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It's "Thinking, Fast and Slow", and the study in question is hardly "key" to the book, it gets all of one paragraph in chapter 4.

Based on the actual voting record, on the most serious issues, she's about on par with the worst president of the modern era. Cruz and Trump would be worse, sure, but not by "a mil…

The person Lessig would theoretically be Nadering, you do realize that as a Senator she voted on the wrong side of all of those bad things you're pointing out, right?

"as opposed to"? People only have one money? I threw $n at a shot to get an honest, articulate voice on stage at an early-primary-season debate, to hopefully influence the party/ev…

The actual damages that resulted from his actions were pretty small and purely financial. Even if you prosecute on the basis of what could have happened (maybe we start charging ev…

Keys posted active credentials to a forum, and those credentials were used by others to deface a website. Do you regard that as a fair statement of what happened? Still completely …

Keys is an asshole, and low-level nonviolent drug offenders absolutely should not be treated as they are. Both of these things are completely irrelevant to the fact that any jail t…

Do you have any pointers to papers describing how vote auditing techniques extend to liquid democracy? The Google paper doesn't even acknowledge the problem, much less describe a s…

I'm a big fan of this general idea but taken to the limit of being able to delegate all issue votes to any person goes too far, and I'd prefer a system that elected representatives…

I'm bored of C++ apologists pretending like there's really such a thing as 'modern and idiomatic C++11/14' that any two C++ programmers actually agree on, or that you'd ever actual…

In the cases where your application can benefit from parallelizing simple operations over a large data set stored in a collection, `parallel()` is fine. It's even fine in the case …

The main reason they build these on Stream rather than Iterable is b/c they wanted to include the `parallel()` method, which works via "spliterators" rather than plain old iterator…

Congratulations, haters: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/20944

Video cpms can be well over $10, a 40M-view video could easily make a few $100k (though, of course, only a % of that ends up in the creator's pocket). 500k views could be a few tho…

What do you mean by 'low-level extensions'? There's nothing in the language proper that can't run on bare metal, how much lower can you get? If anything, it's the functional parts …

I wouldn't say "trying to keep breaking changes to a minimum"; breaking changes still happen a lot. More accurate would be that breaking changes are happening less frequently than …

I'm only through the introduction right now, but assuming that it's representative of what's coming later, Piketty isn't saying 'r > g' as mathematical fact, he's saying ' when r >…

It's a matter of taste. I personally feel that your specific examples make Rust more readable, because of how little space gets wasted on those frequent, unambiguous names. Ubiquit…

Him switching from being neck-deep in compiler issues to actually using the language in anger on whatever it is he's doing now might end up being really good for the language. His …

Yes, it's just bindings to open-ssl. Yes, it's probably a little clunky to use. But we just went from "a decade or so before you can do anything networking related" to "ssl takes m…

No, but they probably could be, there are open-ssl bindings available: https://github.com/sfackler/rust-openssl

you're going to be waiting like a decade or so before you can do anything networking related with it Not true. My 'learn rust' project is pcap-based and has a trivial websocket imp…

"This is then picked up by every JSON-RPC server and they will intersect those two tags, sending the event {hello: 'world'} to any connection that matches." Do you see this eventua…