AxelLuktarGott

As someone from Europe.. it is not true. There are lots of media outlets with different angles. Certainly lots of Murdoch funded garbage here.

literally 1984

Ironic that iPhones are both expensive _and_ come with planned obsolescence

Lots of good news in the article

> But, more and more, base-load coal plants have been squeezed out of the market as ever more renewable energy – particularly solar power – flooded the system.

And so the coal power plants needed more money to stay afloat, but:

> But Delta, in a letter written to the body that makes the rules in the market, said none of the 15 banks it had met had been willing to provide it the necessary coverage because of environmental concerns.

And so

> "The coal-fired generation is going to go out of business in Australia over the next 10 years," he said.

Do you perhaps live in the US? The EU didn't shut down any nuclear power plants. Local politicians in Germany and Sweden (and perhaps more countries) did. And they were very much elected. I don't think any technocrats would do something that stupid.

The EU has elections every five years where the members of parliament are chosen. They very much answer to the public. Why would you think they don't?

Is it really better to remove the error case information from the type signature? Aren't we losing vital information here?

The point of mining is that you don't want new blocks too often because it would create too many forks in your chain. The "difficulty" in mining is by design, if we make better hardware that can generate hashes more quickly then we need to make the valid hashes more rare to keep the property that new blocks are reasonably spaced out.

I find bad abstractions to be a much greater liability than unabstracted code that could be combined into one function but isn't.

It's relatively easy to combine code and much harder to disentangle it

Link to the PostgreSQL FSM library used in the talk https://github.com/kronor-io/statecharts

All the past cultures that have monuments that still stand built them to last

I guess it's subjective, but I prefer

  f = h <=< g

over

  f x = do
    y <- g x
    h y