jfager

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by jfager 10y ago
It's "Thinking, Fast and Slow", and the study in question is hardly "key" to the book, it gets all of one paragraph in chapter 4.
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by jfager 11y ago
Based on the actual voting record, on the most serious issues, she's about on par with the worst president of the modern era. Cruz and Trump would be worse, sure, but not by "a million times", more like 2x. Four years of let
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by jfager 11y ago
The person Lessig would theoretically be Nadering, you do realize that as a Senator she voted on the wrong side of all of those bad things you're pointing out, right?
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by jfager 11y ago
"as opposed to"? People only have one money? I threw $n at a shot to get an honest, articulate voice on stage at an early-primary-season debate, to hopefully influence the party/eventual candidate's agenda. It didn&#x27
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by jfager 11y ago
The actual damages that resulted from his actions were pretty small and purely financial. Even if you prosecute on the basis of what could have happened (maybe we start charging everyone who runs a red light with manslaughter?), we'r
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by jfager 11y ago
Keys posted active credentials to a forum, and those credentials were used by others to deface a website. Do you regard that as a fair statement of what happened? Still completely insane to send someone to prison for that.
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by jfager 11y ago
Keys is an asshole, and low-level nonviolent drug offenders absolutely should not be treated as they are. Both of these things are completely irrelevant to the fact that any jail time for defacing a website is completely insane , the res
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by jfager 11y ago
Do you have any pointers to papers describing how vote auditing techniques extend to liquid democracy? The Google paper doesn't even acknowledge the problem, much less describe a solution, and most of the other papers I've read o
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by jfager 11y ago
I'm a big fan of this general idea but taken to the limit of being able to delegate all issue votes to any person goes too far, and I'd prefer a system that elected representatives who accrue a threshold number of votes. There ar
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by jfager 11y ago
I'm bored of C++ apologists pretending like there's really such a thing as 'modern and idiomatic C++11/14' that any two C++ programmers actually agree on, or that you'd ever actually see practiced consistently
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by jfager 12y ago
In the cases where your application can benefit from parallelizing simple operations over a large data set stored in a collection, `parallel()` is fine. It's even fine in the case where you're pulling data from a file or other low
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by jfager 12y ago
The main reason they build these on Stream rather than Iterable is b/c they wanted to include the `parallel()` method, which works via "spliterators" rather than plain old iterators. In other words, in order to support a gimm
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by jfager 12y ago
Congratulations, haters: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/20944
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by jfager 12y ago
Video cpms can be well over $10, a 40M-view video could easily make a few $100k (though, of course, only a % of that ends up in the creator's pocket). 500k views could be a few thousand. Spread your equipment costs out over a bunch o
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by jfager 12y ago
What do you mean by 'low-level extensions'? There's nothing in the language proper that can't run on bare metal, how much lower can you get? If anything, it's the functional parts that feel bolted on: closures are
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by jfager 12y ago
I wouldn't say "trying to keep breaking changes to a minimum"; breaking changes still happen a lot. More accurate would be that breaking changes are happening less frequently than they were and generally require less effort
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by jfager 12y ago
I'm only through the introduction right now, but assuming that it's representative of what's coming later, Piketty isn't saying 'r > g' as mathematical fact, he's saying ' when r > g, divergenc
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by jfager 12y ago
It's a matter of taste. I personally feel that your specific examples make Rust more readable, because of how little space gets wasted on those frequent, unambiguous names. Ubiquitous boilerplete-ish things that show up everywhere sh
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by jfager 13y ago
Him switching from being neck-deep in compiler issues to actually using the language in anger on whatever it is he's doing now might end up being really good for the language. His twitter stream has started filling up with wtf's
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by jfager 13y ago
Yes, it's just bindings to open-ssl. Yes, it's probably a little clunky to use. But we just went from "a decade or so before you can do anything networking related" to "ssl takes more than 3 lines". I can li
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by jfager 13y ago
No, but they probably could be, there are open-ssl bindings available: https://github.com/sfackler/rust-openssl
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by jfager 13y ago
you're going to be waiting like a decade or so before you can do anything networking related with it Not true. My 'learn rust' project is pcap-based and has a trivial websocket implementation, and (after the basic learning
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by jfager 13y ago
"This is then picked up by every JSON-RPC server and they will intersect those two tags, sending the event {hello: 'world'} to any connection that matches." Do you see this eventually becoming your bottleneck (every rpc
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by jfager 13y ago
Staten Island Ferry is free now. Best way to see the Statue of Liberty up closish.
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by jfager 13y ago
Neil Barofsky talks about this at length in his book. If you really want to be infuriated, read it to find out how Treasury viewed this program: not as a way to actually help homeowners, but as a way to "foam the runway" for the
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by jfager 14y ago
I don't get it. She's building the nursery at the office , how does that contradict a no-working-from-home policy? She's explicitly not working from home. Rank-and-file don't get nurseries in their office? Ok, they don't get a CEO salary
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by jfager 14y ago
From the original post (emphasis added): "we currently have 2x as many female interns as male ones who have signed their offers to join us " From this post: "Even though we all knew it wouldn’t last as acceptances come in (it already ha
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by jfager 14y ago
The prosecutors actually working the case were Scott L. Garland and Stephen P. Heymann. (source: http://ia600504.us.archive.org/29/items/gov.uscourts.mad.137... )
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by jfager 14y ago
I am so sorry for your loss. Aaron was a true hero of mine, of the net, and of the world. We will all miss him greatly.
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by jfager 14y ago
AIG isn't a company run by widows and orphans. The department that issued that insurance was full of the most stereotypical Wall Street shark assholes around, who thought they were smarter than everyone else and getting a big free payday.

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