jmalicki

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by jmalicki 8y ago
Linux/UNIX has this too, through mtime (a time not a bit)! Plus it's idempotent, unlike the archive bit! (e.g. if you lost your last backup, you have a time, not a cleared bit, so you can redo it)
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by jmalicki 8y ago
Intel's run wasn't 3:25 per epoch, which is the difference. A simple ETL should be one linear scan over the data, with maybe some merges, nothing I saw here seemed more complex than that?
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by jmalicki 8y ago
Because they're waiting for me a 3 minute walk away from the location where I requested they pick me up?
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by jmalicki 8y ago
The lower court dismissed the case following a preliminary motion before trial... How is that not considered a summary judgement? Edit: a dismissal is even less precedential than a summary judgement, as summary judgements come after discove
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by jmalicki 8y ago
They studied 31 languages. One of the languages studied is ≠Akhoe Hai//om, which is a click language. It was not one of the 10 studied in deeper detail, but they found huh there.
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by jmalicki 8y ago
Is non-distributed 2PC even a thing?
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by jmalicki 8y ago
This is sort of like how if you want to hire a chef for a Michelin star restaurant, you ask them to make an omelette, not come up with an innovative dish. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskCulinary/comments/2qw1rp&#
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by jmalicki 8y ago
Not for contact lenses (16 CFR 315.5): https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/16/315.5
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by jmalicki 8y ago
Umm 802.1AE?
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by jmalicki 8y ago
"“It will potentially require home-sharing sites like Airbnb and their hosts to comply with local hospitality rules in every city in the United States,” Stemler told PacerMonitor. “It could also make home sharing sites responsible unde
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by jmalicki 8y ago
It's more like you were authorized to drive the truck to make deliveries, but you used it to pick up your kids from school and go grocery shopping without your employer's permission, causing wear and tear on the truck that caused
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by jmalicki 8y ago
For an ESPP, the discount you get from the share price is also considered wages not capital gains (in fact shows up on your W-2 !)
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by jmalicki 8y ago
She won the ACL lifetime achievement in 2004, a fellow of the British Academy, etc., it's not like she was completely overlooked in her field, just not a very public figure. Everyone I know in NLP recognizes the importance of her work
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by jmalicki 8y ago
> What if there was a loophole in the law that allowed one to not repay debt. Bankers will get that loophole fixed asap. Uh, no. It's called bankruptcy. One view is that bankruptcy laws in the US created a powerful bankruptcy bar wh
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by jmalicki 8y ago
It's called ECC... And I happily pay for it.
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by jmalicki 8y ago
All cables have some probabilistic failure of corruption, it isn't binary. It's the same as what going from 5 9s in your application to 7 9s, which involves a huge cost with distributed databases multiple data centers etc. etc...
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by jmalicki 8y ago
It also depends on the wine... The difference between a typical $10 bottle of pinot noir and a better $30 bottle is like night and day... But most varieties aren't as delicate and hard to make, so the differences get way more subtle.
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by jmalicki 8y ago
Airlines are definitely not an example of perfect competition. They are the number one textbook example of oligopolistic competition leading to price discrimination. A given route between two cities only has so many airlines competing. T
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by jmalicki 8y ago
But technology can help patients unite against hospitals... Just like Yelp crowdsources the restaurant experience, or Glassdoor crowdsources salaries,and anotherss could collect crowdsourced medical bills and predict prices for procedures.
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by jmalicki 8y ago
This is configurable. Sometimes you want to see 99% of your results and know those were weird ones, and you can deal later.
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by jmalicki 8y ago
With some important algebraic things, like -0 and 0 are distinct numbers that are equal to each other, and 1/0 is infinity (depending on exception mode), but 1/-0 is -infinity, and all of the different kinds of NaNs, etc.
982.
by jmalicki 8y ago
If I'm a seller of a put option (sort of "price insurance") on the index, and want to hedge my exposure, then every time the price goes down, I have to short the stock. Every time the price goes up, I have to buy the stock.
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by jmalicki 8y ago
A market-cap weighted tracking fund still has to rebalance if one of the companies issues new shares, or buys some back, as well. But that's a relatively unusual situation (like dozens of events per year, not daily).
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by jmalicki 8y ago
Compared to dying because treatment a private health insurer pays for would simply be denied, as other payers are prohibited. Why would you want to make medicare supplemental coverage illegal , or forced to be completely separate, which is
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by jmalicki 8y ago
What do you mean by socialized medicine? If you mean government required and subsidized, like the systems of France and Germany, which have great healthcare systems, that sounds wonderful . If you mean single-payer healthcare, like Canada
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by jmalicki 8y ago
You don't know how good you have it... over the past 10 years the luxury of a cube has been going to the grave, like private offices for everyone did a ways back.
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by jmalicki 8y ago
Those look like pretty standard 48-inch desks comparing to the size of the 27" screens - just like 99% of other workplaces I've seen. Do you know of places where larger desks are remotely common?
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by jmalicki 8y ago
It's quite different... I would hope the marble miner would know quite a bit about geology, mining equipment, etc.... It's not that putting the sculptor on the task would be a waste, nearly as much as that the sculptor doesn'
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by jmalicki 8y ago
His indictment: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/217117-united-states... Among other things, he was charged with the heinous crime of modifying his MAC address on his laptop's WiFi so that he could obtain a
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by jmalicki 8y ago
I think you're misunderstanding their theory of why it would be bad? In the example where a hedge fund buys information from Best Buy about how many Panasonic TVs they sell, Best Buy may have a duty to Panasonic, and thus are an inside

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