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by nybble41 5y ago
The 'class Digit' example has 11 possible values, not 10: > d = new Digit('') Digit { value: NaN }
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by nybble41 5y ago
> It is just no longer considered secure for cryptographic operations, such as digital signature, that doesn't mean that you can't use it for other purposes, like git does. Git effectively uses its hashes as a component of a di
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by nybble41 5y ago
> The reason to do this is to collude to bar the exits to capital flight, and then impose exploitative policies that would not have been possible previously. Exactly! If a private organization tried something like this most major governm
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by nybble41 5y ago
The free market is voluntary exchange without aggression (initiation of violence)–that's the "free" part. Far from being created by government, the free market is utterly incompatible with the claim to "legitimate"
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by nybble41 5y ago
It's pretty obvious. When you don't tolerate any restrictions, liberty is what remains.
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by nybble41 5y ago
Non-Roth 401ks can have before-tax and after-tax contributions, though I'm not certain I see the point of making after-tax contributions since the gains will be taxed at ordinary income rates (not as capital gains) when distributed and
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by nybble41 5y ago
Liberty.
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by nybble41 5y ago
> If this bill passes as written he would actually be forced to divest assets out of his Roth IRA and then pay taxes on them now. He would be forced to sell his current assets in the IRA, yes—but what prevents him from rolling over the p
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by nybble41 5y ago
> I am unable to find any mainstream or heterodox economist who disagrees that DMUI is real. I agree that DMUI is real. As I've said multiple times. But in attempting to use it as a basis to argue that there is a net increase in v
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by nybble41 5y ago
They had bodily autonomy at the time they made the decision. They gave it up in exchange for receiving the treatment, and thus no longer have it; the "don't have bodily autonomy" phrasing is accurate. The fact that this was
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by nybble41 5y ago
> We can't put a precise worth on it for different people, sure. But I think it's indisputable that there's a curve, we know it's rough shape, and that it's a reflection of marginal utility. There is indeed a cur
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by nybble41 5y ago
> The concept of marginal utility says that taking different amounts from people with different levels of income/wealth is treating them the same. Marginal utility says that—most of the time–the utility of one more of an item to th
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by nybble41 5y ago
> The USA has had a progressive tax structure in various ways since its founding… The system I described is still modestly "progressive" in the sense that those with more earnings pay a larger percentage than those with less, d
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by nybble41 5y ago
> It's not clear to me what "the returns should be file[d] automatically" means for [the self-employed]. The employer files the income forms and handles withholding. If you're self-employed, that means you are respons
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by nybble41 5y ago
> That backup defeats the 2 of 2 multi-sig, though. Users really still are their own bank in this model. As I said, it's a hybrid—so it has some elements of "being your own bank" as well as elements of a custodial system.
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by nybble41 5y ago
> where a value can be wrapped in a trivial way (e.g. x -> {x} or x -> x?) > and a double wrapping can be trivially unwrapped (“naturally transformed”) into a single one: {{xyz}} -> {xyz} You've described the "pure&
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by nybble41 5y ago
> Functional programming has gone mainstream about 10-20 years ago when javascript, Go, Rust and a few more recent other things took off. The problem with this is that Javascript, Go, and Rust are merely "multi-paradigm" (meani
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by nybble41 5y ago
That's a reasonable concern. You can easily verify for yourself that the recovery process works, and you can audit the source code for the Android client (and build it from the audited code) to ensure that it handles the keys as advert
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by nybble41 5y ago
> My money that is stored in some bank's DB is not on my local computer, but I sure hope it's mine. You have a contract with your bank which says that they owe you a certain amount of money based on your past interactions. That
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by nybble41 5y ago
> Why go through the trouble of developing a photonic mining system if there’s already a viable alternative to PoW/PoS in the real world being used? Nano has some interesting ideas but also some fairly obvious flaws, most notably th
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by nybble41 5y ago
> Nobody should have the power that having a billion dollars gives you Let's pretend for a moment that I agreed with you on this. Your proposal to address the situation is to take all that money, which is currently at least somewha
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by nybble41 5y ago
There are hybrid systems which offer the best of both worlds. For example, the open source Muun wallet uses a 2-of-2 key system[0] in which Muun only has access to one of the two keys so, unlike a traditional bank or a custodial exchange li
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by nybble41 5y ago
> Nesting the same function call in both branches of if/else unintentionally obscures that it's not a conditional printf call. And the version with mutation masks the fact that the initial value assigned to `ret` may or may not
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by nybble41 5y ago
There is also no guarantee that the stack is contiguous—see the "-fsplit-stack" GCC option, or search for "segmented stacks". Libraries for coroutines and delimited continuations also routinely segment the stack. A simpl
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by nybble41 5y ago
IMHO the original version without the mutable local variable was much more obvious. In any language. Though I would also accept: void fn(int const a, int const b) { printf(a == b ? "equal" : "not"); } to
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by nybble41 5y ago
As others have mentioned, that prevents the bills from being paid but it doesn't nullify them. They can send the unpaid bills to collections, which creates more hassle for you and negatively impacts your credit score. I wouldn't
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by nybble41 5y ago
Which is easy to say, but hard to make everyone do correctly. First you need to ensure that everyone uses an editor with a "visible whitespace" option, and turns it on, so they can see whether they have the right whitespace. Then
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by nybble41 5y ago
> I can do a RAID-1 (mirror) with 3 drives on ZFS or mdadm and lose 2 drives. You can do this with BTRFS also; it's called RAID1C3 (for three copies). RAID1C4 is also an option with larger arrays. The issue is that if you have, say,
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> Given enough time, any valuable asset's distribution will be heavily concentrated in the hands of the rich. That reads like a tautology—they're called "the rich" because they have wealth, so naturally if you look at
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by nybble41 5y ago
> Of course patents are preferable to trade secrets in the vast majority of cases. At least we agree on that much. My point is that when the patent is preferable (in the vast majority of cases, as you say) it implies that a trade secret

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