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by closure 8y ago
How does prop 13 cause a housing crisis? It certainly entices people to hold and rent properties they own rather than sell, but those units are still part of the housing stock. I think repealing prop 13 for commercial properties makes sense
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by closure 9y ago
Buffett is a trustee of their foundation and pledged most of his money to it a decade ago. https://www.gatesfoundation.org/Who-We-Are/General-Informati...
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by closure 9y ago
I stopped reading here: “If San Francisco residents really believed that sea levels were rising, they’d have all sold their homes by now.” Apparently the author has never been to San Francisco or seen the sea level estimates for the next 30
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by closure 9y ago
Yes I understand that and the outdoors activities have no appeal to me. I’ve lived in Michigan, Texas, Washington, California. The weather in California is dramatically better than the others, but on balance I would much rather give up 3+ h
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by closure 9y ago
All I really mean is that on balance I think it’s worth the trade-off (due to the other pluses). I wouldn’t trade SF for say an inexpensive area with no culture and bad weather, but I think I am willing to put up with the heat & humidit
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by closure 9y ago
After 8 years in SF I have been seriously considering moving to NYC, largely over my commute to South Bay, but also for the substantial increase in density which brings with it a manifold increase in cultural opportunities and activities. T
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by closure 9y ago
My chihuahua was rescued on the streets of San Francisco after an unknown period of time fending for himself. He was a little underweight but not dramatically so. No signs of previous ownership (no chip, no collar, not neutered) so he was p
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by closure 9y ago
YMMV, but only in the last two years of high school do I recall these five-paragraph essays being a substantial part of classes. We certainly did them from time-to-time before that, but we also did a lot of other writing of many different
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by closure 9y ago
In a sense, yes. What I'm getting at specifically is that: - Although we teach people to read, we don't necessarily put enough focus on comprehension and understanding. - Although we teach people to write, we tend to focus on mech
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by closure 9y ago
Totally agree. It took me until several years out of school to realize that learning to think should have been a primary focus of university. 25 years on I am realizing that although it got me work and very decent pay I probably would have
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by closure 9y ago
My cardiologist told me never to try a low-sodium diet without talking with him first. He is very up-to-date on research and said that an equal number of people see blood pressure increase on low-sodium as see blood pressure decrease but fo
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by closure 9y ago
A "graybeard"? I think he made the right choice there.
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by closure 10y ago
Addictive or not, I think this statement is a sign that the authors didn't do much of an investigation: >It is normal behavior that, while perhaps in many cases a waste of time, is not damaging or disruptive of lives in the way drug
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by closure 10y ago
One observation here from someone who has taken a mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR) class but isn't currently meditating (but would like to get back to it!): Expect to get distracted a lot , like your mind wandering continuous
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by closure 10y ago
I too can make a rumbling sound at will since I was a child. What is responsible for this? I don't know how I discovered how to do this but it always seemed natural.
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by closure 10y ago
The author doesn't state her father's age or when he lived on Linnhurst. My father, now 82, lived on that block from birth until his late 20s or early 30s. He went back 20 years ago for the first time in 30 years and was shocked a
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by closure 10y ago
Thanks for pointing out the reference - the OCR apparently stopped part-way through the document. The harm comes from having a definition that is so loose as to be meaningless. You're now saying "high-level to high-level", bu
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by closure 10y ago
I don't buy this definition at all. First, the "semantics" had better not change, either by an optimizing or non-optimizing compiler, or you've got a miscompile. Second, I've seen several source-to-source compilers
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by closure 10y ago
Sorry but can you point to the particular use of "transpiler"? I've skimmed this several times and have now run it through a PDF OCR program, and am not finding it. Even if this paper does use the term saying "we've
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by closure 10y ago
So the number of people doing something is how you determine the definition of a word? That really makes no sense.
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by closure 10y ago
> IRs, ASTs and bytecodes are not programming languages. If you insist otherwise because "some might consider it that way", you have no business criticizing the use of words, to be honest. That's not what I am saying. The
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by closure 10y ago
By that definition every compiler that generates assembly language is a transpiler, rendering the term meaningless. Perhaps you don't think you could "just as well" program in assembly language, but there are many many people
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by closure 10y ago
I don't think it's a meaningful term because there is no reasonable definition, specifically of where you draw the line. cfront compiled C++ to C, so it's a transpiler, right? Or is that just an unimportant implementation det
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by closure 10y ago
I do wish people would stop using the term transpiler as if there is something novel or different about source-to-source translation. If you're taking a higher level language and compiling it to assembly, it's a compiler. If you&#
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by closure 10y ago
On this point, I wouldn't say that CS PhDs are necessarily having a hard time finding jobs but rather CS PhDs aren't by themselves particular valued in industry so you generally aren't going to get your time and money's
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by closure 10y ago
> I'm looking to transition out of startup nonsense and move into basic research. There are options other than startups and moving to research. Are you considering those? It's not entirely clear to me from the post what you&#x2
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by closure 10y ago
I was at Microsoft for over a decade and had access to the Windows NT source throughout. I couldn't agree more about Dave's code and the code of the other early contributors to the system. Extremely clean, clear, and simple code n
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by closure 10y ago
I happened to come across this article recently, an article which I think demonstrates how competitive Dave was in his youth: http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/sports/2015/07/23/d...
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by closure 11y ago
TAPL by Pierce is as far as I can tell the book everyone recommends, but if you have another you think is good I'm interested.
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by closure 11y ago
This is why I have always found proofs difficult. I just don't know what steps people think are important to spell out but.

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