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by vc8f6vVV 4y ago
Think one step further. What happens if you do? Doesn't the USSR example teach you anything? You will have a different breed of oligarchs, that's all (yes, there were oligarchs in the USSR, just not in the way you think, money is
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by vc8f6vVV 4y ago
What do you consider as "productive"? Look at animals in a zoo, do they look productive to you? They have "a universal basic income", they simply don't need to be productive. Humans, just like animals, are productiv
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by vc8f6vVV 4y ago
I your work is not producing anything valuable for other people it's void and you will get bored pretty fast, it's a human nature. If it does you can always find a way to monetize it as people need it and ready to share their weal
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by vc8f6vVV 4y ago
It depends largely on your definition of "benefit".
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by vc8f6vVV 4y ago
It's only magic if you don't know what's going on under the hood. I felt this way for the first couple of years until I figured it out (experience matters as with every other language/platform). Then there was no magic,
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by vc8f6vVV 4y ago
We recently upgraded our pretty large enterprise Scala codebase from Cats v1 to Cats v2. Static typing does help, but there are tons of other problems. One of them is lack of conventions like in Ruby on Rails, which can easily be much worse
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by vc8f6vVV 4y ago
Because banks have no interest in those? Are you ready to pay high service charge? Bank employees need to eat too.
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by vc8f6vVV 4y ago
Just use Big Five in Canada, I assume you have 100% guarantee then. In the US $250,000 is guaranteed by FDIC (per bank), so you would probably be fine here too. OTOH not all businesses can operate from a founder's wallet, some need loa
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by vc8f6vVV 4y ago
Yeah, that's exactly how we called it in the USSR. Employer pretends they are paying, employees pretend they are working. How it's ended is well known.
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by vc8f6vVV 4y ago
If insurance company had assessed the risk as 0.2% the premium would have been miniscule. But they still didn't pay it, or the risk was not 0.2%?
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by vc8f6vVV 4y ago
You shouldn't know how an internal combustion engine works, right? So you bought a shitty truck for you business, it broke (let's say the warranty has expired), now you are broke. A knowledgeable capitalist knows that decreasing t
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by vc8f6vVV 4y ago
You realize that if there was such a model SVB wouldn't have existed and startup founders would have to turn to e.g. BoA, which ... would have turned them down? So those startups wouldn't have existed in the first place just as SV
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by vc8f6vVV 4y ago
Recursion, what was the point of the link?
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by vc8f6vVV 4y ago
Referential transparency is something you can reason about. While technically monads are "reasonable" you are not going to reduce them by substitution. Yes, you can if you have a good imagination, but how does it help? While combi
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by vc8f6vVV 4y ago
But we do have loops in the real world, don't we? So in a true FP we are talking about recursion as an alternative to for loops. Can you easily reduce recursive function? If you can, I can as well "reduce" for loop. Otherwise
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by vc8f6vVV 4y ago
Not really. Try to interact with DB in FP. Yes, there is a referential transparency ... when combining functions which call DB (e.g. using monads). As a result you get a composite function, which is the same every time you run that composit
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by vc8f6vVV 4y ago
There is an interesting analogy which came to my mind. Let's say we have $100 each and both decided to buy stock, only I bought e.g. Microsoft shares, and you bought Facebook. Who has more money (i.e. cash)? Hard to tell until we both
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by vc8f6vVV 4y ago
One correction: "moving" has nothing to do with it, crossing world lines does. Space ship flying at the speed of light (well, close to it) is also following its world line, so its clock is not "worse" or "better&quo
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by vc8f6vVV 4y ago
We don't know how much of this stuff exists in the interstellar space. It's possible that a probability to hit something there is much less than ISS hitting something big enough to destroy it, even with all radars and maneuvers. S
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by vc8f6vVV 4y ago
> When Einstein’s theory was pushed harder, what was revealed was that every object travels through spacetime at a single speed — the speed of light. Nope, don't push it that hard. Four-velocity is a nice mathematical abstraction, b
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by vc8f6vVV 4y ago
Suddenly is the wrong word. You will need to decelerate, and that can't be done suddenly. If you decide to fly by your clock will still be ticking at a slow rate (from the point of view of an observer on Earth of course).
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by vc8f6vVV 4y ago
If a large pebble (or a large piece of space junk) collides with ISS at 16 km/s ISS will be destroyed. That doesn't prevent ISS for being where it is though.
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by vc8f6vVV 4y ago
It's slightly more complicated. The main idea of special relativity theory is that you can't compare "time" at two separate points of "space". E.g. it makes absolutely no sense to compare age of a twin left on
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by vc8f6vVV 5y ago
Travel insurance doesn't cover chronic stuff, its goal is to make you able to travel home as soon as you able to in case you need long-term treatment.
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by vc8f6vVV 5y ago
Nature abhors a vacuum (c) We are social animals and there is no such thing as "all people are equal" or "flat organization". There is always a structure, only it can be explicit and regulated (and usually more efficient
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by vc8f6vVV 5y ago
Ask yourself who paid for the Free Software first. We are all humans and need to eat.
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by vc8f6vVV 5y ago
Even FLOSS enthusiasts need to eat. Money don't come from writing code by itself, they come from sales. Or from donations. In both cases there is a lot of non-coding work. Do you want to do it? I don't. How do we call those guys w
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by vc8f6vVV 5y ago
You understand, that company goal is not to "build a good product", even less to "write a good code", it's to increase a company value (in the sense that "good code" is orthogonal to the goal)? It might be
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by vc8f6vVV 6y ago
Of course most biases is something we learn. Some of them can certainly be harmful if we are out of our ordinary environment, like in your example. Or if bias is based on a false assumption. Evolution simply roots out those individuals who
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by vc8f6vVV 6y ago
It's a bias. Let's assume that all muggers wear red pants (or you have been mugged mostly by people in red pants). So when you see somebody in red pants you cross a street. It's surely not a textbook racism, since no race is

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