derriz

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by derriz 5y ago
The perception that US manufacturing is dead is mostly just perception, if you look at the actual numbers. Before the big dip caused by covid, the value of US manufacturing output had never been higher. [1] Even in inflation adjusted/
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by derriz 5y ago
In what way can the first 4 items in the list be considered atrocities? And how can they be considered _CIA_ atrocities given they occur before the formation of the CIA? The fifth (Operation Paperclip) was conducted by US Army Intelligence
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by derriz 5y ago
Where did you get the 0% win record? Googling throws up a bunch of cases which have mixed outcomes - most recently their success in the case against the commission.
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by derriz 5y ago
> Yes, it does work, according to various accounts I've seen, although 40 hours for a few months might not quite be enough (the usual figure is around 18 months of full-time immersion, and more is obviously better) Could you provide
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by derriz 5y ago
I disagree with nearly all of your advice and tips. And I'd be very surprised if they reflected actual scientific findings in linguistics. The least objectionable is the "don't translate" tip but even there I think you&
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by derriz 5y ago
Mostly what you say is correct but there are a few points which make the story less outrage-provoking. First of all "shifting income to a US company" has nothing to do with the set-up. Apple and everyone are obliged by decades of
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by derriz 5y ago
No it's not a database - it's much more low level than that. It's a chunked columnar storage format for large data sets. Think of storage layout for a table of data. With arrow, the table is first split row-wize into chunks
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by derriz 5y ago
Actually it was a way to avoid paying US corporation taxes, not EU ones. It allowed US corporations to park their profits "offshore" indefinitely which is why only US corporations used this set-up. The US - uniquely in the world
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by derriz 5y ago
Don’t those requirements conflict? Maintaining a partial pressure difference between inside and out for CO2 but simultaneously preventing a partial pressure difference in O2? I guess with a large enough scrubber running constantly it might
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by derriz 6y ago
I'm an old-timer so was introduced to Unix before bash was ubiquitous. Actually it was csh/tcsh which later introduced me to "interactive" command history/editing. With interactive command history/editing, th
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by derriz 6y ago
Even the recursion claim is now quite vague - according to Chomsky, while revision is a fundamental feature, not all languages exhibit recursion. I also realize that I don’t even know what it means for a human language to be recursive. I ge
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by derriz 6y ago
Everything you say is reasonable and I can agree with all of it except the claim that I’m misrepresenting Chomsky - in it’s original form it specifically defined a “language acquisition device” - a part of the brain which evolved specifical
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by derriz 6y ago
My problem with Chomsky's view of linguistics is that lacks falsifiability which makes it fundamentally unscientific. I'm not even sure what Chomky's theory is as it has become more and more vague over the decades as evidenc
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by derriz 6y ago
This has gotten a bit bizarre. The OP made a claim that the US and the UK have the most liberal immigration policies. I responded that that doesn't seem to be case and provide OECD numbers which support my contention. You express disag
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by derriz 6y ago
The claim was that "the US and the UK have the most open immigration policies". If you have any statistics to support this claim, please provide a reference. The statistics I referred to (proportion of foreign born residents) se
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by derriz 6y ago
If the US and UK have the most open policies, it certainly doesn't show up in the statistics. Both have fewer foreign-born residents than is average for their region (North America and Western Europe respectively)[1]. And I don't
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by derriz 6y ago
Forgot to add to my reply - why is Germany being singled out? China burns 15 times as much coal as Germany - even the USA burns 3 times as much.
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by derriz 6y ago
I'm guessing because it's an impossible counterfactual to suggest that an advanced industrial country could fully replace/de-carbonize 70% of their electricity production in the time span under discussion. Suggesting impossi
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by derriz 6y ago
What? This makes zero sense. Germany gets 24% of electricity from lignite/coal - down from 45% 6 or 7 years ago.
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by derriz 6y ago
My problem with Le Corbusier is not the architectural style of Brutalism - some of my favourite buildings are in that style. It was the iconoclasm and outright hostility to existing architecture he promoted. It reminds me of Mao's cu
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by derriz 6y ago
School is also an adverse learning environment. Your definition of succeeding at school is too narrow - digesting information isn’t enough to be a success at school. For example, you need to balance social/peer success with academic
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by derriz 6y ago
How do you short companies for a long time? To exploit a correlation between CEO compensation and stock-market returns, you surely need to hold a short position for years? I just can't see how to do that profitably given the high cos
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by derriz 6y ago
Yes. I don't see that a person is being treated more fairly working in a 1,000 employee company where the CEO earns $1m than working in a 10,000 employee company where the CEO earns $10m. The arithmetic says there's no differenc
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by derriz 6y ago
Not according to my experience with a top-spec Dell XPS "developer edition" with Ubuntu pre-installed about 2 years ago. Not only did I have intermittant Wifi connection drops but I was never able to get multi-monitor mixed DPI t
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by derriz 6y ago
For me, a merge commit in git is just a snapshot like any other except that its metadata contains links to more than one parent. The parent child relationship acts as nothing more than remark that the child was derived from both parents in
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by derriz 6y ago
> It's usefult to think of a single commit in itself as a diff. Except if it has multiple parents like a merge commit. Actually I don’t agree even in general. It took me an unreasonably long time to become unafraid of git because I
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by derriz 6y ago
That’s not the the case everywhere in Europe. This guy got over $2m for two years of wrongful imprisonment - https://www.irishtimes.com/news/shortt-awarded-1-9m-for-wron...
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by derriz 6y ago
Some feedback - maybe I’m being picky but I feel you’ve chosen poorly with regard to the “readonly” keyword in your IDL. Or least I’d prefer if you used the normal type/interface naming conventions. “readonly” and “immutable” are diff
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by derriz 6y ago
I also have an ok ear for melody and given a bit of time can usually come up with some sort of harmonisation so I get learning by ear. But for me that process is about listening to the music or replaying it mentally. I don't get what t
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by derriz 6y ago
Really? I guess everyone is different but I get absolutely nothing from those types of videos and I've tried a few times. How do you do actually use these videos in practice? They provide no key signature, timing, chord, fingering or

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