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by amalcon 7y ago
They are "required to", but this is rarely enforced, so they very frequently don't actually do this.
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by amalcon 7y ago
The idea behind prime number sizes is that you can use a hash function with periodicity issues, which would normally cause collisions. E.g. in C++, it's totally standard-compliant for std::hash<size_t>::operator() to be the iden
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by amalcon 7y ago
Being charitable, it's not actually binary, because sick leave has both a quantity axis and an accessibility access. The "universal" qualifier makes the accessibility axis binary. There's still a big difference between
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by amalcon 7y ago
Yes, there's hope to expedite it in this case. There are people working on that. The Gates foundation, for one, is funding "development" of treatments per the article[1]. "Development" includes but is not limited
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by amalcon 7y ago
The good part of the answer: Because they need to make sure the treatment doesn't kill more people than the virus does. The bad part of the answer: Overseas testing (e.g. the testing needed for EU approvals) usually does not count fo
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by amalcon 7y ago
That's exactly what it's for. Modern browsers already optimize request order to grab above-the-fold stuff first. Below-the-fold images are loaded eagerly, but only after that. Of course, they aren't perfect at this, because
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by amalcon 7y ago
The budget is technically like any other bill, so the president is allowed to veto it. This tends to have severe political fallout, so it doesn't usually happen, but it can. He also generally has a lot of unofficial influence with leg
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by amalcon 7y ago
You would message and email more because you can't just turn your chair around to chat about something you are working on. If you do that, you kill the productivity of a dozen other people while you have that chat, and get them mad at
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by amalcon 7y ago
None of that let you treat your phone number as anything other than public.
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by amalcon 7y ago
Start? It wasn't that long ago that the phone company published a book with near everyone's phone number in it.
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by amalcon 7y ago
I think the biggest cause of this is just how Sandstorm really wants you to use it for authorization, which means that authorization needs to be scoped at the app instance level. There are good reasons for this. However, for standalone us
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by amalcon 7y ago
Djikstra famously hated this tendency. https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD09xx/E...
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by amalcon 7y ago
I just want to say thank you to everyone who's worked on this. I've been a believer since the crowdfunding campaign, and a user since Oasis came to be (RIP). While there are some warts, and development has been slow for a while,
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by amalcon 7y ago
> You might ask, if two choices are good, are three better? Yes, but only slightly. You get an exponential improvement going from 1 to 2; after that, testing more bins improves by constant factors. The intuitive explanation for this is
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by amalcon 7y ago
Campaign duration limits run into the same free-speech issues that campaign finance limits run into. It's all well and good to restrict what the office holder is doing, but how do you stop "unrelated third parties" from &quo
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by amalcon 7y ago
The World Wide Web is not the internet, but your point is taken.
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by amalcon 7y ago
> Which they only do because free checked is going away. They also do it to avoid the scenario where your bag simply ends up on the wrong plane. It's unlikely these days because of technology, but it's hard to shake the worry
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by amalcon 7y ago
Depending on the subculture in question, "guy" doesn't even need to be a person. In others, it definitely refers to a male. Know your audience.
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by amalcon 7y ago
I've spent quite a bit of time on a problem very similar to this. It's surprisingly challenging. Imagine this scenario: Some service has three units of capacity available (e.g. VMs). This is the minimum amount allowed, on the t
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by amalcon 7y ago
Common, but not universal. If I pipe a response body into a shell, I don't get to check whether they were careful or not.
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by amalcon 7y ago
> The first two of your three points only mean GP needs to replace "authors" with "marketers". Granted, but if you do that, it's no longer making the point that GGP seems to be trying to make.
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by amalcon 7y ago
This is itself nonsense. It presumes several obviously false things: - That people who are bad at writing books are either equally bad at everything, or derive most of their income from writing books. "Don't quit your day job&qu
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by amalcon 7y ago
The EDNS0 client-subnet extension exists for this exact reason.
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by amalcon 7y ago
So, I'd left out some details that I thought were not relevant to the main point, but apparently that lack of detail is distracting. I'll add it back in. The institution in question is a small private university. Not one of the
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by amalcon 7y ago
I remember one friend back in college who constantly asked for -- and received -- deadline extensions on assignments. Usually, there was not what I would consider a good reason for this (illness, family emergency, etc) but rather something
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by amalcon 7y ago
American drivers (especially in places like New York) generally just ignore 20MPH speed limits (~=30km/h).
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by amalcon 7y ago
Gah, too many examples. I was referring to the synthetic example further upthread.
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by amalcon 7y ago
Score voting is approval voting, except that you are allowed to make the tactical error of assigning a score between the two extremes. This is always a tactical error, de facto the same as flipping a carefully biased coin for each candidat
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by amalcon 7y ago
The wikipedia page includes a cite of such an empirical analysis: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_paradox#Empirical_...
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by amalcon 7y ago
This particular example is a bit of a corner case, as it has no Condorcet winner. This is rare: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_paradox#Likelihood... IRV still has serious failure modes in its typical depl

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