Kranar

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by Kranar 5y ago
The post I replied to doesn't mention supply either directly or indirectly, rather it states the following: "[prices are] driven only by how much people are willing to pay." Emphasis theirs. That statement is false, prices
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by Kranar 5y ago
The fallacy is you stating something that's just plain wrong. The basic law of economics is that price is determined by BOTH supply and demand, whereas your statement is that price is determined only by demand. The cost to manufacture
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by Kranar 5y ago
That's a very strong assumption to make, I could easily assume that most casual movie viewers watch the same derivative knock-off action/horror/comedy films over and over and over again without issue. You think Adam Sandler i
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by Kranar 5y ago
No I don't agree with you. I think my comment is a reasonable statement of the situation. Is it a 100% correct statement that is absolutely categorically true? No, but most people who are not looking to be pedantic and win an Internet
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by Kranar 5y ago
I absolutely do go over that, I also go over Metacritic and point out that this phenomenon applies to movies, video games, music, books, and almost all review systems that segregate professional reviews with customer reviews.
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by Kranar 5y ago
Fair point, it's categorically true that no critic watches every single movie released and I definitely overstated that. A brief search on Statista indicates that about 700 movies are released a year, the average American sees 2.3 movi
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by Kranar 5y ago
No I did not come up with it myself. It's a common pitfall in statistics known as selection bias [1]. My problem is that if I ask a researcher about selection bias, they have no problem defining it for me and even giving me a textbook
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by Kranar 5y ago
One of the interview questions I ask all UX Researchers is to open up rottentomatoes, sort recent films by rating and then look at the movies that have the lowest critic scores. Almost always you can see the audience score for those movies
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by Kranar 5y ago
Most of the world does not have government run health care, what they have is government run health insurance. Hospitals, doctors, health care providers in general are privately operated and anyone with the right credentials can go ahead an
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by Kranar 5y ago
It absolutely is. Most of what people are calling "original" designs aren't even original. Etsy is rampant with copyright or trademark infringement, or just rehashes of the same designs someone else made. The only difference
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by Kranar 5y ago
Provide an environment where those talented engineers could accomplish something no other environment allowed them to. It's not like there aren't talented people at Boeing or Lockheed and it's not like those talented people j
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by Kranar 5y ago
Yes I do deny that, especially since the article literally addresses this issue explicitly and takes care to avoid that, along with a git repo that you can use to verify this for yourself. If you have a specific criticism to make then you s
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by Kranar 5y ago
All the details are right in the article as well as a link to a git repo so I'm not sure what there is to speculate about. If you have an issue with the actual benchmark you can certainly point it out, but otherwise you're basical
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by Kranar 5y ago
The benchmark quantifiably shows that direct calls are faster than indirect calls, which was your original question. Could a hypothetical C compiler transform an indirect call to a shared library into a direct call? Maybe, but that is diffe
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by Kranar 5y ago
The article has benchmark results that quantifiably establish direct calls outperforming indirect calls.
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by Kranar 5y ago
Plenty of people are also brilliant and don't go on to become Feynman.
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by Kranar 5y ago
No they don't. People abuse statistics to give this impression but the IRS is pretty clear that it is simply untrue. A great deal of the deception comes from the fact that there are many more poor people than rich people, so on the fac
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by Kranar 5y ago
Where do you believe OP mentioned anything exclusive about the federal government?
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by Kranar 5y ago
Your comment reinforces nyanpasu64 point that the average C++ developer doesn't understand multithreading. Your comment is wrong in that it is never correct in a standard conforming C++ program to read and write to the same object from
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by Kranar 5y ago
Something being a wave does not require a finite velocity and in fact there is nothing in physics inconsistent with an instantaneous velocity of light. We know that the two-way speed of light is finite, but all currently known laws of physi
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by Kranar 5y ago
Both the big bang and the observation that galaxies are moving away from the Earth at speeds proportional to their distance originated from the same physicist, George Lemaitre in 1927. The observation came first and then subsequently Hubble
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by Kranar 5y ago
It's not possible to have an infinite number of stars in a finite region. However, you could have a finite number of stars that form a cover over some point.
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by Kranar 5y ago
An infinitely large observable universe is not possible, however an infinitely large and infinitely old universe is still possible with dark sky at night.
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by Kranar 5y ago
Saying "stars that are further away are more redshifted" is Hubble's law and leads almost directly to the big bang. It alone, however, does not explain the paradox. For example even with red shifting, you could have a bright
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by Kranar 5y ago
IEEE double-precision floating-point numbers can exactly represent 53-bit integers and hence they are suitable for most integer related operations (ignoring bitwise operations). For bitwise operations, JavaScript will first convert the numb
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by Kranar 5y ago
This doesn't make any sense. GPUs know nothing about declarative or imperative designs. Many immediate mode GUIs output a vertex buffer or a list of draw commands that can then be rendered anyway you choose, including having it rendere
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by Kranar 5y ago
>The mere fact that the results of these types of tests on large population groups tend to follow a normal distribution. The results do not follow a normal distribution though. IQ is forced into a normal distribution with a standard devi
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by Kranar 5y ago
You are absolutely correct and you have discovered Rice's Theorem [1]. The fact that you generalized the halting problem on your own is a very good indication that you fundamentally understand it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.or
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by Kranar 5y ago
There is no way to turn a Turing Machine into a finite automaton. All finite automatons are guaranteed to halt, and do so in linear time. There is nothing to analyze the answer is always true.
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by Kranar 5y ago
Define P(A, S) as the function that takes as input an algorithm A and a string S and returns true if A(S) halts, and false if A(S) does not halt. The claim is that P does not exist. Assume P exists, let Q(S) be the function that takes a str

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