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by mtanski 9y ago
I'm aware of the fact, but almost most sellers agents rather get 4% or 4.5% rather then 3% (which is what happens when there is a buyers agent).
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by mtanski 9y ago
My lawyer (required by law in NY) did a lot more work for a small fixed fee then my real estate agent. If I'm buying another place in the future, I'm skipping a buyers agent and using the same lawyer. On the sales side I'd st
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by mtanski 9y ago
Feels like we're not even trying to pretend like we're reaching for greatness. I am far less in love with the country then I once was; there is little audacity to reach for more as a country on many fronts (infrastructure, healthc
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Heptio launches Ark, an open source Kubernetes backup and restore tool(github.com)
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by mtanski 9y ago
I've felt like vegetarian hot dogs tasted the same (indistinguishable) or better as regular hot dogs for a while now. I'm a little more skeptical of "pork" substitutes simply because lard makes everything taste better. S
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by mtanski 9y ago
Most Rust compilation is non-incremental but rather one shot with all type information available. Thus, because of LTO optimization either in Rust or LLVM the compiler should discover what the concrete type of the trait is and be able to op
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by mtanski 9y ago
consoles tend to have lower level hardware access then opengl or even dx12 and vulkan
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by mtanski 9y ago
almost of all textures use some kind of compression, and gpus support a few schemes
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by mtanski 9y ago
Following this along with curiosity. It seam like a much better compute card at attractive prices and an okay (not great) gaming card. A lot of the silicone was dedicated to features that just do not matter to gaming. For example, HBM cache
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by mtanski 9y ago
Since bitcoin is deflationary (max supply) it's technically possible that 0.0001 might be worth something one day.
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by mtanski 9y ago
Facts or accuracy are not a strong suit of the current guy in office. /s Also, he doesn't seam to care much for independent journalism... which WaPo is. Anytime Amazon is discussed in the WaPo, they do mention in interest of discl
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by mtanski 9y ago
flagged as PR release, no actual startup / tech content
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by mtanski 9y ago
Boring in this context sound correct.
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by mtanski 9y ago
Competitors will always find ways of attacking each other. In reality in any kind of engineering in the real world there's always trade offs of different approaches. These choices are often made with cost being one of the factors. AMD&
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by mtanski 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_comedy_(disambiguation) At best in the US is a ambitious term and accepted colloquial term refers to comedy by/for AA audiences. At least places I live in the US (MI, CA, NY). A
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by mtanski 9y ago
Yeah, based on my experience living here I don't think this kind of price control is ever going to happen in the U.S. In the majority of the 1st world where the goverment and general population accepted the fact that healthcare is a sp
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by mtanski 9y ago
I'm assuming you're ESL, ... in Polish you also call it literaly "black comedy". The proper term you're looking for is "dark comedy". In the US "black comedies" nowadays is a term referring to fo
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by mtanski 9y ago
This whole sub-thread tangent-ed into C++ is bad because it's compilation causes this problem. Problems with C++ builds are well understood... This specific issue prob impact other batch workloads with lots of small tasks (processes).
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by mtanski 9y ago
When this blew up a few days ago, it spread quick. It most certainly didn't start sensationalist... it was a story posted late Friday on the NYT... a story told before. What was different this time is people started naming names. I kno
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by mtanski 9y ago
Yeah, it's a case of I got mine. Different side of the same I got mine RE coin (rent regulated units).
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by mtanski 9y ago
He's talking about LA not SF. Building anything in SF is even whackier then in LA.
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by mtanski 9y ago
All I can say is finally. Such a shame that the default malloc on most Linux systems was so far behind in terms of performance (jemalloc/tcmalloc) for more then a decade now. I wonder how long it'll take for this implementation to
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by mtanski 9y ago
That's what I did when I moved back from SF => NYC. But it occupied a few hours of my time to send emails, wait for responses, try to negotiate time / price. Time I did not have. If I could open a spend 10 minutes, it would be
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by mtanski 9y ago
It's what I generally do. Because reuse > recycle... but sometimes you don't have time to worry about craiglist.
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by mtanski 9y ago
There's lots of reasons that you have beyond the normal amount of garbage or difficult to deal with garbage. It's really hard to get it removed if you need it on a short notice. A lot of municipalities have limits refuse. For exam
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by mtanski 9y ago
Actually, I was expecting a post by James Mickens.
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by mtanski 9y ago
> pyast64 with peephole 0.24 29.7 > C version (gcc -O0) 0.22 31.8 Modern x86_64 processors are really good at ruing "bad" asm pretty efficiently.
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by mtanski 9y ago
Unlikely to happen. based on both, our history of good intentions and poor execution, and the current secretary of education who's working on funneling more folks into religious schools.
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by mtanski 9y ago
> * Dirty schedulers: This allows easy integration of blocking C-based libraries. So for example can wrap something like RocksDb and make it available to the rest of the VM easier. Or libcurl and others. Silly question, but shouldn'
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by mtanski 9y ago
"since it contains a fallacy, its conclusion must be false" Actually, this is not quite true in this case. I pointed out the fallacy but also the fact he uses no argument / data to prove his point. I made no such claim that h

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