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by bluquark 6y ago
The squarish glyph-shapes aren't a good fit for spaces. Scripts with spaces have unevenly shaped letters so that one can quickly scan a word by its length and pattern of ascenders/descenders. In Japanese spaces do not aid this t
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by bluquark 6y ago
Interesting. I find it funny to imagine what if you did have pictorial representations. They'd have more and more complex strokes and knots, and you would also need an infinitely large paper or infinitely precise pen in order to not
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by bluquark 7y ago
Ancient Athens did it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
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by bluquark 7y ago
In addition to trading windows and material information rules, my company has a blanket rule that the company stock cannot be shorted nor can derivatives of any kind be used on it. Additionally it warns that this rule may also apply to ETF
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by bluquark 7y ago
You might also enjoy Noita, a modern roguelike with per-pixel terrain destruction -- as well as liquids, gases and fire.
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by bluquark 7y ago
Only 7% of Nobel Prize winners are "smart"? https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Religion_of_Nobel_...
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by bluquark 7y ago
Here is a more up-to-date doc on the security model: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2019/08/native-fil...
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by bluquark 7y ago
This article ignores the political dynamics. Pro-supply policies like zoning reform are much more popular when bundled with anti-displacement measures, which address people's anxiety about them. A mild level of rent control such as th
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by bluquark 7y ago
Some kind of computerized historical analysis might read your comment, but it's hard to imagine how it would be practical for future historians to read more than a tiny sample of the enormous flood of ephemeral writing we're produ
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by bluquark 7y ago
JVM is gaining self-contained deployable package support, and as of recently, Kotlin supports a mode with LLVM-based native code generation. IMO, the fundamental advantages of Go over competing languages in the long run are its fast compile
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by bluquark 7y ago
Kotlin and Swift are both currently encroaching on Go's server-side use cases. For example, Go's star feature, goroutines, has recently been cloned by Kotlin. They are at least as equally pleasant to program in, and they're
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by bluquark 7y ago
The last ten years' experience with renewables has shown that local-scale generation is underwhelming and large-scale deployments are the way to go. With the exponential recent declines in production cost, most of the cost of solar is
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by bluquark 7y ago
Bank collapses happen during times of deflation. In that environment, printing money like crazy just returns the financial system to normal, low levels of inflation.
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by bluquark 8y ago
> I’ve personally seen this happen several times with ex-Google employees who join as the earliest engineers and insist on setting up copies of what they recall from Google, mostly insisting on a monorepo regardless of any use case deta
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by bluquark 8y ago
It seems to me the acquihire option was rather summarily dismissed in this post, and I’m not sure why. It would’ve been better for employees and investors, and the customers at worst would’ve gotten a clean, slow wind-down with time to fin
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by bluquark 8y ago
The whole section is kind of strange. First he says that he believes only technology breakthroughs can solve the climate crisis, despite the expert consensus that the technology is mostly there if the political will can be found to disrupt
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by bluquark 8y ago
Do you remember your source? I'd be interested to see the breakdown.
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by bluquark 8y ago
100ms is slightly arbitrary, but the real point of saying "100ms" is that it's lower than the multiple seconds typically required for page load, and higher than the 16ms required for smooth animation. An appropriate target f
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by bluquark 8y ago
I think frequently about buying puts but never pulled the trigger. It's so, so tempting because in cases like that, you are 100% sure that you're right, and in fact you actually are right. The last time I thought of buying puts w
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by bluquark 8y ago
It would be even more disappointing if the stock barely moved, and then crashed 2 days after the option expired. In that event, the put goes to zero and the traditional short wins the jackpot. A more abstract way to make the same point is
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by bluquark 8y ago
Put options have their own enormous downsides. You pay a large premium up front, and you lose everything if the stock either A) doesn't change value at all or B) collapses later than you predict. Both methods are a rotten deal. That&