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by pg314 9y ago
You can have memory leaks in Rust as well. Especially if you are interfacing with a program that expects a C interface (i.e. CPython).
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by pg314 9y ago
Belgium has high-quality care that is accessible to all. Everybody contributes to social security proportionally to their working income (which in my opinion is not fair since e.g. capital gains are untaxed). In return, everybody enjoys com
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by pg314 9y ago
That is wrong. E.g. one of the richest families in Belgium is the de Spoelberch family. They owned the brewery Artois, which through various acquisitions and mergers turned into ABInBev. Together with the de Mévius and Vandamme families, th
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by pg314 9y ago
Exercise 4.1 in SICP [1] asks for an implementation that evaluates operands from right to left. :) Other than that, I don't know of any implementations that do. I also don't know of any implementations that guarantee left to right
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by pg314 9y ago
> There's no expressive benefit to implementing algorithms as assembly You can't write coroutines in portable C. You can in assembly. You can't write an efficient interpreter dispatch table in portable C (you need extensio
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by pg314 9y ago
If he had used C instead of MMIX assembly language, someone would have made a very similar argument: "it's wasted on the vast number of people who aren't interested in learning a low level language like C". Or, knowing H
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by pg314 9y ago
> If dealing with a function, the evaluation will always be arguments from left to right are evaluated first, and then the function is called with the result of evaluating the args. The order of evaluation depends on the dialect. Common
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by pg314 9y ago
Aren't you forgetting the dividends? According to [1], if you reinvested the dividends in the DJIA, you would end up with $3 billion instead of $10 million. [1] https://dqydj.com/dow-jones-return-calculator/
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by pg314 9y ago
> So how can the Times ever begin to understand the 46% of the country who are the deplorables who voted for Trump? You don't need to be a member of a certain group to be able to report on them. E.g. you don't need to be termin
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by pg314 9y ago
Design is not the same as tape-out. ARM designs the logical structure of its chips (the VHDL or Verilog). They then license that design to customers (such as Apple, Samsung), who customise it. The tape-out is completely separate from that.
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by pg314 9y ago
> With the driverless model I see those expenses increasing, as without a chaperon passengers are more likely to eat, drink, puke, and in general misbehave (source: I've been inside some BART and LA Metro cars). You're anonymou
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by pg314 9y ago
> All changes to the class graph are also stored as changes in text. Every class has a textual representation. You can load an earlier image and replay this. This is basically like loading Lisp code into a Lisp image. I forgot about that
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by pg314 9y ago
> Smalltalk OTOH uses text as source code That is not completely correct. It uses a mixture of text (strings) and objects. The class graph is composed of objects, but the method bodies are stored as objects and (optionally) strings. To e
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by pg314 9y ago
Setting aside the obvious moral problems with "losing" half the current human population, letting the market decide is exactly the wrong thing to do here. It's not the bottom 50% (the once that would starve) that are the prob
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by pg314 9y ago
> Population will grow exponentially until something bounds it. That's only true if fertility rates stay above the replacement fertility rates. As nations become more developed, fertility rates tend to fall. In the EU-28 the fertili
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by pg314 9y ago
Except that in one case you're talking about companies and in the other about people. I have no problems with companies dying, but I have moral reservations about people dying. The free market has no such qualms, it will happily set wa
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by pg314 9y ago
Because that is not where the jobs are. Unemployment is at 9.8 % in Detroit, 5.6% in Mississippi, compared to 4.7% nationwide (all numbers Dec 2016).
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by pg314 9y ago
No. Market forces (and in some places rent controls) will stop them. If anything, I would expect rents to come down. Landlords do not have a monopoly, they compete with each other. So they can't simply raise prices. That's the sup
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by pg314 9y ago
> It's not worth investing money if 70% of the proceeds get taken away. Yes it is. As long as the 30% of the proceeds are higher than the proceeds of the best alternative use of your money. > This is why world wide, capital is ta
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by pg314 9y ago
> Things like basic food stuffs will get more expensive, because there will be more money chasing it. Rents will go up, since disproportionately more poor people rent. Why would demand go up? Do you think these people are currently not e
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by pg314 9y ago
The point of the article is that the upper middle class is profiting disproportionally from the MID, while the poor don't. From the article: > What this means in aggregate is that households with at least six-figure incomes receive
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by pg314 9y ago
I didn't say the government writes a blank check. They have a list of legitimate procedures, and fix a price for them. The administration is able to get a good price because it is in a strong bargaining position against pharmaceutical
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by pg314 9y ago
> Doesn't what you're writing actually influence whether 100% coverage is a worthy goal or not? Yes, absolutely. > Suppose you're instead doing something very UX/UI driven. Why bother trying to cover that 100% with
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by pg314 9y ago
> This is nonsense. No it isn't. > Someone has to decide if a procedure is worth the cost. If it's not the patient (who isn't paying) In Belgium, it is the doctor together with the patient. If a procedure is medically j
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by pg314 9y ago
The article illustrates what happens when you have inexperienced or poor developers following a management guideline. To see how 100% coverage testing can lead to great results, have a look at the SQLite project [1]. In my experience, getti
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by pg314 9y ago
No, they aren't. They are just exploiting an (artificial) monopoly. That has nothing to do with efficiency.
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by pg314 9y ago
So something is obviously wrong with their model.
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by pg314 9y ago
You're grossly simplifying. According to the World Bank [1], since 1990, nearly 1.1 billion people have escaped extreme poverty. [1] http://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/poverty-and-shared-p...
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by pg314 9y ago
In Apple's case it is mostly a labor play. They have a number of initiatives related to the environment [1]. They are trying to reduce their carbon footprint, and are close to get 100% of their power from renewable sources. They also a
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by pg314 9y ago
I never said 8 hour wait to get through customs. I said multi-hour wait to get through customs. 7.5 hours from touchdown to Manhattan. That includes waiting on the plane to get off, customs, AirTrain and metro (no more shuttles running due

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