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Whoa - I was there! This was at a small elm-lang meetup; Prezi hosted this while Evan was working there. Thank you for sharing this link!

Unless it turns out that strong protections for intellectual property rights isn't correlated with the survival of a sovereign nation. Then it won't matter how loudly the internati…

Well yeah, that apparent injustice is the ethical rationale behind a progressive wealth tax, once you've decided to enforce property rights.

A home produces rents. If you live in the home that you own, you can think of it equivalently as a productive asset that provides you one unit of free rent (modulo some quality of …

Credit allows people to purchase things beyond their current wealth but rather within their future means to pay (their future productivity and trustworthiness). This is particularl…

Yep. It boils down to wanting to work at a place where it's OK to make mistakes, but unacceptable to not learn from mistakes. It's a culture thing, and it comes from the top.

This is silly and short-sighted. There are many people who genuinely want to 'serve and protect', multiple generations in some families. Some people take duty very seriously and in…

> more than one train on a line at a given time. Seems like the system is capable running different trains in different sections; the pressure/vacuum system is distributed and segm…

I mean, it's all about "for whom" in this question. What's better, widgets and a polluted stream, or no widgets? Depends on whether society values the fish.

Sure, but then you're paying an attorney, not a bot.

QE is monetary policy. The (somewhat simplified) difference between the two: Fiscal policy is taxes and expenditures; monetary policy is what your central bank does.

There's probably going to be something like do-notation in Elm 0.16.

Authorization is a good fit - express your groups and roles as facts and rules (primitives) and then queries are... queries.

...Qualcomm will offer licenses to 3G and 4G essential patents and will no longer require the bundling of those rights with other patents in its portfolio... Wow, is that a common …

Regarding moving script code off the main thread: I wrote a cooperative FRP engine that multiplexes signal graph update recalculation onto Web Workers. UI updates like virtual DOM …

For the record, I voted for enum, like in rust-lang ;-) This was going to be contentious no matter what. For what it's worth, Wikipedia (top Google result) seems to have a compatib…

I've been with them since SOPA. Never had issues but I'm not power user.

That's pretty cool. I'm a casual user who might go on a hike a few times a year; thought about picking this up but $20 plus IAP (do I need to buy maps?)... is there a trial or lite…

Care to elaborate? Much of the modding community is eagerly awaiting an official API.

Barclays surely has a web app; not sure how a rooted phone is any more unstable/unknown than HTML/Javascript running on an unknown browser client.

Any site that uses Persona could be used anonymously through a trusted identity provider that generates on-demand, expiring email addresses. (sans traffic monitoring ofc)