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by jemfinch 10y ago
The simulation argument by Nick Bostrom neglects an important (probable) reality. While the number of simulated universes may vastly the exceed the size of the real universe, the size of these universes may diminish faster than the incr
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by jemfinch 10y ago
Nothing is said here that wasn't better said by Joel Spolsky over a decade ago: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2005/01/27.html
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I'm on your side, no doubt. You got my up vote, your parent got my down vote, and his parent got my pathetic attempt to up vote back into readability, because I think even poorly phrased references to academic concepts benefit the audi
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by jemfinch 10y ago
Alt+Left requires two fingers, but not two hands. You're aware of the alt to the right of the space bar, yes?
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> I'm apparently in the minority, but, after reading the article, I still maintain that there is never a reason to steal from your fellow man. The Catholic Church would agree: stealing is intrinsically evil, and thus wrong always an
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by jemfinch 10y ago
> At some point, every available square foot of roadway is filled with a car. AI can help limit the amount of extra space taken up by air, but that will only moderately increase the number of cars that it will take before traffic hits. T
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by jemfinch 11y ago
They can still do that under SSL/TLS with a MITM attack.
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If this is truly the price to develop such simple software, it's going to be very bad for the government's reputation to be releasing code like this under open source licenses.
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by jemfinch 11y ago
This is one of the dumbest things I've read in a long time. Algorithms are not where the real value is: that's why you can pull them off shelves at the bookstore. Algorithms are public knowledge, commodities to be written and
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by jemfinch 11y ago
Freedom of speech doesn't disappear as soon as people band together in an organization or corporation. The free speech of the corporation is simply the aggregate free speech of the shareholders in that corporation, and that's wha
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by jemfinch 11y ago
> being not only shot to disable but absolutely destroyed There is no such thing as "shoot to disable" with firearms. Firearms are lethal weapons. They should only be used when deadly force is justified, and cannot reliably b
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by jemfinch 11y ago
But not any reason.
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No, they don't. No one cares what position the sun is in at noon. Noon is "the middle of the workday", or "lunchtime", neither of which has anything to do with the position of the sun in the sky. Solar noon is an
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by jemfinch 11y ago
> And regardless of how you define time relative to UTC, a permanent DST is a permanent 1-hour difference between solar noon and clock noon. A fact that means absolutely nothing to pretty much any modern person ever. I don't care
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by jemfinch 11y ago
If you literally have "no idea where we can draw a line", then you're begging the question by even talking about "creatures that seem highly likely to be on the same of the line." You don't know where the line
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by jemfinch 11y ago
Use the test for divisibility by 3: if the sum of the digits is divisible by 3, the number is divisible by 3. 5+1=6, so 51 is divisible by 3.
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by jemfinch 11y ago
Even when that's the case, it's rare that fixed-size buffered or unbuffered channels are really the best option for communication between different components of your software. A simple mutex-guarded queue is easier to begin with
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by jemfinch 11y ago
Compiler warnings are static analyzers.
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by jemfinch 11y ago
One thing I don't understand about drug patents: how does evergreening work ? Doesn't the original patent still expire, allowing anyone who wants to make the old version?
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Fascinating perhaps, but slow. All that pointer-hopping is far more expensive than open addressed collision resolution.
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by jemfinch 11y ago
I wish the author had gone into more detail about why they chose to stop using Varnish.
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Defense in depth.
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Renters, especially in highly regulated cities/states, substantially reduce the liquidity of the investment. In a lot of places, you can't just evict someone because you want to sell, or you have to adhere to a process that can t
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by jemfinch 11y ago
I'm disappointed in HN's voting here. You're tragically incorrect in your interpretation of the grandparent comment, and you shouldn't have been praised for it, nor should I have been downvoted for pointing this out. &
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by jemfinch 11y ago
> Any students caught walking were subject to suspension and the school threatened to report parents to law enforcement. That's an insane violation of rights; was this policy never challenged?
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by jemfinch 11y ago
> They said (paraphrasing): Women are ok. Men are not...There's no other way of reading it. No, they said "bias towards female." Any reading which reads "bias towards x" as "x is ok, !x is not." is a c
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by jemfinch 11y ago
What citizens lack in firepower they make up in numbers. Just the 12.5 million registered hunters in the United States exceed the number of active duty military by an order of magnitude. There is no possible way that the military of today,
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by jemfinch 11y ago
Interpreting the "well regulated militia" text as limiting the right to state militias is an anachronistic, twentieth century attempt to read modern sensibilities into the text. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it wasn&
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by jemfinch 11y ago
> The supreme court disagrees with you (see District of Columbia vs. Heller) re your need to bear firearms. He's talking about his need to bear firearms. SCOTUS in Heller was talking about his right to bear firearms. There&#x2
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> Love didn’t happen to us. We’re in love because we each made the choice to be. Yes, because she chose to try to reproduce the experiment. That's her point. She didn't just have to wait for it to happen: she chose to see i

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