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2,268karma·1,108submissions·October 2, 2022
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"you don't have a function a: X x Y -> Z, you've got a function a: X -> (Y => Z)" Haskell has products. What's the problem with f': ghci> f x y = x + y ghci&g…
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How can Argentina proceed and get out of the trap? If the great decoupling continues Argentina can default the IMF loans and start getting into the Chinese trap. Waiting for: "Part two of this ar…
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In Linuxland 20 years ago "Native POSIX Thread Library" an 1:1 implementation won as well (1). Go's M:N Threading is a great success. I guess M:N threading is harder to implement at the…
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Yes the stakes are higher now. Minsk II was gambled away. Everyone would be better off if the agreement had been implemented honestly.
(by both sides). People are dying and the next deal will get wors…
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I reposted it with original headline. (I submitted this as "Ask HN .." but it got removed)
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Andrej Bauer wrote a popular post in 2016 (Hask is not a category): https://math.andrej.com/2016/08/06/hask-is-not-a-category/ Mathematicians are still thinking ab…
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The blame game started. Without these pacifists we surely would have won.
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It should be enough to see how things are going now:
many thousands die because of the nationality of a peninsula. Without me
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A stumbled over this anecdote about Piero Sraffa and Ludwig Wittgenstein. I like it.
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Thanks for your patience. This is new information for me and it didn't fit my priors. (I do not claim understanding marxism, it's a vast field und marxists enjoy fighting each other. I actua…
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Thanks, I'll start with Wages of Destruction. Lately Adam Tooze has been writing too much, his Javelin Chartbook post on Substack for example is ridiculous. But probably everyone has bad days. I …
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Maybe 20 years ago Sun changed the Java threading model from m:n to 1:1. Because of problems. Loom seems to be a new implementation of m:n Threading for Java. How does your implementation compare? ---…
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Did not know about it: "For Tooze, this Marx – the ‘empirical’ Marx – anticipates his own brand of grounded contemporary history" (1) But "Ultra-Marxist" surely doesn't fit. I…
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I agree here: taxes (on the rich) are replaced by debt But you do not have to subscribe to MMT. (I see MMT as wishful thinking by social democrats who have already given up their fight)
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Adam Tooze has some insights: "The most obvious common factor in explaining the UK’s miserable trajectory is that it represents the accumulated consequences of a sustained failure to invest."…
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This is welcome: "In other words, we’ve found TypeScript 5.0 Beta only takes 81% of the time it takes TypeScript 4.9 to build VS Code."
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Stumbling about this essay. How much has US foreign policy in South America changed? (no interference in Brazil, Chile, Colombia)