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For an international perspective: buying and selling government bonds is far from an universal mechanism for interest rate control (AFAIK when discussing central banks the US is al…

Personally I think decimal time fails to recognize the cyclical nature of days. Decimal time is like switching from 360 degrees to gradians. A far superior better system would be t…

The fundamental reason why many functional languages won't allow you to do the first is that they use immutable data structures. We could indeed introduce syntactic sugar (`y= (x[0…

I don't Mercerism is about androids at all. If you read enough PKD short stories, Mercerism is just another of these cool ideas that appear all over the place.

Have you seen the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Multiple Dispatch talk on YouTube? It's pretty good if you have the time

If you read the thread, he appears to have asked for the last 30 to 60 days of code, printed. So not code they're proud of, literally everything. And why printed?

I guess he's referring to the fact that the glut of investment around 2017-2018 was followed by disappointment due to startups overpromising. I agree that from the technical side (…

One of the issues I had with Go was that even though functions can return pseudo-tuples (multiple return values), there are no tuples anywhere else in the language. So you can't ch…

This assumes that the lost human years are productive years, which I think is dubious at best given the demographics of Covid death. We could count "years of productive work lost",…

Yeah, but obviously the "stuff" has led to a Red Queen problem, with the outcome being incredible waste of electricity and computing resources (compared to PoS or having a less com…

The justification is that contrarily to PoW, where there are economies of scale on computing power, PoS power scales linearly with your stake. Mining has been concentrated in the h…

Not really. Using a statistical approach to text modelling, specifically using Markov Chains, was proposed by Shannon in 1948. But yeah, there's a point in the 2000s where generati…