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by rfw 8y ago
Seems like an extremely reductive view to take: you can't use time and family to buy food. Gender roles aren't so cut and dry any more. Given that, maybe outcomes should be considered independent of gender?
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by rfw 8y ago
Characterizing people wanting to contribute to the basic living conditions of people so pejoratively as 'unfortunate' and a 'continuation of the "white man's burden" ideology' is an extremely bad faith vie
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by rfw 8y ago
We can implement it with a single `amb` function, too (I took some shortcuts that might have hidden some of the nature of the implementation)! -- Lifts a list into Amb. amb :: [a] -> Amb a If we assume Amb is just List, then
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by rfw 8y ago
amb without side-effects can also be expressed in terms of the List monad, e.g.: do x <- [1, 2, 3] y <- [4, 5, 6] if x * y == 8 then pure (x, y) else [] which can be equivalently reworded as
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by rfw 8y ago
1. https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/inclusivity > The practice or policy of including people who might otherwise be excluded or marginalized, such as those who have physical or mental disabilities and me
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by rfw 8y ago
Dismissing a position as "virtue signaling" is fundamentally lazy. Ironically, aren't you "virtue signaling" right now about how you're sincere enough to be able to look down on people who do it?
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by rfw 8y ago
Inclusivity is about wanting to better include minorities or disabled people in spaces where they may have been discriminated against and affecting their livelihoods, e.g. the workplace. Using a definition of inclusivity here without a cons
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by rfw 8y ago
On what grounds should an unrelated party ( the government, via labor law ) force their will on two voluntarily trading parties, blocking their transaction? Because wage slavery exists and you can't shrug your shoulders and say "w
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by rfw 8y ago
It really doesn't depend on the jail, at all. Having to be incarcerated to have a good livelihood is unforgivably disgusting.
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by rfw 8y ago
If you can spend enough money to say "well, that's not my problem", then you yourself are the problem.
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by rfw 8y ago
If you watch the GIF, the library parses Japanese addresses just fine.
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by rfw 8y ago
What does diversity of thought even mean?
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by rfw 8y ago
Nat = Nat + 1 does end up being meaningful: since ultimately the numbers that fall out (e.g. Bool = 2) end up describing the sizes of sets, an interpretation of Nat is some infinite cardinal (aleph-null), which is the size of the set of nat
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by rfw 8y ago
Quantum computing is not parallel computing: https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/3400 briefly talks about the mechanism of quantum computing and how it is not general parallelism.
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by rfw 8y ago
Can you refute the claims in the video posted? The style is unrelated to the validity of the claims.
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by rfw 9y ago
The SNAP Inc. in question is actually http://www.snapinc.net , an enterprise consultancy.
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by rfw 9y ago
You want people to mine for you for... nothing in return?
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by rfw 9y ago
It's just a convention.
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by rfw 9y ago
Forgive me if I misunderstand, I still don't understand your concern – TypeScript has type safety because it can check types at compile time (vs. JavaScript which has very limited type safety at run time). I don't think it's
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by rfw 9y ago
The US announced their participation in the TPP in 2009, a free trade agreement encompassing trade between the US and New Zealand. The Obama administration had been very gung-ho about its ratification in the US, so I don't think the qu
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by rfw 9y ago
Then you get H-1B fraud complaint fraud ;)
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by rfw 10y ago
I think most people wouldn't know the difference (I had no idea!) and the knowledge might fall into the realm of obscure trivia.
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by rfw 10y ago
The parent comment makes no reference to right wing news, or even any judgment on the fakeness of left or right wing news.
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by rfw 10y ago
Neat! Extension methods and getting rid of "var that = this;" in one! It seems that it also extends to full expressions on the right-hand side of ::, so you can even do, for using Array operations over things that look like arrays
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by rfw 10y ago
The rule is misleading in cases like: int* arr[][10]; Spiral rule would state "arr is an array of pointers to arrays of 10 ints", where actually it would be "arr is an array of array of 10 pointers to int". Inst
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by rfw 10y ago
It probably goes without saying that such egregious corner-cutting shouldn't be happening regardless of being rich or poor.
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by rfw 11y ago
Really? Color me corrected, then :) Does the compiler need a SAT solver then to make sure all the constraints hold?
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by rfw 11y ago
Unfortunately, the usefulness is limited – the size of all Vects must be known at compile time. While this does prevent a large class of bugs that arise from incorrect compile-time knowledge, the size of the class of runtime bugs affected b
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by rfw 11y ago
I believe Compcert still translates programs with undefined behavior and doesn't really do anything about it; or rather, the behavior is defined but based on whatever the Compcert authors define the behavior to be.
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by rfw 11y ago
I love the idea! A few examples are a bit strawmanish but really when you're comparing languages like that who can resist the strawman. The Clojure solutions do sacrifice a lot of safety though, due to dynamic typing (e.g. the visitor

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