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by jlebar 8y ago
$200k in Federal taxes on $500k of W-2 income (i.e. a federal tax rate of 40%) is significantly higher than the reality. With no deductions, it's closer to $135k (24% tax rate). The marginal tax rate on 500k of income is only 35% (p
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by jlebar 8y ago
You mean like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_for_a_Day
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But of course this way leads to madness, because then we'd also have to warn every time you do `x + 1` or `*ptr`, both of which can lead to UB (if x is a signed integer and the addition overflows, or if ptr is null).
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by jlebar 8y ago
What would you say is an example of a country that -- more or less -- follows these principles?
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by jlebar 8y ago
I thought the post was kind of long enough as is. :)
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by jlebar 8y ago
Not claiming it's easy, but see http://jlebar.com/2016/5/28/A_Practical_Introduction_to_C%2B...
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by jlebar 8y ago
Great podcast about this, although I'm halfway spoiling it by telling you it's about Mars One. http://loveandradio.org/2014/05/hostile-planet/
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by jlebar 8y ago
Git: One check-out per repository Fossil: Many check-outs per repository git allows multiple checkouts per repo. Official docs (good luck): https://git-scm.com/docs/git-worktree Random person's blog that expla
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by jlebar 8y ago
your manager can't vouch for you and it's basically up to how well you summarize and present your work to a faceless promotion committee (_i.e. how well you play politics_). (emphasis mine) Googler here, speaking for myself. Isn
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by jlebar 8y ago
All the AI stuff is really still incredibly dumb. Same for Amazon: Buy a mixer and suddenly you will be haunted everywhere by ads offering more mixers Do we know it's actually dumb? Like, given that you just bought a mixer, perhaps i
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by jlebar 8y ago
> the whole Stradivarius mythos is unscientific [1] Seems to me a lot like new Coke. In blind tests people prefer new Coke, but if you tell them what they're drinking... I suppose so long as people can tell the difference, record
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by jlebar 8y ago
Mozilla was big on remote work, at least while I was there. In fact I can't think of too many other places that had as many remote workers doing that level of systems programming.
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by jlebar 8y ago
> Glossing over details, Mozilla Corp seems to have two cultures: one for engineering and team management, and another for mid-to-upper-level management. This is in line with what I've heard from my friends who stayed longer than I
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by jlebar 8y ago
I host my (static site, very-low-traffic) blog with nearlyfreespeech.net for less than $10/yr. My hosting costs are less than domain-registration costs. Highly recommended, I've had zero problems with them.
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by jlebar 8y ago
I want to say one word to you. Just one word. [...] Are you listening? Modules.
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by jlebar 8y ago
>> Many basic questions about diet are unsolved, including the reason(s) that some people gain weight while others don't and the reasons that the vast majority of people can't lose weight. We just do not know to what extent
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by jlebar 8y ago
BTW this podcast episode is literally talking about exactly the question that you were asking, namely, to what extent can people have responsibility for actions? Might be worth your time at 2x speed. Or not, I dunno.
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by jlebar 8y ago
> What is your strong opinion on believing that people should have no responsibility for the obesity, when we know it is caused mostly by over-eating? We don't know that obesity is caused mostly by over-eating. Many basic questions
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by jlebar 8y ago
https://www.amazon.com/Behave-Biology-Humans-Best-Worst/dp/1...
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by jlebar 8y ago
> you should ask an expert on obesity. I'm not one, so if their judgment differs from mine, I'll stand corrected. But until then, I'll be of the opinion that most obesity cases are not genetic. You're saying you have
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by jlebar 8y ago
From one of the world's foremost experts on the brain: https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/revising-fault-line
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by jlebar 8y ago
> Probably around morbid obesity that's unrelated to genetic/chronic issues. The jury is still very much out on how common this is, isn't it? Who is going to make the decision of whether I am "at fault" for my o
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by jlebar 8y ago
Serious question: Do you live a perfect life? Do you exercise daily? Do you never eat processed meat (linked to cancer)? Do you never drink soda (linked to metabolic syndrome)? Do you not smoke? Do you not drink any alcohol (linked to
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by jlebar 8y ago
As a C++ compiler developer I don't think these features are what's causing long compilation times. Most of them don't even require any changes to llvm. AFAIK ranges doesn't, and the changes necessary for coroutines ar
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by jlebar 8y ago
I implemented the history.pushState API in Firefox many moons ago. Dunno why I didn't add this protection then, other than, it was a simpler time. It was around then that we added the API for vibrating a phone and we all sort of said
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by jlebar 8y ago
If Lyft were valued the same as Uber, then I'd readily agree. But it's not (necessarily), right? Is there no price at which Lyft stock would be a good investment relative to Uber?
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by jlebar 8y ago
As an XLA:GPU person I'm curious how the performance of Julia natively compiling to CUDA compares to using XLA:GPU. In particular, is this a promising approach, or do you see it as a dead end compared to generating GPU code natively?
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by jlebar 8y ago
> it was voluntary Do you think parents can consent to this sort of experiment on behalf of an unborn child?
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> Something like Visual Studio and it's child processes, core Windows processes and the kernel may fully use branch prediction. Even that does not work. If the kernel can do speculative execution and user code can cause the kernel t
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by jlebar 8y ago
Hi, I am the tech lead for this project, happy to answer questions.

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