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The person to look to for explanations of why OCaml/SML and not Haskell is Bob Harper. For example, the module system vs ad hoc polymorphism: https://existentialtype.wordpress.com/…

I know the Effingo team at Google. It comes from Latin https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/effingo#Latin

That's all included in the article, which admittedly is behind a paywall. He goes into great detail, including purchasing power parity, means vs medians, etc. And the conclusion is…

> As far as know the amount of poor people in the usa is also way higher than in Europe. If we take that into account i'd say that Europe is doing just fine. Citation needed. No, E…

This is a great observation! Indeed, most languages have very few words for smells. - https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/11/the-voca... - https://www.wired.com/2014/1…

Noah Smith is no activist. He was a professor of finance and a journalist for the Associated Press, Bloomberg, and other reputable outlets. He now writes a very successful Substack…

This is a common misconception. Actually the primary fix is indeed to make affordable housing available. https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/everything-you-think-you-know-...

Stannous flouride stains my teeth and I avoid it like the plague.

One way to think about it: the world you are proposing is equivalent to one where the central bank fully monetizes all government debt. That possibility is a strict subset of the s…

All signs pointing to a stock market recovery: - Decreased consumer savings - Decreased foreign savings Plugged into the profit equation: https://www.levyforecast.com/assets/Profit…

There's a difference between economics and finance. It is possible to have real economic problems while having sound financial flows. That's what's happening now. Inflation is the …

No. The persecution of religious minorities in Europe culminated in the Holocaust, which led to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Don't blame the minorities who have suffe…

There is something called fund flow: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fund-flow.asp If a company issues $1000 of new stock, then that's an inflow of $1000 into the company. And…

I'm always surprised when people assume that inflation implies that wages will rise commensurately.

Pub/Sub Lite is a cheap managed cloud service on GCP: https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/lite/docs With a Kafka compatibility shim: https://github.com/googleapis/java-pubsublite-kafka…

You can use Pub/Sub Lite: https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/lite/docs With a Kafka compatibility shim: https://github.com/googleapis/java-pubsublite-kafka Disclaimer: I work on GCP.

People should read Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber [1]. Then they would learn that debt 1) is viewed in very different ways in different cultures, places and times 2) i…

Increasing debt also means increasing savings. One person's date is another person's savings.

NYC lindy hopper here.

Does it also help that the code doesn't actually cast the raw pointer to references? It only uses the read and write methods.

Can you explain that more? Because the requirement I pasted about having unique aliases does come from the UnsafeCell documentation. My understanding is that &mut still needs to be…