dskloet

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by dskloet 5y ago
Well, eating their own dogfood also means not using an iPhone.
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by dskloet 5y ago
Some companies try harder to fight the decision than others and it makes a difference.
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by dskloet 5y ago
If they remain bidenbucks when spent, why would any merchant accept them for anything?
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by dskloet 5y ago
> Because you can't? You could make informal trades where you pay for something someone else would have already bought and give them a small discount. Or just buy something and resell it immediately.
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by dskloet 6y ago
> railcar switch dilemma In case you tried to remember, this is generally referred to as the trolley problem.
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by dskloet 6y ago
Eventually this would be acquired by Google, and shut down 2 years later.
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by dskloet 8y ago
Are you the author of that extension? If not, why would you give full control over your browsing experience to a third party without any benefit?
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by dskloet 9y ago
I would have expected them to follow Zipf's law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law Vsauce made a video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCn8zs912OE
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by dskloet 10y ago
> The most important reason is that, when used correctly, it is already significantly safer than a person driving by themselves and it would therefore be morally reprehensible to delay release Doesn't Tesla charge a large fee to hav
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by dskloet 10y ago
Are you suggesting that time extends infinitely into the past? Because if it doesn't, there will never be an infinite amount of time, so there won't be any point in time when this -1/12 becomes relevant to physics in this sen
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by dskloet 10y ago
That assumes details can be arbitrarily small, which Planck refuted.
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by dskloet 10y ago
How does an infinite sum of integers appear in nature (physics)?
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by dskloet 10y ago
I think something like this is needed for elections. If you want to vote for someone, you have to pass a simple quiz to prove you know what they stand for.
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by dskloet 10y ago
Looks like that didn't work either and you ended up with Object.create which is a fairly new function. I think assigning Person.prototype (instead of Person) to p2.__proto__ would have worked. Or is that already what you had before?
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by dskloet 10y ago
p2.constructor = Person; Without that, the object also doesn't have the right prototype.
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by dskloet 10y ago
p2 is not an instance of Person. You also need to make sure p2's constructor is set to Person.
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by dskloet 10y ago
It's not the same. With integer division you know the division rounds down, so using <= always splits between the two points. That said, it's always safer to compute the mean of two integers as min + (max - min) / 2 to avo