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by lstyls 9y ago
That's a benefit that is extremely valuable.
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by lstyls 9y ago
That's awesome. What are the challenges you've faced as a remote employer?
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by lstyls 9y ago
This is a good point and one of the few convincing arguments I've heard against the GIL. Thanks for providing so much detail! Did you consider just mounting a ramdisk and storing data as files? At first glance it seems like a decent fi
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by lstyls 9y ago
> There is no sane way of forking a multithreaded program The sane way of forking a multithreaded process is to exec immediately after.
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by lstyls 9y ago
This is not relevant. Frame rendering latency matters because as an end user this effects performance in an obvious and measurable way. The thing you care about depends on the worst case, so it makes sense it that case. I don't type fa
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by lstyls 9y ago
I get what you're saying, but max(f(x)) isn't a very good way to characterize a sampling distribution. It could be that for very few people, Dvorak is blazingly fast while for the vast majority of experienced typists there is zero
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by lstyls 9y ago
Honest question: how the heck do you time a margin call for a whale like that apart from knowing someone on the inside?
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by lstyls 9y ago
This is incorrect. The principal is a liability to the issuer. Income from loan payments are subtracted from the balance as they come in. The cash from the loan is an asset for the borrower, until it is presumptively paid to a third party.
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by lstyls 9y ago
From HN profile > General Partner, Crypto Lotus. > Cryptolotus.com First google result for "crypyolotus sec" is an apparent SEC filing: https://goo.gl/txKA3t
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by lstyls 9y ago
By definition, "normative" means there exists an imperative to conform to the majority condition. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normative
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by lstyls 9y ago
What if you earn a salary? Only half joking. On a salary you're never not off the clock. It makes the time/money conversion less clear. It's not like you can say: I would buy a new TV, but I'll take a week off of work in
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by lstyls 9y ago
Ta-Nehisi Coates covered it in both depth and breadth in this article: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-cas... . Class divisions due to race were cemented by slavery, jim crow, red
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by lstyls 9y ago
> If Amazon wasn't looking to go upscale and high-margin, what did they buy Whole Foods for? I completely agree that such a strategy throws away much of the value of the Whole Foods brand. It doesn't surprise me that Amazon is
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by lstyls 9y ago
That's called commercial bribery and it's against the law in most states, including California. Enforcement is pretty slack in the US (surprise surprise) but given that it involves employees making personal profit at the expense o
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by lstyls 9y ago
Class is often backdoor racism too. Structural racism is a huge driver of class division in the US.
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by lstyls 9y ago
Anecdotally, bad trips do not cause bad feelings after a trip. The overall feeling of improved outlook can result even after a truly harrowing experience. That said, I agree that downing a bunch of psychotropics is probably not going to sol
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by lstyls 9y ago
Anecdotally, bad trips do not cause bad feelings after a trip. The overall feeling of improved outlook can result even after a truly harrowing experience. That said, I agree that downing a bunch of psychotropics is probably not going to som
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by lstyls 9y ago
Your comment was, "Did anyone ever believe such a thing?" Again, from the article: > One particularly disturbing medical innovation was the "Radiendocrinator," a device the size of a thick stack of credit cards
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by lstyls 9y ago
RTFA: > The glowing element was hailed as a panacea for everything from blindness to hysteria. Literally the second paragraph.
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by lstyls 9y ago
Maybe we can both agree that the human brain is pretty terrible at judging proportions such as these. I can see both of your points. I'll trust the people who dedicate their lives' work on this one over my intuition, however.
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by lstyls 9y ago
The problem is that essentially any modern polymer product isn't pure hydrocarbons. Consumer plastics rely heavily on plasticizers, which change the physical characteristics of the material. The effect of plasticizers on health isn&#x2
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by lstyls 9y ago
Well said. I actually agree with you, apart from the semantics of "dystopia". And you're totally right that we as members of society don't really have much choice but to either go all-in or off the grid. The all-or-nothi
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by lstyls 9y ago
It still requires consent. If it's really that bad, one can unplug and the problem goes away. Given you're still here and commenting on HN posts, the whole "we're in a dystopia already" schtick comes off as self-ind
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by lstyls 10y ago
> Is this a core component that is going to stick around forever or is it some temporary thing you slapped together that is going to be replaced in the near future? In general I'm in total agreement with your points, but in practice
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by lstyls 10y ago
Usually what you do is keep moving and either turn right with traffic or circle around. You can also grab onto something but if you're on the street there isn't really anything within reach. A track stand is hard to pull off for v
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by lstyls 10y ago
@gemache is right, they're mostly single speed. It's way too easy to have the chain slip off, and when that happens you have no choice but to bail. That happened to me before and I broke my foot. I had one and rode it for years. S
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by lstyls 10y ago
You're right, edited my original comment to correct. Thanks.
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by lstyls 10y ago
@waqf my point is that being harder to learn the written language does not mean that the language is _objectively_ inferior as a whole. There is no universal set of objective metrics to judge the value of a language, and such an assertion a
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by lstyls 10y ago
You're right it's not. I was confusing it with traditional vs simplified Chinese. Thanks for the correction.
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by lstyls 10y ago
ISO and United Nations adoption don't qualify Pinyin as an international standard? Using Taiwan as an example isn't really relevant given that it's majority Cantonese speaking, and Cantonese is a completely different spoken l

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