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by twodave 2y ago
In the case of F#, the use cases are diminishing with every new C# release, since C# is getting better and better at the things F# is supposed to be strong at (record types, pattern-matching, etc.). Better to write the thing in C# using mod
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by twodave 2y ago
Does anyone really believe Elon Musk doesn’t understand basic RDBMS theory? Seems like troll-bait to me.
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by twodave 2y ago
Much of this I assume is due to labor costs. We're already seeing some basic techs start to return back to higher-tech, higher-labor-cost countries (like the US Gulf Coast) because of automation improvements. So now things that have hi
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by twodave 2y ago
Note that I (OP here) did not say philosophy is useless. Just the people I typically encounter who want to have a philosophical discussion. I find the actual authors (the ones I agree with, anyway) to be much more refreshing. I think someth
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by twodave 2y ago
If there is one thing I’ve learned about philosophy, it is that it is a field full of arrogant know-it-alls who pretend to know what I am thinking better than I do, and who will preen on about how unenlightened I am while treating me like a
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by twodave 2y ago
They can’t do any such doubling down without a population to sustain it. And solar can’t supply the world with reliable power unless both battery and transmission tech see some unforeseen advances.
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by twodave 2y ago
Perhaps, and also we already know in 40 years many more of their infrastructure projects will lie empty and unused than already do. They’re literally burning their way to their doom, and they may take globalization with them.
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by twodave 2y ago
There’s certainly some of this, and there are also a lot of people living in difficult geographies that rely on oil. Take away global reliance on oil and these people either have to move somewhere else (and many of them aren’t exactly welco
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by twodave 2y ago
I guess I don’t see how any of this is really relevant today. Can someone help explain? My thought process is telling me that by far the worst environmental offender (China) is on the front end of a population collapse that will pretty much
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by twodave 2y ago
That is not why we moved to fiat. It may be a consequence, but there are also seriously consequential checks against doing it too freely.
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by twodave 2y ago
Yes, I mean, all the options are bad. So let’s start there :) First, if your money supply is the actual asset (and not just backed by it) then it’s even worse, since fluctuations in overall supply of that asset can cause very large valuatio
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by twodave 2y ago
I’m not sure what exact point or points you want me to care about, but none of these charts seem to suggest _why_ we and every other country moved to fiat. I’ll admit I didn’t look at them all, you didn’t give me nearly the effort in your c
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by twodave 2y ago
The point is that the money supply needs to increase at or near the pace of the economy or we end up with a currency shortage, and bitcoin being harder to mine would prove that point faster than silver ever did.
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by twodave 2y ago
Didn’t we learn back in the 1500s that asset-backed currencies are unsustainable? Bitcoin will never, ever be able to take the place of a fiat currency because it carries with it many of the same problems as Spanish silver the conquistadors
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by twodave 2y ago
I mean, logistically speaking everybody is already depending on the US pretty much. So you could say this about every country in the world from one perspective or another.
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by twodave 2y ago
I can definitely understand. I actually think immigrants are necessary for our future, but I want them to follow our laws and not just have an open border. When my generation reaches retirement age the rest of the world will already be crip
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by twodave 2y ago
Honestly there are too many parts of what you wrote that I disagree with to bother writing much of a rebuttal. The people spoke about the border and other cultural issues. They spoke about the justice system and its targeting of Trump. You
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by twodave 2y ago
What does America or even Trump have to gain by installing a dictatorship? Assuming he even could, which is probably worth arguing. He is already the most powerful executive of the most powerful (by far, it is not close) and future-proof (a
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by twodave 2y ago
Not sure whether they use FHE or not (the literature I’m looking at simply says “homomorphic”), but we use ElectionGuard at our company to help verify elections for our customers. So there are definitely some practical uses.
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by twodave 2y ago
Any app can do this really, just can’t update the entitlements and a few other things. I would think it unlawful for Apple’s own apps to have access to functionality/apis that others don’t…
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by twodave 2y ago
It's much easier to build a gateway API for a legacy system than to extend it. Not disagreeing with you. Honestly, though, software systems for academic institutions are ridiculously complicated, because they are essentially a student
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by twodave 2y ago
I mean, I wrote my comment knowing this and that it's bullshit, so I don't really see the difference personally.
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by twodave 2y ago
They failed IMO as soon as they started marketing this stuff as AI. Nobody _actually_ cares about that. They just want new and exciting device capabilities. The fact that they haven’t done anything compelling enough to detach it from the AI
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by twodave 2y ago
Ah, thanks. Exposing my non-academic reading comprehension ;)
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by twodave 2y ago
Agreed. Scaling based on the length of the queue, up to some maximum.
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by twodave 2y ago
I wonder if it would be possible for e.g. asteroid material to work as an indirect source of nutrition? I.e. carry a specialized yeast on board that can "eat" the asteroid, and, sort of like sourdough, use the yeast's excess
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by twodave 2y ago
I think self-reflection is an underdeveloped skill. Everything from weight management to pre-occupations (or even addictions) to getting work done to eating healthy —these are all problems that require self-reflection to recognize. And then
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by twodave 2y ago
We aren’t questioning your logic, just your reading comprehension in this case :) OP was correctly describing the case where both lights are blocked from view.
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by twodave 2y ago
We aren’t. As the company itself will admit when they don’t realize they’re going to be quoted, the goal is not to create healthy community but to compete for attention. It is by definition pulling you away from normal, healthy relationship
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by twodave 2y ago
Yep, federal income tax is a big reason. For states to fund this on their own requires additional taxation. Some places like FL don’t even have a state income tax, so they are stuck trying to get tourists to fund transportation projects som

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