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by iofj 11y ago
> i think we need to define limits in terms of energy Ok. Let's do that. The earth receives about 10,000 exajoule per day (3850000 per year) [1]. Daily human caloric intake is 2500 calories [2]. Let's say inefficiency and the f
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Illinois suspends pension payments due to cash shortage(bloomberg.com)
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by iofj 11y ago
Maybe it's just me, but these rules are contradictory. The sentences seem explicitly designed to make that so. For instance, your email address and birthday, for, say, amazon.com, could easily be argued to "need to be kept in orde
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by iofj 11y ago
TLDR: a "poor" senator (meaning just ~$2 million throwing away money), gets kicked out of the white house, and connects with loads of high tech firms and big banks and "somehow" gets >100x investment return in ~10 yea
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by iofj 11y ago
That seems unlikely: government planes were being shot down in the area starting in April (22/4 to be exact), months before the incident. Those planes were delivering military supplies and shooting at and bombing the separatists, so it
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by iofj 11y ago
Seam carving also has lots of other applications. One thing I found it very useful for was separating letters before running OCR on the individual letters. I was writing a web scraper that needed to get past a captcha and it first isolated
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by iofj 11y ago
The net effect, however, is to make sure ~4000 people will have less choices in the future, and a more miserable life. Looting and burning a city on a large scale, of course, will always be one of the remaining choices. Furthermore, the mor
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by iofj 11y ago
I would argue that it doesn't even matter, but I'll try to clarify my reading of the article. The example name they give is "an obvious case" (nevertheless giving a name like this of someone who isn't convicted is a
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by iofj 11y ago
... and of course making the problem systematically worse. They explicitly state that they're after people who were filmed - just filmed - at the London riots a few years ago. They're looking to arrest them, and to extract damages
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by iofj 11y ago
I always found getters and setters very helpful for this case. In C++ and in Java. Doubly so in Java because the following works: 1) field is no longer important, gets replaced 2) write a getter that still gets the value of it, but delete t
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by iofj 11y ago
The article didn't even mention a lot of drawbacks : Changing anything means changing half a dozen programs. Potentially in different languages. Building any new feature into the program means you get to "walk the dependency tree&
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by iofj 11y ago
Construction is already beyond the big wins in labor force though. Construction sites used to have armies of workers. Hundreds. Now they have perhaps a dozen for large skyscrapers, 5 for normal skyscrapers and one or two for houses.
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by iofj 11y ago
Luckily they're on it : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3258829/Driverless-t... Everybody's missing the really bad thing about these trucks and self-driving cars though. Everything is patent encu
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by iofj 11y ago
Heh, I just realized I unwittingly made the "sufficiently smart compiler" argument. The only reason a library OS would outperform a non-library OS is that software can do things faster than hardware. This compiler/VM would ha
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by iofj 11y ago
I've actually run linux as a "library OS". You can actually run it with MMU support disabled on x86. Worked fine. Compiled a little C program to overwite the interrupt table, ran it, and the whole computer crashed instantly.
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by iofj 11y ago
All of these optimizations for microkernels would accelerate monolithic kernels as well. What seems to be very much missing from presentations like this is a reason that these would accelerate microkernels more then they would accelerate mo
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by iofj 11y ago
I mean can the code generation be run as part of the rust compiler ? D seems to make this sort of thing possible using a number of methods including mixins [1]. [1] http://dlang.org/mixin.html
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by iofj 11y ago
Have you noticed yet that programming ideologies go around in a circle. Programmers may currently be defending data-first (/data-oriented/...) programming, but it isn't the first time they did so ? The way I experienced it: m
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by iofj 11y ago
Nice addon to Rust. Can this be implemented in rust itself, as part of the compilation ? For all the advanced features that current languages have in the compiler for building and generating code, we have yet to see the first one that actua
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by iofj 11y ago
> So every country except the US is involved in this hypothetical war? Really? Happened twice in the last century. Even South America was the least affected, but it wasn't unaffected, and it's not like they'd generate a hu
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by iofj 11y ago
But you must realize that during such a war, the maximum economy possible in the US would be whatever can work without international trade, which would be comparable to 1900 or so. S&P down 99+% would be a start. I don't think it m
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by iofj 11y ago
Alternate explanation : he's still employed by yahoo, has millions in unvested shared (it's still less than 4 years), and got threatened with termination. Just an alternative theory. He may have simply chosen the more money option
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by iofj 11y ago
APA (the one from the linked article) - American Psychological Association - no hippocratic oath - www.apa.org APA - American Psychiatric Association - hippocratic oath - www.psychiatry.org According to [1] it was the first of these that it
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by iofj 11y ago
It's not just programmers, it's the left in general. The left, in the US, is pro-immigration. The left is supposed to be champion of the poor, and one thing is damn sure : restricting employer's access to cheap labor (meaning
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by iofj 11y ago
For a doctor with a valid work permit for the US, becoming a US-certified doctor (allowed to practice medicine) is essentially the same process as for any US doctor. You're basically interviewing to study under an existing doctor in a
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by iofj 11y ago
I do hope people realize that fake meat is plant food and thus requires nutritional supplements (or an -extremely- varied diet) or it will cause serious health issues. Meat has no such requirement. While it may not be good for you in the lo
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by iofj 11y ago
> that devs are basically the same as exploited migrant agricultural labor is absurd to the point of offensiveness. I think the claim is more along the lines of "give it 5-10-20 years and ..." It's not as ridiculous as you
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by iofj 11y ago
Well the reason that it is "wrong" is that for many people (generally the ones outside of scientific endeavours) the interpretations are physics. Let's face facts : most people are never going to learn even basic physics beyo
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by iofj 11y ago
HP's new business model for the last 2 years : * cut costs (mostly by disabling essential business functions) * buy back stock using proceeds The result: https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&
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by iofj 11y ago
That is of course what the safest way of disposing nuclear waste would be : disperse it sufficiently, and spread it everywhere. That is, after all, what nature has been doing for billions of years, and it doesn't bother anyone because

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