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by antt 8y ago
>I get the US is not exactly the best leader in human rights, but the transgressions of another is a tu quoque logical fallacy. Holding everyone to the same standard isn't a logical fallacy, it's fairness.
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The first thing to realize about any scientific paper is that it's wrong. To a very good approximation all scientific papers are wrong, until the results are replicated a couple of dozen times and failed to be replicated a few times th
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From the various articles in the thread it seems that these are single die computers, think something like bringing the cache on die from back in the day.
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From memory the vast majority of Yahoos stock market value comes from the fact they own a large stake of AliBaba.
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The smartest people I know are not making any money. It is the mediocrities with delusions of grandeur that do.
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If we take everything you've said here as fact you have only explained why right wing white conservatives are not conducting assassinations against the Democrats. Mexican undocumented migrant laborers have none of those excuses yet the
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In short Moore's Law. Between 1970 and 2010 if you could design special purpose hardware that ran 10 times faster than the state of the art you would need to get it to market in volume in under 3 years. If you took any longer the gener
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A lesson the political and billionaire class have not learned is that when inequality gets as bad as what we have today the mob gets actual pitchforks and assassins start throwing bombs in your carriages and shooting at your motorcade. Repr
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It doesn't matter what the topic is, anything James Mickens has to say on it will be entertaining. They are as scrutable as Solomonic proverbs, and just as bloodthirsty, but at the end of the day I feel like I read something that maybe
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by antt 8y ago
Sounds reasonable, but am I missing something deeply important, like say lisp or haskell, if I don't learn Julia. What I've seen it's a nicer fortrant.
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by antt 8y ago
I left academia before Julia became popular. What's the deal with it, does it actually add anything over c/fortran + python?
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Mathematica is to Sage as OS X is to Linux. Most people who don't know better mistake polish for capability.
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Give us the fresh water per acre the Dutch have and Australia would have been a second US in the 20th century already. 250 million. There's more to how many people a country can support than what you can see on a map. That's as ig
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>Is their current lifestyle supported by that growth? No. The people who are the most negative here about population growth are Australians. It's getting to the point where at a Bunnings sausage sizzle you can't tell if you&#x2
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The US. People don't drink land and we get decade long droughts that make California's look tame by comparison. The majority of Australia has the same hospitality to human habitation as does the Sahara.
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For Americans that don't get what the big deal is: Australia has a livable area about the same size as does California. The rest of the continent is desert that gets so hot they had to invent new colors to describe it [0]. Even towns i
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by antt 8y ago
You first have to ask the question, can the Chinese government ignore the market longer than the market can ignore the Chinese government. The answer so far is no and not only in China. Once the global market is reconfigured in such a way t
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China has been predicted to collapse any day now since 2001 when I started paying attention in highschool. It hasn't but people always have an explanation on why this time it's different. Dictatorships have a remarkable ability to
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by antt 8y ago
You can write lisp-y python quite easily. It's not good, pythonic or maintainable, but for learning purposes it is acceptable, especially on the 2.x series. Just start with list comprehensions. Lua and Ruby I fail to see how they are i
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There are many games where the only winning move is not to play. This is one of them. Helping either side is a crime against humanity.
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How do you know which gui programs to install? Not everything can be done with microsoft home office.
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by antt 8y ago
Quite possibly, outside of a post every two weeks or so on HN I have never met anyone else who uses it. Though I have met a few people who use org mode as an organizer/planner.
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by antt 8y ago
Look at org-babel-detangle and have your mind blown[0]. [0] Mostly, the current implementation works only with source blocks that are linearly added one after the other and don't use the <<noweb reference>> in code blocks.
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by antt 8y ago
This has been my go-to way of programming anything where I'm the primary person responsible for it. With pandoc you get a system that can export to any format under the sun. The highlight so far was exporting a problematic code portion
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by antt 8y ago
There's singles of us! If you want to extract it run M-x org-babel-tangle and you will end up with the usual source files and directories installed relative to the location of the org file. I doubt there's a dozen people in the wo
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by antt 8y ago
>My laptop is memory constrained you should reduce the number of jobs by passing the -j# switch to the ninja command below. I have had builds of linpack back in the day taking 24h+ on tiny systems. Again, building software isn't r
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>Building Chrome requires a supercomputer and not everyone has one around. What? http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/cvs/xsoft/chromium... Chromium comes in at 120 SBU, which while large isn&#x2
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by antt 8y ago
Not sure if it's illegal yet but a few years back a dead mans switch of share sales was very popular. You would have a schedule of selling a large portion off all your shares every x days, then ring up and cancel just before the sale.
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by antt 8y ago
>It's much harder to make and sell food that only LOOKS healthy, calorie-wise, when anyone can check pretty easily. Have you read the back of a package recently? This is directly from some nuttella in the pantry: "Energy 332KJ
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by antt 8y ago
Git works very well when the code is distributed . Which funnily enough is in the name. That we are using git as a centralized repository is a case of "Why do I need a screwdriver when I have a hammer?".

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