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by platz 6y ago
If we had it your way, the surplus states would be fine but the deficit states would crash. That's why when there's a new military contract they often build it in a deficit region, balancing the surplus out. The reason why the the
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by platz 6y ago
small price to pay to unlock everyones' vote mattering instead of just a couple battleground states. Also, giving a bit more representation to less populous areas may be a feature you don't want to get rid of quite so hastily.
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by platz 6y ago
The electoral college itself isn't really the issue. It's the fact that states use winner-take-all apportionment of electors. Unlike the electoral college, winner-take-all apportionment isn't mandated in the constitution. You
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by platz 6y ago
cybernetics links: Second-order cybernetics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-order_cybernetics Systems_theory: Cybernetics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_theory#Cybernetics what is cyb
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by platz 6y ago
Seems like a distinction without a difference. ok, so you've created a model X for the emotional/mental state of the user. This article is heavy on the psychology, and very light on any actual design advice. Tell me how this actua
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by platz 6y ago
this article was just posted 4 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24401748 see my comment there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24404593 in summary: The reason why Haskell still doesn&#x27
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by platz 6y ago
The reason why Haskell still doesn't really break through in the corporate world is not a failure of arrogance, but a marketing failure in the strictest sense of the word 'marketing'—which means prioritizing the right feature
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someone who doesn't understand monoids probably doesn't have the mathemetical definition of a group memorized or is in their lexicon of terms at all.
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This simply isn't an issue regarding the first-amendment; not sure this thread needs to go into the philosophical dilemma on this here.
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by platz 6y ago
The reason why FP still doesn't really break through in the corporate world is a marketing failure, in the strictest sense of the word marketing, which means prioritizing the right features to target the right market. A large proportio
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thought this was going to follow up with a plug to stephen wolfram
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by platz 6y ago
martin fowler discusses this in the linked video that no one in this whole thread watched
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who is actually watching and discussing the linked videos in this thread rather than braindumping all their anecdotes?
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this is the first proven reinfection with genetic sequencing of different strains of the virus in the same individual.
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Hong Kong man reinfected with different strain of Covid-19(news.rthk.hk)
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yes
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by platz 6y ago
GHC models linearity differently. Rust puts linearity on the types, GHC puts linearity on the arrows. https://i.imgur.com/s0Mxhcr_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&...
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by platz 6y ago
I don't understand how ghc linear types allows allocation-free code. GHC'ss linear types don't give you uniqueness types in the same way rust does
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by platz 6y ago
pbs spacetime on this topic recently: https://youtu.be/_izocEgArtQ https://youtu.be/CJx3gLkebIA
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by platz 6y ago
the hype cycle is alive and well!
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this is basically just what happens in any deterministic hidden variable theory
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by platz 6y ago
well, it's cute trick - not sure what the utility is.
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You left out running Z3 in your list of tasks. Did you read the article?
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also sounds like Unison
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This could apply to COVID-19 as well: 'As SARS-CoV-2 has a novel receptor binding interface (compared to SARS) & circles the globe, opportunities for new animal reservoirs become available. We could suddenly see some common anima
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by platz 6y ago
xscreensaver is nice when you eliminate all the "busy" modes and then turn down all the sliders on each mode you have left so that it moves very slowly. the only thing i haven't figured out is how to get the fonts working aga
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by platz 6y ago
> This combined result is compatible with the Standard Model prediction Ok they haven't found anything yet..
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by platz 6y ago
I've been using urxvt for some reason.. maybe out of simplicity. It's color range is bad though, though at the same time it's colors are more accurate than if i run xfce4-terminal, for example.
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by platz 6y ago
This whole analogy between working software and music production is flawed from the start and elaboration on the theme does not help. What's needed is to discuss artists compensation on their own terms. Don't distort it by relatin
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by platz 6y ago
Or you could just create a View for flagged posts and join on that as appropriate, no ORM needed. There's probably some room for limited compositional SQL, but there are ways to get that without a full ORM, given your type system is ex

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