chadzawistowski

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Too many programming languages, too little time!

Currently employed by Microsoft.

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Comment · 10 years ago

Meanwhile, in Saudi Arabia it's illegal for women to drive.

Iran's not perfect but they're a good deal better than Saudi Arabia.

Comment · 10 years ago

> the only difference between a struct and a class

In C++ land, this would be true.

C doesn't let you write methods within structs. C structs don't even have inheritance. No virtual table is generated. There is no single-dispatch mechanism.

Comment · 10 years ago

Non-broken link http://crookedtimber.org/2016/05/07/aristotle-on-trolling/

Comment · 10 years ago

ME precedes XP, both architecturally and by release date. Can you clarify?

Comment · 10 years ago

Hashes are easy to run forwards and hard to run backwards.

Comment · 10 years ago

They don't have to be cryptic, but it takes a lot of brute-forcing to get a memorable one.

Facebook managed to get https://facebookcorewwwi.onion/

Comment · 10 years ago

I think the comment was earnest. Check out this article: http://www.vox.com/2015/4/2/8332115/rubio-lee-basic-income

  It's called the FairTax, and it would replace nearly all federal taxes with
  a 30 percent national sales tax. That on its own is a regressive idea —
  low-income people spend more of their incomes than the rich do, so would pay
  a greater share of their incomes in sales tax — so the FairTax would give
  each household a "prebate" equivalent to the sales tax they'd pay on
  poverty-level spending. For example, in 2013 the FairTax "consumption
  allowance" for a family of four (two parents, two kids) was $31,020. If you
  spent that much money in a FairTax world, $7,135 of it would go to federal
  sales taxes. So the FairTax provides a $7,135 annual rebate to families of
  four, distributed monthly.

  Make no mistake: this is a basic income. There is no work requirement. You
  get it regardless of whether you make any money. It is a straight-up basic
  income. FairTaxers object to this characterization, saying that because the
  prebate is meant to compensate for taxes you pay on necessities, it's "your
  money being returned to you." But if you live below the poverty level, you
  come out ahead from the rebate. It's just a cash transfer program.

Comment · 10 years ago

I think Plato's most significant work is his Theory of Forms -- he essentially articulated the object-oriented approach of looking at the world. Plato's abstract, idealistic "forms" are a lot like classes, whereas individual "objects" instantiate those classes.

Aristotle took this framework and developed it further with the idea of inheritance. He classified things into tree structures (with great success) across many fields including biology, zoology, geology, psychology, politics, physics, and so on.

Comment · 10 years ago

A game is something one plays to entertain themselves. It typically involves goals and a framework for understanding progress.

'Tricking' people into playing games could provide structure to their lives, and/or orient their potential towards something constructive for society.

Comment · 10 years ago

It sounds like you're suggesting austerity, which comes with its own set of problems. Between inflation and austerity, I don't think there's a clear absolute choice.

Comment · 10 years ago

I've permanently whitelisted about 150 domains, and temporarily whitelist domains as I need them. It's not very problematic and pays dividends in general web browsing speed.

Comment · 10 years ago

I mean, the deeper the comment chain, the higher the probability of someone talking about X, where X can be literally any topic.

Comment · 10 years ago

6.8% that can't be defaulted on is low?

Comment · 10 years ago

Not really.

Shamelessly copying a comment by /u/MasterCookSwag on reddit:

THIS is the major piece everyone misses. Mortgages were such a disaster because banks held the debt securities thinking they were safe assets and they weren't. This caused a chain reaction of devaluation of balance sheet assets and paper losses which resulted in the collapse of some major institutions. It then caused credit to dry up so businesses couldn't borrow and a crisis of confidence in the fundamentals of the economy.

Student debt won't do any of these things because the underlying structure is not even remotely similar. What student debt will do is represent a long term suck on the taxpayer both directly(through payments) and indirectly(through defaults). This will result in a drag on GDP. There is no way to short this and there won't be a collapse. That doesn't make it not a bad thing.

https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/4cj937/e...