Retra

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by Retra 8y ago
Yes, but what motivates those people isn't relevant unless they're the ones making the decisions.
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by Retra 8y ago
Yeah, for a million you could probably get a really nice house for one family, and a good bit saved up so they don't have to worry too much about things. That's a long way from any kind of utopian society... Especially when you&#x
843.
by Retra 8y ago
You're reading too much into what I said.
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by Retra 8y ago
And what's the difference? My phone provides the same things you want from yours. I use it all the time. Obviously if you can get the same thing at 1/8th the cost, it's probably not worth it to spend that extra money. The p
845.
by Retra 8y ago
You are attributing to malice what could easily be attributed to stupidity.
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by Retra 8y ago
Plenty of adults do it too. I'm reminded of this every time I go shopping with someone who objects that I did not find a closer parking space. And I have to point out that it would take more time and fuel to go to the closer space than
847.
by Retra 8y ago
I spend less than $20 per year on smart phones, and have had no complaints about them whatsoever. So maybe the marketing is just really working on you?
848.
by Retra 8y ago
Don't project your conditions onto everyone else, please.
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by Retra 8y ago
I imagine it's a bit like early music notations which left out the rhythm. The idea being that you'd probably have heard the music already, so the rhythm part would be passed verbally and didn't need to be written. Likewise w
850.
by Retra 8y ago
There are many positions in the US that are not elected positions. When's the last time you voted for a supreme court justice?
851.
by Retra 8y ago
If you have a constant denominator, you don't need it. It's just a unit.
852.
by Retra 8y ago
Your personally sculpted use-patterns aren't really relevant to any of the problems that the platform causes within society. Twitter users still vote.
853.
by Retra 8y ago
And what is it otherwise? 0.002 mA?
854.
by Retra 8y ago
The mechanic's professional responsibility is to repair the car. If we're assuming they are too ignorant to do that job, then why go to a third party mechanic in the first place?
855.
by Retra 8y ago
Can a country set up an embassy to conduct trade in violation of the host's laws?
856.
by Retra 8y ago
Nobody ever won a Nobel prize for a null result... So it's not entirely without reason that people would prefer to get positive results.
857.
by Retra 8y ago
If you're running code all day long and profiling it dynamically the whole time, then you're going to pay for it. There is overhead to JIT, and there is overhead to profiling. There is no overhead for a statically compiled program
858.
by Retra 8y ago
>I'm willing to have a reasonable amount of injustice in exchange for simplifying the application of the law. The people experiencing such injustice are not willing, and violently so.
859.
by Retra 8y ago
Individuals do profit when the law is simple and clear. Often to the point where problems arise and people start proposing minor adjustments to the law... wherein it eventually ceases to be simple and clear.
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by Retra 8y ago
When your latest understanding is based on new evidence consistent with and supportive of your previous understanding, then it is a confirmation. It really isn't necessary to blindly hedge on what we know unless you're willing to
861.
by Retra 8y ago
If there're other categories aside from 'initial' and 'long-term', then it isn't necessarily a contradiction... But it is confusing in any case.
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by Retra 8y ago
There are millions of abstractions in mathematics, and the truth is that the human brain has a much better time remembering stories than it does math. You teach the stories so people have some context to associate complex ideas with.
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by Retra 8y ago
>OOP is good for domains that naturally give rise to a clearcut inheritance structure, such as stateful GUI frameworks or ontologies that directly mirror real-world objects Stateful GUI frameworks are not the only way to build UI framewo
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by Retra 8y ago
Vulnerable to what, though? Physically changing votes takes time, and swapping them leaves a paper trail. If someone miscounts paper votes, you can just recount them. With a computer, you flip a bit and there's no record. Votes are mis
865.
by Retra 8y ago
>The idea that space and time are actual objects, instead of intellectual constructs, has always struck me as wrong. There were similar objections to the existence of the electromagnetic field, back in the 1890s. But it turns out that fi
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by Retra 8y ago
That's really a problem with the politicians, not the military.
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by Retra 8y ago
Gee, if only everybody had that choice.
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by Retra 8y ago
We can measure it.
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by Retra 8y ago
Indexes aren't references to objects, they're references to slots. The lifetimes of the objects are determined by whoever puts them into and out of those slots. That doesn't have to be determined manually. Sure, objects are
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by Retra 8y ago
The object will still be freed when its owner is dropped... It's just the accesses to the object that are manually managed, not memory.

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