jganetsk

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by jganetsk 1y ago
The person to look to for explanations of why OCaml/SML and not Haskell is Bob Harper. For example, the module system vs ad hoc polymorphism: https://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/04/16/modules-mat..
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An Empirical Study of Wireless Carrier Authentication for SIM Swaps(issms2fasecure.com)
1 points by jganetsk 2y ago|0 comments
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by jganetsk 2y ago
I know the Effingo team at Google. It comes from Latin https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/effingo#Latin
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by jganetsk 3y ago
That's all included in the article, which admittedly is behind a paywall. He goes into great detail, including purchasing power parity, means vs medians, etc. And the conclusion is the US generates more wealth for the middle class than
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by jganetsk 3y ago
> As far as know the amount of poor people in the usa is also way higher than in Europe. If we take that into account i'd say that Europe is doing just fine. Citation needed. No, Europe is not doing just fine. https://www
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by jganetsk 3y ago
This is a great observation! Indeed, most languages have very few words for smells. - https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/11/the-voca... - https://www.wired.com/2014/11&
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by jganetsk 3y ago
Noah Smith is no activist. He was a professor of finance and a journalist for the Associated Press, Bloomberg, and other reputable outlets. He now writes a very successful Substack.
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by jganetsk 3y ago
This is a common misconception. Actually the primary fix is indeed to make affordable housing available. https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/everything-you-think-you-know-...
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by jganetsk 3y ago
Stannous flouride stains my teeth and I avoid it like the plague.
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by jganetsk 4y ago
One way to think about it: the world you are proposing is equivalent to one where the central bank fully monetizes all government debt. That possibility is a strict subset of the space of possible monetary policies we have today. The Fed co
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25% of hiring managers are less likely to move forward with Jewish applicants(resumebuilder.com)
6 points by jganetsk 4y ago|5 comments
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by jganetsk 4y ago
All signs pointing to a stock market recovery: - Decreased consumer savings - Decreased foreign savings Plugged into the profit equation: https://www.levyforecast.com/assets/Profits.pdf US corporate profits should be s
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by jganetsk 5y ago
There's a difference between economics and finance. It is possible to have real economic problems while having sound financial flows. That's what's happening now. Inflation is the consequence: there's more money chasing
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by jganetsk 5y ago
No. The persecution of religious minorities in Europe culminated in the Holocaust, which led to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Don't blame the minorities who have suffered and continue to suffer.
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The Danger of Loving Your Job(theatlantic.com)
1 points by jganetsk 5y ago|0 comments
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by jganetsk 5y ago
There is something called fund flow: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fund-flow.asp If a company issues $1000 of new stock, then that's an inflow of $1000 into the company. And if it buys back $1000 of st
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by jganetsk 5y ago
I'm always surprised when people assume that inflation implies that wages will rise commensurately.
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by jganetsk 5y ago
Pub/Sub Lite is a cheap managed cloud service on GCP: https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/lite/docs With a Kafka compatibility shim: https://github.com/googleapis/java-pubsublite-kafka Discl
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by jganetsk 5y ago
You can use Pub/Sub Lite: https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/lite/docs With a Kafka compatibility shim: https://github.com/googleapis/java-pubsublite-kafka Disclaimer: I work on GCP.
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by jganetsk 6y ago
People should read Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber [1]. Then they would learn that debt 1) is viewed in very different ways in different cultures, places and times 2) is not always bad 3) should not always be paid off. [1] htt
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by jganetsk 6y ago
Increasing debt also means increasing savings. One person's date is another person's savings.
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by jganetsk 6y ago
NYC lindy hopper here.
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by jganetsk 6y ago
Does it also help that the code doesn't actually cast the raw pointer to references? It only uses the read and write methods.
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by jganetsk 6y ago
Can you explain that more? Because the requirement I pasted about having unique aliases does come from the UnsafeCell documentation. My understanding is that &mut still needs to be a unique alias even when it comes from an UnsafeCell.
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by jganetsk 6y ago
Ok you are right.
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by jganetsk 6y ago
I don't know that synchronizing with acquire-release is enough to make LLVM happy in this case. Mutable references are tagged with the LLVM noalias attribute. Rust language folks are very adamant about how wrong it is to end up with mu
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by jganetsk 6y ago
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by jganetsk 6y ago
I disagree. - There is plenty of talk of block cipher modes. What do you mean "nobody talks about" them? - Block cipher modes are critically important but a lot of them are fairly straightforward and standard. - Understanding how
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by jganetsk 6y ago
It assumes that at least 1 thread is running at all times. There are algorithms that can make progress this way.
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by jganetsk 6y ago
> I don't get it ; how could "locking a mutex" not be considered as an "operation that are designed to block" ? That's not what is being claimed here. What is being said is that an algorithm that blocks a th

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