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by davidgay 3y ago
No it isn't. For instance, in the US one starts a BS at 17-18, finishes at 21-22. Median CS PhD is in the 5-6 year range (this site, based on actual data, says 5.7: https://gradschool.duke.edu/about/statistics&#x2F
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by davidgay 3y ago
> The awkward part is that a PCRE is demonstrably more powerful than a regular language, but not as powerful as a CFG Hmm, there's a reduction of 3-cnf-sat to perl regexps, making them NP-complete. As CFGs are in NP... https:/
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by davidgay 3y ago
Ports don't move very often.
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by davidgay 3y ago
> A half-lifetime of experiencing and observing modern medicine, in good faith, has taught me that participating in the medical system while not in need of emergency care is risking one's health and life. This is rather hyperbolic.
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by davidgay 3y ago
Sadly, the keys of the previous "HP15C Limited Edition", which I bought in 2012 - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005EIG3MW - were also crap. My original HP11C (from around its launch date in 1981) wo
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by davidgay 3y ago
> Is this a reference to Magnus Pym, the main character in A Perfect Spy by John le Carré? No, probably a reference to https://groups.google.com/g/eunet.politics/search?q=magnus%2... I wasted too much time (not
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by davidgay 3y ago
IIUC, Europe ran out of "old growth" forests around the end of the Middle Ages...
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by davidgay 4y ago
Snide putdowns of other groups of people just convince me your opinions are not worth listening to.
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by davidgay 4y ago
No, CPI since January 2020 is 17%.
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by davidgay 4y ago
> the US healthcare system mostly works for those who are well off enough and have good enough insurance, at least until a catastrophic or chronic condition. As the proud owner of several chronic conditions which are treated just fine(*)
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by davidgay 4y ago
> HP was involved in the IA64 effort and definitely was planning on the replacement of pa-risc from day 1. As my memory remembers and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium agrees, Itanium originated at HP. So yes, a
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by davidgay 4y ago
> One example of this is policing in the US: modern day policing arose from slave patrols [0]. This seems poorly supported, even by the cited article - it just says there was a group A doing X, then A doing Y, then later the police did Y
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by davidgay 4y ago
What these discussions always seem to forget is that WFH is you paying for your office space, i.e., a subsidy (versus the previous status quo) to your employer. That's easy to forget for people in the US where land and housing is cheap
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by davidgay 4y ago
> As a photographer I'm livid that Amazon bought DPReview just to run it into the ground. Amazon ran it for longer (13 years) than it's original owner (12 years). That's not "run it into the ground". Complaints a
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by davidgay 4y ago
> And if all you have is $10mm on your checking account but no income, you don't pay any taxes anywhere. Wealth taxes are a thing too, e.g., in Switzerland.
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by davidgay 4y ago
> These was definitely no shortage of ability to analyze and criticize western civilization in a college 20 years ago. Not to mention that the whole 18th century is famous for its criticism of (that time's) western civilization...
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by davidgay 4y ago
> Yeah, the fees and lower interest rates from this will be pretty brutal for the poor. I'm fairly sure the poor aren't that affected by interest rates - the very definition of being poor is not owning much in the way of assets
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by davidgay 4y ago
> Rousseau was Swiss No - Rousseau was born in the Republic of Geneva in 1712. Geneva only became part of Switzerland in 1815 (after a Napoleonic interlude since 1798).
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by davidgay 4y ago
I think the logical conclusion of this argument is that reparations should be paid for from a wealth tax? (as opposed to the likely default of "from general revenue")
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by davidgay 4y ago
> A lot of people seem to have been raised with this attitude that pretty theft from a ruthless retail corporation is some kind of unthinkable sin. You're not actually stealing from the "ruthless retail corporation". You a
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by davidgay 4y ago
This is a decorative/art installation, not the bridge's engineered lighting. So whatever Singapore is doing is not relevant (except if it's also for similar purposes).
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by davidgay 4y ago
> None of the 'serious' tech companies back then took 'personal' computing (whether at home or the office) seriously. With, of course, the minor exception of that easily forgotten serious tech company (IBM).
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by davidgay 4y ago
Of course, the root of Gallic is undoubtedly the same as Gaelic :)
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by davidgay 4y ago
Sorry, but I intrinsically dispute your hypothesis that you can approach the world's problems with pure logic. I don't believe that, so I don't need to be "pedantic" - I don't look to (or believe you can) apply
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by davidgay 4y ago
> I would say owning your home free and clear is a prerequisite to retire. People in countries like Switzerland with a high percentage of renters (58%) somehow manage to retire...
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by davidgay 4y ago
> A truly unbiased person, who likely doesn't fully exist, would be able to say that eugenics is the most correct solution, There's a disastrous fallacy in this argument: that you can define a total order on societies (or, if y
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by davidgay 4y ago
> War literally means "we are willing to kill and die to win this" I think you are overly equating the aggressor with the victim. The victim is more "we are willing to kill and die to avoid having <something> forced
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by davidgay 4y ago
> If you are in multiple group chats and have something to say (e.g. a life update), do you post in each individually? WhatsApp, at least, makes it easy to post the same update to multiple groups.
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by davidgay 4y ago
It used to be. For instance, France passed a law in 1987 to include an automatic tip on all bills (12-15%), i.e., switched from optional to automatic tipping. AIUI, French restaurant menus still say "service compris" (service incl
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by davidgay 4y ago
Sorry, but my personal experience with motion sickness and games says it's triggered by too-low framerates. Early 2000s laptops were particularly unbearable.

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