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by doublesCs 6y ago
I never had long-term consequences, but one thing I learned from my one surgery, is that general anesthetics are absolutely brutal.
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by doublesCs 6y ago
Why are people always called "proud people"? Are there no people embarrassed of their country?
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by doublesCs 6y ago
This is cartoonishly circular: exec needs millions/year because that's the only way to attract a person worth millions/year.
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by doublesCs 6y ago
> I once worked somewhere that had an employee who took notes during every meeting, to what seemed like an annoying level. After every meeting, he emailed everyone who attended the meeting a copy of his notes. Can you share what company
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by doublesCs 6y ago
You want TikTok banned because you or your siblings can't educate their children? I'm so depressed right now.
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by doublesCs 6y ago
Can someone clarify for a layman what this means in practice? I still want to use uMatrix on Firefox. Does this mean that over time, uMatrix will eventually stop working? Separate question, is there somewhere can we can read from the author
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by doublesCs 6y ago
> Let the Europeans deal with the Middle East since it is their backyard and not ours. You have to admit there's two sides to that, though. The fact that the EU doesn't _have_ to defend itself reduces the incentive to do so. In
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by doublesCs 6y ago
> What an ignorant thing to say > (...) > http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=11138 > http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/08/special-breakthroug... Thanks for t
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by doublesCs 6y ago
> The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) confirmed nine years after that El Masri was “severely beaten, sodomized, shackled, and hooded, and subjected total sensory deprivation—carried out in the presence of state officials of Macedon
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by doublesCs 6y ago
What an ignorant thing to say.
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by doublesCs 6y ago
Almost everything about Apple is driven by style instead of substance. That's one of the reasons why Apple is so successful - people are shallow.
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by doublesCs 6y ago
> POSIX is a monolith and really deserves to be improved. Care to explain what's intrinsically wrong with monoliths? I'd have thought that the most important point of a solution is whether or not it solves the problem, not the
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by doublesCs 6y ago
I'm not sure I like the idea of using GOTOs, I'm sure better ways must exist. But this bit resonated with me very strongly: > is unfortunate that the majority of the ma- terial written on reducing finite state automata to code
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by doublesCs 6y ago
> Our entire field is bad at what we do. Our entire field is bad at what we do, because it's full of coders instead of engineers. Think about it. Building airplanes reliably has been figured out by aircraft engineers, building eleva
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by doublesCs 6y ago
> Am I the only one still against network-based, and to a lesser extent electronic-based, voting? You're not the only one, most people on HN have the same opinion, and all these ideas have been extensively discussed here.
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by doublesCs 6y ago
I could say the same thing about your suggestion: Problematic since it depends on what you set as primary/foreign key. I can see how it is convenient though.
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by doublesCs 6y ago
If you do x JOIN y Postgres automatically uses same-name columns for the join. So in the example I gave you, actually "ON x.id=y.id" is redundant. I just added it because if I hadn't someone else would've replied "o
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by doublesCs 6y ago
I don't understand this comment. x JOIN y ON x.id=y.id How is this advanced? The fact that there's an endless number of pitfalls[1] is a characteristic of the operation you're trying to achieve, not a deficiency of SQL. In fa
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by doublesCs 6y ago
speedgoose was doing it to an entire country, but tedk-42 is the one who gets reprimanded?
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by doublesCs 6y ago
> Travelling abroad this summer is considered by many as stupid and careless. I bought the trip when the numbers were good and when the governments were allowing tourism. So wait. You bought your tickets when "the numbers were good&
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by doublesCs 6y ago
What's wrong with sugar though? I also don't buy the cartoonishly simplistic claim that "coca-cola is unhealthy". Does it cause obsesity? It doesn't "cause obsesity" in the same sense that ingesting more c
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by doublesCs 6y ago
I 100% agree with you. But hyperbole aside, OP also has a point. If we forget that the estimation of probability in itself has a cost, we could be tempted to put more and more resources into more and more sophiticated methods of data collec
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by doublesCs 6y ago
I thought it was abundantly obvious that the author meant it in a qualitative way, i.e. we update our certainty as evidence comes in. Not necessarily in the quantitatively correct amount.
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by doublesCs 6y ago
Do you wanna say a few more words about this? I thought that `v[1:10]` always causes allocation but `view(v, 1:10)` never does. Is this not the case, or has this changed?
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by doublesCs 6y ago
hmm no? I walk away when I decide to walk away, regardless of what "everyone" is doing.
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by doublesCs 6y ago
> Why are you wasting all these words on something that is not at the top of your sorted list? I wrote that out of curiosity about why such an article would end up on the front page of HN. Yes, I understand that HN isn't just busine
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by doublesCs 6y ago
Isn't this a really small problem? If you were to sort by importance all the problems in the world, how close to the bottom would sledding athletes injurying themselves be? I feel sorry for those who already incurred lasting damage, bu
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by doublesCs 6y ago
No, the next customer will just return it as well. It's a mild inconvenience, the customer is hardly the victim. I'm for regulation of bad corporate actors, but punishing for mediocre customer service is going too far.
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by doublesCs 6y ago
Amazon's example is completely different from that of Google or Facebook. - In Amazon's case, it is only Amazon that is that victim of its mistakes: if they decide it's more efficient to give money to scammers than to avoid g
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by doublesCs 6y ago
There's no single data point here. You put a thermometer in the air, it takes a finite time to take a measurement, it's actually averaging over time.

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