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by mac01021 6y ago
It can be unacceptable sometimes and other times just wasteful to block a whole host OS thread just because a read or a write on one socket out of 1000s is not ready. We solve this problem with APIs for asynchronous or nonblocking IO. But s
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by mac01021 6y ago
What does neoliberalism have to do with it?
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by mac01021 6y ago
I haven't watched the video yet, but the article itself doesn't tell me much about how the companies that employ tech workers are hurting society.
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by mac01021 6y ago
Probably not, but those who are already willing to be criminals in situations where they won't be caught would now be able to act with wild abandon, or execute much grander schemes with relative impunity. 60% of murders go unsolved bec
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by mac01021 6y ago
It's not _most people_ that I'd. worry about, though.
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by mac01021 6y ago
Soil and oceans are shared resources, which we're (probably) spoiling by permeating them with countless minuscule bits of plastic. Or maybe I don't properly understand what "spoil" means.
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by mac01021 6y ago
Are you suggesting that, because of this, the existence of the police is not the main deterrent to crime?
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by mac01021 6y ago
There are basically two things that the police do: 1> Patrol public spaces to deter illegal behavior in those places, direct traffic, punish traffic offenders, offer directions to tourists, etc 2> Respond to calls from citizens, inves
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by mac01021 6y ago
Why is it not a tragedy of the commons? "The tragedy of the commons is a situation in a shared-resource system where individual users, acting independently according to their own self-interest, behave contrary to the common good of all
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by mac01021 6y ago
For example?
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by mac01021 6y ago
While turing complete, it is essentially a DSL for doing logical deductions in a system of predicate logic. This makes it quite natural for certain classes of search and constraint satisfaction problems, but less natural for day-to-day pro
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by mac01021 6y ago
The marginal value of space in your house does not remain constant as you get more space. On the other hand, this 60k doesn't include any land at all....
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by mac01021 6y ago
I don't understand how convenience stores stay in business as it is. I never go into the store when I stop for gas. They do not sell anything I want.
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by mac01021 6y ago
The bulk of the charger would have to be embedded in the street or sidewalk with only the cable protruding. That might make for a pretty expensive installation, but it could be done.
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by mac01021 6y ago
I still want confidence intervals. Not that I'm their target customer anyway...
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by mac01021 6y ago
It doesn't change the dilemma ghost for the guy that has to eject her, though.
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by mac01021 6y ago
Can someone explain to me the economics driving salaries for presidents of public/nonprofit universities up to $500k-$1M? Are the people in these positions in possession of a skill that non of the people who would gladly hold the post
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by mac01021 6y ago
They probably do if you count only humans directly squashing the insects with their hands/feet/cars. If you count things like pollution, pesticides, land use, they absolutely don't. Insect populations have been reduced to a f
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by mac01021 6y ago
Just as a curiosity, humans kill hundreds of trillions of insects annually. [1] https://www.quora.com/How-many-insects-die-from-people-stepp...
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by mac01021 6y ago
Some people really can't stop discovering new concepts?
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by mac01021 6y ago
I, for one, wouldn't have it any other way! When I'm wrong I want it explained to me why. Even when I'm right about something controversial, I want to see the best arguments to the contrary. I don't want people to be le
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by mac01021 6y ago
I suppose that's a fair point, though if there is a problem with my house I can work from the library or the supermarket, etc, just as easily.
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by mac01021 6y ago
My personal expenses are decidedly lower when I work from home. So I don't see how it can be said that they are shifting their costs onto me.
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by mac01021 6y ago
> America is much less forgiving of disobedience today than it was, even just 20 years ago. Do you have any examples of this? I've always been american, but I was only 15 years old 20 years ago.
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by mac01021 6y ago
Not in the strict sense that they derive much greater pleasure from an otherwise-identical experience. But they're often equipped to construct a much more valuable experience from an identical marginal wealth increase.
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by mac01021 6y ago
That might deter the creation of new housing supply.
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by mac01021 6y ago
In the short term there would be nothing to fill that role, except maybe, for some, the fear of your peers leaving you behind. A generation later, society will have gained a fuller sense of the need for discipline, self motivation, and pers
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by mac01021 6y ago
Who is harmed by cheating? Whoever is making decisions based on the outcome of the test. A school or professor risks it's reputation by graduating incompetent students. An employer who hires based on a false GPA risks wasting its mone
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by mac01021 6y ago
That it contains many good ideas but the lack of shared memory and the poor sequential performance leave a lot to be desired.
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by mac01021 6y ago
I'm mostly solving this issue with my 3-year old by playing with her all day (save for an hour or two of meetings) and then catching up on work at night, at the expense of a bunch of sleep. I'm lucky that my software job is mostly

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