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by 4death4 3y ago
> Uber has a lot of teams, a lot of engineers, and so it makes sense that there are a lot of API boundaries to allow them to work together more efficiently. Isn’t that the premise of the question? Does Uber need so many engineers?
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by 4death4 3y ago
I don't have any proof that it's possible. I'm just saying that it's conceivable that it may be possible. As motivation, consider a quantum computer, where the vast majority of computation done is reversible.
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by 4death4 3y ago
What evidence do you have that there is a causal inverse relationship between public sector growth and private sector growth? Isn’t it entirely possible that private sector growth has lagged because some third process has produced fewer ent
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by 4death4 3y ago
The implementation of many types of computation are not 0 entropy, but it’s just an implementation detail. Sure, if you truly want to erase memory, then you can’t do that without an entropy cost. But if your goal is to store information X f
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by 4death4 3y ago
> This is flatly untrue - and begs the question, have you ever actually used a library? Or a librarian? Yes, I've been to a library. When I go, the librarians tend to look up what's available on... the internet. So, prior to th
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by 4death4 3y ago
Most information was locked up in the hay day of libraries as well. It’s not like your local library contained every book that has ever existed. But, back then, if your library didn’t have it then you had almost no chance of even knowing it
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by 4death4 3y ago
> Why wouldn’t they? Because their primary purpose was to provide open access to literature and information, which is now widely available thanks to the internet.
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by 4death4 3y ago
> It seems a reasonable expectation to assume that anything sent to Okta support isn't instantly available to attackers. No that’s not a reasonable assumption. Malicious Okta employee is just as significant an attack vector as compr
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by 4death4 3y ago
It’s actually comical that Cloudflare is trying to blame Okta for this. A Cloudflare employee uploaded secrets to Okta’s support tool. That is what caused the breach.
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by 4death4 3y ago
This link is totally wrong. At least 50 ms counted is unnecessary. For instance, one frame usually takes 16 ms in a 60 fps game, but the link somehow stretched this out to 48 ms. This is trivially easy to verify. Open up a profiler and meas
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by 4death4 3y ago
This thread is full of people who haven’t used a leaf blower before. An electric leaf blower might be enough to clean off a sidewalk, but you’re not going to do any serious amount of work with an electric blower, especially in the US where
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by 4death4 3y ago
Yes, it’s definitely the noise and not the fact that gas powered leaf blowers provide >50% CFM over electric.
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by 4death4 3y ago
A huge portion of the Japanese economy is based on the auto industry (something like 2.5% of GDP). EVs are much simpler than ICE vehicles. Additionally, Japan doesn't have expertise or the raw materials to be competitive in batteries,
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by 4death4 3y ago
There are plenty of rocks with a human form. The moai for instance. They’re pretty much universally considered to be artifacts of human life. But I think the point is that, we know the moai are human built because we know that humans are li
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by 4death4 3y ago
There should be an attempt to calculate inflation separately from changes in productivity. Tech, for instance, has largely been deflationary due to technological improvements. Real estate, on the other hand, has been inflationary due to mon
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by 4death4 3y ago
Real estate prices are only indirectly included in CPI via owner-equivalent rent. Really, CPI is a joke for measuring broad inflation. It measures a specific basket of goods. Treating that basket of goods as the true value of the dollar is
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by 4death4 3y ago
This was a pretty engaging read. I don’t want to knock this person’s experience, but 30K for a family of four is just… not a lot. Which was the point of the article of course, but, it seems possible to earn more. That’s less than $15 an hou
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by 4death4 3y ago
You can buy business class. Much better service and much better comfort. But you probably don’t want to spend that much, which is where the problem lies.
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by 4death4 3y ago
Statistic independence has everything to do with it. If your control and treatment groups are not independent, you can’t differentiate a case where both groups experience an effect vs. both groups experiencing no effect. Please explain how
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by 4death4 3y ago
In a placebo trial, it’s very important that the placebo be statistically independent from the treatment group. You’re basically saying you would change the study so the placebo and control were not independent distributions. That would mak
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by 4death4 3y ago
Not really relevant. Let’s say the authors modify the study as you suggest and use sodium chloride as the active ingredient. Now let’s say no difference is observed between the placebo group and the test group. Does that mean sodium is effe
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by 4death4 3y ago
You realize the placebo isn’t supposed to contain any active ingredient, right?
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by 4death4 3y ago
Probably all three: 1) They hiring too talent to make their models as efficient as possible. 2) They have a sweetheart deal with MS. 3) They’re better funded than everyone else and bringing in substantial revenue.
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by 4death4 3y ago
Ok, change the experiment to add 80ms artificial delay instead…
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by 4death4 3y ago
For whatever reason, psyllium husk is insanely high in lead. High enough to require prop 65 warnings.
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by 4death4 3y ago
Replacing parts of curl with Rust will not be possible. Most places want to build from source and don’t want to introduce a new compiler to the tool chain. And Rust supports a tiny subset of possible C targets.
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by 4death4 3y ago
While true, I think the original complaint about the backlight was more about the fact that the TV is emitting light, which a picture doesn’t do. OLEDs don’t solve that problem unless you want to display a black square.
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by 4death4 3y ago
The individual pixels (other than the black ones) would still emit light so it wouldn’t be convincing. A normal picture doesn’t emit any light.
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by 4death4 3y ago
Couldn’t you have enrolled in a plan that would have covered your treatment after the fact? I think you have 30 days to do so after losing coverage. I agree that the current system in the US is insane, but what was your plan originally for
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by 4death4 3y ago
Why? It seems like a sedentary lifestyle and poor diet are what people want. Strokes are what people don’t want.

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