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by raquo 9y ago
Yep. That worked more than once for people I know.
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by raquo 9y ago
As a non-native English speaker: this means nothing to me.
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by raquo 9y ago
Which are exactly equivalent to a function call, just with a different type, and a syntax without parens. "this will be re-evaluated every time you access it"
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by raquo 9y ago
Call-by-name is just syntactic sugar for anonymous functions. It has all the same problems. But more importantly, the whole premise is wrong. "Cache invalidation" for data that has an average lifespan of 30 lines of code in a sing
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by raquo 9y ago
This "assignment is caching is bad" analogy does not hold any water. You get a result from a call to `foo(bar)`. You have to _do something_ with that result. One common thing you'd need to do is to call another function: _baz
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by raquo 9y ago
Well it can go either way. I'm fed up with misguided developments in both hardware and software of smartphones – both Apple and Androids – and have lost all excitement I used to have about that. Same goes for some of my family. I am no
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by raquo 9y ago
Please, give randomness some time to act out. I hope no one thinks that we have 100.00000% reliable processes to avoid a nuclear war, taking both positive and negative human factors into account. Eventually the current setup will fail us if
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by raquo 9y ago
There's a huge gap between the current situation and a system where people on welfare who choose not to work are able to live "comfortably" in perpetuity. Somewhere within that gap is a decent system where poor people don&#x2
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by raquo 9y ago
I don't think the link you posted helps your case that Moxie is "hammering the same points that every opportunity". The link shows that he mentions Telegram only a few times a year, often in response to a telegram-specific ar
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by raquo 9y ago
I disagree. In Russia an average employed person never even has to file income tax declaration, and any local sales taxes are included in the final price. People don't even know how much they're taxed. All they know is that income
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by raquo 9y ago
Is it even possible to have a stable priced crypto? The crypto money supply is predetermined, but demand is not, often driven by events outside of the blockchain. Supply needs to actively balance demand if the price is to stay stable. For a
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by raquo 9y ago
> We can't because we do not care enough There's a difference between "me" and "we". "We", the majority, could, if we cared. "I", alone or even in a sizeable minority group, can't ma
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by raquo 9y ago
What's your point? Neither you nor me personally can tell Apple what to do, and certainly not congress. That's the point of my pessimism – modifying your own behaviour does not make any difference. Even if millions of people boyco
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by raquo 9y ago
It's because everything is so cheap nowadays, because all the externalities that we worry about (pollution, resources running out, etc.) are left for the public and future generations to bear, with those who actually cause those extern
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by raquo 9y ago
Sounds trivially avoidable. Access the RPC call as httpSerbice.getFoo() and make it return a Future/Promise, or even a special subtype of those. 100% obvious what it does. You're going to be calling REST methods the same exact way
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by raquo 9y ago
I don't know, the articles it links to aren't especially good judging by a few that I've checked just now. They're mostly either partisan drivel, or bland statements of fact that don't explain why this news is good&
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by raquo 9y ago
Click on the comment timestamp, there will be a flag link there if you have "enough" karma
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by raquo 9y ago
> force coverage regardless of need This is like, the main way to make insurance affordable. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/adverseselection.asp
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by raquo 9y ago
Feedback loop is way too long and way too uncertain for people to care. What can you even do to visibly affect decisions being made? There is nothing an individual person can do, because no one in power cares about individual people, whethe
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by raquo 9y ago
As an alternative to Self-Destructing Cookies, there's Cookie AutoDelete which does work with Quantum. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autode...
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by raquo 9y ago
Re: CSS Grid, caniuse.com seems to be out of date here. MS Edge 16 was released two weeks ago, and already supports the latest CSS Grid spec (allegedly, I haven't tried it myself). --- As for the remaining 21%, depending on your target
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by raquo 9y ago
You can't just un-invent nukes. They're there, they provide nuclear deterrence. They will continue to exist no matter how many countries "agree" to stop using them. Regardless of whether you have them, there is always
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by raquo 9y ago
Oh please, no one can genuinely fail reading comprehension that hard. I've shown very clearly that a temp drop in prices does not support your narrative. And that the prices are now back to an all time high. You can stop pretending tha
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by raquo 9y ago
The new BC government was planning to implement such a tax. Until they were elected, now no one really knows.
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by raquo 9y ago
http://www.chpc.biz/uploads/9/7/9/5/9795010/chart-canada_10_... I would love a portal to that universe in which Vancouver housing prices are dropping. There was a short drop due to uncertaint
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by raquo 9y ago
First, your numbers are incorrect: https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/bcs-foreign-buy... 10-14% of buyers SELF REPORTED as foreign, across METRO VANCOUVER, not some fancy neighbourhoods. That's the base
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by raquo 9y ago
Obviously they're buying other houses as well, and not only students but other foreigners as well. This example is just a good illustration of toothlessness. Also obvious is that increasing demand on one type of housing puts upwards pr
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by raquo 9y ago
No, it seems toothless, with obvious loopholes. A sane housing market is way more important than allowing temporary residents to buy a home. They can rent until they either leave or become permanent residents. Just look at Vancouver where i
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by raquo 9y ago
Who needs nanobots when you can engineer viruses with such a payload. Amazing. Horrifying, but amazing.
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by raquo 9y ago
Fat calories would be one reason. 47% in soylent vs 35% max allowed. Their announcement mentions that it failed more than one requirement, so there must be something else in addition to this.

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