y ago
> IMHO, all the technology investment should be put into processing and validating ballots after they've been filled out I think the opposite. When filling a ballot, the voter can use a machine with a touchscreen. The person with po
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by nathan_long 7y ago
That's true. Fiat money is a good example. But in this case, losers have incentive to claim the system doesn't work. You want the average person to be able to refute that claim, or else suspicion will run rampant.
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by nathan_long 7y ago
That's great. But that sounds like failing to meet what could be an objective quality standard, enforced by something like CI. I don't think anyone objects to that kind of gate keeping. The contention here (true or false) is that
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by nathan_long 7y ago
Poor reliability is a theme in IoT, self-driving cars, and here. We are all accustomed to the fact that computers are flakey. Our computers and phones sometimes need rebooting to fix weird behavior. My printer just forgot how to connect to
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by nathan_long 7y ago
> since electronic elections are not verifiable in any meaningful way As I once saw someone point out here, the crucial thing is that they be verifiable by the average person . Imagine a technically perfect electronic voting system, imm
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by nathan_long 7y ago
People may say alarming things while practicing their lines for a play, too. You can probably think of other plausible reasons. But Amazon workers can't know the context. If Amazon workers hear something that sounds like a situation th
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by nathan_long 7y ago
> I believe ICE should be responsible for illegally attaining this information. They should also bear the cost of educating the Motel 6 workforce on their rights to resist requests from law enforcement agencies. Totally agree. A hotel wo
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by nathan_long 7y ago
I've wished for this myself. We replaced a refrigerator, and I thought "what a waste - 95% of the mass of that thing was non-moving parts that could've lasted centuries". > There is still R&D to be done to update

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