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Does someone know how cross-border payments work, and why it would be complicated for countries to link up their sovereign systems? The article gives the example of Brazil and Indi…

Is this real?

Please please do this

The author makes no effort to explain why AI :isn’t: a commodity as Apple and Amazon says. I was looking forward to that. I think the article is weak for not defending its premise.…

Yeah nowadays I think non-ClojureScript people use it mostly for legacy reasons or the aggressive minification. Back in the day, aside from the pre-ES5 conveniences I mentioned sur…

Yes and yes; in the past, prior to ECMAScript providing first-class inheritance, module ex/imports etc, the Library supplied methods to achieve these in development, and the Compil…

I think you are conflating the Closure Library with the Closure Compiler. They are related but not identical. The Compiler, I think, is what makes it difficult to use externs; its …

Why would one choose MS SQL nowadays? I am curious, why did the author choose it?

If you’re on a Mac or iOS you could try creating a Shortcut where you input Markdown, convert to rich text, then output as a PDF. I use Shortcuts regularly. It’s pretty easy to set…

> NVIDIA is the only viable seller of shovels for this gold rush for everyone but Google and Anthropic. Why do you except Google and Anthropic?

I think the OP is posting this in the context of the other front-page discussion of the Bluesky protocol. I think in this context it is interesting. https://news.ycombinator.com/it…

“Decline I” is an instruction for the student to provide the first person pronoun in all cases: I (nominative), me (accusative/dative/ablative), my (genitive), mine (genitive subst…

This case is about whose interpretation gets to fill in the gaps. The statute (APA) requires courts to form an independent judgment about the gaps. The Chevron doctrine required co…

It struck me that Jepsen has identified clear situations leading to invariant violations but Datomic’s approach seems to have been purely to clarify their documentation. Does this …

Thank you for this, but thank you especially for virtual threads! They are awesome! Is point 2 a virtual-thread only risk, or would we incur it with regular threads too?

> things get complicated with virtual threads, they shouldn't be pooled, as they aren't a scarce resource Why not pool virtual threads, though? I get that they’re not scarce, but i…

Clojure’s immutable data structures are implemented as hash-array mapped tries, inspired by Phil Bagwell’s paper [1]. Other languages followed suit. [1] https://os.unil.cloud.switc…

Spoiler alert. In /The Three-Body Problem/, by Cixin Liu, a planet in the Alpha Centauri system is inhabited by an advanced alien civilization that evolved to survive the hardships…

The Fed’s rates increases are predicated on the belief that they will “tame inflation.” But Fed representatives recognize it’s a blunt instrument, which in particular won’t address…

A good way to de-risk yourself, so I’d probably take it. But in a private tender offer like this (as opposed to an IPO) the employees will likely pay ordinary income tax, regardles…

This is true. I think college towns are a boon, too, for remote workers who are looking for a lower cost of living than in large urban centers, without detriment to some of the nic…

I wouldn’t dismiss Flutter out of hand. It’s more popular even than React Native! https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/02/21/why-flutter-is-the-mos...