benlorenzetti

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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
Perhaps he means from a practical point of view. Signals arising from the types of natural phenomena measured in engineering is always real, contiguous, and limited. An integrating op amp circuit is going to be stable up to the limits of th
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> What if every carrier of traffic that your traffic rides on has different prioritization agreements? If ISPs were not dominated by federal-government-originated monopolies, then our traffic would have a variety of routes available to i
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
An excellent data point for the argument toward ending ``Net Neutrality''
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
Yeah, this is the gist of my question. Basically if programming language inc(C) has an overloaded function for both memcpy(alias...) and memmove(restrict...) , how does the type information enter the system which allows the compiler choo
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
This seems like a reasonable compromise if people are interested in a language that can do both. Using C's syntax, a language could modify the semantics of terminators , ; : to indicate strict/total ordering of statements.
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
I agree it would cause inflation. What is not clear (and I probably won't believe any study claiming clarity) is what % of said inflation would be caused by economic growth vs monetary manipulation. There are lots of studies that show
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
None of them are a monopoly. There are alternative search engines, email providers, and phone OSs. There are alternative social media platforms and alternative online and physical marketplaces. There is no natural factor about them that ten
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
Wow Ada syntax is not what I'm used to! This is interesting; it seems like a very simple solution to make the problem less widespread. It is still on you though to use the correct version of the equivalents of memcpy() and memmove() th
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
Thanks dozzie and pjmlp, I should have credited Alexander Stepanov. He is a great programmer and educator that has impacted my CS education. What I meant was that C++ was the first widely adopted language that had memory access and sufficie
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
> ...Optimizing memory accesses is hard because you don't know who's looking at the memory in a global sense...In a language like C, therefore, there's a tension between generating optimized code and generating predictable
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
I did not down vote you but most stock owners do not expect exponential growth from the company. They expect linear dividends, which they can reinvest to get exponential growth.
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This seems like a good presumption, at least for a large capital operations like factories and data centers.
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
Grandparent post didn't say anything about timeframe of civic government and even mentioned things like schooling that have a long time frame. Also assertion about DARPA supports a small logical induction, in that the U.S., which spend
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
I am against NN but even from my point of view the innovation argument is 50% duplicitous. I don't expect big monopoly ISPs to implement these changes with content providers in a way that doesn't disrupt end users' access. Bu
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
On the other hand, C's treatment of arrays in general (not just strings) has unfortunate implications both for optimization and for future extensions. The prevalence of pointers in C programs, whether those declared explicitly or aris
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
We are talking past each other. I think that autonomous cars are a great idea and would like to invest in autonomous car companies more directly than is currently possible. I gather from reading about predatory pricing and your prior commen
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
Uber (in the past) made hired car rides fundamentally cheaper than everything before it by bullying local monopolies into bankruptcy. I know your post is evaluating Uber's future, not past, but past successes may color our judgment o
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
Disagreeing with capitalism is different from disagreeing about what it is. If autonomous vehicles are within the realm of possibility, they are going to be enormously successful and beneficial to humanity. Well functioning capitalism is ab
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
Thanks for finding this. This is exactly the point, we can reduce lobbying corruption by scrapping such economics-defying rules. This is completely orthogonal to real anti-trust legislation against the hardwired ISPs, which both parties see
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
You're version is more specific. Perhaps I was too general and clunky.
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This is wonderful news. This is how capitalism is supposed to work. I wonder if the recent uproar around uber could have mitigated by publicizing this earlier.
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
I did not mean to equate "camps" just with the republican and democratic parties of today. I meant camps to describe groups of people with similar opinions at the same time in history. For example in the civil war era you had nort
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
> See, that's where your argument makes no sense. ISPs don't want to argue prices with their customers. They want to extort businesses that have never decided to be their customers. In every willing exchange of data, both the t
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
This is the great tragedy of American democracy through all its history. One camp sees that there are big businesses that have achieved rentier positions in the economy and advocates passing laws or using force to punish them. The other cam
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
Between monetary policies from the Fed that have increased the base money supply by a factor of >5 since 2008 [1], and sustained trade imbalances on the order of tens of billions per month [2], it should not be surprising that stock pric
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
This idea is the problem with net neutrality. The reason people support net neutrality is that ISPs are monopolies even more so than Google, Facebook, etc and we understand that monopolies are unfair, corrupt, renters, etc. Therefore it e
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
If there is a law or federal rule, that usually implies there are not sufficient market forces behind whatever we still think should/shouldn't be done.
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Its a system for commenting, not voting. Of course any American with an opinion should be encouraged to comment but if all 323 million actually did, that would not be productive. The bot programmers and TV programs on both sides don't
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
> Toyota has been making some bad business decisions lately. They don't make battery electric cars. (They're fixing that, but won't be shipping until 2022.[1]) Instead, they've been pushing cars that run on hydrogen.
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
Agreed fuel cells remain very exciting and maybe patience will be rewarded

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