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by davidgay 6y ago
> They ignore that refusing someone is also part of the freedom of association. And this is undesirable with no restrictions which is why societies constrain the freedom of association, in particular, in the US, via various "Civil R
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by davidgay 6y ago
> _naturally_ want to live with _similar_ people You are forgetting that those kinds of neighborhoods have developed in part because other people have taken mild-to-extreme steps to prevent "those" people from living with them
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by davidgay 6y ago
The annual budget for just San Francisco is $12 billion ( https://sfbos.org/supervisor-fewer-budget-information ). That's 20% of Sergey Brin's net worth. So no, I don't think that any billionaire is even remote
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by davidgay 6y ago
No, quarterly vs monthly depends on the number of units ready to vest (if there's enough, it will be monthly).
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by davidgay 6y ago
> This is a cynical rewriting of history. Seconded. I was on the Internet before gopher, and I never really saw the point over regular ftp (and, a quick glance at the wikipedia page right now doesn't really tell me what the real ext
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by davidgay 6y ago
> When is the last time you saw an employer shutter their business but continue paying their employees? Just last month: https://web.archive.org/web/20200410153705/http://www.lafari... (They've s
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by davidgay 7y ago
The argument never seemed to match the figures either - currently 10th on the per-capita death rate :-( https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
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by davidgay 7y ago
Far, far, better for bread and cheese at least. Which I suspect means you haven't found where those are? (Cheeseboard in Berkeley, Cowgirl Creamery in the Ferry Building, Acme bread, Tartine as previously mentioned - some of these clos
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by davidgay 7y ago
Until 201x (not sure exactly when it changed), every hire needed to be approved by Larry (ref both my memory and https://www.businessinsider.com/google-ceo-larry-page-on-hir... ).
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by davidgay 7y ago
And a good contrast is Bulgaria, which shutdown early, on March 13th or so ( https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-bulgar... ), and which has a death rate on par with South Korea's. The neighbouring
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by davidgay 7y ago
Which strikes me as coming from the rather strange view that there must be a single reason for everything. When in my view, it's hard for a single person to have a single reason for anything, so when many people are involved...
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by davidgay 7y ago
The intensity is not a linear function of the bit value, the intensity is more or less value^2.2, which does give ~1e6 to 1... See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_correction for the gory details.
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by davidgay 7y ago
Auto-dimming side-view mirrors now exist (as a package with an auto-dimming main mirror for Subaru at least).
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by davidgay 7y ago
> $500 Automatic Tissot: after a couple of years, it couldn't keep time (it added minutes in a period of a week). Sounds like it got magnetized ( https://wornandwound.com/watches-and-magnetization/ ), which can h
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by davidgay 7y ago
Lies: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre
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by davidgay 7y ago
Every country designing and making their own 5G equipment seems impractical (not to mention expensive, likely full of bugs=backdoors, etc), I think the correct conclusion to draw from that is that you need to use end-to-end (really point-yo
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by davidgay 7y ago
> So what do I do? Get to the corner and stubbornly refuse to look up at any of the cars, and don’t really face my body toward any possible crossing. I.e., create maximum confusion as to your intentions? Doesn't sound great to me.
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by davidgay 7y ago
> > Cigarette smoke feels like it sucks the air out of a nonsmoker's lungs from quite a wide radius [...] makes people involuntarily gag > Unless you have an allergy or something, this is entirely in your head. The fraction of
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by davidgay 7y ago
> People sometimes think that the market caused the Alpha to fail. Really, it was Intel. They wanted Itanic to succeed so much that they made a deal with HP to end the Alpha prematurely, even though demand for Alpha systems was high. Thi
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by davidgay 7y ago
> you can't actually show A-F on a seven segment display. Yes you can - I used a 7 segment display with hex numbers (a 6800 Dev kit of some kind) - A, b (lower case), C, d (lower case again) E, F are all straightforward. See https:
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by davidgay 7y ago
> In 1991, the people you might have conversed with on Usenet were a lot similar to you. I'd suggest you missed noticing some of the more divided corners of Usenet back then. Consider (admittedly an extreme example) https:/&#x
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by davidgay 7y ago
> For restaurants specifically, it's really hard to eliminate tipping for the wait staff. Not really - it may be hard for an individual restaurant, but plenty of countries don't have customers tipping in restaurants. In many (m
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by davidgay 7y ago
I'm guessing it sounds a lot more elegant in Dutch...
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by davidgay 7y ago
I don't consider 'option' types to have interesting semantic differences with nullable types. YMMV. But beyond that, the absence of nullable references (really, a valid default value for every type) is a problem for record&#x
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by davidgay 7y ago
The reason they come up again and again is that it's hard to design an imperative language without them (try, assuming you want to provide generic user-defined data structures that allow for cycles). As a result, calling them a "m
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by davidgay 7y ago
The comment you responded to used "imperial", which is the adjective derived from empire. There's no other adjective for empire, and there's really no reason to assume that use refers to modern meanings of imperialism (w
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by davidgay 7y ago
When I chose to major in CS, I got a nice letter from the university suggesting that maybe this wasn't the best choice, that too many people were picking this, that it would be worth considering other majors. This worked - I can't
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by davidgay 7y ago
The trick here is to apply the golden rule and adjust the negative-value (an average-stranger's death) to the equivalent value applied to you (apparently-rich-stranger's death). Then you'll realise the cost of the fine needs
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by davidgay 7y ago
> Foreigners visiting China pay much, much much more than locals. Some years ago, I had an epiphany on the reverse-equivalent of this: foreigners visiting Switzerland pay exactly the same as locals. And it has pretty much the same effe
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by davidgay 7y ago
> That is an unfair comparison. Forth is designed to run on metal, with no os, no stdlibc, no vector. Can any of other language do that? Not much of a stretch with C, really - there's a reason its used to write operating systems ;)

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