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811.
by platz 7y ago
China will likely not be able to contain the virus at this stage. it also could mutate and change it's behavior.
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by platz 7y ago
UBI is fine as a technical tool. But it is a political disaster. It creates a fundamental divide in society. Are you tired of hearing about folks receiving undeserved 'handouts' for things like food stamps today? UBI would super
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by platz 7y ago
Ok, so use a parser then? Not sure what this has to do with comparison to dynlang/js. OP was complaining that it's hard to type some kinds of payloads. Sure you could write a custom parser for it. With fromJSON in fact this is wha
814.
by platz 7y ago
You don't have to define a type for Json data in Haskell if you don't want to. Defining a full type is only norm/preference. With Aeson, You always have the option work with a map directly and pull out properties by name. Tha
815.
by platz 7y ago
re: goal-driven vs idea-driven Feynman's algorithm - keep a bunch of problems in your mind - every time you hear a new solution, test it against your twelve problems to see whatever helps and you can flip it around - keep a bunch of so
816.
by platz 7y ago
Right, It's not a technology problem. Not everything can be reduced to a technology problem. This is an American, and even worldwide problem. Everyone is writing about polarization right now. Ezra Klein, who I normally loathe, has been
817.
by platz 7y ago
I assume there is a lot of pointer indirection as is the norm in FP languages that hurts performance quite a bit
818.
by platz 7y ago
Does anyone know how fast MLton (whole-program optimization) programs run in comparison to other languages?
819.
by platz 7y ago
This course finally made me understand the WHY of FP. Comparing and Contrasting the major programming paradigms at a high level, but also actually writing code was a great combination. Before that I just thought it was only used for peopl
820.
by platz 7y ago
well, somewhat similar unless you consider the difference between a native port of a library vs shipping actual ggplot commands over to a real instance of R, which is what inline-r does (with some tradeoffs due to that, of course)
821.
by platz 7y ago
It's really nice to call ggplot2 from Haskell with inline-r quasiquotation, which is evaluated using an instance of the R interpreter embedded in the binary https://tweag.github.io/HaskellR/
822.
by platz 7y ago
Which library in the top 100 that you used had documentation (or lack thereof) that wasn't sufficient to understand how to accomplish the task at hand?
823.
by platz 7y ago
> If you agree that starting from the assumption that a utility function exists leads to being always able to define one, then you can’t simultaneously take the position that there can’t be two incommensurate things. > What do you mea
824.
by platz 7y ago
Re https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22127828
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by platz 7y ago
If you start by assuming a utility function exists, you can have it do anything you want. But we haven't quite solved every problem in the world by creating a utility function, have we? Why is that? Could it be that some domains resis
826.
by platz 7y ago
At 32-bit you already have a whole 16 number gap per-bit in the 200 millions: 210,828,704 210,828,720
827.
by platz 7y ago
How do you even add them.. it's like asking what is the utility of the statue of liberty plus the utility of NAFTA? Just because it's a mathematicians/economists wish doesn't mean it's correct. Why did the drunken m
828.
by platz 7y ago
Even in WAL mode, you can still get a SQLITE_BUSY error even when just trying to open a new connection. The application I worked on could not tolerate these busy exceptions so we had to acquire an exclusive global mutex before attempting t
829.
by platz 7y ago
That's kind of like asking of the research being done at fermilab is on npm yet.
830.
by platz 7y ago
If if emergence is right, you should be not so confident about it because it is an extremely delicate position with also a lot of handwavimg and question marks
831.
by platz 7y ago
Because it doesn't explain my experience. You can still be a materialist and allow for consciousness via emergence, but that is not quite the argument you are making.
832.
by platz 7y ago
If you create zombies people are going to be upset with you.
833.
by platz 7y ago
Nothing about the topic consciousness is fundamentally testable. Which is why it's often a topic for philosophy rather than science.
834.
by platz 7y ago
That's not quite materialism - is more like primordial consciousness; Consciousness is additive.
835.
by platz 7y ago
I think you are simplifying the concept of consciousness a bit too much and are too hard in the paint for a very un-nuanced interpretation of behavioralism. Your position would be better described as consciousness is an illusion or consciou
836.
by platz 7y ago
Smoking causes other things besides the things that happen near the end of your life. It also affects your immune system; injuries take longer to heal. You don't have to be a pack-a-day person to experience these effects... i know!
837.
by platz 7y ago
https://www.wired.com/2014/01/an-artist-records-the-mysterio...
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by platz 7y ago
So if you drill through the crust to the mantle, will magma come up the hole? Will you create a little volcano?
839.
by platz 7y ago
> It’s not clear exactly what you hear on Geeven’s recording. She guesses it could be something small like a data transmission that is resonating, but she can’t be sure. In a Heisenberg-ian twist, it seems possible that some of the sound
840.
by platz 7y ago
It's hard to find problems that benefit from parallelism, because most work has sequential elements. Due to amdhal's law, it's harder to realize significant parallel gains unless the problem is of a special or constrained typ

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