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by Calavar 4y ago
It's almost impressive how this guy managed write an opinion piece that is exclusively argumentium ad hominem. To paraphrase: "Paul Ehrlich is a profession doom mongerer. AOC doesn't believe factuality is important. John Kerr
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by Calavar 4y ago
> So? Gecko was a mess and they had something actually exciting on their hand which was mostly untainted by their branding. They could have bet on it rather than chose to die a slow death while their money trickles to their highly pay ex
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by Calavar 4y ago
I like this explanation. Every other argument I've seen against Zeno's paradox either takes as a given that an infinite series can converge to a finite sum (which I don't think is a self evident truth) or relies on theorems a
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by Calavar 4y ago
> If the medium of space itself dispersed light for instance, red shifts might be observed that explain the astronomical data. This is called tired light theory. There's a professor of physics at UCLA who has a good breakdown of so
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by Calavar 4y ago
> There’s no need for adding say, len, to every object that needs a len function. I’d argue that is consistent. Python's len works by calling the __len__ method, which must be added to every class that needs a len function. Since yo
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by Calavar 4y ago
The header image for the article is a picture of steam rising up from their datacenter. Nearly all water that we use is eventually recycled. Steam will eventually come back down as rain, and rainwater works its way through the ground and in
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by Calavar 4y ago
I disagree. I flew out to a professional society meeting a few months ago (i.e. high triple digits number of people converging on the convention center) and the airport taxi stand was packed. The line was moving very quickly. I'd estim
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by Calavar 4y ago
If anything, I think Lyft/Uber has gotten us stuck in a local minimum. Yes, the user experience for requesting a ride is still a huge improvement over traditional taxi dispatching. I agree that if we were to rewind history, we would ge
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by Calavar 4y ago
Critcizing and/or boycotting Audible is probably the strategy that's most likely to effect change. Yes, I do think the government should intervene, but is that realistic? How often does the US file antitrust suits against big tech
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I mean isn't that accurate? The same could be said for the moon landing. We knew all the requisite physics by the 1900. The rest was engineering. No one said that engineering was the easy part.
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by Calavar 4y ago
She very much did have an association with the Clintons: https://www.vox.com/2016/3/14/11586966/theranos-ceo-elizabet...
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by Calavar 4y ago
Interesting. I had a very different experience. Double major, working in two labs simultaneously, active member of local ACM, interned with local startup during the school year, volunteered at a local soup kitchen. All that together was abo
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by Calavar 4y ago
This is true in general, but as a doctor, I've never written a prescription for only 3 Xanax pills. Usually more like 10 to 30 depending on the situation. The only time I write for a single digit number of pills is for antibiotics, whe
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by Calavar 4y ago
Most big lotto wins are in the seven to low eight digit range. You can absolutely blow away that amount of money in just a few years, and there are dozens of examples.
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by Calavar 4y ago
Many of the older subway stations in the upper part of Manhattan were built in the same time period and have a very similar architectural style, down to the tiled walls and the ornate molding, but they look absolutely decrepit. The tile is
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by Calavar 4y ago
There are some computer science conferences that do this. If you cite your prior work, you are supposed to blank out the names in the citation and then attach an anonomyzed version of the prior work so that the reviewers can reference it if
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by Calavar 4y ago
For an assistant prof, sure, this makes sense. But the people I had mind were lecturers - non-tenure track, non-core faculty who didn't do research and had almost no room for upward mobility.
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by Calavar 4y ago
Most of my CS faculty in undergrad were great, but there were a couple like the guy you describe. And I wonder why in the world they took jobs as lecturers. If you don't have a passion for teaching, why take a job that pays substantial
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by Calavar 4y ago
Why would there need to be any extra dollars? If inflation is a matter of supply and demand of currency, as you say, then shouldn't we expect that a demand-side shift could lead to inflation without any change in the money supply?
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by Calavar 4y ago
You're right, it's not that easy. I worked in the VA system for three years during residency, and it was relatively rare to see a veteran who was considered 100% service connected. I had a patient who was exposed to Agent Orange a
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by Calavar 4y ago
UB throws a huge wrench into all of this. The behavior of a C++ program is defined by a combination of the code, the compiler, the compiler flags, and the target archecture. You can't write a source to source translator that preserves
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by Calavar 4y ago
GCC, Clang, and MSVC all still duplicate c* header definitions into the global namespace by default as far as I'm aware. In fact, the last time I checked, the MSVC cstdio header was implemented more or less like this: namespace s
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by Calavar 4y ago
Like the recent Star Wars movies. The action scenes were immaculate, but the character develoment was half baked, and plotwise it teetered on the edge between paying homage to the original trilogy and just recycling the same plot with a dif
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by Calavar 4y ago
I think what they're getting at is that as best we know, Vedic religions came to India with the Indo-Aryan migration. So the pre-Vedic religions of the Indus Valley Civilization are unlikely to have had any notion of a Vedic concept li
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by Calavar 4y ago
I don't find that to be a very convincing argument. His story could have become more consistent because he stopped lying, or it could have become more consistent because he had more practice telling his lie. Lying is hard at first, bu
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by Calavar 4y ago
There's a kernel of a good game in there. But the big issue in my opinion is that outside of the main story missions, the world feels completely dead. Night City is huge and you can tell that there was a lot of passion and care put int
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by Calavar 4y ago
Rankings aren't a bad place to start, they just shouldn't be where you finish too. Keep in mind that there really isn't too much difference between the #2 versus the #10 school or the #30 vs the #50. If two schools are in the
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by Calavar 4y ago
I don't think "taking responsibility" here means moral responsibility for laying people off, I think it refers to professional responsibility for putting the company in a financial position where mass layoffs are necessary in
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by Calavar 4y ago
Well, to be fair, C compilers produced significantly slower code back then. And when C++ came around, code that made heavy use of templates was dog slow until compiler technology caught up and could reliably inline templates. And Java was s
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Winston Churchill was her first prime minister.

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