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by threepipeproblm 9y ago
OMG I have found my people.
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by threepipeproblm 9y ago
If lenders didn't expect to be repaid unconditionally, they would be less likely to lend money to college degrees that were likely to be financially worthless. This is as it should be. Before the modern financial aid situation, some p
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by threepipeproblm 9y ago
That wasn't a big problem before 1998. There are many disincentives to bankruptcy which is why people who are not broke or those with prospects to earn aren't lining up to do it. If a college actually prepares a student for the j
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by threepipeproblm 9y ago
This seems dramatic. Why not just cancel the Clinton administration's sinister provisions Higher Education Amendments of 1998 (the 1998 HEA) which made student debt non-dischargeable in bankruptcy? They sold out all the students with
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by threepipeproblm 9y ago
But the people who chose a browser for speed already had Chrome. Now the people who would choose a browser that lets them run their software of choice, on which they have been relying on years, have no browser. There are hundreds of people
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by threepipeproblm 9y ago
But who will protect the users from Reddit's CEO, who has admitted to editing posts to make his arguments look better, and suffered no consequences?
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by threepipeproblm 9y ago
So by daring to say that this behavior might be caused by someone who is characterized by the worst kind of lack of ethics, I'm in the wrong? This is a phenomenon that studies show occurs at something like 2-3% in the population at l
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by threepipeproblm 9y ago
There is a book called Political Ponerology, with a fascinating provenance, which basically claims society at large (macro scale) goes on sawtooth pattern like this. The argument is that during the good times, people stop taking the steps
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by threepipeproblm 9y ago
There are by far more small companies using Haskell & FP than large ones. I mentioned large companies because they are recognizable. So what is your point?
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by threepipeproblm 9y ago
Psychopaths sometimes have trouble recognizing stuff that is supposed to make them ashamed, i.e. stuff that would reveal their character were it exposed publicly. Maybe that seems like an over the top comment, and on any individual case, wh
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by threepipeproblm 9y ago
SQL may be an outlier because not that many people refer to themselves as "programming in SQL". Conversely, there are plenty of weekend Haskellers who enjoy discussing it whenever possible.
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by threepipeproblm 9y ago
I believe that in your real life, they don't. In the bigger picture functional programming has made huge inroads. Facebook has a Haskell team whose product handles up to 1 million requests per second, and it's also in production
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by threepipeproblm 9y ago
I love Haskell, but... Haskell is about as popular as SQL? That makes no sense.
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by threepipeproblm 9y ago
Some people get face tattoos.
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by threepipeproblm 9y ago
Good question, simple answer: They have domain knowledge that is basically impossible (or very unlikely) for foreigners to their home country to have. But they have a preference for American talent to build their product, partly because t
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by threepipeproblm 9y ago
I believe this hurts some clients of mine, who were looking at it as a possible answer. They have been spending significant $$$ in the US economy, developing a product that it's unlikely any domestic firm could, and struggling to find
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by threepipeproblm 9y ago
Reddit's core value seems to be "the end justifies the means."
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by threepipeproblm 9y ago
Good point. I would insert "short-term" here... because I doubt it's any these corps long-term interests.
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by threepipeproblm 9y ago
While Reddit seems less than competent to prevent this kind of manipulation, it does apparently violate Reddit's terms of service. "You agree not to interrupt the serving of reddit, introduce malicious code onto reddit, make it di
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by threepipeproblm 9y ago
Wasn't this issue basically a driving force for Google creating Go? Or at least, a major design goal for Go was to get rid of O(n^2) compilation?
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by threepipeproblm 9y ago
Am I missing something? I translated a bunch of articles from the current Czech Google News page and didn't see anything remotely fascist. It seems there is a trend of those on the left referring to anything on the right as fascist.
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by threepipeproblm 9y ago
"It"? In addition to a specific type of exercise, we're talking about a continuous variable here. Are you so sure it's a linear relationship, with the heaviest exercisers experiencing the greatest benefits? Because th
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by threepipeproblm 9y ago
Good thing you don't decide what gets published, then. The paper is cited by 29 other papers. And... "Entropy is an extensive property. It has the dimension of energy divided by temperature, which has a unit of joules per kelvin
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by threepipeproblm 9y ago
I believe there have been studies linking higher death rates to some endurance exercisers, and others showing the opposite (esp. among 'elite athletes', who may be especially adapted to this behavior).[0] Sorry I don't have
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by threepipeproblm 9y ago
This would involve a selection bias. For example, evidence is mounting that endurance athletes die earlier than non-endurance athletes. UPDATE: I have provided a more detailed account, with some citations, below.
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by threepipeproblm 9y ago
This piece is chock full of ridiculous advice. >> “I’m making a generic version of…” >> It means: I don’t understand the constraints of the actual problem, so I’m going to design an even bigger problem that we have no way of ver
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by threepipeproblm 9y ago
No, 'intravert' is not correct AFAIK
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by threepipeproblm 9y ago
Okay I did some digging Google n-grams isn't all that sympathetic to my account, in showing a long history for 'extrovert' and suggests 'extravert' is actively dying out. But the history may not go back far enough:
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by threepipeproblm 9y ago
Eventually the correct spelling is driven by usage, and 'extrovert' is currently listed in dictionaries so... it's correct. Historically the term was 'extravert' in psych literature. I feel like more technical usag

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