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by pnako 7y ago
I found this index of "welcoming" countries, ranking them by number of source countries accepted visa-free or with visa on arrival: https://www.passportindex.org/byWelcomingRank.php Singapore indeed does rank high
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by pnako 7y ago
https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/personal-info...
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by pnako 7y ago
What has the elite userbase of Haskell produced? Almost nothing.
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by pnako 7y ago
It's common practice to keep the original author(s), regardless of new editions.
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by pnako 7y ago
A sharp increase in violent crime across the board: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Sweden#Gun_violence Hand grenade attacks and bombings [...] Criminologists in Sweden don't know why there was a st
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by pnako 7y ago
It's not as bad as you say. Ubuntu has made a decent attempt, with some (albeit minor) success. But Ubuntu seems to be moving away from desktop to also focus on cloud stuff. Valve has done a lot of work with Windows compatibility. One
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by pnako 7y ago
There has to be a parallel universe where Microsoft improved upon Windows and Visual Basic instead of regressing back to the 60s in terms of programming technology. I wonder if they're having fun over there.
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by pnako 7y ago
They still need to keep Firefox alive, because it allows them to control market concentration and avoid the antitrust issues that MS had to fight.
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by pnako 7y ago
Linux dominates mobile, supercomputing, servers and embedded. There is no fundamental reason why it can't eventually take over gaming, or even desktop.
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by pnako 7y ago
Interesting article. But it stops right where it could become interesting. It laments the fact that, for Americans, there is no distinction between those conflicts; it's just "Over There", and "the distinctions between t
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by pnako 7y ago
wxWidgets is the most popular one. It's an ambitious project that allows accessing true native widgets, not just from C++ but also from other languages like Python, etc.
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by pnako 7y ago
Sarah Jeong was actually _hired_ by the New York Times after tweeting the kind of vile language you are mentioning. So clearly it's not a problem for everyone. But I understand it's a whataboutism argument. So my position is that
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by pnako 7y ago
He did not do anything. The first offense is from his twitter account: >Latter Day Saint (Christian), Conservative The second offense is that there is a picture of him with a MAGA hat somewhere on the Internet. That was enough for someon
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by pnako 7y ago
Safety-critical systems and secure systems are completely orthogonal. Although the article makes a good point, I don't think it was very sensible to use the expression "safety-critical software", for this reason. In a safety-
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by pnako 7y ago
Browsers depend on tons of 20-year-old C libraries. At the moment, the top link from the Twitter account you gave above is this one from November 6: https://twitter.com/LazyFishBarrel/status/119228101802954342...
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by pnako 7y ago
I remember that the EFF used to defend programmers freedom against the government's arguments that hacking tools / exploits could be misused and should be regulated. What happened? This seems like a total reversal of position. edi
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by pnako 7y ago
>what if Gordon Ramsey did code review Just read the Linux or OpenBSD developer mailing lists. Linus puts the fear of God into Linux developers. Theo puts the fear of Theo into OpenBSD developers.
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by pnako 7y ago
At the time, things were not as clear cut as they are in hindsight, 80 years later. In 1941, while Hess was flying to Scotland to try to negotiate peace with Britain, Jewish fascists (Lehi) were trying to negotiate an alliance with Nazi Ger
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by pnako 7y ago
In America, "white" is used instead of "European" because it's less ambiguous, since it distinguishes Americans of European ancestry from European citizens. That being said, "white" is also ambiguous in ot
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by pnako 7y ago
That twitter account mostly reports security bugs in 20-year-old C libraries. Nice, but hardly an argument against "C/C++", and completely irrelevant to people writing numerical code in modern C++. For years, we've bee
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by pnako 7y ago
Most of those are issues in old, _C_ code. No one disputes the fact that C is a mine field due to its complete lack of support for things like arrays and strings. But that's not really an issue in modern C++. It's only really a pr
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by pnako 7y ago
Why do you immediately talk about a two-state solution? A single-state solution is also an alternative. And possibly the only viable one.
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by pnako 7y ago
Red Hat. They work with the community upstream, and they open source all their stuff.
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by pnako 7y ago
I think you're the one doing the false equivalency. I'm not defending Saudi Arabia, which is indeed as backward as it gets, but in the case of Israel, if you want to talk about discrimination and human rights abuse, you cannot ign
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by pnako 7y ago
Some of those companies make money by selling proprietary software. They are thus proprietary software companies, and bad examples of open source software business models.
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by pnako 7y ago
Many HFT firms use C# or Java. Quite a few matching engines are written in those languages as well. The trick is to remember that garbage collection is not some sort of werewolf that wakes up and decides to mess with your stuff whenever it
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by pnako 7y ago
Because of the triple leverage, a 33.33% drop would entirely wipe out the fund. Back to $0. A 33% drop in a single day has never happened (1987 Black Monday was 22%) but it definitely does happen if you consider a longer time frame. Hence w
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by pnako 7y ago
A few years ago they did a military exercise where France, in a state of civil war/secession following a government bankruptcy, used its military to try and loot Swiss wealth. French authorities were not amused.
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by pnako 7y ago
It may be priced in the stock if other traders have the same logic. If you think it's a good investment thesis, a better strategy would be to build a portfolio where you go long on a basket of stocks with "not too many female exec
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by pnako 7y ago
Good point. Generally, most people should not be trading derivatives. I was pointing out millenials in particular because it's the population targeted by those startups, whose business models is more or less implicitly: millenials have

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