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by joebob42 4y ago
Absolutely they should. Fix the speed limits so they are not more or less universally wrong / too low, and then enforce them. Discretion on them is ridiculous, it just means a cop can pull you over and ticket you whenever they want bec
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by joebob42 4y ago
The "fair" and probably also reasonable imo thing to do is just pick randomly if you have a bunch of equally good people and can't interview them all. Or make them do leetcode stuff, I think this situation is basically what t
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by joebob42 4y ago
There's no consensus involved in the bug.
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by joebob42 4y ago
I think in practice this issue doubles the added latency, which would only be noticable if the actual ping is "significantly" lower. Because realized ping is over by as much as original ping was under, so if original wasn't s
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by joebob42 4y ago
I suck at lol, the amount of ping it takes for me to be able to tell it's different is only like 30-40 ms. Pro players being able to tell and care at half that seems pretty likely.
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by joebob42 4y ago
Apparently Twitter claims only 5% of users are bots. It seems impossible to me that this claim is remotely true, and I imagine Musk knows this. This kind of sounds to me like he's decided he doesn't want to buy and is creating a r
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by joebob42 4y ago
No, it makes the stuff cheaper.
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by joebob42 4y ago
It may not even be that remarkable. A decent fraction of things I can accomplish for $1 I could also do for free.
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by joebob42 4y ago
I think by the time you're saying "my system depends on the people in it being honest and competent" you've kind of already lost. Some people are competent, most aren't. Many people are honest, but some aren't.
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by joebob42 4y ago
does this explosion impact the broader crypto marker particularly? I know some of these platforms are interconnected in weird ways but don't know much about it. And is there any sensible world where it stabilizes at some value other th
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by joebob42 4y ago
I know biggest basically makes sense and means most popular here, but I can't get the image of all the cs players lining up to compare heights out of my head.
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by joebob42 4y ago
I think one issue here is that there do appear to be people with a mathematical edge similar to the casinos in gambling: the people who create individual coins and who manipulate the market directly. This may be less of a concern in stabler
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by joebob42 4y ago
I don't understand who wants this. does any of their actual constituency want it? Or is it literally just the actual elected officials getting power hungry? Stuff like abortion, etc where I don't really understand the other side
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by joebob42 4y ago
yeah my assumption is you would need to be a platform like coinbase or something where the added convenience for people trading on your platform was the benefit you got from it and it just not costing much was sufficient
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by joebob42 4y ago
Yeah agree, at least in the case of a crypto which is literally just $ in -> coin out, no caveats, hold the $ and do nothing with it till withdrawal. My impression is that many pegs don't work this way, but to the extent one did I k
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by joebob42 4y ago
The set of celiacs is much smaller than the set of people who think eating gluten free food is a good idea.
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by joebob42 4y ago
Am I missing why a distributed lock is an impossibility? The problem stated is that a partitioned node can't know it has lost the lock, but this is only an issue if there is a way to lose the lock short of returning it. Which I guess i
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by joebob42 4y ago
Well, maybe, except that months are sometimes prime numbers and we subdivide them anyways, right? I guess weeks don't exactly subdivide months, they're sort of separate systems?
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by joebob42 4y ago
I think we could pay more, but only if we could actually get better teachers. So many teachers are bad and not worth even what they get paid (personal experience from a nominally quite good school district). My concern with paying more befo
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by joebob42 4y ago
Strangely my reaction was the opposite. I didn't really have tv, and I LOVED commercials, I would even put on the paid programming channels if left alone.
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by joebob42 4y ago
My interpretation is that this was a low demand moment where that 27gw was more or less equal to the demand (e.g. a demand trough not a renewable output spike).
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by joebob42 4y ago
I think the comparison to asbestos is off base. Asbestos has very obvious good (it's evidently fantastic at insulating stuff), but also kills you. With crypto the benefit is (at least to me) a bit more obscure, and at least from propon
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by joebob42 5y ago
The guy comes off as kind of childish and the people on the site he links appear to know what they're talking about which makes me a bit skeptical.
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by joebob42 5y ago
I think also that it's often desirable to run multiple steps. Losing 30% from a whole pipeline is one thing, but losing 30% from one transaction out of a couple seems like a fairly big hit.
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by joebob42 5y ago
I could imagine the answer being: People went to see these movies not because they wanted to per se but because critics said they were amazing. And because they went mostly due to critical reviews, anyone who didn't like it was even mo
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by joebob42 5y ago
I'm not personally in favor of sizing punishment based on the outcome as opposed to based on the action. I'm not sure how it serves society other than some sort of sense of vindication to kill all these people.
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by joebob42 5y ago
It seems reasonable to me. They need to share it with the DMV but it's not obvious to me they should have to share what exactly their vehicle would do in crash situations with the public.
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by joebob42 5y ago
I think the hope is that we bootstrap the renewable capable complex society on top of fossil fuels and then it can continue to function with the renewables it builds.
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by joebob42 5y ago
I think it may also not really be fair to call Russia a superpower. Its hard to imagine the same thing happening between, say, the us and Mexico, but if it somehow impossibly did I think it's possible things would unfold differently.
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by joebob42 5y ago
I totally agree with not writing shell scripts. As far as I can tell this person is trying to sell me python scripts. My personal take is that I don't want that either, for almost exactly the same set of reasons. Just write the darn th

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