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by mruts 8y ago
I don’t think campus security is responsible for keeping students on campus and organizing manhunts if they escape. Comparing college with prison is patently ridiculeous. Why would someone expect that keeping someone incarcerated be cheap?
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by mruts 8y ago
Unless joe is making more money by not working than working, that is extremely unlikely. Making money for all intents and purposes is the definition of creating value. There are some exceptions, but they usually involve distortion by the go
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by mruts 8y ago
Inflation only occurs when the printing of money outpaces real value. Real value in the last 10 years has skyrocketed, so it’s not surprising that inflation has not been strongly affected by the increase of money.
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by mruts 8y ago
Python really only has libraries that can’t be found in other languages in a small domain: data science, statistics, ML, and finance. Unfortunately for me, those are all things I do at my job. Outside of these domains, JVM libraries are muc
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by mruts 8y ago
Are you saying it should be illegal to rent property? Moreover, have you considered who is going to benefit from the Amsterdam law? Existing landlords! It’s rentseeking (literally) on the part of landlords who don’t want competition!
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by mruts 8y ago
Python has to be one of the worst languages used today. It literally provides no value except for an abundance of libraries. Maybe you could argue it’s easy to learn, but so is Racket or Scheme. It’s dog slow, doesn’t support multi-threadin
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by mruts 8y ago
But python is both slow and inexpressive. No types, no match statements, no easy FP. Also the language is poorly designed and inconsistent. I’m practically forced to use python for quant finance at my job because of the network effect: nump
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by mruts 8y ago
There are Linux tests in that benchmark. Moreover, you can run xterm on OSX.
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by mruts 8y ago
Is zsh slower than bash or ksh on terminals?
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by mruts 8y ago
I find complexity more correlated with performance than simplicity. I am also very surprised at the eshell performance, how on earth is it faster than most terminals written in C? Elisp is the slowest language ever.
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by mruts 8y ago
Why is xterm not included? It’s probably the most popular terminal on Linux. It’s also noticeably laggy. I’m surprised that eshell performance is so good. Maybe because it supports less features than a standard terminal? I use Emacs and Eli
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by mruts 8y ago
I’ve taken 5-meo-dmt several times it’s probably the most powerful and uncomfortable psychedelic I’ve ever tried (and I’ve tried just about everything). Makes you feel like you are dying, would not recommend.
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by mruts 8y ago
Are you suggesting that someone would sell a product for a lower price than what it costs just because people are poor where he sells it? PPP isn’t magic and you have to understand why some products are cheaper in 3rd world countries and wh
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by mruts 8y ago
The point is that the cell towers are going to be the same price regardless of location. So PPP isn’t a good justification for why data is cheaper in India. That is all I’m saying.
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by mruts 8y ago
See my above comment on why this is a fallacy. PPP isn’t magic, it only affects goods that are difficult to arbitrage. This is why oil is the same price pretty much everywhere in the oil. Because if oil was cheaper (including taxes and tran
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by mruts 8y ago
That’s true, but the cell towers are probably going to be of a similiar cost in India vs US. Lower (because wages are lower) but similar because the actual equipment is going to be the same price. PPP is only relevent for things that have d
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by mruts 8y ago
I live in Tanzania (moved from the US) and mobile data prices are also relatively cheap. I could get 4gb for 75 cents for 24 hours 11pm-5pm. Or I could get 1gb for 50 cents for 2 hours. The one I usually go for is 10gb for 7 USD for 7 days.
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by mruts 8y ago
OpenGenera was ported to ALPHA64. Also, a VM exists for Linux/OSX. It works pretty okay. https://github.com/ynniv/opengenera you first have to get the opengenera sources, though. But they aren't hard to find.
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by mruts 8y ago
I mean, you could say that everyone hates Nazi's because they don't really get Nazi philosophy. Both your statement and my statement don't really mean anything.
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by mruts 8y ago
Pretty sure installing Kmspico is faster than buying a serial key.
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by mruts 8y ago
Like what? Sh? Zsh?
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by mruts 8y ago
I would say that OpenBSD focuses on correctness (security being a subset of correctness) and documentation while FreeBSD focuses on performance. Personally, I find OpenBSD much nicer and simpler. The performance isn't impressive though
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by mruts 8y ago
I love OpenBSD, I used to run it as my primary computer. The only problem is that the performance is pretty terrible, and they are only just now getting rid of the global spinlock that kills SMP performance for a lot of workloads.
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by mruts 8y ago
I think the modern practice of displaying types mostly comes from ML.
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by mruts 8y ago
I think explicit types for function arguments and return types are a good thing, even in languages that support their omission. For local variables, it's probably not necessary, unless the type is especially complicated. Though, I woul
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by mruts 8y ago
How does it follow that with O(log n) complexity you get 64x more work with 16x more data?
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by mruts 8y ago
It’s been used in finance (as well as FANG) for a long time at this point. Often investors buy all of these companies at the same time to reduce volatility and get exposure to big tech.
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by mruts 8y ago
I wouldn’t call it very easy. You drive to a place and have some beers. Then you have the choice of leaving your car or drive above the BAC. Most people choose the latter.
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by mruts 8y ago
By drunk I mean above the legal BAC. It’s pretty easy to have a few beers and be above the legal limit.
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by mruts 8y ago
Is being arrested for drunken driving materially different than having not been arrested while drunken driving? And hasn’t pretty much almost anyone driven drunk at least once?

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