mruts

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by mruts 8y ago
Your points might be valid a polygamist society, but otherwise, it will always be pretty simple for males to get reproductive access.
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by mruts 8y ago
I believe my free-market opinions are in the best interest of the people. Of course, it’s in some people’s interests (those who produce significant real value) more than others (those who produce little value) but I still think it’s in the
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by mruts 8y ago
Fine. I can’t think of any other modern language that is worse than Java. And why would you think I’m inexperienced based on that view alone?
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by mruts 8y ago
I like to play poker (which isn’t gambling) so I walked in to a local casino (I live in Tanzania, so it’s pretty small and run by some Russian gangster) and tried to find a table. They only had house games (including house poker, but it’s r
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by mruts 8y ago
What about Scala? It's probably my favorite language: incredibly expressive, FP+OO, higher kinded-types, great tooling, flexible performance (you can adjust between elegance and java/C++-like performance very easily), and runs on
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by mruts 8y ago
The people I've met who like Java are the kind of people who don't know any other programming language. In fact, I'm not sure I can think of a worse language than Java. Moreover, when people say the like Java, what they reall
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by mruts 8y ago
Well would you prefer to have a crappy job or no job at all? Don’t labor under the assumption that government mandates don’t affect the decisions of businesses.
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by mruts 8y ago
How is banning shoes taking a practice of hygiene to a “new level”? You can’t take off your feet when you get home, can you?
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by mruts 8y ago
Maybe we should make your car go carbon neutral? The percent of CO2 emissions from private jets is <1% in the US. Democracy shouldn’t be two wolves and a sheep deciding whats for dinner.
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by mruts 8y ago
If there was only economy, the prices would be much much higher. First/business class and coach need each other: each is subsidizing the other through price discrimination.
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by mruts 8y ago
But electricity costs are not fixed, in the US at least, they float with the market. So electricity during the day is more expensive than electricity at night. This is how a good market should work. Why should the internet be any different?
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by mruts 8y ago
How is it that we live in a time in which more rich people is somehow a bad thing? People are always talking about wealth inequality, but why, exactly is it bad? Would it be better if everyone was dirt poor? What kind of probability density
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by mruts 8y ago
I've never used GNU Parallel. But could someone explain to me the value add vs GNU xargs -P/--max-procs? From the examples at the top, it seems like those could be achieved with xargs.
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by mruts 8y ago
I always really liked Martin Shkreli. He kind of reminds me of myself (maybe that says more about me than Martin Shkreli). Maybe he ran a fraud, but he did good by his investors, they got huge return off of his "scam." Of people
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by mruts 8y ago
Do you mean pandas? numpy isn’t very similar to APL like functionality at all. On the otherhand, pandas is very similar though much much less elegant.
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by mruts 8y ago
Well every pandas operation returns a DataFrame so that’s pretty composable. No doubt APL-likes are much nicer than pandas but in terms of operations, I belive they support the same operations.
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by mruts 8y ago
I’ll take the third option: blocking every single ad and making my browser as untrackable as possible.
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by mruts 8y ago
I would say that pandas and R can pretty much express everything that APL/J/Q can. They are a lot slower though (than Q atleast, I haven’t used J or APL)
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by mruts 8y ago
In my experience it is rarely used on the buyside but often uses on the sell-side: most investment banks have atleast a couple people that are using it.
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by mruts 8y ago
That may be true, but I've seen some vinyl mastering jobs that looked as bad as digital. I won't claim to be a mastering engineer or anything, but after comparing many vinyl releases and digital releases, it seems like there is so
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by mruts 8y ago
You're certainly right, many aren't (I always check). A lot are though. I'd give it maybe like 50/50.
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by mruts 8y ago
But there are easy ways to kill dynamic range with an algorithm. On windows this is called "loudness equalization." On the otherhand, there is no way to go back from little dynamic range to more dynamic range. So I think it makes
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by mruts 8y ago
Well I never used CDs. Unfortunately what.cd got taken down, but a couple years ago, it was probably the biggest and most complete collection of music in the world. Nowadays, I also just use spotify since I don’t have a quality source for m
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by mruts 8y ago
Isn’t that exactly what Red Hat does? And Warren Buffet even just bought a stake in them.
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by mruts 8y ago
Problem with music sounding bad doesn’t really have much to do with the distributed format: V0, V1, or 320 mp3s should sound pretty much the same compared to 16-bit flac. You can only the difference between mp3 and flac at shitty bitrates n
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by mruts 8y ago
Well he also designed Java, so...
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by mruts 8y ago
I dunno, maybe I’m weird, but without an alarm I can sleep 12 hours. And when I do, I feel like total shit: very tired, groggy, and a little depressed. If I sleep 5-7 hours on the otherhand, I feel much better.
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by mruts 8y ago
How’s that? And what is untrue about the obligations to its shareholders? Not maximizing shareholder value is illegal.
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by mruts 8y ago
I think Scala does a good job of unifying OO and FP. And because of everything being first class, you get to eliminate all the ridiculeous design patterns and end up with a very nice FP system based upon objects and traits or typeclasses
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by mruts 8y ago
How is that “evil”? Isn’t that the crystallization of the teleological purpose of a company? The ideal company works to maximize shareholder value. And not just short-term value, but the amortized value of the company in perpuitity. This in

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