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by lovecg 7y ago
Is it common to leave the electronics running for that long anyway? My naive understanding is that it would be rebooted after every flight anyway.
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by lovecg 7y ago
Better still, it would make the host feel unusually social.
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by lovecg 7y ago
Do you think the response would be any different if this disease primarily affected younger people instead? I could imagine even more aggressive measures in that case.
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by lovecg 7y ago
Well yeah, but you have to admit that a system that converts greed to something approximating justice is not the worst idea.
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by lovecg 7y ago
The point of “The Boy who Cried Wolf” is not that we should stop caring after a few false alarms. It’s that the wolves tend to show up when we do.
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by lovecg 7y ago
Of course, it would depend on the workload. An exception here and there wouldn’t matter, but for a somewhat contrived example, using exceptions for something like a bad connection to a database on a server with dozens of threads could easil
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by lovecg 7y ago
Some case might be “exceptional” in the sense that it doesn’t happen most of the time (and thus doesn’t show up on regular profile checks), but when it does happen the failures are highly correlated and suddenly you’re throwing thousands of
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by lovecg 7y ago
Simple: because Google has a ton more data on what content is relevant on Reddit than Reddit itself does.
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by lovecg 7y ago
Do you have any pointers for some recent predictions you thought made sense?
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by lovecg 7y ago
Useful original thought is extremely rare. There had to be a very long accumulation of knowledge passed down through generations before a critical mass built up.
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by lovecg 7y ago
Also this was recently on HN and looks interesting: https://pagedout.institute
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by lovecg 7y ago
Do you by any chance mean “Seven Miles Down: The Story of the Bathyscaph Trieste” by Jacques Piccard? I can only find the title you mentioned by Auguste Piccard, a different explorer.
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by lovecg 7y ago
Lousy Smarch weather!
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by lovecg 7y ago
Sure, and it’s also not illegal to sit across the road from your house and take a picture every time you leave or get back.
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by lovecg 7y ago
It’s incredibly sad: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-t...
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by lovecg 7y ago
How do you figure? Don’t a lot of businesses basically use Facebook/Instagram as their main (or only) front page?
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by lovecg 7y ago
I wonder how the dust will eventually settle when these happy naive times of using shared caches for great performance gains are in the past, anywhere from CPUs (meltdown, spectre) to www. Will we decide that the extra cost of security is n
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by lovecg 7y ago
This is the most amazing thing I’ve seen all day! Has something like this been actually demonstrated beyond the theoretical possibility?
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by lovecg 7y ago
Define “real”. If I replaced your spreadsheet with a bunch of Python scripts, vastly improving your productivity, and you paid me for it, did something “real” get created in the process?
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by lovecg 7y ago
So? Don't you think it’s important to understand even this first basic step?
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by lovecg 7y ago
The part where they didn’t tell the customers they were doing this is definitely scummy. The pure economics of it is more complicated—DoorDash was redistributing the “tips” to effectively guarantee higher minimum payment per order (a lot of
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by lovecg 7y ago
The argument is that the automation at scale that ETFs bring to the table changes the game qualitatively. How many people would really buy and sell thousands of individual stocks in a correlated fashion if this infrastructure didn’t exist?
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by lovecg 7y ago
Systemic risk. If a ton of smaller companies see their shares plummet all at the same time, there might be repercussions for the economy as a whole. It’s true that individual investors might be able to ride it out (and the same was true in
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by lovecg 7y ago
Yeah but who answers calls from unknown numbers anymore? It’s pretty much 99% spam already.
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by lovecg 7y ago
Good point. Though I think there’s still room to distinguish an uncomfortably hot coffee spill from a third degree burn causing one, and it’s not immediately obvious to a casual consumer when you cross that threshold.
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by lovecg 7y ago
As a thought experiment, let’s replace “really hot” with “poison”. Do you think it’s reasonable to blame the customer for inadvertently drinking poisonous coffee from a chain when all other chains sell poison-free coffee? What if it comes w
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by lovecg 7y ago
It’s #4 but caused by #1. My pet theory is that we’re pretty far into this business cycle, so a lot of new companies had the time to mature, build up complexity, shed people the most knowledgeable with the original architecture, stop caring
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by lovecg 7y ago
4) People love to find patterns where none exist
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by lovecg 7y ago
Btw, it’s counterintuitive and morbid to think about, but the healthcare and other public spending is actually less for smokers than nonsmokers on average: they tend to die right around retirement age before social security and expensive he
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by lovecg 7y ago
I can easily see that being the case, but can you point to some references with these numbers?

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