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by nrr 5d ago
It's kind of the same distinction between backups and restores, wherein the restores are what's important, but they're impossible without the backups to restore from. One of the first things I do in any new-to-me project is s
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by nrr 5d ago
I'll push back against this slightly: learning what good code is requires debugging bad code, whether by way of a symbolic debugger or judicious use of printf() or breaking an algorithm down into its steps so that you can figure out
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by nrr 5d ago
The state of affairs in C and C++ is abhorrently bad. Not only is there `char` but also `signed char` and `unsigned char`, and the standards seem to leave the signedness interpretation of bare `char` up to the implementation. Ada explicitly
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by nrr 6d ago
More to the point, MAUs are a measure of reach and not revenue or business health. Looking at this from an investment standpoint (as if, e.g., I were establishing funding requirements for a pension fund or an annuity or some other such fina
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by nrr 6d ago
> Minimizing shareholder value will flatten the economy. Will it though? I'm curious what the empirical basis is for this causal claim, especially given that it ignores the wealth of gray area in between these two extremes. (That go
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by nrr 7d ago
> generals deciding to treat it as an opportunity for a show of force blowing them up intentionally Only kinda! „Hielt man fuer UFOs aus dem All / darum schickte ein General / eine Fliegerstaffel hinterher“ They believed that t
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by nrr 8d ago
Pedantic clarification: The (original German) song itself didn't mention an actor in particular who had released the balloons, just that there were 99 balloons that flew to the horizon and jet fighters being scrambled in response. The
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by nrr 9d ago
> Fords, on the other hand, have an even, predictable quality. The same with my 72 Dodge. The windows still crank up and down nicely! I don't know if I'd say they have an even, predictable quality, but on an actuarial basis, De
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by nrr 9d ago
> Revealed preference only makes sense in a world of perfect information. No??? Revealed preference is dependent on what information is known. The analysis is made easier if the information is perfect, but that is not at all a prerequisi
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by nrr 13d ago
> Companies can develop new products without your advice. In fact consumers often don't know what they want. I'd urge reading up on revealed preference and product discovery. It cuts both ways in that, sure, a company can offer
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by nrr 13d ago
Uh, what's the transmission mechanism for this? It's true that the National Flood Insurance Program does this, but that's only for flooding (which, admittedly, is a big part of hurricane damage...). Flood coverage is however
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by nrr 14d ago
> It’s very possible some of your proposals are similar, I’m not familiar with them specifically so I can’t say. If I can ever get around to writing about it or polishing up what I have enough that I feel comfortable with someone else lo
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by nrr 14d ago
> Long live CDC Update! Yes! It's one of those things I've carried over to bitty box distributed environments. > You posted before Steve's response[0]. Does that help? It does a little, yeah, but I'll admit that I
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by nrr 14d ago
I don't know if this is from the perspective of having learned Mandarin in elementary school first or if Japanese folks feel similarly, but reading words like, e.g., だいがくいんせい versus 大学院生 is actually a little more annoying because I hav
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by nrr 15d ago
Oh, hey. Nice seeing you here. I appreciate your work blazing some interesting trails with graphs and weaves in distributed version control. (Though, I must admit that I'm still left sort of scratching my head at the concept in a bytes
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by nrr 15d ago
I'll echo the other comments here: this article is really anemic on the details of how ERSC intends to retool Git for the future (beyond Jujutsu as a migration path) or why there isn't a place for Git (as we know it) in the future
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by nrr 16d ago
This is WalterBright's operative definition of a monopoly[0], and I'd agree that he's being either deliberately obtuse (perhaps via ideology?) or is misrepresenting history (perhaps also via ideology?). I'm honestly fine
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by nrr 17d ago
Does it? This is an empirical observation matched with a causal claim. How have you controlled for your confounding variables?
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by nrr 17d ago
I mean, they don't exist by construction per your definitions. A free market is a market that lacks state intervention beyond what's required to enforce property rights, and a monopoly is a state-imposed single seller in a market.
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by nrr 17d ago
> Libertarianism is far more than just an economic system Acknowledged. That nevertheless tends to be where my interest in it lies. Near as I can tell, I don't actually have much of an ideology; I wasn't raised to be political
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by nrr 17d ago
> Any tax seems heavy if the proceeds do not benefit the taxpayer. I dunno, man. Caesar asks for his money, and I just give it to him. I don't really have much of a say. > I regret not having a photographic memory. That's fi
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by nrr 17d ago
> Why is that so hard to believe? Economics isn't a game of make believe for me. I have professional standards to uphold, and this is probably where my actuarial background makes me uncomfortable with the argument as posed. Supply,
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by nrr 17d ago
I'm mostly trying to pick apart the epistemology of thinking about economic systems this way because, hey, maybe there's something that my professional background in the subject is blind to. It isn't especially interesting to
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by nrr 17d ago
Hmm. Why should the word monopoly only refer to the legal mechanism by which market exclusivity is enforced rather than referring to the resulting market structure or market power? If I'm not legally prohibited from competing with a fi
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by nrr 17d ago
> The Crown did not heavily tax the colonials. Huh, did they not? After the Seven Years' War, the Currency Act of 1764 received assent, and it functionally required that public debts be paid in hard money. Unless I'm rememberin
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by nrr 17d ago
> When productivity rose sufficiently, child labor disappeared, as did the long hours. I'd interrogate the steps that led from rising productivity to both the disappearance of child labor and the disappearance of long hours. The cla
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by nrr 17d ago
> Colonial America had much of nothing. I'm unsure that I'd draw that conclusion. Why else would the Crown want to tax the colonials so heavily? > "Taiwan has a highly developed free-market economy where prices are set
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by nrr 17d ago
> The high levels of immigration came from poor people in un-free countries coming to the US to make their fortunes. Free markets is what has distinguished the US from other countries. I accept that free markets is only one possible answ
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by nrr 17d ago
Is this true? I ask because the metric for determining the distance from the US's construction at any point in time to the libertarian ideal is unclear. Like, given an assertion of closest, it should be quantifiable[0]. It should also
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by nrr 24d ago
This betrays a lack of understanding of nominal versus real debt dynamics. (And also taxes, but I'll admit that my upbringing has probably given me a unique perspective on Caesar and what it means for us to be able to use his money.) O

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