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by anamax 5y ago
> If you’re two states away from where a bomb goes off, and insist on open-mouth kissing strangers as they cough on you, that’s up to you. Which states? Two states away can be <10 miles or it can be >500, even if we ignore Alaska
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by anamax 5y ago
> you take the total funding sans property tax Since property tax is a huge source of school funding, "sans property tax" is like saying that we're going to ignore taxes paid by folks who live in detached houses. > &gt
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by anamax 5y ago
> Assuming $100k in tax, you're only paying them $2k Where are you getting your numbers? In California, public education is guaranteed >50% of state spending. That's on top of federal and local spending. (Schools in "
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by anamax 5y ago
It's interesting to read "if you use mixes, you don't understand ingredients" from people who then use "flour" without any specifics. There are hundreds if not thousands of flours and each cake mix has a mix of
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by anamax 5y ago
> Do you think they could be prepared in advance for this kind of attack? This is not a new attack in either type or scope. It's merely more visible. > How are you helping? Not at all. I don't benefit from YouTube's b
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by anamax 5y ago
This a lot of discussion about how to design a programming language without a mention of why you're designing a programming language. I mention why because different whys have different orderings of hows. (For example, if you're
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How often do you reboot linux? I go months between reboots, and that's with crappy hardware.
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by anamax 5y ago
> What I meant is that the scale of youtube is often underestimated Why are you assuming that HN readers don't understand YT scale? You do know that HN has readers who have built things at YouTube scale, including YouTube itself, ri
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> Thinking of it, more Norwegians fought in Finland in the Winter War so maybe more are coming? I don't know. On which side? During the Winter War, Finland and Germany were allies, their common enemy being the USSR. (I don't
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by anamax 5y ago
Microsoft abandoned their "not Chrome-based" Edge code base, despite the fact that it was significantly faster than Chrome on almost every other site, because of the way that YouTube does some layers. This "way" has no
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by anamax 5y ago
It's completely fair - YouTube picked a business model that has certain benefits and costs and this is one of the costs. They are happy to reap the benefits so it is fair to put the costs on them.
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by anamax 5y ago
Eternity is fiction. It isn't evidence, it's a story. Compare Lord of the Flies with https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-... . There will be a range of outcomes. That s
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by anamax 5y ago
Canadian and in-US oil/gas is less expensive (from a US perspective) than Russia's. Taking the US off the market also makes Russia's oil/gas cheaper for other countries. However, we're shutting that down.
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While there are nukes in Germany, they're not Germany's nukes unless Germany can determine when/where said nukes are used. (The ability to stop the US from using them is not enough.)
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Do you really think that the US will nuke Russia to protect Poland or Germany?
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by anamax 5y ago
The CDC's numbers show that Covid-19 has is less dangerous than several other diseases for many age groups. You've been demanding vaccination etc for those diseases as well, right?
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by anamax 5y ago
> “In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run it is a weighing machine.” Today's "short run" is last year's "long run" so either that statement is false or voting and weighing machi
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CA has both cronyism and poor quality.
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The $800k isn't being paid to the folks doing the actual construction. It isn't dominated by materials cost either. There are a lot of hands to be filled as money goes from the "house the homeless" fund to the actual pr
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> it a model designed to support the educational mission of the university. Except for the small problem that research contracts with orgs, some for profit, that don't have an educational mission, such as SRI, BBN, etc, follow the s
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by anamax 5y ago
The janitors are paid for by the rent. The "efficiency" here is that the university gets paid for an asset that it didn't pay for.
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Multi-issue 64bit machines can compare 256 bits in "just a few cycles". (You do 2-4 compares per cycle and then combine the results.)
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The cool trick is that some of the direct costs are for things that the university didn't pay for. Consider the building. Some rich people donate enough to pay for its construction. The university didn't pay anything. Moreover,
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The assertion was that the brain behaved differently in non-survivable situations than in bad but survivable ones.
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They're not measuring demand. They're measuring usage. Ticket sales don't tell you how many people didn't go to Disneyland because the tickets cost too much.
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> There is an induced demand that more parking spaces provides. Increased parking does not increase demand, it satisfies more of the demand that has always been there.
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That isn't the article that the title suggests.
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by anamax 5y ago
Climate activists often blockade things. (Some are currently blocking access Germany's three biggest airports and say that they want to disrupt cargo and passenger traffic at said airports.) When should their access to money be blocke
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by anamax 5y ago
I use a 32GB Android. A significant fraction of that 32GB is taken by system crap, so a GB makes a difference.
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by anamax 5y ago
Facebook also gave him his startup.

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