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by pash 14y ago
Ah, I think you've hit on the major point of confusion. Phoneticists commonly represent the English "j" sound as the amalgam of two separate sounds: (a) English "d", a common enough sound; and (b) the somewhat less common "zh" sound, the se
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by pash 14y ago
In my view, it's simpler to explain that the English "j" and the French "dj" represent the same sound ... and leave out all the slashes and brackets and arrows and whatnot.
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by pash 14y ago
The letters "j" in English and "dj" in French represent the same sound†, what Wikipedia calls the "voiced palato-velolar affricate" [0]. That's /dʒ/ in IPA. In English orthography, yes, the "D" in "Django"is silent, at least in the sense t
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by pash 14y ago
> This has got to be one of the dumbest fucking things I've ever seen. It's pretty dumb. Really, thoroughly dumb. But you've added some real bloopers of your own: > If we have a standard-issue modern currency, ie: slow but steady
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by pash 14y ago
A couple of comments: > People with little economics training intuitively grasp this point. They understand that some human workers may lose out in the race against the machine. Ironically, the best-educated economists are often the mo
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by pash 14y ago
Within the mainstream of jurisprudence, as well as good case law, the Federalist Papers are absolutely used to clarify and explicate the original meaning of the Constitution. They are far and away the leading source for that purpose. If you
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by pash 14y ago
That is what the text of the amendment says, and contemporary sources make clear that the framers included it in the Bill of Rights to make legally explicit the limited scope of federal power that they all had in mind. This is the explana
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by pash 14y ago
For what usual uninteresting reasons? All the reasons that people move to the 'burbs are (a) sociologically interesting and (b) irrelevant on an acquihire salary.
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by pash 14y ago
No doubt about it, mathematical notation can be difficult to read. It's terse, conceptually dense, operators are commonly overloaded, etc., etc. But that's not why it's hard to read. Math is hard to read, I think, because math is hard: (1)
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by pash 14y ago
It's the legacy of the national surveying system begun by the Land Ordinance of 1785. [0] Except for the thirteen original states, almost the entire country was surveyed and platted into square "townships" [1] of six miles a side. These wer
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by pash 14y ago
The Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands is an unincorporated territory of the United States, and its citizens are US citizens. (And I used to live there, as it happens.) Its relationship with the US is similar to Puerto Rico's. Ac
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by pash 14y ago
Almost certainly an urban legend. Federal law requires that products labeled as "Made in the USA" be "all or virtually all" made in the United States. The Federal Trade Commission's guidelines [0] make clear that sewing a "Made in the USA"
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by pash 14y ago
The low cost of living is also an enormous advantage for anyone trying to start something from scratch. You can rent a decent multi-bedroom house in a decent area of Omaha or Kansas City for what it would cost to rent a small room in a shar
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by pash 14y ago
Yes. My response was of course to clarify that "ordinary" type systems are Turing equivalent and incorporate classical logic. Dependent types correspond to first-order logic in the Curry-Howard interpretation. I don't know much of anything
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by pash 14y ago
Standard type systems are Turing equivalent. This includes the type systems of functional languages like ML and Haskell. In fact, there's a neat correspondence [0] between algebraic data types and propositional logic (examples in Haskell):
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Google puts Kansas City home shared by startups at front of Fiber line(siliconprairienews.com)
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by pash 14y ago
The real problem is that your "stop loss" is a standing order to sell, at any price , if the price of your asset falls below some threshold. That is fundamentally a bad idea, and it's just this sort of trading behavior that creates liquidi
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by pash 14y ago
I agree with your broader point, but if the United States has a comparative advantage in entrepreneurship, it's not actually zero-sum. That is, if the American legal system, venture funding, etc., combine to offer a foreign entrepreneur a b
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by pash 14y ago
Because it can be—UTF-8 is enabled. It's kind of cute to use a character from the extended set to indicate that.
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by pash 14y ago
What an embarrassing failure of economic reasoning. IPv4 addresses are a scare resource. Acknowledging that, and allowing them to be traded at a price that reflects their value, is the surest way to get them out of the hands of those who ar
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by pash 14y ago
Yes, Google Fiber is subsidized. And that's a feature, not a bug. Cable television and Internet service in the United States is lackluster and expensive partly because the market engenders little competition. (It's a classic example of a na
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by pash 14y ago
This proposed rule does not relate to the crowdfunding provision of the JOBS Act. The SEC has still not made public any information about how they plan to amend their rules to implement the crowdfunding provision. But the act stipulates tha
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by pash 14y ago
The document you linked describes several suspected cases of a portable electronic device interfering with an airplane's navigation system, but in every case Boeing was unable to duplicate the phenomenon in follow-up testing.
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by pash 14y ago
No. That's the separate "it's impossible to merge accounts" point. (I have four separate Apple IDs for two countries.) A lot of the bizarro stuff going on here, I think, is because accounts with different histories (e.g., what service they
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by pash 14y ago
I've done this—I've even added a different rescue address to try to override whatever's in the database—and still get the message, "Your Apple ID cannot be the same as your rescue email address." ... Totally inexplicable.
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by pash 14y ago
Lest anyone think the problem is solely with juggling accounts across different geographies, here are some examples of how broken the whole Apple ID user experience is, even for people whose digital life never leaves the US: - It's impossib
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by pash 14y ago
Python code goes in, LLVM IR comes out. Sounds like a compiler to me. As you know, the basic idea of the project is to make writing fast, vectorized code for numerical and scientific computations as easy as writing native Python. And to do
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by pash 14y ago
The main way to use it right now is by decorating the functions you want it to compile. See the examples directory [0] in the Github repository. 0. https://github.com/numba/numba/tree/master/examples
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by pash 14y ago
So basically you're saying that PyPy knows what code it can optimize and Numba requires the programmer to specify it. That probably has more to do with Numba's being version 0.2 than anything else. And it's hardly reason to moan that it's n
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by pash 14y ago
You mean sort of like how PyPy is a JIT for only a restricted subset of Python?

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