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tobz1000

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2020-04-14

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  • The comment probably refers to data races over memory access, which are prevented by usage of `Send` and `Sync` traits, rather than more general race conditions.

  • And live bookmarks. This was the healthy way to read news from multiple sources before social media.

  • There is a years-old proposal for deeply-comparable types: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-record-tuple

    Maybe we'll see it one day.

  • Or you can adblock and donate on Patreon etc. to your favourite channels. Not every channel you watch will benefit, but a much higher percentage of your money goes to creators, who generally get a less than fair deal from platform holders. Same goes for buying music on Bandcamp + pirating, versus a music streaming subscription.

  • Measuring GDP adjusted by purchasing power parity, but not per capita, seems like an odd metric.

    PPP-adjusted GDP per-capita gives an indication of the level of goods/services affordable by an individual citizen. Total GDP, unadjusted, is an indicator of a country's economic power. What does PPP-adjusted total GDP indicate?

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