gridaphobe

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by gridaphobe 8y ago
You rightly point out that income disparity metrics can be manipulated, but changing the calculation (eg by ignoring Bezos) does nothing to change the actual disparity, it just makes it harder to detect... So what exactly is your point?
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by gridaphobe 8y ago
> sensible reforms to tenancy laws that protect the vulnerable while not making it impossible to build new housing. The author also addresses this point, or rather exposes it as a non-issue. > One common belief, even in many liberal c
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by gridaphobe 8y ago
Or it could be the causation is correct, but for a rather unsavory reason, the wealth came from economic rents due to IP protections. The argument that IP defenders need to make is that these innovations could not have happened without st
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by gridaphobe 8y ago
Can you point to where the author recommended that Google and co. be forced to hire black women (or any identity group for that matter)? What she did say is that it's not surprising that Google search produces biased results, given tha
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by gridaphobe 9y ago
Why should it be YouTube’s responsibility to enforce copyright? Shouldn’t the beneficiaries of copyright be the ones to pay for its enforcement? If that were the case we might see many fewer claims, simply because it’s not worth the time&#x
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by gridaphobe 9y ago
I see your point, but it seems to rest on the rest on the way we determine when capital gains are realized. Capital gains accumulate regularly just like other sources of income; in my mind the tax obligation is incurred at the time of the g
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by gridaphobe 9y ago
Why are you singling out capital gains? Your argument works equally well for labor-based income, but capital gains are already taxed much less than labor.
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by gridaphobe 9y ago
You seem to be implying that morality is subjective, which I think is a dangerous belief. People may believe their actions are ethical, but that doesn’t necessarily make them correct.
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by gridaphobe 9y ago
It’s standard to use the capital city to refer to the actions of a state. Tel Aviv is the internationally accepted capital of Israel, not Jerusalem.
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by gridaphobe 12y ago
One of my favorite quotes about Haskell is "We cannot afford QA teams, so we use a sadistic compiler".
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by gridaphobe 12y ago
That seems like more of an argument in favor of having all source code available (i.e. not using closed-source libraries) than an argument against OOP. The question of what code executes when you call `person.walk()` is no different than th
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by gridaphobe 14y ago
Chicago's problem is that their guns laws only affect the city itself. If a criminal wants a gun he need only drive out of Chicago, buy the gun, and drive back home. In fact, a recent article (don't have the link on hand, sorry) pointed out
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by gridaphobe 14y ago
Where are you studying? My undergrad (City College of New York) was mostly C++/Java with the exception of the PL course, which used Scheme. We also had an elective that taught x86 assembly. I had to discover and learn Haskell on my own :)
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by gridaphobe 14y ago
C is a language I'd like to see make a reappearance in CS curricula. It's great that most programmers today don't have to deal with memory management and pointers, but I think a CS degree should leave the student with a basic grasp of the f
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by gridaphobe 14y ago
Learn You A Haskell is a really great book for newcomers to functional programming, I can't recommend it enough.
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by gridaphobe 14y ago
http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
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by gridaphobe 14y ago
Cider is, IIRC, regularly used to port games to OSX, but the results are pretty poor in my experience. The winelib/cider method of porting raises an interesting question, should I as a mac/linux user have to pay the same price as a windows
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by gridaphobe 14y ago
I don't think the concern is that the next generation of doctors will be incompetent, but perhaps they won't be as quick as their elders. There are times where you can't wait 30 seconds for Watson to suggest a course of action.
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by gridaphobe 14y ago
A policeman's job is to enforce the law, not kill criminals. In this case that means arresting the bank robber so he can be brought to trial. If the bank robber comes out of the bank "guns blazing" then the police are certainly justified to
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by gridaphobe 14y ago
Interesting point about motorcycles. I wonder though, would motorcycles actually benefit from seatbelts? In an accident a car will provide a substantial amount of protection to the driver, so it's in the driver's interest to be fastened in
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by gridaphobe 14y ago
If the FBI supplied this guy with a fake bomb, what crime did the guy commit? He obviously didn't commit an act of terrorism. I don't even think you can claim he /attempted/ to commit such an act since the FBI gave him a fake. So we're left
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by gridaphobe 14y ago
The type of map is `(a -> b) -> [a] -> [b]`, which means that map takes a function from any type `a` to any type `b` and a list of `a`s, and returns a list of `b`s. Generics, aka parametric polymorphism, are required for this be
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by gridaphobe 14y ago
Why is it so hard for people to conceive of the possibility that there may be multiple issues contributing to tragedies like Friday's? Mental illness is certainly an issue that does not get enough attention in the US. Gun control is also an
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by gridaphobe 14y ago
Thanks for the link, sounds really cool!
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by gridaphobe 14y ago
Heh, I misread the title as "Realtime statistics of Haskell programmers" and was expecting a study of how haskell programmers work. I'd actually be really interested to see a study comparing the brain activity of a haskell programmer vs a s
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by gridaphobe 14y ago
How do you handle window-switching on OSX? I haven't found anything that satisfactorily reproduces the simple mod-j/k keys of xmonad.
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by gridaphobe 14y ago
How much material is covered by any single MS certificate? A semester's worth? If an entire 4-year curriculum were covered by the certification exam, it would be near impossible IMO to cram. Of course, having your entire college record deci
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by gridaphobe 14y ago
Is it possible to launch using just a single dyno and heavy caching/optimization?
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by gridaphobe 14y ago
I'd be very interested to see/try it. The lack of a decent WM in OSX is one of the main things that keeps ArchLinux on my MBA.
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by gridaphobe 14y ago
Isn't Google one of the few corporations that hasn't started using patents offensively? Assuming that's the case, I think it would be reasonable to stockpile patents defensively, even if they abhor patents. It's just a terrible situation, t

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