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by throwaway34241 8y ago
I don't like that model for anything I want continued support for (excluding things that are more or less complete like WinRAR or games). The problem with the traditional pay once (with paid upgrades) model is that in order to continue
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by throwaway34241 8y ago
There are two separate arguments I can think of for deducting state taxes. First, the federal tax rates are heavily graduated on the grounds that it's less burdensome to tax people that make more money. But in states with high (also g
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by throwaway34241 8y ago
Steel tariffs (for example) are great for US steel producing jobs but terrible for US steel consuming jobs (auto makers, etc). From a jobs perspective (ignoring any retaliation) it would make more sense to have tariffs on consumer goods in
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by throwaway34241 8y ago
Just because we've been hearing it for a decade, doesn't mean it can't be true. Japan has been in a low interest rate environment for even longer and their economy isn't exactly overheating. Maybe low interest rates are
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by throwaway34241 8y ago
How is having a significant number of users be served the wrong language for every site they visit, then having to navigate and create a profile and set the language for each site individually in a different way, in any way an acceptable so
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by throwaway34241 8y ago
If you're going to sleep that early, I don't understand what the problem is with that schedule? For example, if you made everything 3 hours later, that would be breakfast at 9AM, dinner at 7PM and lights out at midnight. That&#x
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by throwaway34241 8y ago
And as a result of this, you can't have a 3GB byte array in C#. I think there needs to be a big benefit to make hard-coding a restriction like that into the language worth it. Unfortunately I've read every comment in this HN thre
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by throwaway34241 8y ago
By 'possible' I meant that it's currently supported by the Go toolchain.
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by throwaway34241 8y ago
On 64 bit systems you can have large arrays that are bigger than a 32 bit int. For example, it's nice to be able to load a >2GB file into a byte array. For comparison, Java's int type is 32 bits on 64 bit systems, but then thi
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by throwaway34241 8y ago
Even if it's OK to degrade the performance of a small minority of users, is there a big benefit to emulating 64 bit ints everywhere on 32 bit hardware? (I'm not saying there isn't a benefit, just that it's not clear to m
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by throwaway34241 8y ago
Which would you choose instead? To default to 32 bits (even on 64 bit systems) or to default to 64 bits (even on 32 bit systems). Defaulting to 64 bit math on 32 bit systems will have a huge performance penalty on generally the slowest&#x2
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by throwaway34241 8y ago
As long as Safari remains the default or very popular, sites will probably have to support it anyway regardless of if other browser engines are available. There's also some conflict of interest if say Chrome were to come to be the domi
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by throwaway34241 8y ago
If it's the road to currency collapse (presumably via inflation), that doesn't explain why inflation not only failed to materialize, but the Fed undershot its own inflation targets for most of the next decade. As far as I unders
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by throwaway34241 8y ago
I agree that advocacy groups shouldn't be charitable, that seems pretty similar to political activities that are already disallowed. Not sure about about 'when people disagree' thing (requiring majority consensus for public g
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by throwaway34241 8y ago
I think you could make a very similar argument about most private industries too - surely there's a lot of overhead with all the lawyers, accountants, etc not to mention a lot of redundancy with many companies doing the same thing. Wo
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by throwaway34241 8y ago
In your question you call it 'public money', and while it's true that there would be more tax revenue without the deduction, it's not obvious to me that money that goes to a society-agreed-upon charitable cause instead o
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by throwaway34241 8y ago
I'm not calling you names or even talking about your political views (since I don't know them). I'm talking about the actual housing policies of many cities in the bay area, which are extremely against adding new housing, mo
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by throwaway34241 8y ago
How do people not earning $100,000 afford to live there? They commute 2 hours each way (for real). I think it's unreasonable to expect a live-and-let live attitude to NIMBYs on online forums, while NIMBYs are pricing out the people wh
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by throwaway34241 8y ago
I'm not disputing that there's prior art for their design like C++ concepts (although C++ doesn't do run-time generics and CLU didn't do compile time). I'm just disputing the view designing and implementing it will
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by throwaway34241 8y ago
To quote the entire sentence, "It seems most inspired by CLU and a proposed future C++ feature". Note that Stroustrup proposed C++ concepts in 2003, and they still don't exist in C++, but they might be standardized by 2020. A
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by throwaway34241 8y ago
It's true language changes don't seem to have been prioritized until recently. But the last big thing (package management) was probably long overdue. Before that it was mostly improving the compiler, runtime, and standard librar
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by throwaway34241 8y ago
This. This is why how Steam operates is 10x better than the mobile app stores. A 30% fee for getting your app in front of the users who might buy it is one thing. Steam isn't perfect, but they've set up their economic model whe
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by throwaway34241 8y ago
If I remember right, in vgo v0.x is supported and breaking changes are allowed during that time, and v0 can be graduated to v1 without an import path change. So that seems to be in agreement with the semver spec.
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by throwaway34241 8y ago
I think at least the housing policy is an egregious failure (if a metric is that locals should be able to afford it), although other cities around the bay area should also get some credit. Even if you take being anti-development as reasona
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by throwaway34241 8y ago
To be fair, I remember him taking that back and admitting he let emotions cloud his judgement pretty much right away. I can forgive a bad (and probably very sleep-deprived) election day take if they admit it. Disclaimer: I'm not intim
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by throwaway34241 8y ago
Even though I disagree I think these are reasonable arguments. I'd like to present what I think is the other side of the case: First regarding wages. I think Foxconn is around $2.50/hr. The suicide rate is actually lower than t
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by throwaway34241 9y ago
I see that makes more sense now, I think that line did throw me off somehow. I haven't seen any close friends or family just pop a Tylenol for every day aches and pains, but it certainly seems to be a thing, so I'm open to the ide
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by throwaway34241 9y ago
People talking positively about pain (and especially immediate post-surgical pain as in the article) makes me uneasy. Sure, some level of pain is useful as a warning sign. And wanting painkillers primarily to avoid resting is unreasonable
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by throwaway34241 9y ago
Do you have any evidence or reason to believe there is actual corruption on the committee (aside from them making a decision you disagree with)? I suspect I agree with you on DRM but this style of debate, where there is no attempt to argue