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by pc2g4d 10y ago
Just ran into this yesterday when I discovered that an emoji character wouldn't fit into Rust's `char` type. I just changed the type to `&'static str` but I still wish there was a single `grapheme` type or something like
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
They're not inconsequential, but the analysis they did seems to have been in terms of counties, not districts, which would insulate their results from being explained simply as gerrymandering.
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
Amazon in Seattle is the most extreme example of a tech company dominating its hometown that I know of. Block after block of Amazon buildings, right in the heart of the city. I personally think it's alright, but I expect locals that kn
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
Opening the web to non-Javascript languages will make it a more general platform. Imagine if Linux only let you run programs written in Perl! That's largely the situation the web has been stuck in for 20 years. I think the concerns abo
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
Consider this headline. Imagine replacing the word "this" with "a": After 10 years, a significant Team Fortress 2 bug has been fixed With "this" it feels like clickbait. With "a" it feels like one of
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
I did downvote you, because you wrapped your meaningful contribution ("don't forget Fahrenheit 451") in insults.
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
The answer is more complicated than that. Pearl has shown that it some situations it's possible to answer causal questions without running experiments. Basically, you can ask causal questions using the "do-calculus" he develo
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
Imagine a world in which officers of the executive branch were completely free to defy the president. Would there not be chaos? It makes sense for a president to fire insubordinate subordinates. The AAG was likely trying to score political
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
Pascal in "Pensees" used this perplexing notion to argue for the reality of the soul. Interesting to see people grappling with these ideas through the centuries: "And what completes our incapability of knowing things, is the
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
Somehow I had it in my head that value types were coming in Java 9. Was I wrong?
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
The Columbian Exchange continues! One question about the article: why do they say "technically extinct" and not just "extinct"? I also wonder---if we get chestnuts back up to their 19th-century numbers, what species will
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
I love this word, enumeronym, though. It seems you may have coined it, as the only Google search result is your comment. The second may well be this comment. I hope it catches on!
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
This is gross. Moz://a ????
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
"Judge us on the tech, not on me." Hans Reiser and ReiserFS taught everyone that the person's bio _does_ matter for the project.
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
I don't think it matters what his particular theology was. What matters is that theology matters. It affects how people experience and interpret religion, which has a vast impact on the world. So the article's utter dismissal of t
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
Billionaires don't have rights to free speech?
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
In my understanding, the article was saying that who your ancestors are has less of an impact on DNA methylation (epigenetic markers) than where you grew up. It's not about race, it's about ethnicity---the cultural identity of the
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/06/whos-a... According to the article, it's about screw thread measurements. And the cultural aspect. The fact that the abbreviation for the system
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
Yeah, to me it seems like a mistake given that such a high performance penalty will likely be incurred, and given the existence of Rust which could address a number of the security problems for which the multi-process model was devised in t
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
I'd imagine it does crash occasionally, but we usually don't notice because the main user experience is unaffected.
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
The mismatch between available jobs and the skillsets of the workforce has baffled me. Is it just that autoglass installers aren't in sufficient demand for people to train to become autoglass installers? And so would it be economically
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
I guess I consider dysfunctional families to be part of the injustice of our society. As you say, anxiety is the default state, it's there to keep us alive. So we should blame the family for not being nurturing or the culture for not h
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
Blame the environment. It's difficult for me to believe that traits prevalent in 10% or more of the population are actually "disorders". They must have been advantageous in some past situations in order to be passed on so muc
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
> In order for discussion to have any meaning, the things we claim have to be 'falsifiable' This assumes a particular brand of empiricism. Which is not falsifiable. Not saying that discounts everything founded on empiricism. Ju
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
The trouble with a completely random hostname (or username---mine is pc2g4d after all) is that they're used by few enough people, and when sufficiently long are easily distinguished from non-random strings, that maybe they can actually
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
I count myself among the skeptics. As others commenting here pointed out, the track record of food science is terrible. And it's true that the incentives guiding scientific publication _about_ food are not directly aligned with the inc
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
I feel the need to point out that IPA is insufficiently granular to truly capture the pronunciation of all the world's languages. It's basically a discrete approximation of what is an infinite, continuous space. I'm sure, tho
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
Our perspectives are indeed valuable, but the problem is that here we are on Hacker News in our own little bubble, disengaged from the rest of society. After Trump's election I came to the conclusion that I had let myself get sucked in
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
Except that government is universal, whereas a river cooperative would only affect the parties directly involved. Thus you could scale things up without getting to government-scale.
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
I respect the descriptive impulse to see the function of 'like' rather than just mocking it. However, I'm not entirely convinced of the two senses of 'like' that the author sees. I imagine similarly nebulous argumen

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