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by lixtra 5y ago
If that is so easy, why was the war on drugs never won? The government can deliver serious blows to BTC but I’m not sure it can be totally destroyed.
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by lixtra 5y ago
Not if they were slowly and continuously trickling in as the gp suggested. Still Japan is a cautionary counter example to the stock market always goes up.
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by lixtra 5y ago
You should also take into account the age structure of the states. The median of Florida is 5 years higher than California’s. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_terr...
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by lixtra 5y ago
Solar powered parking meters seem to be another example.
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by lixtra 5y ago
> They ended up paying for that in spades. Assuming that guy behaved differently with other companies, shouldn’t we call it corruption? Edit: > This was in the planning field and he was moving from a private consulting firm to a gove
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by lixtra 5y ago
It’s a newsletter but you can look at their archive: https://www.theflipside.io/archives
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by lixtra 6y ago
There is also threema. https://threema.ch/en/
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by lixtra 6y ago
I think debt should be at least normalized by number of citizens. But still...
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by lixtra 6y ago
Or the PRs are just reasonable large with 1-25 bugs per 1000 loc. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2898571/basis-for-claim-...
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by lixtra 6y ago
Most likely everyone in this thread wanted to talk about case fatality rate . https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/case%20fatality%2...
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by lixtra 6y ago
There is also this[1] meta study that claims that you are only about half as likely to catch a cold if you treat your vitamin D deficiency. https://www.bmj.com/content/356/bmj.i6583 It also predates the COVID craz
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by lixtra 6y ago
The tax money would have been better spent on myths spread by their own politicians. For example that the last election was about Weber vs. Timmermans.
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by lixtra 6y ago
> 3. I used to work for Boeing on flight critical systems, so I speak about how these things are really designed. Critical systems always have a backup. An assert fail means the system is in an unknown, unanticipated state, and cannot be
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by lixtra 6y ago
Your reactor is boiling. Your control software shut down with assertion failed: temperature too high, cannot display more than 3 digits. Downvote me if you want to open a bug ticket with the vendor and wait a week for the fix. Upvote me if
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by lixtra 6y ago
I’m surprised that with your experience you come to such unbalanced conclusions. Everything in engineering is about trade-offs and while your conclusions may be indisputable for the design goals of D they may wrong in other contexts. 1. If
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by lixtra 6y ago
> The sales within a minute of publication are also strong evidence that Peltz knew what was coming when. I don’t agree. If you day trade in a stock it’s totally normal to watch the newsfeed filtered for it and react to stories within mi
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by lixtra 6y ago
While I can imagine niche applications I cannot see this becoming mainstream soon. Usually software needs to be rewritten to take advantage of the FPGAs - often using different algorithms. Earlier attempts: https://www.anandtech.
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by lixtra 6y ago
> the earliest cases of Covid were all connected to the same wet market. This claim has less weight if China does not share the raw data. [1] https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/who-experts-want-more-data-f...
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by lixtra 6y ago
What about befriending superiors? What if I refuse to befriend them? Wouldn’t they retaliate? Can I mention my favorite sports team at work? I consider prisoners and children/mentally unfit taboo. The rest is human and not per se bad
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by lixtra 6y ago
There are two possible cases: a) with everything known to the database (i.e. ids not null) the two queries produce the same result. b) for some contents of the schema the results differ, but in the presented case some additional condition (
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by lixtra 6y ago
How will you refuel it once there is no gas station network anymore? (Assuming electric Utopia is going to come).
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by lixtra 6y ago
Some development of personality, kindness, etc. can be considered achievements.
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by lixtra 6y ago
> (Surprise, the root cause is a cache) Couldn’t it just as well be attributed to improper file path normalization? If we had only lower case ASCII file systems it would not have caused a problem.
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by lixtra 6y ago
Of course Bitcoin can be taken down with enough (according to the article worldwide ) concerted efforts. Compare that with the parliament of the most powerful nation on earth being overrun by a few thousand morons.
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by lixtra 6y ago
The labeling is not arbitrary but based in the UN definition: In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as su
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by lixtra 6y ago
From the suicide note: > Considering that this will have an impact on my career in the future and my reputation in the area of Computer Architecture, my future life will be worse than death and I will be totally in a dilemma. Maybe we al
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by lixtra 6y ago
ACID seems to be a very recent feature. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60163070/is-clickhouse-d...
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by lixtra 6y ago
Yes, it works for files, network connections and database transactions[1]. To span a transaction over two functions, it has to be assigned to some variable and the lifetime of this variable is tracked by the compiler. [1] https:/&#x2F
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by lixtra 6y ago
> For the most part you can treat it as a “normal” database While Clickhouse is great at what it does, I would expect a „normal“ database to support transactions. Don’t use it to handle bank accounts.
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by lixtra 6y ago
> I desperately wish that languages would make this a compile error if all code paths don't lead to the resource being freed. You might want to take a look at rust.

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