danmaz74

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by danmaz74 8y ago
Depends how complex the firmware is.
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by danmaz74 8y ago
As a counterexample, look at the cost of socialized healthcare in Europe vs the privately managed one in the US. Very simply, there are many sectors where the market works best. Healthcare isn't one of them.
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by danmaz74 8y ago
If that additional volume makes your daily spending on food lower, then it's a saving. If it makes you eat more, or throw away more food, then yes, it's not a saving.
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by danmaz74 8y ago
Having recently moved to the UK, I have noticed some "offers" of this kind in supermarkets where there wasn't actually any advantage over buying the items by themselves. They really must count on people not checking.
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by danmaz74 8y ago
All-or-nothing is a false dichotomy. It should depend on age, time spent together, and possibly other circumstances.
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by danmaz74 8y ago
Even without considering Tha accounting tricks, a lot of that revenue gets generated where production happens, by the distribution network, etc etc.
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by danmaz74 8y ago
At the risk of getting downvoted too, I'll second this. Reddit is already a great platform to read fun comments on any possible subject, let's try to keep them differentiated.
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by danmaz74 8y ago
For a time, science had a very strong finalistic narrative too - that science itself would remove all misery from the world. The strength of this narrative is much diminished today, even if it's not dead - it's often visible on HN
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by danmaz74 8y ago
What you describe looks how agile was supposed to be. What the op described looks like a perversion of agile perpetrated by managers who either don't understand why agile was born, or do understand it, but only care about increasing th
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by danmaz74 8y ago
Efficiency is important, but if all the benefits of the efficiencies accrue to the rich, we're not "all better off". Plus, GDP per capita doesn't capture some very important aspects of of what makes people live better li
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by danmaz74 8y ago
If someone wants to trade their employer's secrets, there are MUCH easier ways to do so than creating their own side business. This looks like a straw-man argument.
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by danmaz74 8y ago
I've been working remotely from Rome for 5 years with my own startup, and really felt that problem. Sometimes I think about possible solutions for people with this problem (even if I recently moved to London, I'm still not doing q
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by danmaz74 8y ago
When you talk about film grain, are you referring to older movies, or also to recent ones? I usually don't notice it in recent ones.
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by danmaz74 8y ago
Completely agree with the orderly redistribution.
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by danmaz74 8y ago
If you study history, you also quickly learn that there were orders of magnitude more poor people killed by the rich and powerful than the other way around. Are mobs always morally in the right? Absolutely not. But neither the opposite is t
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by danmaz74 8y ago
> of Caribbean origin I'm curious, what would be the rationale behind this?
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by danmaz74 8y ago
I wonder if something new could emerge to help with massive parallelism, beyond what gpus already do.
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by danmaz74 8y ago
What to open is decided in a case-by-case basis. When opening one sector is more favorable for one of the two parties, the other one is going to ask something in return...
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by danmaz74 8y ago
Sure: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SIPOVGINIUSA
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by danmaz74 8y ago
That mostly happened because the top 10% is today capturing a much higher percentage of GDP compared to 1980. What is really important isn't who pays more taxes, but who can benefit from all the wealth that is produced.
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by danmaz74 8y ago
I write mostly Ruby these days, and this is my approach too. I usually write the pure functions as class methods. It would be great if it was possible to declare a function "pure" and have checks that it only uses pure functions i
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by danmaz74 8y ago
Thank you for the suggestion. For us it's not a flap, it's a very cumbersome dial and, honestly, I gave up on moving it every day. We just sleep in lighter pyjamas :)
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by danmaz74 8y ago
Our rented apartment here in London has storage heaters in each room which only turn on at night, when tariffs are off peak; they then release the heat during the day. I think there is a separate power circuit for that. There are also two s
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by danmaz74 8y ago
Standard library functions are well understood because they are shared between all projects using a language. Their naming doesn't even need to be descriptive, because people will learn them regardless. But functions which only exist i
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by danmaz74 8y ago
In situations like those, if I'm not sure but there are probable answers, I usually say: we're not sure yet, it could be X or Y, but we need ... time to know for sure. The other people are usually smart enough to know if they need
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by danmaz74 8y ago
The op talked about the free market always winning, and you accuse him of being a socialist?
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by danmaz74 8y ago
30% referred to total installed capacity, not production.
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by danmaz74 8y ago
Usually here in London there is a light showing if the button has been pressed or not.
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by danmaz74 8y ago
One data point: it makes me think first of all about salespeople.
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by danmaz74 8y ago
+1 about sugar. Regarding evolution, I don't think we would like to have a few billion deaths to let our DNA "adapt"

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