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I'll never understand this point of view. If someone would please explain how to create perfectly secure software, I will gladly start writing perfectly secure software. Only after…

What will actually happen is that frauds and poorly run companies will opt for the 6 month schedule while well run ones will keep the 3 month. To your point that "executives should…

Absolutely. Zuckerberg was willing to burn tens of billions on a metaverse that no one wanted. Staying relevant is worth every penny he spent on Moltbook. We're deep in a repeat of…

I'm in my mid-40's now. I taught myself C when I was 15. I have no desire to use LLMs to pump out code. I take comfort in re-reading much of the 70's and 80's literature which focu…

Doubtful. I knew Ono as an undergrad at Wisconsin. He has far too much integrity for that. He's always been involved in mentoring high schoolers, undergrads, and, of course, his ow…

For anyone outside the US, exactly 0% of the populace is interested in a confrontation with Venezuela. This looks like an unpopular president eager for a rally around the troops mo…

Trump sends migrants overseas to be tortured. Mamdani says the very rich should pay a little more for better city services (free buses, etc.). These are not comparable at all. What…

The current US federal tax system already is progressive in this way. Your first $X are taxed at 0%, the next $Y at 10%, etc. up to 37%. Your UBI in your formula is basically the s…

I think the video streaming services are a good model to follow. You go on Prime Video and see videos from several decades, dozens of cable & broadcast networks, and hundreds or th…

Yes, you're still calculating an infinite decimal, no matter how you approach the problem. What Wildberger is suggesting is that, rather than taking an nth root (solution to x^n = …

I believe this is superseded by the Willow protocol [0] which was posted here a while back. I tried to read about Willow, but could never make heads or tails of it [1]. It seems to…

I suspect they gave him a timeline to IPO and/or sell or he's kicked out as CEO. His recent actions are those of a man with a deadline and nothing to lose.

To put a little color on the BSD conjecture, it states that the rank (0, 1, 2, 3, etc.) of rational points on an elliptic curve is related to the residue (coefficient of 1/q) of th…

While I have no love for Ambetter, I think we need to ask whether behavioral health services should ever be covered by insurance. From 10,000 feet, the behavioral health product is…

So ... a president can now order an executive branch officer to ignore any Supreme Court decision or law passed by Congress with absolute immunity? Seems like the Supreme Court is …

Crypto? I'm _shocked_.

Not entirely true. I moved a block away from the local college with three daughters in elementary school specifically to take advantage of the businesses and enrichment activities …

Almost. What I wrote is more like: create view LoggedInUserView as select u.id as id, u.name as name, u.email as email from Users u join Cookies c on c.name = 'login' and u.id = c.…

I greatly respect what Stu and Rich have done to make Datomic. However, they made an explicit design decision to not include a query optimizer and execute the clauses as they were …

On a syntax level, parsing, generating, and templating datalog is _much_ simpler than doing the same to SQL. DBT would never exist if every SQL database accepted datalog queries an…

Souffle and Cozo mentioned below already implement the whole of "traditional" datalog. Percival ( https://github.com/ekzhang/percival ) has some very nice examples showing how you …

I wish people would stop referring to Datomic as datalog. Datomic is many things, but only the query format (Horn clauses with unification of variables, similar to prolog) has anyt…

Having worked with this data extensively (tynbil.com) and talked to several payers and providers, I don't think any of this intentional. CMS did their best at guessing what format …

And why this has not been prosecuted as giant racketeering operation is beyond me.