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by Tloewald 10y ago
Pointing out that the actual cost of a carrier is far higher than $6B (true) is not a point in your favor. The opportunity cost needs to be considered — what could you do with your, um, entire naval budget if you weren't obsessed with
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by Tloewald 10y ago
As I understand it, back in the 80s US carriers were regularly destroyed in joint naval exercises with Australia by diesel submarines (inexpensive ones of the kind owned by all of our enemies). They're very quiet when running on batt
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by Tloewald 10y ago
I suspect that the problem would not be huge (but it would need addressing). The key would be making accessing the emergency safety net sufficiently unpleasant/inconvenient as to dissuade casual fraud. (The welfare equivalent of being
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by Tloewald 10y ago
Yahoo got where it was by being the first directory on the web. It was terrible — to get listed you had to submit an application and then whether and how you were listed was based on someone's arbitrary decision. It was like The App St
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by Tloewald 10y ago
It seems that (a) we need Dynamic features (introspection, dynamic dispatch) and (b) we need to use it sparingly. In short, it's a _cultural_ problem, not a technical one. I suspect the solution is something as simple as a "Danger
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by Tloewald 10y ago
Average max, min, or average average?
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by Tloewald 10y ago
That's as clear as mud. What does a -20 vs. a 20 mean? That it was colder at noon than at midnight? Assuming that there was some sensible definition (e.g. deviation from the past mean temperature, which is not at all what was stated) t
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by Tloewald 10y ago
Can you give some examples where it's more representative? Average height? Average income? There are a lot of arguments in favor of median as a more intuitive replacement (and it is frequently used thus) but consider that: a) Some peop
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by Tloewald 10y ago
Really? > Do you take every observation: square it, average the total, then take the square root? Or do you remove the sign and calculate the average? Neither of these is even an attempt to measure average daily temperature variation.
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by Tloewald 10y ago
If you want to critique that sentence, you're going about it the wrong way. The whole reason for Flash's tenacity in the video market was its thorough support for DRM. This is decidedly _not_ an advantage of HTML5.
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by Tloewald 10y ago
Is it just me or does this code seem to have an off-by-one error (i.e. throwing on toIndex > arrayLen and not toIndex >= arrayLen, given that the lower bound check implies zero-based arrays)?
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by Tloewald 10y ago
It would have been more honest to modify the headline and put corrections inline, for sure. (Still, 170x faster is not bad — I would still have clicked :-) )
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by Tloewald 10y ago
The writer disbelieved their own results, got others to double and triple check their work, and when the correct explanation emerged, published a correction. I think you're being overly harsh (and, in the end, the results were very clo
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by Tloewald 10y ago
Does Electron have native UI components? I use Atom/Nuclide daily and it looks like a web app to me (aside from file requesters).
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by Tloewald 10y ago
In essence gone from convicting a bunch of non-violent criminals and activists (modulo a sting operation run by a corrupt agent to convince the silk road guy to hire a non-existent assassin) to a company that helps the tobacco industry.
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by Tloewald 10y ago
It's at least as representative as the 40-50 college freshmen that are used for most such studies.
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by Tloewald 10y ago
I think the economics of food production will probably trounce that of power production. In any event, it's more efficient to stick solar panels in the desert and wire electricity to places that are less sunny.
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by Tloewald 10y ago
Same here. My initial reaction was incredulity that they didn't write the one line of code it would take to convert to a supported format...
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by Tloewald 10y ago
Right, but easier doesn't mean useful. E.g. One of the easiest steps in comparing salaries across countries is exchange rate, but it's not nearly as useful as a list of local prices for commonly needed stuff. E.g. In Singapore wh
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by Tloewald 10y ago
It's very hard to make these kinds of comparison (take a look at the Economist's Big Mac index which attempts to illustrate relative buying power in different places). Similarly income tax may be low (e.g. Texas) but property taxe
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Funny how this is a faux question with a faux answer from people who don't realize GIFs were first and foremost _still_ images.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
The downside of the idea here is that the postcards will presumably be sent from where-ever they are (e.g. some place in the US) and not from where you are (e.g. some place in Italy) so no stamp, postmarks, etc. as well as no handwritte
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by Tloewald 11y ago
How about if they hire people with nice handwriting to write your postcards for you (and compose the message for a little extra) — kind of like the main character's job in Her.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
There's two points here: Have fast planes with targeting pods proven more effective than A10s thus far in practice? (I don't know, I'm asking.) How many potential enemies have high end AA missile systems? It's all very w
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Isn't this already covered by the existing law then? Killing us citizens on American soil is a tortious act causing injury.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
The videos he shows are examples of sketch's many micro usability problems (not so much crashes as frustrating glitches). I love Sketch, but it does have a lot of little issues.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Have you seen PaintCode?
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Of course, but this guy is saying nothing shouldn't be, which is an even higher hurdle.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Of course there's innate complexity, but pursuing encapsulation for its own sake adds complexity you don't need (just like using functional programming techniques for intrinsically non-functional use-cases adds complexity for no g
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Yes, but unfortunately you can't go back in time and fix it. What we really need is for an analog of "use strict" (e.g. "use strict semicolons" that either (a) eliminates semicolon insertion from Javascript (and jus

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