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by RhysU 1y ago
It's only relevant if you are young. The elderly don't have the 40 years.
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by RhysU 1y ago
> ...what do you think they would materially gain from it? $100K at age 20 can become $1.6M by age 60, per the rule of 72, if invested in a diversified stock index with 7% total return. At age 60, the 4% safe-withdrawal rule says that $1
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by RhysU 1y ago
Once I hacked up an snprintf wrapper that automated any required realloc calls: https://github.com/RhysU/snprintf_realloc/blob/master/snprin... Worth critically reviewing before using. It's been a w
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by RhysU 1y ago
You would prefer the price of electricity be held constant until the day the monopoly rage quits? That day, no one can get power for any price.
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by RhysU 1y ago
Long ago, if you had to drive to go anywhere, your house must have been surrounded by oodles of other houses and hence friends existed to hang out with before some friend could drive. Once someone could drive, the friend crew was good to ve
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by RhysU 1y ago
Ah, the eternal internal corporate search problem.
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by RhysU 1y ago
That's super interesting. Laziness is rational after meeting some threshold of needs/wants/goals, effectively when one's utility curve falls over. It'll be funny to hear the AGI's joke among themselves: "T
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by RhysU 1y ago
> But for your typical spark application, you have one main writer (the spark driver) appending or merging a large number of records... The multi-writer architecture can't be proven scalable because a single writer doesn't caus
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by RhysU 1y ago
Agreed. However, that shark is jumped as soon as the classification criteria involve operator-dependent properties like maximum speed of a bicycle. It has no operator-agnostic answer.
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by RhysU 1y ago
Certainly crazy circumstances. But, it's just a bicycle.
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by RhysU 1y ago
2018 had one pro rider do 183 MPH per https://www.bikeradar.com/news/cycling-land-speed-record-sma... I'd wager most weekend spandex warriors could break 100 MPH peak.
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by RhysU 1y ago
So, if I put a pro rider on a bicycle you're cool with me having them scream around crowded areas? Traffic regulations are fundamentally about tail events. Most of the time, vehicular traffic is boring. The right metric is kinetic ener
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by RhysU 1y ago
Capability is a poor metric. Bicycles go downhill real damn fast. The top speed of a bicycle is largely limited by how foolish the person atop it is and the local geography. Bicycles can be geared to go across the salt flats real damn fast.
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by RhysU 1y ago
Fidelity?
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by RhysU 1y ago
My point is that for someone who thinks government is the ultimate solution it's completely rational to have ever more government. More debt to finance more government simply follows. Can't have too much of a great thing. Etc.
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by RhysU 1y ago
If one thinks that more government is the solution to all problems, a painfully common modern view, then the most utility available from $1 one owns is handing that $1 directly to the government. In practice, no one donates like this with
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by RhysU 1y ago
Some locales in the US require testing for radon then mitigating during any home sale. These regulations somewhat change the marginal cost/benefit analysis because the money must be spent eventually. If you own a home in such a locale,
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by RhysU 1y ago
What was the textbook and would you recommend it? This is an area where I would like to read something substantial and good.
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by RhysU 1y ago
It's going to be really funny when the NIH eventually sits down the professors, hands them blue exam booklets, and makes them write proposals in freehand.
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by RhysU 1y ago
Also, document what "support" means. "That's supported" has no universal interpretation beyond physically describing a tabletop atop legs. Absent a clear/consistent definition, people interpret "support&qu
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by RhysU 1y ago
> But obviously in hindsight, it was the most expensive mistake I've made in my life. "You’re never happy with the amount you traded." See "The Laws of Trading" by Agustin Lebron. One review discussing this topic
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by RhysU 1y ago
What about the Decepticons he or she has yet to meet?
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by RhysU 1y ago
A Strangeloop talk by Mouse Reeve, years ago, looked at the Markovian structure of "Gnossiennes" then made an endless version. A beautiful talk and really cool music website. Music website: https://gnossiennes.mousereev
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by RhysU 1y ago
Reading the comments on this one, awhile ago, helped me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32176193
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by RhysU 1y ago
I love motorcycles. Alas, winter is a thing in Pennsylvania. And it frequently rains in the prime riding season.
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by RhysU 1y ago
> Then it turns out that for historical path reasons, dynamic scripting languages are also really bad at multithreading and using multiple cores... What would a dynamic scripting language look like that wasn't subject to this limita
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by RhysU 1y ago
https://g-s-law.com/flat-fee-employment-agreement-review/ I had them recommended to me. I have used them and was pleased.
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by RhysU 1y ago
This is a great response, thank you. I disagree that intent has anything to do with virtue signaling. People frequently are driven by their subconscious, especially in matters of tribal belonging. There is a delicious irony in questioning t
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by RhysU 1y ago
I believe you are sincere. Sincerity has nothing to do with virtue signaling. That you felt the need to publicly separate yourself from the "sociopaths" so we'd all certainly know what a virtuous person you are is the crux o
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by RhysU 1y ago
Comically, you are virtue signaling that you avoid "virtue signaling".

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