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It means instant gratification.

Well only Rotterdam was bombed by the Germans. The next city to be bombed would be Utrecht, but then the Netherlands capitulated.

All other destroyed cities (e.g. Arnhem, Nijmegen) were bombed by allied forces in their attempts to drive out the occupying Germans.

Moore's law is not about doubling clock speed, it is about doubling the transistor density. This has continued after clock speed improvements have stopped.

Even today it is following Moore's law, although not at Intel: https://medium.com/predict/moores-law-is-alive-and-well-eaa4...

I agree, it tasted kind of synthetic, almost like plastic. I don't have that experience with other meat free burgers.

And now there is BitCoin.

280W TDP?! That's more than what a large refrigerator uses ..

> Did you keep the skills at level 1?

I went through all the levels.

> What do you think is holding you back?

What was holding me back was: 1. Spoken French goes much faster than the French spoken in the course so I wasn't able to understand most of it.

2. To form a sentence to express yourself in real life is much more difficult than to translate a given English sentence like in DuoLingo.

I agree that to be able to use a language you need to do more than just follow a course like DuoLingo; you have to read books, watch television and most important practice it in real life.

I like Duolingo because it is so accessible, however I found that it doesn't bring you up to the level where you are able to speak a language in practice.

For instance, I completed the entire French course but I still can't have even a basic conversation when I'm in France.

I'm sure that a lot is wrong with our current eduction system for teens and that giving some amount of responsibility to teens would be good. But the claim that adolescents are as good or even better than adults when it comes to decision making or responsibility is just plain wrong and there is plenty of physical evidence that disproves it.

When teens reach their adolescence, the functioning of the frontal lobe in the brain is tuned down. The frontal lobe is what gives people self control; tune it down and you become more impulsive, emotional and risk seeking. The frontal lobe only returns to its normal mode when people reach their early twenties.

Source: e.g https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?Con...

I have been looking around for Haskell jobs for a while because I would love to program in Haskell professionally, and what I've noticed that there are very few opportunities and the salaries are quite low. You can expect to make much more as a Scala programmer, for instance.

The effort of learning Scala vs Haskell as at a professional level would be more or less equal.

Could you lift some of veil of the mystery and perhaps give a hint which those burned companies are?

I was employee #4 in a startup in 2000, just before the burst. At that time the situation was crazy. For instance our founders had made an ambitious business plan to raise money in the next investment round. It was sent back by our investors because it was not ambitious enough: basically they asked to blindly multiply all the targets by 10. This was completely unrealistic but the founders did what they were asked and promptly new investment money came rushing in.

And then the bubble burst and the sentiment was 180 degrees opposite. By then our company had already acquired some customers and was making some money, and was ready to expand and grab a significant piece of the market. However it didn't matter what we did or what business plan we made, it was just impossible to raise any kind of money whatsoever. So our startup continued living its zombie life until it was taken over by a competitor a few years later. In the end I was lucky because this way I could survive the years after a crash while still having a job. But it left me with mixed feelings about the so called angel investors. It didn't appear to me that they had any idea what they were doing.

I always wonder how our own evolution affects our long term chances of survival as an intelligent species. Homo sapiens only exists 30K years and until recently survival was hard, making it an advantage to be intelligent. But our recent technological and medical advances make survival more and more easy so in terms of evolution, other biological features become more useful, such as for instance the rate of reproduction. So suppose we keep improving our life standard like we have been doing so far, how will humans as a species develop over the next, say, one million years?

I think biology itself provides us with some clues of what is likely to happen. There have been other species in the past that because of climatological or geological changes suddenly had a very easy time surviving. Take the Dodo for instance. What happened to them is that they gradually lost most of the survival features that they didn't need anymore. Perhaps this is the future of any intelligent life form and maybe this is why we don't detect any sign of them in the universe.

I can confirm. There are simply different ways how you can view life; positive, negative and probably many more. And all of those see only a projection of reality.

