dooglius

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871.
by dooglius 7y ago
What's the rationale for double-paying?
872.
by dooglius 7y ago
The parent is just surprised it made it to the front page, not suggesting that it isn't an appropriate submission.
873.
by dooglius 7y ago
FWIW you definitely come off as though you have "a bone in this fight" while the parent does not.
874.
by dooglius 7y ago
It's not so much "funny" as a rather obvious consequence of the principal
875.
by dooglius 7y ago
That theorem just indicates that Turing Machines with an unbounded/arbitrary number of symbols is a poor model; the approach there will not work on any actual machine. If you take out a factor of 2 in an algorithm, that's going to
876.
by dooglius 7y ago
You gererate a hypothesis and then experimentally test that hypothesis, I don't see anything wrong there. How else would you evaluate new theories that go against convention? Maybe you are suggesting that he fudged the data or otherwis
877.
by dooglius 7y ago
Typhoid Mary, the example the parent used, was asymptomatic in an inherent way, not just due to poor or absent testing. > There are still symptoms if you know what to check for. What are these in autism? Are you sure they exist? It may b
878.
by dooglius 7y ago
It sounds like this is evidence for that view then. Why is the researcher's theory relevant to results that support that theory?
879.
by dooglius 7y ago
We don't know what autism really is, beyond it's symptomatic effects and correlations like that of TFA. It's not clear that there is a meaningful notion of being autistic but asymptomatic. Typhoid, on the other hand, is a bac
880.
by dooglius 7y ago
The whole idea of insurance is amortization of rare costly events over large numbers of people. Ideally, each person's insurance cost is equal to the expected value of the payout.
881.
by dooglius 7y ago
The parent comment said that externalities should be priced in, I am saying it's not an externality and is already "priced in" if it hurts only the drinker. That's orthogonal to Coke being good or bad.
882.
by dooglius 7y ago
There's a FOSS competitor to Google?
883.
by dooglius 7y ago
How is there an externality? It's not like smoking where it affects other people.
884.
by dooglius 7y ago
In the rules I used to play by at chess camp, you had to ask "are there any pawn captures", and if there were, you had to make one--this removes the additional information issue.
885.
by dooglius 7y ago
"The rationale for the American rule is that people should not be discouraged from seeking redress for perceived wrongs in court or from trying to extend coverage of the law. The rationale continues that society would suffer if a perso
886.
by dooglius 7y ago
Isn't that still confounded by new management or shift in thinking at the top? You need an RCT to tease everything out.
887.
by dooglius 7y ago
Well, RISC-V is ultimately just a trademark/brand, as is Advanced RISC Machines (ARM), nothing stops them standardizing a CISC-like extension and keeping the brand if needed.
888.
by dooglius 7y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20536767
889.
by dooglius 7y ago
Can you discern the quality of two different drugs based on their respective ads? I certainly can't, if you have a way, I'd be interested to hear it.
890.
by dooglius 7y ago
Why do you think advertising promotes innovation? I would see it as the other way around, why innovate when you can just invest more into advertising an inferior product?
891.
by dooglius 7y ago
Don't require being a monopoly as a condition, just regulate anticompetitive behavior. For instance, I think it is a flaw that Microsoft is prevented from bundling a browser on Windows while Apple gets off Scott-free for much more egre
892.
by dooglius 7y ago
I wish the Constitution prevented laws from discriminating on the basis of size or industry, the law should only be able to determine what conduct is or is not permitted.
893.
by dooglius 7y ago
Ah, the second sentence there wasn't related to the first, I can see on a reread how it might have come off that way, sorry about that.
894.
by dooglius 7y ago
Did you mean "humanity's intelligence" or was that a play on words? I too am disappointed in the low comment quality here
895.
by dooglius 7y ago
That's a pretty sweeping claim. I have accidentally bought "Chik'n nuggets" before so it's not much of a stretch to believe some people might make mistakes.
896.
by dooglius 7y ago
Mis-labeled food laws have been around in all these states for a long time, without, I think, much objection.
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Atomics can be split across cache lines on x86(lwn.net)
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898.
by dooglius 7y ago
As a programmer dvorak [0] user, I find that I regularly have to get an admin to reinstall after a windows update. When all your coders only use en-us and you don't do solid internationalization testing, this is what happens. [0] http
899.
by dooglius 7y ago
As a native-English speaker, when I compare e.g. python's "x and not y" to a more formulaic "x && !y", it really doesn't seem to make much of a difference. I'm curious if you were using a syntax hi
900.
by dooglius 7y ago
It's interesting to see other commenters saying that manipulating IDs wouldn't occur to the Germans, it reminded me of an interesting anecdote from Hitler's rise to power: "It was in January 1920 when a numeration was is

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