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by acuozzo 4y ago
Is this why that popular secondhand store in Japan is called "Hard-Off"?
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by acuozzo 4y ago
IMO, yes, but I obviously can't cite sources for this claim. I think it was a problem that started to feed back on itself once people started spending more time indoors and isolated themselves from their neighbors more. Stupid, careles
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by acuozzo 4y ago
America is home to over 21M individuals with a net worth of $1M or more. For them, America is free; perhaps more free than <insert EU country here>. The remaining 310M exist to create freedom for the 21M. They are pacified with the pr
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> but the problem is very much downstream of the children-out-of-wedlock problem If this were the case then there would be similar issues with children of single parents in e.g. European countries, no?
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> The US seems to be the only country that has this problem. Here's my take on the issue from 5 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32680201 Summary: We don't have safe roads and in most American s
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by acuozzo 4y ago
Not the best source, but: https://amp.theguardian.com/cities/2017/nov/16/japan-reusabl...
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by acuozzo 4y ago
Frequent Earthquakes make housing a rapidly depreciating asset in Japan. Homes are torn down and new ones are built all the time which is why they have such interesting architecture. There relatively few old homes in Japan.
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by acuozzo 4y ago
You can lower the SNR to the point at which it's unusable. A system of distributed, hidden, state-sanctioned jammers doing C&C over a unaffected back channel would be roughly equivalent to "cutting an undersea cable", I b
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by acuozzo 4y ago
I have a full-time job that I have every intention of keeping, but I'd be open to dedicating a solid chunk of each evening if the idea is right. US-based (Maryland) with 20 years of experience.
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> What's the point of listening to 3 books per day? You need time to digest the ideas in a book. Agreed, but sometimes there's value in having broad exposure ASAP. e.g. learning what tools/techniques are available in a giv
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by acuozzo 4y ago
Ask a few random people on the street in a major US city how many books they've read in the past five years. I'd wager that children's books represent a much larger percentage of the books the typical US citizen reads in thei
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by acuozzo 4y ago
The majority of the men in power don't have to jump through hoops or overcome legal hurdles to make these problems go away, so why should they care?
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by acuozzo 4y ago
yw :-) As small as you can tolerate tbh. The game is played by keeping data as small as possible and ensuring that related data has good locality in memory. The gap between how fast your CPU works and how fast data can be retrieved from RAM
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by acuozzo 4y ago
I meant hardware caches like L1, L2, and L3 on the CPU. SQLite is used in some HPC work. ISO-8601 datetime strings can easily wreck your L1 cache. Instead of filling an eighth of the cache with a 64-bit value, you wind up filling almost hal
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by acuozzo 4y ago
Embedded? IoT?
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by acuozzo 4y ago
FWIW, storage is cheap, but caches are not.
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> just give up on running the programs you keep Windows around for You realize that you're asking for many people to give up their livelihood(s), right? Consider film restoration. Very few companies have attempted to venture outside
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> Best print it out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code
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by acuozzo 4y ago
It's not mentioned in TFA, but I really love "Monofur". DAE know of a more complete lookalike with more glyphs?
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by acuozzo 4y ago
Debasing the currency was necessary, but not sufficient for what happened. 1971: World Population 3.7B | V 1972: Nixon opens US-China relations | V 1973: Kissinger's failure causes the oil crisis | V Oil gets
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by acuozzo 4y ago
If it were ended, then what would happen to homeowners who need to move now , but can't sell their home due to market conditions?
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> But long term it seems to me that there's no downside to this being punished. It would punish people who need/want to move now , but don't want to sell their current home at a loss or can't sell their home due to m
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by acuozzo 4y ago
The men & women capable of starting wars.
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> It really cannot be overstated enough the wealth divide that pandemic QE created. :s/\<created\>\.$/exacerbated./ The underlying causes go back further than Roger & Me .
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> language is a reliable representation of what type of thoughts are going on in the person's mind The wording used here inherently rejects Linguistic Determinism and, to a lesser extent, Linguistic Relativism.
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by acuozzo 4y ago
Only after Pioneer purchased the IP from DiscoVision Associates (the joint MCA-IBM venture) did the system approximate what the average Joe consumer would consider "working". I'd say some time around the introduction of the C
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by acuozzo 4y ago
FWIW, > KUBSAN https://man.openbsd.org/kubsan.4
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> so it's really unfortunate that I can barely tell what this really does or why we should care It takes an image as input and produces a "dramatic" copy of that image in which "dramatic" is defined as being angl
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> If I had an interviewer ask me this it would be a massive red flag. Do you work in a field involving physical measurements like OP does?
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by acuozzo 4y ago
You're not addressing the following in your analogy which can have a significant impact on CICO if IN==passes_mouth. 1. Having a hole in your gas tank (parasite(s) e.g. a tapeworm) 2. Having a modification to your fuel tank to convert

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