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by kolpa 8y ago
You can move out of SV when you want to buy a house.
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by kolpa 8y ago
"driving" could be "riding a bus" aka "working at the office".
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by kolpa 8y ago
Take-home pay on $175K in CA is $10k/month, not $8k/month https://smartasset.com/taxes/california-tax-calculator#RZ3V1... Sharing an apartment isn't "spartan", it's "normal"
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by kolpa 8y ago
Bay Area is a far more pleasant environment to live in than North Atlantic
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by kolpa 8y ago
> whose jobs actually require them to go somewhere This jobs exist where they are because the "nerds" work there. They could choose not to work at those nerd-service jobs (forcing nerds to buy there food closer to home) or form
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by kolpa 8y ago
'go' is PAR with different syntax (Everything after the 'go' line is implicitly one branch of the PAR) 'select' is ALT
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by kolpa 8y ago
goroutines are CSP: https://golang.org/doc/faq#csp The FAQ even mentions Occam, mentioned by another commenter: "Occam and Erlang are two well known languages that stem from CSP. Go's concurrency primitives
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by kolpa 8y ago
Microsoft leadership, from Nadella on down, has blood on their hands, callously lying to Federal authorities and weaponizing the courts to put an innocent man in jail, destroying a year of a man's life, disrupting the livelihoods of 10
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by kolpa 8y ago
The hypocrisy would mind-boggling if it weren't such an established pattern of twisting good words to cover evil deeds, a la the infamous "PATRIOT Act". No demands to open up data generated by government-funded science, no ef
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by kolpa 8y ago
8% drop, stock still higher than it was 1 year ago. "full panic" ?
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by kolpa 8y ago
Not all self-harm is acute. For example, eating junk because you hate yourself is not acute.
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by kolpa 8y ago
If you keep reading on the topic, you might reach the conclusion not that you should sacrifice your incremental well-being for the sake of animals', but that you should stop sacrificing your well-being for the sake of other humans&#x
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by kolpa 8y ago
"bitch" suggests feminine. "death" suggest masculine.
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by kolpa 8y ago
Before computers could do the complicated math of proper Bayesian updating, it was impossible to get the answer to the question people were asking ("probability of fact given evidence?"), and the science community decided that the
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by kolpa 8y ago
This is like Functional programming , and people have a very hard time with it. Instead of passing around numbers "95% true" or whatever, we're passing around function "It's 2x as likely as you though it was, please
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by kolpa 8y ago
In Russia you are expected to look respectfully at strangers, and not make goofy clown faces at them.
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by kolpa 8y ago
If you run an experiment twice and the same shade of blue wins both times, that should persuade you that the winning shade is better. And if you keep replicating the experiment and it keeps winning, that should increase confidence further.
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by kolpa 8y ago
Maybe that ETF is for Jank bonds that stall and jump around a lot?
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by kolpa 8y ago
If no one mentioned this important outage, it's likely that many/most/all people didn't notice.
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by kolpa 8y ago
> The people involved in actually fixing the problem wouldn't have been posting to public mailing lists. Surely, but their coworkers should have been.
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by kolpa 8y ago
For a young person with a high paying job, 50% may be a reasonable portion of your income to save. Mandatory expenses will increase if you grow a family, possibly faster than your income growth. And consider putting that money to good use -
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by kolpa 8y ago
All you need is a big widget on the home screen that provides dialer UX or links to dialer.
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by kolpa 9y ago
Yes they do. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xykkkd/why-americ...
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by kolpa 9y ago
That's why you need load shedding, regardless of whether you do speculative tasks.
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by kolpa 9y ago
^ This is lecture notes from a semester-long course, and a veritable gold mine of advice and anecdotes.
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by kolpa 9y ago
Why is that better than the iterative plan, where you write all 5 chapters and then rewrite chapter 1 once to support all 5 chapters?
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by kolpa 9y ago
Sinclair has a government-granted monopoly on the frequencies on which they broadcast. Google and Facebook offer service accessible over the (almost entirely) capacity-unconstrained Internet medium.
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by kolpa 9y ago
That's more for making the movies popular in China than for manipulating American attitudes.
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by kolpa 9y ago
What is your proposed definition and how would you apply the test in practice?
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by kolpa 9y ago
It could mean * one of your servers is unhealthy, remove it from the pool. * reject some requests to make the rest faster.

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