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by _yosefk 10y ago
It took me a while to decide to drive my own car, and one of the incidents prompting me to do it was when a taxi driver, having arrived at the destination (in this instance, the building where I worked), had walked out to urinate, right the
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If the government did nothing at all in the matter, I believe car companies wouldn't care less about emissions (though perhaps it would result in higher CO2 emissions but lower NOx emissions and perhaps that would have been a net benef
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Using an abandoned free software project is rarely going to be much fun, either. In fact, using actively maintained free software projects is rarely much fun, since many of them tend to often abandon old features and introduce new incompati
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Not acting quickly enough?.. VW's "defeat device" wasn't uncovered by the government, and it's been deployed for years. I'm not sure what would make governments do anything about this at any future point in tim
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"Unlike other parts of the world, European nations incentivised the use of diesel vehicles over the last 20 years because they emit less carbon dioxide per mile than petrol cars. Governments thought stricter regulation would sharply re
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Domestic animals are more successful right now than the humans breeding them if we count the total mass of organisms sharing similar genes; which IMO simply demonstrates the absurdity of much of our thinking about evolution in terms of wi
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Kinda depends on the cost of an error vs the cost of a slowdown though, and then there's a big difference between say Objective-C or the once-relevant COM/ATL etc. by MS, where you have all the C bugs and manual memory management
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by _yosefk 11y ago
What if it's simply bribes and he won't say it because they will eat him alive? "Tarnished concept of government blah blah" sounds great to those who love the concept while not exposing this guy to libel lawsuits from th
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Sure there are worse sites - I wasn't 100% serious there...
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I think the trouble with application processors is you ought to have lower prices and margins compared to desktops and servers, so even if they do great there it's not that great financially. Intel is a relatively high margin business
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The religious version in fact seems more restrained in its promises, with the "arrested" bit at the end. (Not unexpectedly BTW; IMO comparing any such pitch to a religion is usually a compliment to the pitch, as religions of today
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Drawing programs such as Photoshop and Corel Painter can do it (in fact they tilt the window you paint into while keeping menus etc. straight which is what one wants them to do.) I guess it's a bit harder to do in one's program th
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by _yosefk 11y ago
If you seriously believe this moderator was biased in his examples because that's his "writing style" but that he wasn't equally biased in his moderation, fine (I'd bet money on you being wrong if I could.) And I do
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I dunno, you have to look at the cost side of these things and I'm not qualified in this instance. AFAIK India still protects its handloom manufacturers which IMO is madness cost-wise, but of course there's merit into looking at i
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Similar dynamics in what way? Certainly there was no nominal wealth inequality in the USSR (there were of course people with wads of illegally obtained cash, and there were classes of people with access to a lot of things [which money could
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You need to be a pretty big country with a wide variety of natural resources to be truly independent (for instance, your "independent" agriculture is only independent if you have domestically produced fuel, fertilizer and machiner
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Actually it's 3 examples, which I think is enough to show a bias towards one of two sides (c'mon, nobody chooses one side out of two 3 times in a row accidentally, and if he chose a side with equal probability for each example - y
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Move - yes, but does this stop the government from collecting the capital gains tax? I think not. So if you make American companies less profitable through some regulations, capital will move elsewhere, but if you raise the capital gains ta
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Probably "yes" in the sense that it's those websites where they're being labeled "comment-thread poison", probably "no" in the sense that they certainly do comment on left-wing websites, they just don
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I don't really have an opinion on what the optimal capital gain tax rate is, but wrt your specific point of capital being mobile in the sense of being able to evade a higher tax rate (as opposed to being mobile in the sense of being
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by _yosefk 11y ago
To elaborate on your point - from the article: "They are comment-thread poison – men’s rights activists who act as if articles about women’s issues are their gender’s single biggest problem, climate change deniers who will drag any con
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by _yosefk 11y ago
I think the real extreme is a guy flip flops on an issue and someone assumes it's all sincere. Much more extreme than arguing which was the time when he wasn't. I guess I'm jealous as I never found a politician or a movement
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Even DRAM will be slowest on a random read/write 50% test (it has read-to-write and write-to-read penalties; admittedly these will be dwarfed by precharge/activate penalties, but still, mixing reads and writes will make things wor
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You mean he was honest before he was ever elected president and needed votes, and now that he can no longer be elected and in this sense has nothing to lose, came the dishonesty? Is it not imaginable that, being a canny politician, he was d
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Well, either the Obama administration is composed of puppets of anti-gay fundamentalists (puppets who lit the White House in rainbow colors upon the SCOTUS deciding that gay marriage bans were unconstitutional), or perhaps their relationshi
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Erm... you mean anti-gay fundamentalists like Obama? (From the article: "The Obama administration has lobbied Congress to block the bill’s passage... the administration has supported Saudi Arabia on other fronts, including providing th
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Firstly, it doesn't even need to have anything to do with "ethics", it's just ridiculous to argue that "lions eat their prey alive, hence I find it fine to do so." Lions will lick their balls in the presence of
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With Python, numpy for instance will use multiple threads under the hood, even though the calling Python code might be single-threaded, and numpy's execution is completely unaffected by the GIL. Incidentally, to get Python code to run
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Well, one might also get more performance per dollar if they programmed FPGAs, DSPs or GPUs instead of CPUs, and one might also get more performance per dollar if they designed their own hardware. (I do the latter for a living.) However, &q
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by _yosefk 11y ago
I believe that people are not animals (and that computers are not people), both may be controversial beliefs for some but are rather widely shared. In particular, nothing constitutes an ethical problem for animals, computers, plants, and ot

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