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by iofj 11y ago
Fortunately IFTTT Do has a widget you can stick to your homescreen and even your lock screen. Now if only it was a bit faster :( I use it to turn on the lights of a belkin wemo and it takes ~9 seconds for the light to respond, and frankly o
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by iofj 11y ago
And the explicit purpose of things like the EU is to use international treaties to move control of law from the parliament(s)/congress to the executive of larger international organisations. Just read up on the EU constitution debacle
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by iofj 11y ago
Game theory works fine. Tsipras simply blinked. The power of Greece's argument was that in a case of a Greek default, the EU could either do their current QE * 30 for a month or two, paying all of it to Greece's lenders (like they
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by iofj 11y ago
Well the time will come when you will realize that 1) every language has hoops to jump through to make them safe (e.g. garbage collection does not protect you from memory leaks) [1] 2) every 4-5 years or so someone comes out with a programm
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by iofj 11y ago
Of course you can. You can, for instance, include an automatically verified proof that your code terminates for finite inputs. This is in fact where the newest academic languages are going. In dependantly typed languages bounds checks are o
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by iofj 11y ago
> there is a corresponding civil action to make the injured party whole You haven't been in many court cases or you wouldn't be saying this. The vast majority of crimes is committed by people who won't ever pay restitution
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by iofj 11y ago
The problem with such "MBAs" is that always the answer is to eat the seed corn, making the problem worse. If Lenovo is to grow out of this, it will have to do it with the manufacturing and design/IT departments. Yet a voice w
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by iofj 11y ago
Very true. There is a legal standard for "gross" pay which is not gross pay at all. In Northern countries gross pay is ~20-35% lower than the employer pays, and after that the employee also pays 40-55% on the "gross" amo
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by iofj 11y ago
Also, most people can't trade after hours. So this price is artificial, in the sense that a lot of holders of Google stock wouldn't be able to sell at this 6% increased price.
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by iofj 11y ago
Keep in mind that chess engines are heuristics based hill-climbers (essentially they enumerate all their options, then optimize that process). That these don't respond the way a human mind does is quite understandable. Deep-learning ne
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by iofj 11y ago
That you need to unmount swap (and change the overcommit memory setting) is a given, even for soft-real-time. Hard realtime linux systems do that as a basic given, and all real-time code I've ever seen was C, C++ or SmallTalk, and effe
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by iofj 11y ago
The real stink is about the problems of organ donation from somebody who is dying (contrary to intuition, you cannot get an organ from a dead person, even if they've only been dead 15 minutes. Chances of success are not zero, but so lo
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by iofj 11y ago
I wonder what this is. Did they create a proper multitenant version of MySQL or are they simply running mysql without a container around it ? I'm guessing it's the latter (much easier) option, but ... Do you really get 5x savings
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by iofj 11y ago
And building skyscrapers on a 2d surface doesn't scale ... so the only other option doesn't work either.
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by iofj 11y ago
You should visit Africa and see humans living in villages in the "most natural, basic state" and I seriously doubt anyone would want to live like that. Doubly so for women, for of course it doesn't come with choice of partner
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by iofj 11y ago
It was great to read the good news in this post : All that said, I do enjoy being a computer scientist at Stanford. I love learning how to become self-sufficient when it comes to building out my ideas into actual products and apps. In a
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by iofj 11y ago
That's very cool. Next time you cross the border, give a moment's thought that the price of that 5 minute savings was to reduce average pensions of hundreds of thousands of people from 550 to under 400, and now again to under 270.
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by iofj 11y ago
Not really. The value of a thing is what someone else is willing (and able) to pay for it. Therefore the value of a Chinese share, at the moment, is $0. In practice it's even negative, as you'll still be paying fees for your broke
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by iofj 11y ago
The thing you got to wonder about is : they're trying to stop a panic. Is this going to stop the panic or reinforce it ? My money's on reinforce. And it's (thankfully) out of China.
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by iofj 11y ago
The long answer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_debt_crisis TLDR: Greek debt is used as collateral for loans by European banks. When Greek debt takes a haircut, most (nearly all) European banks have to choose o
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by iofj 11y ago
It's the javascript future. How long will it last, really ?
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by iofj 11y ago
It baffles me that it is legal to offer somebody anything "contingent on an agreement not to sue". How are disputes resolved ? Especially in this case there is almost a guarantee of a dispute, isn't there. How would an employ
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by iofj 11y ago
I think you're always going to see that. When a system is pioneered, it is very, very, very hard to get any kind of traction. To extend the car analogy. Karl Benz spent more than 3 years trying to find an engine configuration that work
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by iofj 11y ago
Depends on the frequency. Clouds are famously transparent for ultraviolet for instance. The sun floods the sky with it of course, but there's plenty of choice. But at the ranges we're talking about 10-20, maybe 100km ... yeah pret
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by iofj 11y ago
Communication between plane and rocket has several options, one of which is effectively a laser pointer in the aircraft pointed at one in the rocket modulated with the information to be transmitted. It's fast, lots of bandwidth, and it
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by iofj 11y ago
you should switch to "news" on the google page first and then go to wsj or use this link : https://www.google.com.au/search?q=Hawaii+Wrestles+With+Vaga...
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by iofj 11y ago
The brain is neither analog nor digital. The brain encodes information sent between cells as pulses. The timing of these pulses is where the information is encoded. As such it is transmitting a fourier transform of the signal it is transmit