I have been mildly depressed in the past and sometimes it struck me how narrow my view of the world was in those days. Sometimes literally, it seemed as if I was looking through a tunnel and that I was more busy with all the negative thoughts that were going on in my head than with what was really happening around me.

Even if the USA's intentions were good, they can be blamed for choosing the wrong kind of action.

It is well known that drone strikes are terribly inaccurate and therefore the risk for civilian casualties is high.

Sure, but what was the motivation for dropping the bombs if you say it was not political or ideological?

That sounds like a reasonable definition. But how would this definition qualify the Taliban attacks on military bases and police stations in Afghanistan?

Genuine question: if the motivation for this bombing was not political or ideological, what was it then?

The main benefit of example 2 IMO is that some variables got readable names. E.g. n became maxLineLength and x became line.

But bad naming practices have nothing to do with FP per se. Although it does seem to be fashionable in part of the FP community to have everything as terse as possible including variable names.

Yes Haskell performance can be impressive. Check out this one for instance https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6964392/speed-comparison..., and don't forget to read the comments section.

Isn't this resolved by the holographic principle? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle)

Rakaste vägen is the aggregation of the Finnish word Rakaste and the Swedish word vägen. There are quite a few words in Finnish that are borrowed from Swedish.

Good point! In a normal market situation you would expect the bond yields to increase when they become less attractive, but this is currently not the case.

Here is a hint why this happening: not all government bonds have such low yields: only some European countries and Japan have, the USA bond yield for instance is quite a bit higher.

The reason is that there is currently a huge buyer for European government bonds: the ECB. The ECB's "quantitative easening" that has been going on for the last years is artificially keeping the yields low.

The value of gold is inversely correlated with the trust in government bonds. The reason is clear when reading the article; gold is the only real money so the higher the chances of defaults on bonds, the more attractive it becomes to swap paper money for gold.

The current gold rally tells us that there is a lot of global political and economical uncertainty. Think of the Brexit, the Iran troubles and the global trade war. All these issues could cost big money for governments so it makes their bonds less attractive.

Actually the dairy industry contributes a fair amount of the total CO2 production as well: http://www.fao.org/3/k7930e/k7930e00.pdf

Why is it unhelpful to point out the fact that we're overlooking the root cause of the current problems? Of course I would love to have provided the solution for world's overpopulation as well but I admit that I don't have it. Yet, somebody else here might.

In my opinion you're putting the bar way too high if you require anybody on this forum to only reply to a discussion when he/she not only can point out a failure in the arguments but has the correct solution as well.

Finally, you are putting some rather dubious solution in my mouth with your comment "What is your point? Should we kill everybody over 70 years old?". Of course I didn't have that solution in mind.

All these suggestions are just temporary solutions at best, as long as the root cause is still in place: overpopulation.

Perhaps at this point in time we could just make things work by cutting back our lifestyles: but 20 or 30 years later the grown population would again need more food and more natural resources. And hungry people don't care about changing the world but about getting food for today, sustainable or not.

Nice article but I don't think this part of the conclusion is correct:

'Wealth, in Piketty’s view, perpetuates itself, and effortlessly earns its return (never mind the work, risk and selection issues involved). By continually paying the interest on its debt, the governments of Austen’s Britain financed the leisurly lifestyles of the rich, just as the “natural” return of the modern-day rich contribute and maintain today’s inequality.'

This completely disregards inflation. E.g., if government bonds guarantee a 3% payout but inflation is at 3.5%, your wealth is not perpetuating but leaking away.

Actually around 1600 BC: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180815141326.h...

Apparently I'm in the minority together with OP but I agree that storing dates as UTC is good advice.

What most repliers seem to have overlooked is that OP is saying that timezones should be used for presentation. Maybe it was not clear, but that also means they should be used for input conversion. But once the dates have to be used by the business logic of your system, you really want to prevent the headaches you will get when you have to deal with timezone transformations everywhere. That really adds a ton of complexity, is easy to overlook and above all an error in timezone conversion can go undetected for a long time.