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Absolutely this. And when you look through the bug history of those low-level APIs there's a lot of evidence. That said, the other big difference with Haskell is the low-level API …

This depends on the state. For example, teachers in CA and TX aren't eligible for SS. https://www.fool.com/retirement/2018/10/07/why-does-social-s...

If most applications don't satisfy soft real time requirements either, then maybe those requirements aren't really important for most cases. There's only one industrial Haskell cod…

It's hard to build systems with hard real-time requirements with GHC Haskell. The vast majority of systems people build do not have hard real-time requirements. People have built v…

You completely missed the point of my comment. The wording describes a specific instance. And additionally, the rhetorical convention implies that there is no instance of the probl…

I think you're reading the description incorrectly. It is not meant to be a specific instance that may happen differently for other instances. "You" is an abstraction over all play…

Have you seen BNFC ( http://bnfc.digitalgrammars.com/ )? I've used it with the Haskell bindings and really appreciated it. Parser, pretty-printer, and AST skeleton all auto-generat…

The financials aren't publicly available, but I'd expect PE firms still made money here. The funds probably lost money, but funds are an investment vehicle separate from the managi…

The PE fund's capital is partly other people's money too. In particular, fund limited partners (the fund investors) put up most of the initial money. The PE firm itself also puts i…

You're missing the key piece: Toys R Us didn't go into debt for any good business reason, it was bought by a private equity firm and loaded with debt it didn't need. This is how pr…

Some resources are scarce, but food in the U.S. is not. We have allocation and distribution issues, with political choices as a major factor, not supply constraints.

And that MacBook is primarily a web browser and/or really expensive dumb terminal.

You're claiming that 40% of their total earnings are lost to federal tax? In this example, what types and how much income are you proposing? Doesn't seem realistic to me.

Publishers already host their own AMP content. Google caches that content, but anyone can go to the publisher's URL and get it directly. Disclaimer: I work for Google and have some…

No, Britain will have a very poor position in the negotiations that follow regardless. That's why the E.U. is insisting on the payments and citizen's rights issues being resolved f…

They were charged and pled, that doesn't necessarily mean fraud was actually committed. DAs have wide latitude when charging people with crimes. If you were a foreign national caug…

I surely don't know as much as simonmar about this, but I think this is a rhetorical shortcut. My understanding is that when a Haskell thread receiving the exception needs to alloc…