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571.
by btilly 2y ago
Regulation is not a constant factor. It varies from place to place, and has generally increased over time.
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by btilly 2y ago
I have read Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Your description of how bitter and resentful they are is utterly bizarre, and bears no relation to the book that I read.
573.
by btilly 2y ago
No, but it is the shape of a drop that is about to drip. Which is a lot easier for people to see in detail than a falling raindrop.
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by btilly 2y ago
It follows from Turing completeness. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_completeness . It takes very little for a system to become Turing complete. And once it is, you can include arbitrary computations. Proving t
575.
by btilly 2y ago
There are actually enough that you can type your DOB in the format YYYYMMDD and find a submission for it! This has been true since https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=20190615 was posted on June 15, 2019.
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Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator(twitter.com)
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by btilly 2y ago
They are the same at present, and she is inproving over time.
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by btilly 2y ago
Then you'll enjoy https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28178949/ .
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by btilly 2y ago
If you doubt the statement, you can go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_attempt to verify it. Or you could accept that someone who has been through this, might have done some research.
580.
by btilly 2y ago
The plural of anecdote is not data. Yes, that can happen. That's not what happens most of the time.
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by btilly 2y ago
Our treatments for depression basically don't work. But that is another story.
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by btilly 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_attempt quotes the figure that only one out of a dozen suicide attempts succeeds. The most common method is pills. The most common outcome is complete physical recovery. That was t
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by btilly 2y ago
The vast majority of suicide attempts end with a live person who has no long-term effects. The vast majority of medically assisted suicide attempts end with a dead person. Having been through my daughter's suicide attempt, I far prefer
584.
by btilly 2y ago
The article makes reference to Tim O'Reilly's excellent Frank Herbert . That book is well worth reading by anybody who wants to better understand Frank Herbert, and is available for free at https://www.oreilly.com&#x2F
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by btilly 2y ago
With sufficient compute capacity, a complete physical simulation of a human should be possible. This means that, even though we are fallible, there is nothing that we do which can't be simulated on a Turing machine.
586.
by btilly 2y ago
My comment was about the degree of executive power exercised, and not about the wisdom of his actions. Trump has yet to match FDR. That said, many historians believe that FDR's actions made the Great Depression longer and more severe.
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by btilly 2y ago
Name me 5 executive orders by Trump which, combined, disrupt normal economic affairs by as much as that single one. As for the broader efforts, the New Deal required various things like reinterpreting the Commerce Clause. Look up "the
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by btilly 2y ago
That's why Trump just did a purge of top generals and lawyers in the military.
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by btilly 2y ago
FDR was more extreme than Trump so far. For instance consider banning private ownership of gold by executive order. Mind you, Trump could still declare himself dictator. But based on what's happened so far? FDR was more extreme.
590.
by btilly 2y ago
My claim isn't about housing prices. It is about the cost of housing. True, a land value tax transfers value from property owners to the government. But paying that tax represents a cost of housing. Either directly - you're paying
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by btilly 2y ago
No, my initial claim is correct. Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_housing_shortage , "California needs to double its current rate of housing production (85,000 units per year) to keep up with expected
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by btilly 2y ago
As long as there are more people needing housing than housing, prices will be high. California has such a shortage, and the people side of the equation is going up faster than housing is constructed. Making the problem worse over time. A la
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by btilly 2y ago
For housing to stop increasing in price, a lot of it has to be built. The YIMBY movement is pushing in the right direction, but doesn't have the political power that they need. Particularly in California. And, as long as they don'
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by btilly 2y ago
More than TeX or SQLite?
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by btilly 2y ago
This applies to modifying a byte. But inserting a byte will change every block from then on, and will force a rewrite. Of course, that is true of most filesystems.
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by btilly 2y ago
Trump I have no explanation for except corruption. But Musk and DOGE, there is a simple explanation. Musk has learned that you take a chainsaw to sacred cows, then fix the 10% that were really bad mistakes, and that is the easiest way to cu
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by btilly 2y ago
Inflation causes interest rates to go up. Which increases our interest payments. Which blows a hole in our budget.
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by btilly 2y ago
Many years ago I came up with a rule of thumb. Restaurants have three basic strategies, be a known quantity (chain), have a good location, or be actually good. I've found some gems by looking for the third category. Given that "ne
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by btilly 2y ago
I found one by accident with C++. It was a situation where class A had a protected field x, B inherited from A, and C was a friend of B. Can C access x? GCC and Clang disagreed on this. Upon close reading, Clang was right, C should be able
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by btilly 2y ago
There's no subject that I can be expected to understand in writing that ChatGPT doesn't also understand. Captchas have been broken for a while. The only test that I've seen that succeeds shows up in tax season. "Which of

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