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by frank2 6y ago
They probably have been taking their lives all along. The knowledge that repeated head traumas can cause suicidality has only been widespread for 10 to 15 years. Before then for example it was commonly believed even by experts that the only
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by frank2 6y ago
In California at least, you can drop your mail-in ballot off at a polling station.
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by frank2 6y ago
Because the only way for one side of the device to be cooler is for the other side to be hotter, this particular device must be positioned where the heat from the hot side will dissipate away from the person. (Apparently, heat dissipates fa
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by frank2 6y ago
Even in the absence of government subsidies, the US probably would'nt've experienced a shortage of food. I'm not saying that it is impossible for the US to experience a food shortage or even that smart people in and out of go
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by frank2 6y ago
True in general (well, except your final sentence), but the topic is the US, which has never failed to produce enough food to feed its population and is unlikely to to start failing now.
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by frank2 6y ago
Is this in the US or some other country?
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by frank2 6y ago
I think the EU requires Amazon to list the seller's country of residence.
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by frank2 6y ago
>ESR basically wanted to take credit for RMS' work That is not fair. I read most of ESR's writings in the late 1990s after he started the Open Source Initiative and attended one of his talks, and I never heard or read anything
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by frank2 6y ago
Huh. Isn't it a lot more expensive to do that on E980s that it would be on commodity servers using commodity Intel or AMD CPUs?
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by frank2 6y ago
Who is the typical customer for this product, and to what application is it usually put?
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by frank2 6y ago
>But the closer we look, the more it’s apparent that Mars is, at best, no less risky a place than Earth. I thought everyone knew that.
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by frank2 6y ago
>older societies where each person working has to support multiple other people are sclerotic societies. I don't hear any horror stories out of Japan about how grim life is there.
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by frank2 6y ago
>when Rogan just shuts his mouth and listens I disagree and believe some of his interviews with Sean Carroll would've been much improved if he had stopped Carroll every time Carroll had gone on for 4 minutes without saying a single
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by frank2 6y ago
If all Apple wanted was TSMC goodness, it would've been cheaper and easier for them to buy CPUs from AMD.
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by frank2 6y ago
(1) Many comment writers on this site have been predicting the replacement of AMD64 with ARM in personal computers for about 12 years. (2) Apple's announcement had no discernible effect on Intel's market cap, which, even after adj
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by frank2 6y ago
There are many discussion sites without voting, and yet you are here.
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by frank2 6y ago
>That's extremely bad for community, and I don't know what to do about it If I were to start a site for online discussion, I would probably not even try to foster a sense of community in the participants. Although is quite un
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by frank2 6y ago
A large fraction of HN stories are articles on nytimes.com. How readable is a typical page on nytimes.com in links?
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by frank2 6y ago
Considering its sheer complexity its is indeed well-executed. I just wish I didn't need something that complex to read a document on the internet.
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by frank2 6y ago
Google Chrome. (I use Chrome because all of the other browsers are even more annoying to me.) Technically speaking most of the code that seriously annoys me runs inside my browser, but IMO it was never realistic to hope that the myriad cr
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by frank2 6y ago
It is possible for Chrome to be better than all of the other browsers and still be the worst piece of software GP uses every day. If you like the web, then maybe this does not compute for you.
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by frank2 6y ago
I didn't notice they were different packages. >The Dynamic type in base is about runtime reflection, which is occasionally useful but not something that comes up often It is not something that comes up often, but since I am used to
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by frank2 6y ago
The relevant file of source code has, "Copyright (c) The University of Glasgow 2001", which jibes with my memory of having used Dynamic in GHC in 2004 or earlier: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.14.
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by frank2 6y ago
Haskell, which uses a HM type system, has a type called Dynamic, which is described as follows: >Finally, dynamically typed programming in Haskell made easy! Tired of making data types in your Haskell programs just to read and manipulate
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by frank2 6y ago
>Rust gives up if you don't know the type of a variable and you try to accesses a member of it, where I once wrote a more complicated iterative solver that would see if it could infer the type of the variable from later context My g
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by frank2 6y ago
Replace "convenience" with "low cost of equipping the kitchen" then.
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by frank2 6y ago
>with a link to the previous discussion Some people are really bad at "information retrieval" (and some people are unusually non-worried about public pressure), so maybe finding a link into the previous discussion would've
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by frank2 6y ago
No MDs or JDs? (JD is a doctorate degree many laywers in the US have.)
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by frank2 6y ago
If you drive the tire onto a rail half as wide as the width of the tire (specifically, the width of the area in contact with flat ground), then according to his logic, the length of rail in contact with the tire will be twice the length of
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by frank2 6y ago
He mentions the flat tire, but he ignores the fact the pressure of a flat tire is 0, leading his measuring method concludes that the weight of the car = F = PA = 0A = 0. His measuring method flunks his sanity check, but he never notices. L

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