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by sedachv 10y ago
> Sure, notation can be better, and maybe this triangle of power is a cute way to make it better. Notation changes and improves all the time, btw. Well, all the time in the mathematical scale of time, which is two or three millenia. In t
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by sedachv 10y ago
> Your link describes a facet of concrete production, which is hardly useless. Here is the key part of the article: "critics claim this is merely a reversion to the LDP’s traditional policy of pork-barrel spending on concrete struct
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by sedachv 10y ago
> 1. How does it reach travelers from around the world? Research in the early 1990s on software agents/bots/multi-agent systems went from the assumption that the Internet would lead to a decentralized marketplace with many vend
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by sedachv 10y ago
> Unless the US went communist in the 1930s, government employment, even for the express purpose of creating jobs, wouldn't constitute communism. I came across this interview recently: HG Wells: > My visit to the United States ex
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by sedachv 10y ago
The Japanese government is doing exactly literally what the parent comment describes - paying people to dig up and break apart rocks: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/05/19/environment/the-...
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by sedachv 10y ago
> There's a huge to-do list of jobs that need to be done at almost every level, from design and build of significant infrastructure in most countries around the world, to community-level support work. Infrastructure overinvestment i
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by sedachv 10y ago
The Curry-Howard correspondence does not apply here though. The coloring theorem is not encoded in the type of the program that enumerates and checks the possible colorings. The program itself is a restatement of the coloring theorem, with
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by sedachv 10y ago
> Fantastic article, but I still don't quite understand what kind of real-world tasks on typical projects become easier with AST manipulation. After all, how often do you write a debugger? A good example comes from Python: decorator
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by sedachv 10y ago
> You can write very dense code in Lisp (and the author makes the point several times on how little lines of code you need for this vs. that). However, who's going to read that and understand it? Lisp macros do not depend on whole-p
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by sedachv 10y ago
That is my favorite piece of Buffet's writing, for a different reason: > Over the years, we had the option of making large capital expenditures in the textile operation that would have allowed us to somewhat reduce variable costs. E
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by sedachv 10y ago
> No mainframes, where we would get those at that time? Госбанк started using mainframes in 1972: http://www.computer-museum.ru/histsoft/bank1.htm
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by sedachv 10y ago
> Then there's hardware reliability. As an example: you can walk inside the mainframe, pull a CPU, and the thing keeps working. Replace that CPU, and the system makes use of it. None of the system's users ever know that it happ
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by sedachv 10y ago
> First of all, Duterte was elected overwhelmingly with a clear mandate of using brute violence to clear out drug dealers. And journalists too! Kill everyone you don't like! > “Just because you’re a journalist you are not exempte
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by sedachv 10y ago
> We convinced millions of people they'll feel better if they don't eat gluten. An entire cottage industry created. All without force. All without the influence of politics and fallible men. How do you make the logical leap fro
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by sedachv 10y ago
How is that arbitrage? http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/arbitrage
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by sedachv 10y ago
> Furthermore, Uber solved a problem in a market with inefficiencies and use regulation arbitrage to do it. What is "regulation arbitrage?"
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by sedachv 10y ago
Yours and the parent comment are really amusing. The best time to swim in the Los Angeles area is December to March. I try to hit up the Dolphin Club whenever I am in San Francisco. And no, you don't need a wetsuit.
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by sedachv 10y ago
> I fully support anti-poaching measures, but what this article doesn't discuss is the effect of a total ban on trade of existing ivory products. Old musical instruments (pipe organs, old pianos, some wind instruments) with any ivor
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by sedachv 10y ago
> For example Azul's C4 garbage collector which they claim is pauseless: https://www.azul.com/resources/azul-technology/azul-c4-garba... . ; a pauseless GC is great if you want to tackle real-time systems.
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by sedachv 10y ago
> Some things just make more sense with infix or postfix notation. Not least of which being mathematical expressions. There are pretty much only four binary operators in modern mathematical notation that make sense infix (addition, subtr
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by sedachv 10y ago
> So what's the trick to using APL if you don't have the keyboard? Snarky answer is to use J. I have this hope that on-screen tablet keyboards will bring APL back. It's one of the few languages where you can actually be pr
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by sedachv 10y ago
> "Dynamically typed" is a contradiction in terms, at least if one is using the standard technical definition of the word "type". These languages offer runtime checks that have some things in common with a type system
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by sedachv 10y ago
> The difference between adding symbols to a language with product types (i.e. consing) and simply having algebraic data types in your language is that symbols are untyped, and so you're allowed to compare apples and oranges (they&#
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by sedachv 10y ago
> That part of religion, a psychology that is resistant to the chaos and disappointment of the world is definitely something that's positive about religion and there are no alternatives in other discourses that are equivalent. Have
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by sedachv 10y ago
> I'd love to see a product/social network that confront their users with opposite point of views. This kind of moral relativism is exactly part of the problem. Some positions are wrong no matter how many people believe in them
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by sedachv 10y ago
It was the old RAND Santa Monica headquarters, designed by John Williams: http://www.rand.org/pubs/classics/building.html That particular building was demolished in 2005.
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by sedachv 10y ago
+1 for Emacs. eshell is my main command line and interactive shell, and since GNU Emacs 24 I have not touched a terminal emulator other than ansi-term.
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by sedachv 10y ago
> How is paying a percentage of the loan balance as taxes worse than paying the entire loan balance? The IRS is much more aggressive about collections and will seize your property and garnish your wages: https://www.irs.gov&#x
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by sedachv 10y ago
> If after several years you don't repay it, it is wiped clean. What a deal. I had to check this as I had not heard of that before. "Several years" is 25 years under income-based repayment (years before you switched to inc
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by sedachv 10y ago
The income-sensitive repayment plans come with a lot of caveats. My wife took that route before we married and it was mostly just a huge debt trap with interest piling up and she still struggled to make payments. I have not done the math wi

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