pr0crastin8

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by pr0crastin8 3y ago
You and GP can both be correct. Even if your smaller family and others like it had a more relaxed approach to parenting, no doubt that was in part due to the culture of the time where people generally had larger families. The collective med
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by pr0crastin8 3y ago
Like many of his strategies at FTX, his high risk approach to this trial for a high value payout (taking no plea deal and getting out with no charges) hasn’t worked out. I wonder if he himself is accepting of the outcome and isn’t already s
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Time Travel in Haskell for Dummies(blog.csongor.co.uk)
15 points by pr0crastin8 4y ago|3 comments
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by pr0crastin8 4y ago
From all this talk of Effective Altruism, it seems we actually need a greater push for "Effective Justice". Individuals and companies need to be better held to account for the scale of societal (and environmental) damage that they
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by pr0crastin8 4y ago
My all-time favourite podcast episode [0] is on the Sumerians in the Fall of Civilisations series [1]. As a STEM-focused SWE, I can't overstate how captivating it was for me. The podcast's narrative style brings history alive, dee
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Artificial Life with Few Rules(youtube.com)
1 points by pr0crastin8 4y ago|0 comments
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by pr0crastin8 5y ago
The trend for both of those countries is still a significant reduction over the past year.
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by pr0crastin8 5y ago
That's a good point I hadn't heard before, perhaps it would be relatively straight forward to build tools that detect this kind of thing? E.g., as per the article, an image/video tagged as being in 'Syria' later bei
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by pr0crastin8 5y ago
It's incredibly sad how dismissive most people are on this topic, especially considering how so much of Israel's influence on America is through technology and soft power. This through companies that I assume many here on HN will
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by pr0crastin8 5y ago
I feel much the same way but I'd like to add some support for having the former type of content on HN. You do get a large response of unqualified opinions, anecdotes and repetitive arguments/flamewars but, amongst the 'noise&
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by pr0crastin8 5y ago
As someone quite in love with functional programming (background in Haskell and Scala), one thing that seems quite obviously missing here and in my Javascript experience so far is the use of typeclasses as a form of ad-hoc polymorphism. Is