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by KMag 4y ago
But aren't his parents pretty successful lawyers who are pretty well of on their own? There are usual family pathologies and unusual family pathologies, and this looks like the latter.
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by KMag 4y ago
> Manufacturing electric cars IS NOT GOING TO REDUCE OUR FOSSIL FUEL EMISSIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have never understood how anyone could think that. I think you misspelled "eliminate". Some of the sources of total life
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by KMag 4y ago
> By definition they are more volatile than usd as they are pegged to it and vary in price I understand your reasoning, and you're correct in this case (assuming your numeraire is USD). However, if your numeraire is something like
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by KMag 4y ago
In addition, ethnicity wouldn't gain him any measurable leverage. His wife or his in-laws would need to be senior party members in order for a political marriage to have any advantage. As a gweilo who lived 10 years in Hong Kong, roug
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by KMag 4y ago
> Zuckerberg even married an ethnic Chinese woman in order to get a leg up on accessing the Chinese market. Do you have a credible citation for this, or are you making an assumption that there would be no more compelling reasons for Zuck
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by KMag 4y ago
Many language implementations internally translate source into a simplified de-sugared dialect as you describe as an early compilation step. I believe both ghc and rustc currently do this. Though, I think it's rare to expand a pattern
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by KMag 4y ago
Correct. The chief difference between English and German in this respect is the use of spaces (and what is considered a word). In German, you can basically drop the spaces from a noun phrase and call it a word, but it's basically a l
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by KMag 4y ago
Someone else here mentioned that cyanide poisoning is painful due to lactate production: that muscle burn from working out, but presumably worse, building until death. Other tissues besides muscles may also have lactate receptors; I'm
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by KMag 4y ago
I corrected the GGP's confusion about "substance" vs. "solid". However, the question you answered was "What is this congestion powder?"
580.
by KMag 4y ago
Nazex is a saline solution nasal spray. If your Nazex is a powder, it's so old that it has evaporated, cold enough to freeze, or it's not Nazex.
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by KMag 4y ago
Given that Alexey Leonov had to partially manually deflate his suit in order to get back in the capsule, and hypoxic death is actually euphoric, a suicide pill doesn't seem to make much sense. So many questions: did he tape the pill to
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by KMag 4y ago
I think you're best off extracting the amygdalin from the apple seeds and letting the digestive tract hydrolyze the amygdalin into hydrogen cyanide, glucose, and benzaldehyde.
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by KMag 4y ago
Open-source libraries were much less common when Java first arrived, but third-party C / Fortran libraries were very common in many domains much before Java arrived. Nulls, arrays degenerating into pointers (losing size information), a
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by KMag 4y ago
There are broadly two aspects to my last couple of roles: infrastructure development and operational support. My infra development isn't speed-limited, but operational support involves a lot of quick back-of-the-envelope estimates of
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by KMag 4y ago
Yea, I was thinking some kind of spaceship RPG where you'd need to quickly code up short programs to deal with various surprise situations. "Quick, generate a prioritized list of polar coordinate firing directions based on this CS
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by KMag 4y ago
I've accidentally passed out from breathing helium from a 10-foot weather balloon. It's not painful at all, actually slightly pleasant. A lack of oxygen absorption doesn't directly cause discomfort. Increased blood CO2 is t
587.
by KMag 4y ago
The GP didn't mention powder. I think they're referring to liquid nasal spray. "Substance" often means a solid, but not necessarily.
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by KMag 4y ago
Critically, Narcan is pretty safe to use on most people who aren't suffering an opioid overdose, so it's likely to be administered before bloodwork gets back.
589.
by KMag 4y ago
Doesn't ricin take days to kill, during which the agent can still be interrogated and rewarded with quick execution?
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by KMag 4y ago
Given the amount of media isolation in NK, and amount of demonstrated loyalty needed to rise to high levels of the military with authority over nuclear weapons, I wouldn't want to bet my life against everyone following orders.
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by KMag 4y ago
There are advantages to opening up all of the functionality of the web front-end as an API to allow alternative front-ends.
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by KMag 4y ago
I mean... the type checker is a static analyzer. Why not bake the most commonly seen type error into the language's type checker? For all of its flaws, at least C++ made null references undefined behavior. Coming from (pre-NotNull) J
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by KMag 4y ago
The conjecture about dynamically typed languages was regarding the cultural effect of the popularity non-null-safe static type systems on the current practice of coding in dynamic programming languages. It wasn't a conjecture about th
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by KMag 4y ago
I'm not a psychologist, but my feeling is that US culture's over-emphasis on punishment as a means for victims to find closure is a disservice to crime victims and their families. Particularly for major crimes that result in long
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by KMag 4y ago
I've worked on international trading systems for a Fortune 500 broker-dealer that handled prices as IEEE-754 doubles, even though all currencies involved were decimalized. In the US, stock prices all have to be a multiple of $0.01, bu
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by KMag 4y ago
There are 2 issues they might be complaining about: (1) cross-platform issues that seem so trivial that documenting them was probably more work than fixing them and (2) high-level language leaking low-level implementation details. As for th
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by KMag 4y ago
Some people feel that extreme sentences are deterrents, but studies show that people don't rationally calculate the expected value of their punishment. Almost nobody committing crimes thinks they'll get caught, so doubling jail t
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by KMag 4y ago
In other words, the problem is that null is treated as if its class is a subclass of all classes. All of a sudden, you've introduced a superset of all of the problems with multiple inheritance. (Nulltype inherits from everything!) Yo
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by KMag 4y ago
I believe that's why Hoare said that the null reference, not null, was his billion dollar mistake. It was a simple one-liner in his type checker "if getting a type error in a cast, if the source type is nulltype and the target typ
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by KMag 4y ago
Yes, null safety is a very simple change to type systems and type checkers. Unfortunately, there's a lot of cultural momentum in this regard.

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