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by HillRat 11y ago
Don't start with the x86 or -64 architecture; there's a lot of cruft in there due to backwards compatibility. Start with a simpler architecture like MIPS (see e.g., Sweetman's "See MIPS Run" for an introduction), or
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by HillRat 11y ago
It can be, but the FBC problem is an architectural issue, whereas open/closed violation is a language issue. I feel that using the latter to deal with the former is potentially using a hammer to swat a fly on a glass door.
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by HillRat 11y ago
We'll have to wait for AGI to replace litigators -- in other words, forever. :)
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by HillRat 11y ago
Fascinating! I do wonder what happens to the traditional white-shoe partner track, where associates make their bones do sixteen hour days of grunt work (albeit with fantastic compensation) as a method of gaining experience and reputation. T
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by HillRat 11y ago
State and local governments can't run deficits, so a collapsing local economy acts like a fiscal vise; capital improvement debts aren't easily rescheduled, so you have reduced tax bases carrying long term debt payments (possibly w
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by HillRat 11y ago
This, too many times over. My wife and I are older parents, and despite our highly privileged income stratum I'm still shocked at the costs of parenthood (and we're still several years off having to pay $25-30K/year for priva
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by HillRat 11y ago
Actually, she built and staffed a nursery at her office, which is certainly a luxury not available to the average worker. Her statement on the matter doesn't acknowledge the fact that she has resources that are unique to her, which I f
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by HillRat 11y ago
If Wright isn't Satoshi, someone has gone to great lengths to fabricate a trail pointing to him -- and the evidence points to Wright himself building the case. I suspect that ATO raids have less to do with his "outing" than
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What's a species, anyways?(newrepublic.com)
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by HillRat 11y ago
It's a solid list of tech-savvy attorneys with strong pro-privacy backgrounds. The court appointed them; FISA judges are not, contrary perhaps to appearances, looking simply to rubber-stamp government requests for surveillance, but the
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by HillRat 11y ago
While I agree with your fundamental point, I'm pretty sure that Everett Piper's Oklahoma Wesleyan is a very safe space for a particular kind of hard-shell evangelical. You don't go to that kind of school to be "confron
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by HillRat 11y ago
Interesting bit about ZapMail -- prescient but also completely impractical in retrospect, a bit like Iridium. As an aside, having been involved with negotiations slightly removed from Fred Smith, this is a guy you really do not want to ti
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by HillRat 11y ago
I'm not sure you're addressing Crossfit. While it has its faults, CF is all about "functional movements" similar to what you're arguing for. No WOD consists of "[s]quatting heavy for ten reps;" instead,
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by HillRat 11y ago
I would, in fact, argue that computer science is in fact deeply anti -elitist; there are no formal barriers to entry, the discipline has no hidden knowledge, there are no licensing and accreditation requirements. Difficult is not the sam
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by HillRat 11y ago
Ant larvae, grasshoppers and crickets are surprisingly delicious when prepared well. Larvae are kind of a cross between barley and caviar, while grasshoppers fried with chiles have a deep unami flavor to them. The trick, I think, is finding
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by HillRat 11y ago
Not surprising since BoDs are drawn from surpassingly small and tightly-intertwined groups -- though every market and market vertical tend to have their own sets. Everybody knows everyone in those worlds....
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by HillRat 11y ago
That's my first reaction as well; NCUA is first, foremost and entirely concerned with solvency and capital adequacy requirements, so it's no surprise that they weren't jazzed about a tiny CU taking on high-risk and expensive
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by HillRat 11y ago
Oh, don't feel too bad; a few weeks ago, my wife had lunch with the Ivy League-pedigreed nth-generation CEO of a reasonably large midsized company who used the exact same mispronunciation. Paris being worth a mass, she chose not to cor
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by HillRat 11y ago
The author is Israeli; my Hebrew is worse than my Arabic is worse than my Farsi, which is pretty bad, but the grammatical mistakes seem pretty typical of the impedance mismatches between Hebrew and English.
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by HillRat 11y ago
Interestingly, that interpretation was originally a Soviet conspiracy theory that later became the post-Cold War narrative. Unfortunately, it's not true -- in fact, SDI was an idea that Reagan championed relentlessly, believed in compl
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by HillRat 11y ago
Health consumers are rarely the customers , though; providers' customers are actually the carriers, and the customers make the market in healthcare. The asymmetry in price signaling between patients and carriers causes, as you point
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by HillRat 11y ago
Revenue and no equity raise is a closely-held business. Equity raise and no revenue is a Ponzi scheme.
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by HillRat 11y ago
You might want to look at Visage ( http://visagepayroll.com ), which I think was first in the "free payroll" market; their revenue stream comes from Credit Karma-style financial product targeting, but all the payroll fea
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by HillRat 11y ago
Only in a despotism is the government strictly equivalent to its individual leaders. Harper was engaging in censorship of the public trust so he could secure private electoral victories, but it was never his government to censor. Of cours
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by HillRat 11y ago
You're welcome. Any chance you could send it back?
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by HillRat 11y ago
Harold McGee's "On Food and Cooking" is a great book to read (it kicked off the popularization of food science), and Alton Brown's "Good Eats" was a fantastic cooking show full of great kitchen geekery. I'
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by HillRat 11y ago
I was referring to the Integrated Task Force study (which the Corps has yet to release in toto). Though I don't want to litigate the women-in-combat issue here, I'll note that plenty of female Marines (and soldiers) have over the
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by HillRat 11y ago
There are plenty of studies correlating racial and gender diversity with better corporate financial performance, particularly in companies that score high in innovation-seeking behaviors. Whether diversity enables innovation or innovation e
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by HillRat 11y ago
As far as I can tell, the key takeaway is that the NYT has no trouble shaming the poor and middle classes for not having the support network the well-off can mobilize. I know executives who I wouldn't trust to run a bake sale without F
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by HillRat 11y ago
For security you could also look at the DC area, especially if you're an AMCIT who wouldn't mind undergoing an SSBI. The downside is that most of those jobs are playing whack-a-mole with breaches, but for high-paying, high-profile

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