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·17 dagen geleden·discuss
> On top of that comes what is owed to oil companies and suppliers, claims stemming from expropriations under Chávez and the outstanding loans from China and Russia.

It seems like China or Russia would expect to be paid not in dollars, but in Oil Wells and Refineries. Why would they accept restructuring of the debt instead of repo'ing the assets?
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·2 maanden geleden·discuss
Saltwater comes in the air. Just being near it corrodes everything. Both stainless steel and bronze are very expensive. Even if things were made of corrosion proof materials, not everything can be, for strength reasons.
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·2 maanden geleden·discuss
Picking a random orientation depends on trigonometric functions. In order for this to calculate, it would be a lot cooler if it didn't depend on transcendental functions.
millipede
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
What other language does it better?
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·6 maanden geleden·discuss
Why not unconditionally trust Bob?
millipede
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
Events like this show that the Internet is pretty heavily centralized. The original DARPA Internet was supposed to be resilient to stuff like this, but it's clear that the old Internet, and the new Internet, are not the same. We as Internet engineers really need to be better here, and design hardware and software to be ready to handle any errors, even unlikely ones like a state actor breaking things.

It's like installing smoke alarms; no one thinks they need them until they do.
millipede
·7 maanden geleden·discuss
Right, I think the lazy thing implies that it would happen post "commit" being returned to the client, but it doesn't need to be. The commit just needs to be wait for "an" fsync call, not its own.
millipede
·7 maanden geleden·discuss
I always wondered why the fsync has to be lazy. It seems like the fsync's can be bundled up together, and the notification messages held for a few millis while the write completes. Similar to TCP corking. There doesn't need to be one fsync per consensus.
millipede
·8 maanden geleden·discuss
Both ints and floats represent real, rational values, but every operation in no way matches math. Associative? No. Commutative? No. Partially Ordered? No. Weakly Ordered? No. Symmetric? No. Reflexive? No. Antisymmetric? No. Nothing.

The only reasonable way to compare rationals is the decimal expansion of the string.
millipede
·9 maanden geleden·discuss
> Ctrl-F "convertible"

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Some analysis.