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by throwaway34241 5y ago
> Do they think anyone on Earth outside of China finds this plausible or is it purely for domestic consumption? FWIW, I made an effort to get outside my bubble recently and talked to a right-leaning acquaintance, who as it turns out happ
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
I’ve found Ray Dalio to have some of the most interesting takes on this subject. [1] [2] [3] He’s the (retired) founder of the world’s largest hedge fund and he tries to examine these topics through economic and historical lenses, which s
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
Yes, like that! Or like Clojure. If I was targeting the JVM or CLR I’d probably use bytecode, or for Go I’d just generate ordinary source code to feed into the compiler. It sounds a little ungainly but parsing shouldn’t be a big percent o
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
Jai seems pretty interesting, I’m looking forward to trying it out once a public beta is available! Not the least because there’ll hopefully be a fair amount of batteries already included for 3D graphics / math stuff. In general I rea
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
> Rust, Julia and Zig […] don’t look Lispy to me Sure, I even mentioned both Nim and Rust (Zig’s comptime is interesting but I wouldn’t put it on the same level). It just seems like most language implementations with macros are Lisp var
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
> Nor is this all you can do with macros; it's just one region in a space of program-manipulating techniques that even now is far from fully explored. I like macros. I find myself, not infrequently, thinking about where they would
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
He's written (a lot) about his views on the future of the US and China here [1]. In general, he views them as the rising world power and the US being in (at least relative) decline. He seems about as well informed as anyone, apparent
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
> Without environmental impact reports it's likely that there would be nearly no natural land left in California. I don't think we rely purely on impact statements for this, there's plenty of parks / nature reserves w
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
> It seems likely that you don't believe in the rights, the negative individual rights, that these Americans believe in I’m probably also on the other side of this issue, but my take is a bit nuanced here. The government keeps the
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
I think ideology plays a strong role in addition to interests. In my mind (from reading about this a lot) there are roughly four political factions at the elite level (there's probably more variation at the grassroots level). The most
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
I meant to respond only to the quoted section comparing Java and Go, which states that Go doesn't have a way to do cleanup on GC (finalizers). I agree with you (and the two other replies and the quoted section itself) that finalizers
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
Yes, if you look at the quote I was responding to, it appears they are saying Go doesn't have finalizers, which is incorrect.
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
> Go doesn't even bother providing a means to do this automatically for your non-memory resources when they're garbage collected (Java does, but again, no promises it ever fires, so, don't rely on this). It sounds like you
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
> At some point there is simply too much capital and because of the reinvestment dynamic it's all in the hands of the people with the lowest time preference. > everyone else whose involvement in the economy keeps shrinking > W
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
> I'm saying that sh*tty elites who inspire and empower such rhetoric are the real problem. Some of it could also be due to external circumstances, I think Hoover was supposed to actually be pretty competent and intelligent relative
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
> Sounds like a strange definition of populism. It seems pretty close to the dictionary definition (from Google): "a political approach that strives to appeal to ordinary people who feel that their concerns are disregarded by establ
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
The problem I have with populist anti-elite rhetoric is not so much that the elites don't have their failures (they do, and in fact any major failure is almost by definition the responsibility of elites, since they run things). The iss
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
I think it's pretty clear from the description that it's only a ~250 line toy project. Looks like it's meant to act as a test for implementing the same project in different languages. Given that all the implementations were
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
I think people know that the pay-fors are mostly smoke and mirrors, they are only there to make the political (not economic) math work. The real question is if this bill makes sense as a deficit-spending bill. On a macro level, it's no
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
I wonder if they can’t just be more aggressive on fiscal policy and run the economy hotter, leading to mild labor shortages and people moving away from Dollar Tree jobs (because higher productivity jobs lure the workers away with better wag
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
> Give me cheap and take my middle class job! The trade-offs with trade are a little more complex than that. For example, if foreign steel was super cheap, you could have the people previously working in steel work in construction, and
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
> It’s really no different that buying stocks on an exchange. I think it’s a little bit different depending on the style of investing. For Buffett-style value investing he’s making a bet on the profitability of the company itself and no
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
> Everyone has the running dialogue, all the time. Actually this varies! It seems like most people have it, but some people don't (including me). People are often surprised the other exists. [1] I obviously still think, but most o
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
Also, if it's possible to get into some profoundly different mental state after 1 day of meditation, it makes me a bit curious (and a bit concerned) about what could happen in 10 days... If anyone else has had a similar experience and
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
I once had an intense, drug-like experience from meditation and even have a straightforward (if speculative) explanation for what went on. Basically, one day I was curious and I decided to try the concentrate-on-your-breath exercise to see
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
> that just goes to prove the point, that what's being taught and lauded so much as a panacea by some in the western world is potentially dangerous? I'm not an expert or even regular meditator but I can understand some of the d
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
Sure, I was imagining implementing better race semantics the way Java/C# do, by referencing certain multi-word data by pointer to avoid partial update problems. As it is now slices are 192-bit values (on 64 bit systems) embedded direc
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
> I wonder what you can practically do to mitigate that at this point; doesn't seem like you go back and change things to be like Java. Wouldn't there be an obvious trade off there, requiring an extra heap allocation and indire
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New malformed Wi-Fi name bug can require iPhone factory reset to fix(appleinsider.com)
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
NP, FWIW I didn't make any edits that should change the tone (although I think I did make one trivial change in the first 60 seconds or so before any replies).

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