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by mytherin 7y ago
The amount of transactions performed by bitcoin is laughably low. It performs around 10 transactions per second. This is not even enough to handle the transactions of a small city, yet it consumes as much electricity as an ENTIRE large city
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by mytherin 7y ago
There is a lot of misinformation about the situation here, mainly because of the misleading title. The game created by the Chinese company is not a clone of the game created by Playsaurus. Here is the game created by Playsaurus: http:&#x2F
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by mytherin 7y ago
For many of these things indeed it is about the internal implementation and not about the language itself (although the language itself has many features limiting optimizations as well). The main problem is that modules are compiled against
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by mytherin 7y ago
The thing is they could have done so much more with breaking changes. They could have fixed the broken module system, removed the GIL or improved performance by an order of magnitude by removing language features that almost nobody uses but
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by mytherin 7y ago
Indeed, that is the reason character fields have traditionally had a length in RDBMS. However, many of these optimizations get broken by unicode support. Consider a CHAR(1) field. Without unicode support this field is always 1 byte, and the
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by mytherin 8y ago
No, the safest option is to separate cycle lanes from roads altogether, as is evidenced by the significantly lower death toll per km that e.g. the NL and Denmark have compared to the US [1]. In those countries, cyclists almost never share t
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by mytherin 8y ago
Programmers are not the only ones being mistreated by gaming companies. QA testers, graphic designers, etc... cannot simply "change jobs". It's also not as simple as "you're free to leave". Most people working
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by mytherin 8y ago
Panicing is not handling anything, it is just crashing the program. Unless you can catch the panic, in which case it's just another name for an exception. Not handling failed allocations except for on large allocations is just asking f
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by mytherin 8y ago
I agree with this. Error handling code and exceptions are not mutually exclusive, and both have their benefits and drawbacks. Checking return codes in actually exceptional circumstances makes the code base almost unreadable, and exceptions
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by mytherin 8y ago
They do test the blood, but the tests are not 100% accurate (no medical test like this is). Asking people helps reduce the need for these tests which helps reduce the accidents caused by inaccurate results. Give people an incentive to lie a
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by mytherin 8y ago
The exact same things are done constantly by big companies (Google, Apple, etc.). The only difference is you have much less recourse when it happens there. At least the government gives you rights you can fight for in court.
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by mytherin 8y ago
Of course, there’s no large reason for them to switch from whatsapp. It’s reliable, free, has no ads and it’s encrypted. Yes, privacy is an issue, but most people don’t care about that all that much. What they do care about is being annoyed
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by mytherin 9y ago
Do you really think preventing people from getting jobs makes them less likely to commit crimes in the future? To me it seems the opposite is much more likely. If people are unable to make an honest living they will be forced to commit crim
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by mytherin 9y ago
We rode horses for millenia, and that never changed until the car came along and suddenly nobody rode horses anymore. The same thing will happen to human labor. Automation will make it obsolete. The only question is how we as a society will
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by mytherin 9y ago
The end-game of the idea is that the decoder becomes embedded into browsers, so URLs can be shortened without requiring users to go through a third party service that tracks you. This method would be both faster than current URL shorteners
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by mytherin 10y ago
It isn't, but it is Google's responsibility not to infringe on the copyright of other people/companies. Google is not displaying their own content in those snippets. They are taking content from other websites, reformatting i
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by mytherin 10y ago
The same way all contracts work in every civilized country. If you sign a contract and violate it you are penalized in some way, usually that way is specified in the contract (e.g. fined a certain sum of money). Not sure how this can in any