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The "blues" created the legislation & forced the workers to accept a shitty contract with no sick days. They could easily have refused to vote for it and let the strike happen w/o …

Umm, if everything was built around the idea that tweets were immutable, yeah I could imagine it's quite a bit of work to change things. Immutable and mutable data can be treated _…

I think this still, somewhat, misses the point. Sure, Racket has facilities to make implementing languages easier (that's the whole point), but that simply makes it _easier_ to imp…

So... unless Grinnell does things very differently, the author did not learn Racket, they learned (Beginning/Intermediate/Advanced) Student Language, and that's the point. Racket i…

At least for me, the main reason for the remarkable to exist is reading scientific papers -- not having to print them out (and keep track of them) is a great benefit, but sometimes…

Ad-free doesn't necessarily mean they aren't tracking you, right? Viewership info is _still_ valuable, even if it's not being used right on the device.

Extending your point, 4% more would go down to just under 3:42.... which has not yet happened, over a half century later.

There are (at least) several goals: 1. persistence, which obviously is hurt by them running out of money. Dropbox links apparently die eventually, static websites bitrot, etc. Thin…

Have you actually done any proofs in one of these systems? (or used one?) Natural numbers are used because of the induction principle you get: it's very useful, and generally strai…

The fact that this was on your list of "improvements" rather than being a minimal requirement before being willing to launch, sell, etc, is pretty damning on it's own. No need to g…

That the task description is only posted at the start of the competition?

Link to the "full privacy policy" 404s, which is not a good thing, given you are asking people to enter their full names, addresses, CC numbers.

Not sure about actually having protected collective bargaining rights (i.e., in the US subject to the NLRA), but pooling resources to have staff attorneys, etc -- certainly possibl…

you ignored "and mark every sensitive field with a special value", which is the key part. As long as all sensitive data has been essentially zero'd out (for some value of zero), al…

I believe in the past you had to open some kind of support request, as there wasn't an "automated" way to do it (and there was maybe still some kind of waiting period after having …

Pattern matching on GADTs will get you there, I believe.

It's amazing that someone can go through this and come to the conclusion, at the end, that the solution is that this is a business opportunity that would make a lot of money if som…

Or, to summarize, we need to take some of the money from the people who are currently extracting it from everyone else... Money, and wealth, is not owned, it is collectively create…

In the simplest case, a macro system gives rise to two-phase evaluation - first, there is code that runs at macro expansion time, that produces, as its result, new syntax, and seco…

The PDF is interesting, but reports no actual data from GA... Seems like that would be relevant, if they are trying to push for more transparency!

> The article doesn't mention Vasigel Did you read the article? About half of it is specifically dedicated to Vasalgel.

You could give them 15 days free use, and only charge it after that... there is a risk that the charge doesn't go through (in which case you've given a couple weeks free service - …

To give him credit, the thing that is appealing about it is that there is very little to it that's not javascript. So you can very easily expect to figure out everything you need t…