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by anamax 5y ago
Great. The plot-driver of the most recent Bond film is somewhat real.
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by anamax 5y ago
Making data more available to the public is not the same as making it easy to import into a new system.
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by anamax 5y ago
> Why, then, did it become the predominant way to organize software projects? Because it feels good to managers. For most of the project, it gives them a feeling of control and competence. That feeling is false, as it just delays all of
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by anamax 5y ago
The data-export problem is key. Tyler has no interest in helping you get historical data out of "their" system.
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by anamax 5y ago
409A valuations are almost always paid for by a party that has some interest in the outcome being high (or low). Moreover, said party usually decides who does the 409A valuation.
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by anamax 5y ago
Huh? There's no law requiring the "made in USA" label on goods made in the USA. US ranchers who don't want to use the label don't have to. The WTO doesn't like trade barriers, especially US trade barriers, and
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by anamax 5y ago
I always use numbered lists when sending questions to customer support because otherwise they respond with some irrelevant quote from the documentation.
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by anamax 5y ago
That's easier said than done, and it's not obvious how to do it with types. Consider a non-blocking read. What the caller does depends on whether the read returns a value or "no data available". If the type of the obje
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by anamax 5y ago
The problem with NULL is that there's only one.
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by anamax 5y ago
> Are "Product of USA"-labeled products entitled to beneficial tax treatment or subsidies? The presence/absence of "Product of the USA" label affects some people's buying decisions.
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by anamax 5y ago
It is almost impossible to build a new refinery in the US and difficult (at best) to significantly modify the ones that we have.
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by anamax 5y ago
The US was a net-exporter of energy in 2020 (and maybe 2019) but decided since then to become a net-importer. That said, refineries are actually somewhat specialized wrt what kind of crude they can process. The US produces some types of cr
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by anamax 5y ago
There are lots of sites that have "tip jars" or "buy me a coffee".
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by anamax 5y ago
> And it would need enough pumping power to move it two meters in half an hour for one settlement period Why do you need to move all of the water in half an hour? (Suppose that you just want to do time-arbitrage for residential use.)
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by anamax 5y ago
> [VC] economics come from the few huge outcomes where founders also have a life changing outcome. Also, gambling has a negative expected value, VCs get more shots on goal, so the typical outcome of a VC could approach that of the averag
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by anamax 5y ago
When did Rachael Maddow join Fox? https://thehill.com/homenews/media/568213-oan-loses-appeal-i...
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by anamax 5y ago
> To take a taxi, you must (often) be prepared to pay in cash. You must have enough verbal control to give your address. (Some) Taxi companies have apps too.
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by anamax 5y ago
The laws in question do not mention discriminatory intent.
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by anamax 5y ago
Standard library that takes care of all of the hassle can be good enough.
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by anamax 5y ago
> They are guaranteed to match inflation. They are guaranteed to match a specific US govt inflation measure. The $64k question is whether that measure is realistic and competitive. Does it include housing? Energy? Food?
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by anamax 5y ago
I know why lists are hard to do with Rust's guarantees, and can even understand why a given memory safety validator might have trouble with them. My point is that I expect a language eco-system to make it possible to do "easy&quot
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by anamax 5y ago
> I believe that only applies to the hospitality business, doesn't it? Nope - while 42 U.S.C. §2000a was "public accommodations", it isn't the only law in this area. > Furthermore, "those people" very muc
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by anamax 5y ago
> 1) Writing a doubly-linked list in safe Rust is famously difficult and cumbersome, yes. But writing a singly-linked list in safe Rust isn't so bad. Having never even seen a Rust program, let alone written one, if basic data struct
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by anamax 5y ago
> A company choosing not to do business with someone seems to be a much strong free speech claim in my opinion. If my business chooses to not do business with "those people", you're okay? Or, does it depend on which &quot
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by anamax 5y ago
> That says global 'consumption' is about 80000 TWh a year. Incoming solar energy is about 1700 times that Assuming that you still want oceans to work, about 2/3rds of that is not available, which get us to 500x. You also
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by anamax 5y ago
> A Tesla battery pack weighs 900 pounds and only holds the energy of 3 gallons of gas. A Tesla battery pack is good for about 300 miles. If that's equivalent to 3 gallons of gas, that's saying that Teslas would get 100mpg. I
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by anamax 5y ago
> Sometimes high process is necessary. (I've worked in an FDA-regulated environment. They're really trying to not have medical devices kill people. That's worth doing.) There are lots of ways to kill people. You don't
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by anamax 5y ago
The public health community presumably has some expertise as to the health consequences of certain policies. However, it has no expertise wrt the social or economic consequences of said policies.
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by anamax 5y ago
"whataboutism" is what we used to call "equal treatment before the law".
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by anamax 5y ago
Wolfram seems (to me) to say that he can show that math is some strange combination of invented (or rather, sensed) and discovered. https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2022/03/the-physicalizat...

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