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by jules 8y ago
You answered your own question. Renewables cost more. Perhaps not if you factor in externalities, but those aren't factored in.
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by jules 8y ago
It is exceedingly unlikely that raised temperatures or sea levels would end humanity. Even if all ice melts there would still be a lot of land, and humans can and do currently survive in hot climates. The habitable zone will just shrink a b
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by jules 8y ago
In my experience male chickens act more aggressively to male humans than female humans. I think they are aware of our sex.
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by jules 8y ago
Sythesising an entire application is not going to happen even if you managed to lock down its behaviour with unit tests because the time it takes to search for a program of size n is exponential. What could work is synthesis as a more intel
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by jules 8y ago
Go has a mark-and-sweep gc so in principle they can support explicit deallocation.
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by jules 8y ago
Type erasure and escape analysis are not entirely unrelated. If you have an array of pairs and store a pair into that array then the pair is considered to escape in Java because you're actually storing a pointer to your original pair.
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by jules 8y ago
In Go you can pass and return by value. That's why it's far more effective in Go and of very limited applicability in Java. For instance if you're working with a pair of numbers and only use that pair locally in one function,
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by jules 8y ago
Aren't statistical physics and thermodynamics complementary? Thermodynamics is about deriving results given an equation of state and statistical physics is a method for finding the equation of state.
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by jules 8y ago
A generic object model will be a poor fit for many languages. I hope they keep it simple and low level and don't build in an object model. I'd rather have low level features that let you implement your own GC than a built-in obje
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by jules 8y ago
Wasm is stack based too. The way data flow is encoded is not so important. A compiler can easily generate code for either a stack machine or a register machine. The VM will decode that into SSA again, so it only matters insofar as the repre
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by jules 8y ago
Rails was a major leap forward because the competition was really bad: PHP and Java Struts.
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by jules 8y ago
The problem with that is that math expressions are just another grammar from the point of view of the parser generator, so if that is handled incorrectly then the parser generator is broken. You see this problem in recursive descent parser
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by jules 8y ago
Excellent post! Webassembly appears to be approximately half as fast as native. Do you know where that gap comes from, and how much of it can be expected to close?
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by jules 8y ago
It means using the processor's memory protection features to prevent programs from reading memory that they're not supposed to read, rather than inserting check instructions at every memory access.
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by jules 8y ago
The problem with low heat is that the pizza doesn't rise properly and the pizza needs to stay in the over for longer which makes the crust dry out. If you have a good oven and a pizza stone then you might be able to do it, but most peo
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by jules 8y ago
I'm a bit skeptical of an organisation that recommends eating lots of carbs and margarine. Is there good scientific evidence that salt is dangerous? A priori I'd find that strange, because our kidneys are good at filtering out sal
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by jules 8y ago
If you freeze your own pizza they taste pretty good, so I wonder why store bought pizzas don't. You can't bake good napolitan pizza at home but you can bake decent pizza at home as long as you change the recipe to be nontraditiona
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by jules 8y ago
Is salt still considered bad for you?
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by jules 8y ago
I doubt that it was a calculated economic decision because refugees have a negative net lifetime contribution to the state's coffers. If it was an economic decision then Germany would have relaxed its immigration laws to attract more h
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by jules 8y ago
This blog is absolutely fantastic. I highly recommend checking out the other posts.
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Oh, where I live they were made mandatory something like 50 years ago so I assumed they were standard in every developed country because they cost $30 a piece so why not? Much better life extension value for money than a medical checkup. I
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by jules 8y ago
Modern safety features shut it down if current goes into the earth, so the most dangerous is if you touch both wires and are well isolated from the earth. This makes you look like a light bulb to the safety features. The other danger is tha
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by jules 8y ago
I imagine it also helps with family shoppers. If the kids or one spouse is tired or bored they can go to the restaurant. Ikea's restaurant is so cheap that some people go there just for that. I think they buy their furniture and househ
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by jules 8y ago
It already exists! Check out Polly for LLVM.
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by jules 8y ago
I assume he is referring to the ECBs bond buying program and to the migrant crisis. He is not wrong that this is the source of dislike of the EU and not Facebook. HN is one of the most extreme echo chambers on this topic.
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by jules 8y ago
It is good if it's to Google's benefit because that means it's serious instead of a brand image campaign.
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by jules 8y ago
No electronic devices after 10.
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by jules 9y ago
It's a good contribution but don't exaggerate it. Just because you defined something doesn't mean it's impressive. Peano rigorously defined natural numbers but Wiles' proof of Fermat's last theorem is a tad mor
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by jules 9y ago
Not really, only the definition of context free grammar.
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Wouldn't you find human artifacts all over the place even 60 million years from now? We have fossils much older than that, so wouldn't many many objects like gold wedding rings be around 60 million years from now?

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