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by fwip 9y ago
I'll give it a go. Background: Brains are complicated. We don't have an "autism gene" or a "smart gene" or a "schizophrenia gene." Rather, it is a network of genes acting in concert that give rise to
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by fwip 9y ago
A place where people won't be mean to him, just because he wants to harvest the blood of the young, like he's some kind of cartoon villain. ( https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/peter-thiel-wants
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by fwip 9y ago
It sounds like the author wants coroutines, not promises.
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by fwip 9y ago
If you can separate areas of functionality, you can upgrade it piece-by-piece. So while it starts off as 98% inscrutable assembly-in-Java, you transform it over time until it's only 2%. Ideally, backed with strong tests and fuzzing.
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by fwip 9y ago
The porn bots have only gotten worse, though. In 2012 it was at least mostly human-run porn blogs, and they didn't start following you if you were just a regular blog.
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by fwip 9y ago
If you're paying a worker and 2 managers, that's 3 bodies. Not one.
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by fwip 9y ago
Most attacks aren't targeted at specific people. Hackers don't want to read your emails, they want your credit-card information, digital account passwords, or to compromise your computer to use in their botnet. Sure, you might no
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by fwip 9y ago
"We don’t have to assume very much to see this play out in the real world, only that men prefer young women and women prefer high status men." Author puts on his MRA hat to make a few assertions, runs a simulation, and uses that a
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by fwip 9y ago
By the cited metric, Smalltalk loses to MUMPS and barely places above Visual Basic.
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by fwip 9y ago
Wages for workers can increase faster than productivity if the business has a large fraction of fixed or non-labor costs. Also, hasn't the productivity->wage ratio decreased in the past few decades? I've seen charts that seem t