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by pg314 10y ago
Have you read the study, which is published in a peer-reviewed journal, before making this statement? If not, your comment doesn't add anything useful to the discussion.
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by pg314 10y ago
Thanks for the correction. It's been a while since I used Tcl and my memory of it was incorrect.
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by pg314 10y ago
It is. From that second link: "Such copying back and forth to disk was equivalent to a slow, manually triggered copying garbage collector."
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by pg314 10y ago
> One last point about the linked list structure at the heart of Lisp. Linked lists are poorly executed in modern computers that rely heavily on locality of data, to optimize the L1 cache. You could maybe say that linked lists are at the
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by pg314 10y ago
Some/most Common Lisp implementation have better native support for numeric types than Python, but Python has a wealth of libraries like numpy that bind to optimised C/Fortran/assembly.
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by pg314 10y ago
To add to that, the transition from Python 2 to Python 3 is also an example of how not to evolve a language.
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by pg314 10y ago
Tcl does have a lispy feel to it, but s-expressions in Lisp are much more elegant than strings in Tcl, imho. Greenspun called Tcl the Lisp without a brain[1], which can be taken both as a compliment or an insult. [1] http://phili
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by pg314 10y ago
And the implementation of garbage collection was, on at least two occasions, postponed. Once in the first implementation [1] and a second time in the early MIT Lisp Machines [2] (you just ran the machine until you ran out of memory which co
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by pg314 10y ago
Here's an account by McCarthy of the early history: http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/lisp/lisp.html
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by pg314 10y ago
It is indeed easy as a white male to miss the sexism and racism. It's only by being empathic and actually listen to victims that you learn to see it. If you dismiss accounts of victims or try to second-guess them like happens so often
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by pg314 10y ago
There are definitely multiple sides to this, like any story. Your imaginary account of the other side does strike me as presumptuous. You were not there, but you do feel entitled to paint a picture of what could have happened. It's lik
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by pg314 10y ago
Yes, the fine is quite small for WFC and a fine of 18 billion dollars definitely would get their attention. It's still something WFC could survive (it's about a year's worth of profits), and totally different from putting WFC
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by pg314 10y ago
It is far easier to get data about income (through tax records) than it is to get data about wealth.
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by pg314 10y ago
Europe also has had more experience with organised terrorism in the 20th century: Rote Armee Fraktion in Germany, CCC in Belgium, ETA in Basque country, IRA in Ireland, to name just a few. That might also partly explain why the reactions to
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by pg314 10y ago
> It should. Otherwise the rest of us are paying for it. No, WFC is solvent, so nobody has to pay for anything. In a bankruptcy, customers, the people depositing money in the bank, are first in line, then bondholders (first senior, then
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by pg314 10y ago
Maybe stop the spread of nonsense like 'pope endorses Trump' or pizzagate?
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by pg314 10y ago
> just UPDATE stories SET disputed = t WHERE ID = ? It's not that easy. They need provide a link with an explanation why a certain story is disputed. It's true that Facebook has a lot of power. But that was already the case bef
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by pg314 10y ago
I think in Europe the reactions are usually a little more measured. After the attacks in Paris and Brussels, there was a reaction and a rise in populism, but I wouldn't call it assuming dictatorial powers. I don't think it could b
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by pg314 10y ago
A small nitpick: a little bit less than half of the voters voted for Trump (63 million people), not half of Americans (which would be 159 million people).
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by pg314 10y ago
That is not my experience. I have seen it countless times that people use an ORM in a way that leads to horribly inefficient queries behind the scene (e.g. looping over a result of a query and then executing a query for each of the result,
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by pg314 10y ago
You can use VIEWs [1] as an abstraction mechanism. It's not perfect, but it can abstract certain things away. I think it would work for your first example. Something like: CREATE VIEW permitted_X AS SELECT X.* FROM X, user WH
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by pg314 10y ago
The punishment should be proportional to the damage that has been done. The settlement they reached was for 190 million dollar. That affects stockholders directly. You can argue that that fine is too low. I can agree with that, but saying t
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by pg314 10y ago
Putting WFC in bankruptcy like fludlight proposes does not necessarily make customers lose money. I do agree, though, that it doesn't solve the problem.
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by pg314 10y ago
I do not think the solution you propose 'is really the only way we can save our modern capitalism from itself'. The market cap of WFC is 275 billion dollar. Pushing it into bankruptcy where even bondholders lose money implies that
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by pg314 10y ago
A couple of years ago I visited the Cerro Rico mine discussed in the article. Circumstances are truly appalling. The average life expectancy for children working in the mine is about 35 years. In the same vein, the Washington Post did an in
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by pg314 10y ago
It seems that could be easily solved with regulation. The self-driving cars could even automatically send a video of incidents to the police.
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by pg314 10y ago
Once the technology is mature, I don't think it would be any scarier than driving with the average driver as a passenger.
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by pg314 10y ago
If Tesla executes perfectly they might stand a chance. They don't have much margin of error though. One lost lawsuit because of an accident caused by a bug in their software, and they are out of business...
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by pg314 10y ago
Taxation is one way to deal with a shortcoming in markets, namely externalities [1]. The free market is not a panacea. If left to its own designs it leads to all kinds of negative outcomes (such as externalities and monopolies). [1] https:
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by pg314 10y ago
> The government simply can't process all the data they collect. They don't need to. They can focus their attention on high value targets. You and I might be low value targets and safe from surveillance (for now), but that does

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