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by derleth 13y ago
Interestingly, the UN includes Mexico in Central America, but it seems to be one of the few official organizations to do so: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49regin.htm
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by derleth 13y ago
> It's best to keep the code in everything to the minimum! Optimizing for readability is usually most important. Readability is usually more important than reusability, in fact, although readability very often enables reusability. B
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by derleth 13y ago
They might be including all of the HTML in addition to all of the library code and all of the code in all of the interpreters and compilers they used, but even that probably comes up short. Maybe if they include all of the possible HTML t
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by derleth 13y ago
> I could probably simulate a turing machine on a TI-81 graphing calculator depending on if it fit in memory. Depending on how you define 'Turing-equivalent' this is never a problem: Something is Turing-equivalent if and only i
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by derleth 13y ago
> Such a time wouldn't exist. It seems you could get close to ensuring such a time would exist by creating constant emergencies for the crew to deal with such that rebooting would be hazardous, and waiting for the reboot-or-crash da
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by derleth 13y ago
> There is a reason why upvote exists. It pushes good discussion top. And downvoting helps push bad comments down, which is by design. > If you are worrying about space complexity: good news! HN is using a modern database, not flat fi
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by derleth 13y ago
> GP was not simply describing - they were excusing. That's not what I read. > Actually by calling out and disagreeing with this behavior we can change it. I agree. Disagree with the behavior, not the people describing it. > T
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by derleth 13y ago
> Regulations? How about just not shopping there? Because we've tried that, and it doesn't work. Look at the Gilded Age.
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by derleth 13y ago
>> Those people have fiduciary responsibilities to their stockholders, not to your moral compass. This is something resolved on a societal level, not on the corporate level. > This is the kind of ethical cop-out non-philosophy that
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by derleth 13y ago
Great article on the subject, which turned into the first in a series: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-27/why-walmart-will-ne... ("Why Wal-Mart Will Never Pay Like Costco", By Megan McArdle, Bloomb
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by derleth 13y ago
It's not the difference of opinion, it's the fact your post adds nothing to the discussion. This adds even less.
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by derleth 13y ago
On the other side of the coin, there also aren't enough employees to stop shoplifters and it's policy that they can't really challenge them anyway.
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by derleth 13y ago
So, if Walmart employees are on Socialized Medicine, does that make them Makers or Takers?
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by derleth 13y ago
> Al Jazeera also did a series on modern slavery Doesn't look like they include the slaves held in Qatar. Al Jazeera has also been very light on what's been uncovered about the Doha World Cup and everything related to that.
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by derleth 13y ago
Why does popehat assume Ofek is male?
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by derleth 13y ago
Wow. This is entirely incorrect on a simple, factual level.
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by derleth 13y ago
It wasn't always thus: On the 6502, which the early Apple II machines were built around, it was possible to access RAM at only a one- or two-cycle penalty compared to doing everything in registers and immediate values. This was only th
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by derleth 13y ago
There's absolutely nothing inherently wrong with heroin if it's used in a reasonable manner for something it can actually help with. It is, in fact, quite useful to deal with some kinds of physical pain. It's been eclipsed in
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by derleth 13y ago
Parody or not, there are sedevacantists in the world: > Sedevacantism is the position, held by a minority of Traditionalist Catholics,^[1]^[2] that the present occupant of the papal see is not truly pope and that, for lack of a valid pop
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by derleth 13y ago
Even better: Emacs has cwarn-mode, which by default highlights = (assignment-equal) in tests in BRIGHT RED. I'm sure Vim has something similar; maybe the customized version of uEmacs/PK 4.0.15 Linus uses does not. http:/&#x2
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by derleth 13y ago
> Although Opera had them first Opera had little miniature windows inside the main window. A small difference, perhaps, but tabs are simpler to manipulate at the cost of, perhaps, being less flexible (you can't resize tabs and move
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by derleth 13y ago
Does: sort < foo | uniq -u not work with named pipes?
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by derleth 13y ago
> im not sure if its a per executable thing or actually built into the shell? It's built into the shell in zsh, and it must also be in bash. By way of explaining how I know, I am first going to tell you a little bit about the progra
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by derleth 13y ago
Better than that: The original NT design is from Dave Cutler, who designed a series of good-to-great OSes for DEC, including RSX-11M, VMS, and Mica, which never saw the light of day but was meant to be VMS-meets-Unix for the brand-new RISC
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by derleth 13y ago
> That alone eliminates your entire argument. Sure. I believe you. What, if any, training in biology have you had?
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by derleth 13y ago
> The real reason for pasteurization is the benefit to large scale commercial dairy farming. And here we go with the conspiracy theories. What's your biological training?
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Seems a bit like cheating if you do it that way, though.
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by derleth 13y ago
Eh, programs compiled to assembly language aren't limited to machine-word-sized integers and whatever the floating-point hardware (if any) natively supports. I'd be interested to know what its performance on integer code is, thoug
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by derleth 13y ago
> you pay only for what you use In assembly and C, but not C++, at least if you use exceptions: http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/exceptions.html#fqa-17.1 Of course you can pare down C++ further and further, but then you hav
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by derleth 13y ago
It's amazing how quickly that claim falls to basic research: http://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodborneIllnessContaminants/BuyStor... > Probiotic microorganisms must be of human origin in order to have an impact on

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