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by amalcon 7y ago
I guess it depends on the term of the lease. You do get to sub-lease the land when you're done with it. The terms could even include an up-front cash payment that looks not dissimilar to a sale. This creates some value as a speculat
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by amalcon 7y ago
I've heard the argument that this is what property taxes are (usually as means to oppose property taxes). What practical thing would you expect to change, that's different from just raising property taxes?
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by amalcon 7y ago
Not grandparent, but to me, Perl's niche is short log-processing scripts (like, 200 lines or fewer). Once it looks like it will either need an input other than a text file or grow to a significant length, I tend to rewrite in somethin
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by amalcon 7y ago
The reason it's counterintuitive is because, in the game, you don't know that the two numbers are random. In fact, they are chosen by an adversary. You flip a 2: do you think this is most likely the lower number, or do you thin
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by amalcon 7y ago
Address sanitizer can detect this sort of thing, so yes, you can protect against it. It comes at a performance cost, though.
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by amalcon 7y ago
> I'd say the same thing about journalists. 90%+ of journalists are democrats. (Overwhelmingly, white and male democrats.) > For example, 32% of Democrats are "extremely proud to be an American" versus 74% of Republi
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by amalcon 7y ago
I've worked on software that attempts to estimate the end-user demand represented by a given resolver. Most of the specifics are covered by NDA, but suffice to say that it's surprisingly difficult to do accurately. There is a l
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by amalcon 7y ago
In the US, you generally need to pay with both your money and your time. I've waited three months for an appointment with a specialist, had them only tell me to go to another specialist, and paid for the privilege.
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by amalcon 7y ago
My usual response to this is "keep it, but turn it into / put it in a museum". However, that seems impractical here. .su can't go in a museum any more than pi can go in a museum. It could be a museum, but it would by
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by amalcon 7y ago
You should definitely read the take linked by a sibling comment, it's a very good explanation. There's another angle from which to look at it, however, that I tend to prefer. It amounts to the same thing, just a different perspe
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by amalcon 7y ago
Ghetto technically refers to a neighborhood into which a racial minority tends to be segregated. It comes from Jewish ghettos enforced legally in Europe in the 16th century, but it is also used for neighborhoods where minorities live for
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by amalcon 7y ago
This is correct. Everyone pretty much agrees that these areas are a symptom of a problem. Nobody agrees on what that problem even is. Further, various factions (there are more than two) seem to believe that the problem is exacerbated by w
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by amalcon 7y ago
> more men are victims of violent crime This stat is skewed twice: first, by the larger percentage of men involved in bilateral violent altercations (barfights, gang violence, etc), and second, by the low reporting rates of domestic vio
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by amalcon 7y ago
From a geostationary intercept, a payload can theoretically ride a cable climber (power only, no reaction mass) and gravity all the way to a circular lunar orbit. Per a sibling comment, this technically only requires a transfer orbit or le
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by amalcon 7y ago
Oh neat, I must have glossed over that part. Egg on my face then. It's still not great, but significantly better than I thought it was.
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by amalcon 7y ago
Surely, for this to be useful, we need to be able to hit it if we try. Agreed that anything not trying to intercept should be able to avoid that by not trying.
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by amalcon 7y ago
It's doubly painful, because the "free credit monitoring" on offer is provided by Equifax -- the exact company whose competence we don't trust anymore. The compensation for being affected by Equifax's security fa
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by amalcon 7y ago
What is or is not a valid reason to grant asylum is entirely up to the host country. Though, granted, "I'd prefer to live there" probably isn't going to impress very many of those decision makers.
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by amalcon 7y ago
Snowden is not necessarily right about that. The purpose of a jury trial is to establish facts in a minimally biased manner[1]. This is why summary judgement[2] exists: to streamline the proceeding where the disagreement is in the law, n
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by amalcon 7y ago
There are a number of reasons that he might prefer not to live in Russia. An example obvious political reason: Russia has a lot of the same issues he criticizes in the US. He'd probably like to safely criticize Russia for these thing
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by amalcon 7y ago
So, I used to believe this too. There's a lot of information that has come out since then, a whole investigative commission, many details, and a lot of people who would have needed to lie consistently and continually to this day. Su
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by amalcon 7y ago
Web technologies are not "suddenly" inferior to native technologies. They have always been inferior in some ways, and superior in others. Letting javascript run when the browser isn't even in use would sacrifice one of the w
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by amalcon 7y ago
Even if you have 8-9 foot ceilings, consider a low profile ceiling fan rather than the sort that hangs down a foot or more. Sincerely, The fingers of the next tall person to stretch his or her arms near your fan
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by amalcon 7y ago
I think you're talking past each other. Grandparent is examining the case where there is a function call (the printf), but you do not pass anything relevant into it. You're looking at the case where there is no function call, so
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by amalcon 7y ago
I knew a fair amount at the time (enough to write some really bad programs for my own personal use). I definitely still loved that game (enough to write a fairly popular though mostly wrong guide for it).
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by amalcon 7y ago
Some people have anaphylaxis to bee stings. There are other ways to deal with that, sure, but I have a hard time blaming someone for trying to get rid of an immediately deadly hazard.
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by amalcon 7y ago
> 1. You aren't forced to write it. It's simply possible to forget that a function might fail (e.g. when that failure is defined as a side-effect). When the compiler does require you to explicitly acknowledge exceptions (Java
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by amalcon 7y ago
Honestly, the best way to do this is to just pay an attorney who specializes in it. They will just tell you what you're agreeing to, and you can actually believe them since they are your attorney. It's not cheap, but not too exp
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by amalcon 7y ago
Yes. Total species populations grow exponentially, and all of the growth is at the lowest age bracket. The number of living members in each birth cohort also decreases exponentially as the cohort ages. It follows straightforwardly from t
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by amalcon 7y ago
This seemed like an extraordinary claim to me, so I tracked down an analysis by Consumer Checkbook for the Boston area. The basket of goods they examined cost over 20% more at Whole Foods than at e.g. Stop and Shop, and over 50% more than

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