mruts

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811.
by mruts 8y ago
I think that there’s going to be an equilibrium for a long time. The less oil we use, the cheaper it will become and we will probably just be using the cheapest and most accessible oil fields. Or, if history and the Malthusian fallacy is an
812.
by mruts 8y ago
Seeing how slow and expensive both BTC and ETH are, micropayments aren’t really viable, tbh. The mining and gas fees for BTC and ETH respectively are going to be higher than the cut a payment processor would take. The one advantage that you
813.
by mruts 8y ago
Buying drugs, avoiding taxes, money laundering, etc.
814.
by mruts 8y ago
I moved from NYC to Tanzania and spousal abuse, cancer, poverty, and crime is way higher here than there. The only tangibly better part of the culture is the sense of community. I love Tanzania, but I recognize that it’s because I have the
815.
by mruts 8y ago
Does anyone have a solution for notes that include equations? I don’t want to spend the time on LaTeX for simple math notes for myself. Something that I could just type in “sum” and a summation sign would appear?
816.
by mruts 8y ago
I live in Tanzania and the only people who don’t want the country turn into “little America” or “little Europe” is foreigners who just want to go on Safari. I and everyone else would love skyscrapers, 9-5 jobs, money, IPhones, etc.
817.
by mruts 8y ago
In all likelihood, many of the funds preallocated shares have already sold. People don’t subscribe to IPOs for a buy and hold strategy, they subscribe for easy risk-free profit.
818.
by mruts 8y ago
Can docker boot up something without an operating system? I’ve never used docker, but for some reason I’m leaning towards “I doubt it.”
819.
by mruts 8y ago
People talk about forth having no syntax the same way people talk about lisp having no syntax: not entirely correctly. Of course, every textual representation of anything has a syntax, but when people talk about something not having a synta
820.
by mruts 8y ago
That example doesn’t really illustrate the point of updating maps with repeated values.
821.
by mruts 8y ago
Maybe you can’t have both? I don’t know, but that sounds possible? An example is putting stupid kids with smart kids in the same class. The stupid kids probably benefit but the smart kids are probably hurt.
822.
by mruts 8y ago
I was taking ap calculus bc in 9th grade (calculus I). There were 2 other students in 9th grade with me. 6 were in 10th grade, many were juniors or seniors. I left high school soon after 10th grade started so I don’t know what track I would
823.
by mruts 8y ago
Well, ideally, your base salary is pretty low and your bonus is big. This is the model used in finance because the returns are very unpredictable and the standard deviation between the worst and best employees is very large. Bonuses also pr
824.
by mruts 8y ago
But your python code is still really ugly. In Scala: import scala.collection.mutable.Map > val map = Map.empty[String, Int] > List("hi", "there", "hi").map { x => > map(x) = i > }
825.
by mruts 8y ago
I’m not sure, but Chik Fil A also has programs to pay for college.
826.
by mruts 8y ago
That’s how bonuses work. A good rule of thumb in finance is that you “deserve” 5% of the money you generate. You make 5m, you get 250k.
827.
by mruts 8y ago
I would want to be compensated in kind. If they have enough money to double the least valuable employees from 35k to 70k, I would also demand double. I don’t think there are bad incentives from increasing mean of the pay distribution. But s
828.
by mruts 8y ago
I believe in right and wrong. I guess I just don’t think sending people porn is wrong. I would however fire someone from sending porn to other people st work. I think it’s very important to disambiguate what is wrong, what is illegal, and w
829.
by mruts 8y ago
Maybe the dotcom bubble is a bad example, but 50% or more pops were pretty common.
830.
by mruts 8y ago
Seeing that IPOs are designed to pop, I don’t find it that surprising. The naive way to look at an IPO that pops the first day of trading is that the investment bankers left a lot of money on the table and the company got screwed. But if an
831.
by mruts 8y ago
Is abuse such as non-physical abuse actually a problem? Is yelling at someone when you’re angry problematic? I see and hear a lot of things I don’t want to experience. Instead of being a victim and demanding trigger warnings, I move on. May
832.
by mruts 8y ago
Why is that abuse? Is looking at porn on a bus abuse for anyone who catches a glimpse? How about a roommate having sex when you walk in? I’m baffled by the hardline conservatism that permeates society today, often by the very people who con
833.
by mruts 8y ago
Why don’t you learn some functional languages? Scala, Haskell, or OCaml. Or learning lisps is always interesting: Racket, Common Lisp, Clojure. Personally, Scala is my favorite language.
834.
by mruts 8y ago
But no one is talking about this in America, in which The British rightwing would be classified as undeniably liberal. Why is this happening in the UK vs the US?
835.
by mruts 8y ago
What’s the rationale for this? Is kids even looking up porn an issue anyone cares about? If you’re old enough to search for porn (I had my first foray into porn at 11 or 12), you’re probably old enough to watch it right? Maybe girls look it
836.
by mruts 8y ago
European-style is referring to the architecture, not how people in Europe live. I don’t think anyone is laboring under the impression that Europeans all live in 7.5k sqft houses.
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by mruts 8y ago
I had a 3 story apartment once with like a room on each level. It sounds cool, but it’s terrible. Don’t underestimate how terrible it is to climb 30 flights of stairs a day.
838.
by mruts 8y ago
Maybe suburbs sets kids free, but as they get older, the suburbs are a prison. When the only thing teenagers have to do is smoke and drink and go to mcdonalds, life kind of sucks for them.
839.
by mruts 8y ago
I’ve found that one of the best investments you can make is a housekeeper and gardener. I have a big house with a big yard and definately could not do it without them. I live in a part of the world in which labor is very cheap so having a f
840.
by mruts 8y ago
Why not just use a SQL db that handles json and stick everything in a couple columns? Changing databases is a lot of work, and as far as I can tell, mongo isn’t really providing much value over SQL dbs that already support schemaless json c

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