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by HourglassFR 1y ago
I don't get what the author is trying to do here. I mean he complains that talking about the limit of a sequence is too asbstract and unfamiliar to most people so the explaination is not satisfaying. But then names drop the notion of a
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by HourglassFR 3y ago
Have you met humans?
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by HourglassFR 3y ago
> Melenchon […] started as a Trostkist So did more than half of the socialist party elit (elephant du PS), even freaking Cambadelis, are you suggesting he’s far left to ? > against the capitalist system Well yes, almost by definition
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by HourglassFR 3y ago
Elections are not, and should not, be the be-all end-all of a functionning democraty. Otherwise you just have an elective aristocracy. And to be clear, I'm not saying pure polling driven policy is the solution, but saying politician sh
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by HourglassFR 3y ago
> You are attacking the wrong target. You are missing the big picture. This is rich comming from someone putting Melenchon, basically an old school socialist (in the werstern Europe sense), in the same bag as Le Pen and Zemmour who are a
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by HourglassFR 4y ago
I would ass a fourth reason: health is a very much a public (as in collective) issue, not a sum of individual medical problems. Something that is fundamentally at odds with the dominant ethos of how to deal with problems in america in the p
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by HourglassFR 4y ago
> So, he is an author that has a track record of understanding a thing or two about money. On the contrary, while he is indeed a good author and has written highly enjoyable fictions (well, heavy on the nerdy side but this is HN after al
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by HourglassFR 4y ago
This can only be a patial explanation of the effect since it is known to occur even when the patient is informed that the substance is inactive. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo#Mechanisms Maybe there is somethi
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by HourglassFR 4y ago
> I’d much prefer the free market approach where there are multiple actors each making different bets on future demand than some overarching rule about how future demand should be planned for (thats how we get famines). Interestingly, fo
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by HourglassFR 4y ago
To be fair, being considered a threat to national security and held as a pariah for having communist ideas is hardly a recent development in the US.
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by HourglassFR 4y ago
Not quite 2022, but yeah I was maintaining a token ring based network for some subway at my last gig in 2019. As far as I know, no work is done on it now but the subway-car using the system are schedule to run for at least another decade so
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by HourglassFR 5y ago
> I couldn't shake the feeling that I was picking up the check for everybody else. I was paying very high taxes to essentially finance crazy government overreach, only to later lose the value of what's remaining to inflation d
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by HourglassFR 5y ago
I have absolutly no inside knowledge but my guess is that the loop and the vehicules inside it are more akin to a mini railway network with weird trains than roads with cars. As such the regulations are not the same and in particular the au
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by HourglassFR 5y ago
That's not ironic at all. There are less inequalities in Europe than Asia, at least in this century.
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by HourglassFR 5y ago
The more radical theory I've comme across is that Capitalism is always in crisis. It is not bad step or a shortcoming of some kind but rather a fundamental feature. Capitalism works best in crisis because it is more inventive an flexib
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by HourglassFR 5y ago
Incredibly enough, this kind of phenomenon really is almost magically turning from "0" to "1" when a certain threshold is met. This goes by several names depending on the field but "phase transition" and "
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by HourglassFR 5y ago
This idea can be traced even further back to Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Society_of_the_Spectacle It's not that surprising to find it here, the Situationist had a
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by HourglassFR 5y ago
Exactly, I feel the title should be more "Redefining what Google Maps® can be with new information". And as you noted, this app is not really a map. Regardless of the semantic shift that there is probably no way to stop now, I&#x2
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by HourglassFR 6y ago
> It has nothing to do with Americans vs Europeans. Plenty of Americans spent excessive time navel gazing on optimal TCP/IP replacements (tons of research on Internet protocols comes out of American universities). Yes, that was what
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by HourglassFR 6y ago
Agree, the OSI model was what smart people who thought deeply about the issue decided we should do. Unfortunatly the timing was bad and the coherent model emerged just a bit to late. Maybe if the major networking infrastructures had been in
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by HourglassFR 6y ago
Nah, I'm not saying my employer's IT infra is rock solid but at the very least we have backups.
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by HourglassFR 6y ago
> (and have written much about it, e.g. https://pron.github.io/posts/correctness-and-complexity ) Wow, thanks for that link. I only made it through the first part for the moment but it is an incredible read. You clea
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by HourglassFR 6y ago
I've seen you make that argument a few times on Zig related discutions but I'm not sure I buy it. It essentially boils down to: simpler language => easier to reason about and build tools for => less bugs. While the thought a
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by HourglassFR 6y ago
> JetBrains went out of their way to make migrating to Kotlin as easy as possible: you can literally upgrade your Java project file by file. Yes, offering a good path to switching (and conversely keeping the old voodoo part of the code n
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by HourglassFR 6y ago
Not milliamps, milliamps-hour (mAh). It is the usual unit used in the context of battery capacity in the general public, nothing tricky here.
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by HourglassFR 6y ago
Not that I'm aware of. This talk is in itself a summary of a 10+ hours course he gives to his studends. Is the first time I have come across a presentation of this guy in english and this is why I wanted to share it here. But basically
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Will technology save us from climate change?(media.mit.edu)
40 points by HourglassFR 6y ago|81 comments
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by HourglassFR 6y ago
> If you look at the white rabbit FPGA PTP updates, its in the ns range As I recall, I had even better performance than that. Around the tens of picoseconds. But I guess the advertised 1 ns is a conservative estimate. The precison is inc
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by HourglassFR 6y ago
He has some interesting idea and is more than ready to share them with others, which is a respectable thing to do I agree. On the other hand, I find his models hilariously bad, e.g. : > With Balance of Power, I could write a simple equat
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by HourglassFR 6y ago
> If people realized that a sudden drop in price will mean a sudden drop in mining power, which will mean a sudden drop in blocks being generated, which will mean a sudden drop in throughput, they might be even more eager to get out of i

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