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by zigzigzag 10y ago
The actual HotSpot JVM itself is about 10mb, but that includes 4 GCs and 2 JIT compilers. The Avian JVM can statically link an entire program and widget toolkit with itself and produce a 1mb binary. It's not that big a deal. The space
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
Please re-read my post. I say explicitly that both sides in the civil war were being supported by US/UK and Russia respectively, with soldiers and equipment. However, this does not mean the USA invaded Ukraine, nor did Russia invade
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
I did read the sources, at the time it was happening. And I, too, am shocked at the total and successful rewrite of recent history the western media and government establishments have pulled off. It is stunningly Orwellian and extremely sca
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
I don't think fake news is a useful term, it never has been. The media has been flooded with both outright fake news and more importantly missing news for years, when it was supporting the Democrat world view. For instance, just go loo
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
I think the more interesting thing about these ancient programs is the question of why projects to modernise them fail over and over again. Of course we can already guess many of the answers without even reading any post-mortems, but obviou
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
Slightly non-trivial? :)
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
I think unfortunately the conclusion reached by the non-Hacker-News world will be "the solution to all of this requires banning Bitcoin". This explosion of ransoms is getting nastier and nastier. It appears to have no end. Bitcoin
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
You just committed the inverse fallacy of appeal to authority. The parent observed that writers in the NYT, whether opinion writers or not, have an established track record of crying wolf in this regard. Pointing out a group or even an indi
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
> Those who study the decline in standards of evidence and reasoning in the U.S. electorate chiefly blame politicians’ concerted efforts from the 1970s to discredit expertise, degrade trust in Congress and its members, even question the
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
Kotlin does it more efficiently. But you wouldn't want it to be an error to use get without calling ifPresent. Sometimes you know that the type system is wrong and that in fact, although this thing is optional, it will in your case alw
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
IntelliJ's debugger has decent support for working with functional code. Also the IDE can convert between map/filter/fold type functional pipelines and imperative loops automatically.
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
That takes you down the road of arguing the USA isn't a democracy, which is a fine semantic argument of little relevance to current events. If this starts a movement to abolish the electoral college, great, but the core problem here is
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
Well, but how is it not democratic? Didn't Trump say many times he'd do exactly this, and he won? Arguably executive orders should not exist, nor should a powerful President. The Swiss system of a rapidly rotating presidency and s
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
But we aren't talking about the short term, or are we? 50 years in the grand scheme of things seems quite short term when discussing such extreme cases as a communist country that was starving only decades ago and Switzerland: they are
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
You just proved my point. There is no actual evidence that Switzerland is a good place to live because of "stolen" money - in reality, in the American case, not even slightly stolen money but legitimate money owned by legitimate e
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
That's obviously unknowable, but I present evidence that the model has scaled. I see no reason why China couldn't become as wealthy as Switzerland if it followed the same models (but I doubt it will any time soon).
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
But if the export markets were as rich as Switzerland, they would buy even more luxury watches. So I don't see how your point makes sense. The Swiss model does seem to scale. The population has scaled from 6.2 million in 1970 to about
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
It was remarked on, just using different terms that weren't in use back in 1948 and generally not by the media who were complicit in the manipulation (and frequently the target of it). The whole phenomenon of political correctness and
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
The Stasi were simply a recreation/extension of Soviet secret police tactics.
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
This is a perfect example of why downvoting shouldn't exist. None of the things you think you saw in the OPs comment are there. He is expressing an opinion that is widely held, here is a good essay on the habit of anti-Trump people of
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
The JVM has tons of concurrency tools, it's absolutely designed with concurrency in mind. You can write code in the channels style if you want too.
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
I absolutely agree. Unfortunately convincing governments to roll back anti-money laundering laws would be like pulling teeth. They only ever make them more aggressive.
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
caught laundering money[1] (or at the very least not preventing it) Those are of course two totally different things. Money laundering has a very vague definition in law. So banks can never prevent it entirely. That makes a huge differenc
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
Anti-money laundering laws explicitly do not require a criminal standard of proof. This is by design - governments and in particular the US government which insists on all this stuff regardless of what other countries thing absolutely lo
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
It is probably a question of money. The testimony of the leaker is full of references to the Americans supposedly doing things better and more professionally. If true, that is surely a funding issue.
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
How is the correct and safe functioning of the system they are voting to renew "orthogonal"?
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
Is there more context here I'm missing? The emails don't say much, but they do refer to "our polling".
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
Then you probably should, before making such claims. IntelliJ can do refactorings like the following: Extract code into a function, automatically suggested by duplicated code detection. Inline functions back into call sites. Convert impera
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
I'll be interested to see if Eta takes off more than Frege. It seems like a good way to get haskell+java libraries together.
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
Campaigns often conduct private polling that they pay for, why should this be illegal? I don't see anything wrong in that email - all it means is that they wanted to get more resolution for certain demographics, I think.

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