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by smaddox 9y ago
A more accurate title would be "Richest 1% on target to own two-thirds of all capital by 2030". Wealth is not equivalent to capital. The vast majority of capital is tied up in the market capitalization of corporations, and only
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by smaddox 9y ago
Doesn't that mean the rate of change tells you exactly where you are on the curve? Just solve for X. Of course, there's no reason to think invention should follow an exponential over the long term...
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by smaddox 9y ago
If you're memory constrained, why would you use a GC? Just use manual memory arenas. They're trivially simple once you've seen how to use them. Unfortunately, Rust currently requires breaking some conventions and using unsafe
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by smaddox 9y ago
Box (an owned pointer to heap-allocated struct), Rc (reference-counted heap-allocated shared struct), and Arc (atomicly reference-counted heap-allocated shared struct) cover any cases that indicies into an array (or other data structure) do
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by smaddox 9y ago
If this is the only motivation for multiple dependency versions in the same compilation unit (crate), I'm not convinced. You would be trading off the simplicity of each crate specifying a range of acceptable dependency versions for spe
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by smaddox 9y ago
Those are not the articles you're looking for...
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by smaddox 9y ago
Excellent point! I think it's fair to say that substitutability can only be satisfied (in general) for a fixed set of operations. This is why I believe Haskell's (and by extension Rust's) approach to bounded ad-hoc polymorph
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by smaddox 9y ago
Why does it need to be a simulation at all? The model is essentially a geometric random walk with number of trials N and probability of success in each trial P, with P varying. In an additive random walk, the distribution of positions after
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by smaddox 9y ago
The Tesla roadster uses PM free induction motors: https://www.tesla.com/blog/induction-versus-dc-brushless-mot... According to the article, the torque limitations are only for a poorly controlled drive current.
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by smaddox 9y ago
I'm on mobile right now, so not able to test it, but if you start with selected text, does it fill the buffer with it? If not, perhaps this feature could be added? It would be helpful for quickly dropping into to vim for advanced editi
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by smaddox 9y ago
Rust also enforces deep immutability by default, which makes resource sharing bugs much less common.
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Perhaps they would be used in a cord drill or pump drill? https://primitivetechnology.wordpress.com/2016/01/22/cord-dr...
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by smaddox 9y ago
Perhaps I don't, but your description doesn't seem to contradict my point that scalability is distinct from competitive with classical computing. Perhaps people also implicitly mean "scales faster than a classical computer&qu
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by smaddox 9y ago
Whether or not you can make a scalable quantum computer is beside the point, though. The question is, can you make a quantum computer that is competitive with a classical computer, speed and/or cost wise. I suspect that any speedup imp
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by smaddox 9y ago
Not if your system efficiency is limited by transmission and storage. Chemical energy (fuel) is more efficient and cheaper to store than electric energy, and will almost certainly continue to be an important medium in a post fossil fuel wor
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by smaddox 9y ago
She has a naive understanding of economics, but I find her commentary on cronyism and shallow thinking spot on. I also identify with the struggle of the heroes in Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and strive to maintain their resolve. Edit:
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by smaddox 9y ago
Tell that to the Catholic church.
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by smaddox 9y ago
That depends on how much plant feed you need to consume to offset the calories and nutrition from 1kg of meat. This will, of course, depend on the plant and the meat, but I'm sure you could make some reasonable assumptions. I've n
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by smaddox 9y ago
Were you writing functions/procedures under the implicit assumption that they would be executed under a single threaded context? Because Rust does not allow this assumption without using "unsafe". I've run into this befo
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by smaddox 9y ago
Isn't it basically the same in Go?
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by smaddox 9y ago
That would be hypocrisy... if a county could critisize. However, a citizen of such a country can critisize both countries without being a hypocrite.
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by smaddox 9y ago
I wonder if rust could be transpiled to somewhat idiomatic C... It should be easier than the other way around.
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by smaddox 9y ago
In Python, duck typing provides the benefits of generics, minus the static guarantees. If you're using duck typing in python, then you should be able to understand why generics can be useful.
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by smaddox 9y ago
Docker is an abstraction...
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by smaddox 9y ago
How do you reduce transactional complexity by throwing out consistency? Genuine question. At the very least, it seems like you need to mark potentially inconsistent data as dirty.
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by smaddox 9y ago
Reading the Meltdown paper [1], it's not clear why I keep seeing people say it's Intel only. The paper says quite clearly that other vendors' processors could be affected: "Instead, Meltdown exploits side-channel informa
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by smaddox 9y ago
Awesome concept on usability testing exchange! This reminds me of the interviewing.io model, which I also highly regarded. I think this sort of karma-enforced-sharing model could work in a lot a fields, but the big disadvantage I anticipate
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by smaddox 9y ago
> He's not saying that thoughts and mental images don't actually exist, it's that they don't exist before the game of language is played. And the game of language is turning sensations of physical objects into auditor
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by smaddox 9y ago
Human wanting and economic demand are not identical. In order for human wanting to turn into economic demand, those who want need to have money (in a capitalistic society). If there are limited numbers of jobs and limited forms of need&#x2F
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by smaddox 9y ago
Great response! Reframing the problem is an especially important and well-known technique in applied mathematics and physics. And the others can arguably be generalized into "solve the easiest part first". If the easiest part is a

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