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by adwn 6y ago
> Corruption requires hierarchy, and may well be that hierarchy requires corruption. I don't think this is true at all. For example, if a policeman A catches county clerk B speeding, B could bribe A to forget about that ticket. Th
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by adwn 6y ago
Look, I don't want to defend or deny the many, many atrocities and crimes the US committed in the last 100 years, far from it. However, one year (or even five years) is much too short a timespan to judge whether a socialist reform is
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by adwn 6y ago
Oh no, I'm very much aware of it. What I'm saying is that your insinuation – that socialism only failed because the CIA murdered socialists – doesn't make sense, because socialism has been tried several times in different cou
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by adwn 6y ago
Are you suggesting that the reason socialism doesn't work is that the CIA regularly kills, well, who exactly? The proponents of socialism? Hardly, they'd be assassinating 24/7 without making a dent. EDIT: To clarify, I'm
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by adwn 6y ago
> Google is probably the only company on earth that could spend about a year and build a vastly superior product to both Oracle and SAP that everybody would want. You're making three assumptions: 1) Google could build a vastly sup
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by adwn 6y ago
Replace all occurrences of 'descriptive' with 'proscriptive'
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How to make sure to fail your startup (2020)(blog.luap.info)
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by adwn 6y ago
> For the ease of entering time units YAML 1.1 parsed any set of two digits, separated by colons, as a number in sexagesimal (base 60). This is a mind-boggling level of idiocy. Even leaving aside the MAC address problem, this conversio
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by adwn 6y ago
> science starts with a hypothesis No, science starts with an observation which is not explained by the prevailing theory. Then you form a hypothesis, etc. At least in principle. The reality of science is a lot messier.
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by adwn 6y ago
> I think it's reasonable to assume that their primary concern is productivity, and that at a company like Google, that concern will be analyzed in a data driven way That assumption has been thoroughly refuted by Google's rea
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by adwn 6y ago
> The difference between Newtonian physics and Special Relativity is not so much as to shake basic scientific principles to their core. But it is! Before special relativity, conservation of mass was thought to be a law of physics; SR
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by adwn 6y ago
x = m * y is even more explicit than x = m.vector_mult(y) because the * operator is side-effect free by convention, while a method like vector_mult() might or might not be mutating (i.e., it could work like the *= assignm
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by adwn 6y ago
> Why would you need operator overloading in a low-level language? Have you ever heard of matrices and vectors? You need them in a lot of DSP (digital signal processing) applications, like audio and video filters, or in 3D graphics. Be
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by adwn 6y ago
> corporations are the parasite Corporations aren't parasites. If you have to think of corporations as living entities, then humans are living in a symbiotic relationship with them: Humans provide them with labor, and in turn th
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by adwn 6y ago
> There is no evidence that this is the case. Can you cite an example that is not Trump saying the "Amazon Washington Post"? Huh? What does Trump have to do with Bezos owning the WaPo?
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by adwn 6y ago
> Im assuming to ~180 mil number is the production version? The best assumption would be that the author of the $180M figure has no idea what they're talking about and derived at this number from a lack of information and through
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by adwn 6y ago
> Washington Post We'd do well to keep in mind that the Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos, who also owns Blue Origin, a rival spaceflight company. That doesn't necessarily mean that the reporter's information is fal
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by adwn 6y ago
I see, that makes sense.
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by adwn 6y ago
Now it's more accurate, but even less catchy ;-) How about: "don't blindly assume that the compiler is smarter than you"
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by adwn 6y ago
> Your rule is much weaker to the point of being useless Yes, it's much weaker, but it's not useless. The vast majority of code in a program does not need to be as fast as it could possibly be [1], so there's no point in
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by adwn 6y ago
This refers to the planned flight test of SN11, a prototype of the second stage of SpaceX's Starship [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship
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by adwn 6y ago
Whenever someone repeats the tired meme of "the compiler generates better assembly code than a human" , I think of cases like this one (or the many occasions where I inspected compiler-generated assembly and it was atrocious). Th
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by adwn 6y ago
Just use `UnsafeCell` instead of `RefCell` [1]: It has zero overhead, but you have to be sure that there's really no simultaneous write/write or read/write access – just like using raw pointers in C or C++. [1] https:/&
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Flight postponed because FAA inspector unable to reach Starbase(twitter.com)
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by adwn 6y ago
> A much better option would have been an olive [...] Ironically, olives seem to be missing from Spain's and Greece's list of fruits.
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by adwn 6y ago
> It saved my world, and millions of others. How? Be specific. > [...] but when it comes to actually making the world a better place [...] How is Bitcoin making the world a better place? Be specific. > HFSP I had to look this
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by adwn 6y ago
I did. They seem to be doing fine, even in waves which could have swallowed an entire sailing ship.
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by adwn 6y ago
> the technician kept just replacing the fuse a few times What the fuck?!
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by adwn 6y ago
> if anything the sail boat is in better shape Why? That sounds implausible. Firstly, the larger a ship, the less affected it is by waves. Secondly, high winds will shred your sails, but without sails it's hard to maneuver .
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by adwn 6y ago
> You just need space to put them in. What are you talking about? Just take the three phases from your power outlet and stick them in the ground, with some distance between them. There, zero capital costs, and a nice, mostly resistive

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