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by davidgay 8y ago
What's the moral difference between political ads and donations to a political campaign which will presumably spend that money on ads (or other campaign related expenses)?
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by davidgay 8y ago
LLVM was a UIUC project.
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by davidgay 8y ago
> atrition at UCSF's med school is below 0.5%, whereas many PhD programs have attrition rates about 50% Some of us went through school systems with 50% pass rates for middle school, high school and university, so don't find tha
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by davidgay 8y ago
> I'm not convinced by reason #1 because words are distinct even in speech. Not in all languages. Lookup "liaison" in French, e.g. (and a not uncommon complaint of people learning French is that they can't separate th
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by davidgay 8y ago
iAPX432
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by davidgay 8y ago
> Bitcoin might be a steam engine. I think it's fairly safe to say that steam engines revolutionised society (the industrial revolution and all that), arguably more so than those engines that replaced it.
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by davidgay 8y ago
There's plenty of obvious cognates. Without thinking too much, with rather rusty German, and from your comment: I = ich have = habe hear = hören before = bevor [in some meanings to be fair] and = und [Your first half sentence is a good
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by davidgay 8y ago
Then the system that allowed them to do so is badly designed.
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by davidgay 8y ago
per-device key.
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by davidgay 8y ago
> This desperately needs to be peer reviewed by people who study the foundations of physics. So someone like "As a theoretician, Gisin brought deep insights into quantum mechanics." ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by davidgay 8y ago
A quick check on the author leads to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Gisin . I think it's going to be rather safe to conclude that this author is well-aware of the difference between the computable and non-co
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by davidgay 8y ago
Sadly, the scratches and distortion (esp. from the two layers of window) make this "highest resolution" a bit of a pipe-dream... [Or: no, looking directly through optical system A is not guaranteed to have "higher resolution&
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by davidgay 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PowerPoint#History
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by davidgay 8y ago
This is misleading, as: - you're including interest for the new car but not the old - you're ignoring the residual values of the cars at the end of the 5/10/15 year periods [edit: and the "cost" of that 3 year&
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by davidgay 8y ago
My computer science degree (from www.epfl.ch) comes with an official (as in, legally protected [0]) engineer title. Not all people, institutions, countries make the same distinction between "real engineering" topics and other topi
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by davidgay 8y ago
> > Whats complicated about an iteration > What’s complicated about a recursion? Especially as iteration is just a special case of recursion :)
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by davidgay 8y ago
> It is impossible to sell raw-milk cheese in the United States. I've bought plenty of raw mil cheeses (domestic and imported) in the US. http://www.realrawmilkfacts.com/raw-milk-regulations says: "In 1987, th
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by davidgay 8y ago
> Fuji just can't get their act together, and to be honest they've never been a very well-run company. This is a more than strange statement to make in a thread mentioning Kodak, where one of those two companies successfully ma
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by davidgay 8y ago
You also need type polymorphism (which Java and most of the languages under discussion did not have/did not start with), or it will drive you crazy. And you may start needing fancier versions of polymorphism to express things like &quo
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by davidgay 8y ago
1. It's hard to support circular data structures in an imperative language without null pointers. 2. Restricting a language to non-circular data structures will not be popular. 3. Having a nullable and non-nullable version of every poi
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by davidgay 8y ago
I don't think a 21year old secretary was saving the equivalent of $70k 2018 dollars in 1943.
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by davidgay 9y ago
FWIW: the 18-105 has an ED element for "only" $400: http://imaging.nikon.com/lineup/lens/zoom/normalzoom/af-s_dx... [The 55-200 also has an ED element for $150, but that looks like a sale effec
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by davidgay 9y ago
Note that most common type systems "crash" type-checked programs at runtime: null-pointer check failures, array-bound check failures, and (even, Java) co-variant array write check failures. So the line is fairly fuzzy.
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by davidgay 9y ago
Non-luxury cars (Subaru) are shipping with more than that (lane following, adaptive cruise control).
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by davidgay 9y ago
That's trivially fixed by requiring the engineering to be certified in the jurisdiction in which its output operates. For a mostly topical example of such rules: https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/v
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by davidgay 9y ago
> - Expecting engineers to always write perfect code is insane. Mistakes happen. In safety-critical fields, setting a much higher quality bar than the regular 'it seems to works, the tests pass' seems perfectly rational to me.
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by davidgay 9y ago
Moving to a smaller house when your children have moved out is not exactly uncommon. And that matches moderately well with >= 55 too (kids born when you're 25-35, say, and moving out when they are 20-25).
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by davidgay 9y ago
It's sarcasm. Note the last element in the list.
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by davidgay 9y ago
> In Energy and Civilization, Vaclav Smil points out that in terms of embedded energy, an automobile, with over 1,000x the mass of a smartphone, has only 100x the embedded energy. Assuming embedded energy means "battery / fuel
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by davidgay 9y ago
My favourite on the yes/no front though is the border between Greece and Bulgaria where "Ne" (Не) means no in Bulgarian and, IIUC, yes in Greek. And then the Bulgarians also have approximately reversed vs Western Europe head

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