mehrdadn

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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Right, thanks, that part I had figured out. The detailed weightings don't concern me, but could you let us know if this involved moderator action (vs. automatic), and whether the ranking was hard-capped?
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
I don't understand how this answers the question about X-ray cost.
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Which one is better probably depends on if you value your money more, or your body.
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
> I’m always shocked when I get a treatment plant after 5 minutes that outlines exactly what the dentist needs to do, how much insurance will pay, and how much I will need to pay. What you don't know (unless you get 2nd/3rd&#x2
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
> What are you supposed to do, interrogate every person that comes in the room? I'm curious too. Some people must have tried filing a lawsuit... what do judges think people should be doing?
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
> Do you know who made the shirt you are wearing? No? Then you are no different than Apple Apple has a $2T worth to tap for investigating this, and I don't, unfortunately.
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
What I'm saying is this is beyond a "weighting" thing. You don't need to know the precise algorithm, but you can make some reasonable inferences (e.g. more votes probably doesn't penalize). If you just watch this st
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
I mean either way I still can't use that to explain this. Can you? Again, we have 8-hour-old stories with fewer votes and comments ranking higher right now.
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
The time and votes don't explain this, and "more comments = bad" doesn't either. Because [1] has 27 points with 8 comments from 3 hours ago, whereas [2] has 28 points with 7 comments from 1 hour ago, and yet [1] is ranke
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
> Worker wages were their main reason to move from China to India. You mean, after the Foxconn PR fallout? And to my knowledge the "main reason" they moved out of China was to reduce their dependence on China due to ongoing p
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Nothing in the article tells me this is some exaggerated terminology for "people who weren't business owners". Everything in it is pretty clear that these people earned that wage while they were actual slaves .
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
> Apple is not fundamentally responsible for the labour relations of other companies It's a funny world where everyday individual customers barely making a living are supposed to unite, educate themselves on the supply chains of eve
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Write me some code that shows me how to compose iterator-based ranges with just 1 iterator's worth of space in each range.
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
> I find all these slavery comparisons in poor taste. Across history you will find slaves that were treated well, accumulated wealth, were educated and held in high regard - yet they still legally were the property of another person . T
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Believe it or not, it appears to have NOT been adjusted for inflation. (So, multiply it by 15x.) See the $249.60 per year figure here and the following paragraph. http://lestweforget.hamptonu.edu/page.cfm?uuid=9FEC4E79-B361.
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
For comparison (note $6.80/month = $81.60/year): https://www.historyextra.com/period/slave-labour/ > Self-hire _slaves_ could command between $100 a year (for unskilled labour in the early 19th centur
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Yes! Also watch the follow-up after: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjM6Wp11a00
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Why do you keep repeating the same comment? Are you reading my replies? I already addressed exactly what you're talking about: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25492756
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
I'm not sure why you're repeating the comment I replied to, but this is exactly what I replied to in my comment.
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Distinguishing two members of a union with... 0 bytes of extra data? Sounds like magic. Not 100% sure about the terminology. Pick whatever word might fit it better. I just called it a sentinel.
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Yeah that's definitely an improvement in some respects, but (a) generic code still has to deal with 2 iterators, (b) generic code now has to allow them to be different types (so old code will have to be rewritten), (c) it doesn't
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Any kind of generator is basically like this. Imagine one for listing the contents of a directory... maybe it looks like this: class DirectoryChildren { void *dir; void *buffer; size_t buffer_size; size_t buffer_offset
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
I mean, C++ has lots of compile-time abstractions, but unlike with other languages, it can collapse a lot of them during compilation via its inlining and other optimizations. You don't get that with a language like Python...
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Yeah. That actually sucks; often iterators doesn't fit the iteration model of some sequences, but ranges would fit right in if they didn't require separability into two iterators.
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
> Autonomous adults generally aren’t compelled into recreation by an authority. Haha, well it was quite recently when the mom of a friend of mine (over 18) with a sibling (under 18) made them go do some recreational activity, despite nei
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Even play isn't always truly voluntary... when your mom tells you to go play with your sibling or another kid... it's not really voluntary is it.
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Thanks!
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
That would make more sense (for others) if that's the case, but I'm kind of skeptical because it would mean they've massively screwed up on that front against their own interests. I would think they would have the common sens
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Thanks but I'm still confused what 70% is referring to. Exactly what quantity is 70% higher than it used to be?
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Oh thanks, I was just trying to understand what it's measuring. So are they saying its R factor is now 1.7R?

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