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by msellout 11y ago
Perhaps it was the word choice: "can" implies that the killing would not be punished. Obviously any person can kill another, so to say "can kill" suggests a "license to kill". If I were a policeman warning some
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by msellout 11y ago
Police often supplement their income with odd jobs. I once worked with a police detective who also worked as a sysadmin.
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by msellout 11y ago
The implication was mafia or mossad -- or some other group above the law?
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by msellout 11y ago
Probably. Trademarks are contextual. Two companies can both trademark the word "Apple". One in the context of computers, another in music distribution. So long as they don't get into each other's business, it's OK.
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by msellout 11y ago
> monad ... poorly named. Depends on your study of history. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monadology#The_metaphysics_of_... ). ... on second thought, I guess that's exactly what you were saying.
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by msellout 11y ago
It seems that the adjective 'completely' can be used to mean 'dis-'.
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by msellout 11y ago
They could have gone with "Elastico" or something easier to trademark. I think that's why they keep saying "Elastic Stack" instead of just "Elastic".
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by msellout 11y ago
I don't care about the authenticity/ickiness/etc. that just strikes me as a terrible interface decision, one that would make me worry they've made other terrible interface decisions where it matters -- in the product its
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by msellout 11y ago
A decorator must be applied to a function or class, whereas a context manager can wrap an arbitrary section of code. So, it depends on how you want the tool to be used. I don't think there's a clear best design.
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by msellout 11y ago
If you dislike him that much, call him NNT. It's a fun way of trivializing what he says. I actually think Taleb some very important things to say. Or at least, he seems to be the loudest and most popular of the folks who are talking ab
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by msellout 11y ago
That's OK if the programmer who caused the conflict is the same person who decided to use this lib. If not, that'll be frustrating for one of the two.
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by msellout 11y ago
Well, for your future reference, Pylint ( https://www.pylint.org/ ) checks for that and many other common pitfalls. I'm sure its competitors PyChecker and Pyflakes do so as well.
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by msellout 11y ago
> I can see the value in quickly knowing if new code is mucking with private/protected properties. Would this do it? re.findall(r'(?<!self)\._\w+', sourcelines) Anytime you're using ``obj._foo`` and it&#x2
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by msellout 11y ago
This makes me a little sad. So, a few observations: - The use of metaclasses for (almost?) every feature in this library makes it prone to metaclass conflicts. What if I want to inherit from two classes that use two different features from
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by msellout 11y ago
Prices don't rise spontaneously (or not exactly). There's increased demand, which usually means more people living and working in the area. Therefore, in fact the cost of policing and everything else does increase.
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by msellout 11y ago
Why is "defer" different from "snooze"? Both indicate picking a time to deal with the email.
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by msellout 11y ago
Not sure what you're getting at with "delta between some hypothetical... and the actual" but yes, I was describing something irrefutable. You'd asked what the chart meant. I looked at the axes labels and described the sh
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by msellout 11y ago
Charles Bulfinch for Boston.
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by msellout 11y ago
What about the Beltline? Things seem to be going well in ATL.
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by msellout 11y ago
The Catacombs was a public health issue. The older graveyards were full and bodies were rotting in the open. I can't remember if that also coincided with the collapse of a road into the tunnels underneath, but that was around the same
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by msellout 11y ago
> most My experience says the opposite.
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by msellout 11y ago
That's a contradiction. If some companies are "spending ridiculous amounts of money" on Google, that's evidence of increased revenue for Google. It's not hard to believe that both Google and Facebook are growing.
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by msellout 11y ago
One can generally convert all things to dollars. There's generally a price you can offer to convince someone to do most things, such as your example of spending time away from family. Sure, money can't buy happiness, humans are we
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by msellout 11y ago
Sure, there could be negative externalities as well. I think the complaint that the transactions were zero-sum implied that "real" economies increase total wealth with most transactions -- positive externalities.
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by msellout 11y ago
No. There could be two phenomena occurring simultaneously: growth for everyone and layered on top of that a wealth transfer. The key term you're ignoring in my comment was relative : "peaks are gaining relative to the valleys&quo
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by msellout 11y ago
A strategy for an executive to control the output of outside consultants is to sponsor a project and provide a filtered list of information sources. So long as the consultants only receive the appropriate data, their conclusions are predete
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by msellout 11y ago
http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2015/07/02/the-colleg... Says economics majors have 4th highest starting salary. Computing is 1st.
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by msellout 11y ago
Imagine that after each transaction, the measure of total wealth is normalized to have the original total. Whether or not actual wealth is increasing or decreasing, Norvig's simulation of nominal wealth will have the same dynamics.
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by msellout 11y ago
I expect you'd find the same dynamics despite adding some positive externalities to the transactions. Depending on how large those externalities are. The nice thing about this example is the code is there for you to modify and test you
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by msellout 11y ago
Seems like a wealth transfer from "developed country" workers to "less-developed country" workers and capital owners. The exact dynamics are of course hidden from that chart. The labels on the axes say that the peaks are

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