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by nanis 5y ago
> The economic definition could use an update, or at least some asterixis. My goal is to provide some of the asterisks. The "market failure" theorems require the economic definition. One cannot presuppose the existence of the i
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by nanis 5y ago
> Public goods are chronically underfunded What are public goods you consider to be underfunded?
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by nanis 5y ago
> Are you saying that public good funding problems don't exist No.I am saying people tend to call a lot of things "public goods" when they are not. If something is rival or excludable, it is not a public good in the precis
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by nanis 5y ago
Original: https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/20... Note that the title "Majority of Unvaccinated Americans Believe Microchips Are in Vaccines" is not exactly what the story sa
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by nanis 5y ago
The funding problem exists only for public goods in the sense they are defined in economics: This definition requires that the thing being produced to be nonrival and nonexcludable. The post conveniently avoids discussing what projects they
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by nanis 5y ago
A lot of developers will never run into most of the topics discussed in these papers. However, at some point, they will all write some software that does arithmetic on arbitrary data. They will all be tempted to calculate an average by addi
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by nanis 5y ago
https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4469 and https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n706 both make interesting reading.
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by nanis 5y ago
PCR or something else? If PCR, is the number of cycles pre-set or is that a choice variable?
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by nanis 5y ago
> The downside to this is that it deprives their classmates Assume probability of false positive is 1%. If you are tested weekly, there is a 41% chance you'll falsely test positive at least once in a year. If you are tested every wo
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On Windows, how do you get time in nanoseconds in C?(nu42.com)
1 points by nanis 5y ago|1 comments
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by nanis 5y ago
In my negative experiences, "blameless" turned in to "nobody did anything wrong" which, of course, undermines the whole point of finding out what actually happened so we can see if there is a thing we can do to reduce th
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by nanis 5y ago
Does "Loose Change" count as "misleading content"? The original has been replaced with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0skCyy7TObQ but it is still possible to find copies such as https://www.y
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by nanis 5y ago
> why real numbers are somehow unorderable They are orderable ... For all x, y in R, either x >= y or x < y. But R is not bounded (no inf, sup) and therefore has no minimum and no maximum.
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by nanis 5y ago
Because, at the time, HR 4681 was heralded as _limiting_ the U.S. government's ability to monitor and retain communications of U.S. citizens when, in fact, coupled with omnipresent encryption actually explicitly made it legal to retain
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by nanis 5y ago
Note Ali Fares is visibly more upset. He is likely from Turkey or a similar place and he probably thought he would not end up being the target of something like this in Germany.
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by nanis 5y ago
Case in point: > Inspired by a detective novel, Basil Thomson’s The Milliner’s Hat Mystery, Fleming is credited with proposing Operation Mincemeat, in which Naval Intelligence attached an identikit of fake documents to a dead body and r
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by nanis 5y ago
> Can anybody suggest what might be the motivation for this? The push for HTTPS everywhere started with HR4681[1] both of which were reactions to Snowden revelations. > Beyond the silly "bad people might tamper with the cat pictu
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by nanis 5y ago
Just tried it: 2021-07-14T17:05:56.423Z WARN window::os::windows::window > EGL init failed with_egl_lib failed: with_egl_lib(libEGL.dll) failed: no compatible EGL configuration was found, atioglxx.dll: LoadLibraryExW failed, fa
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by nanis 5y ago
> i presented a detailed financial projection (using monte carlo on the assumptions/inputs) .. went over the head of the controller (and acting cfo at the time). boy was i disillusioned after that. In my experience, it is hard to fi
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by nanis 5y ago
>> The tools are slowly catching back up to fill the void left by Flash. > Uncaught (in promise) Your browser does not support graphics API "WebGL 2.0" which is required for this content. Firefox 90 on 64-bit Windows 10.
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by nanis 5y ago
I grew up with _fiş_ and _priz_. Presumably, they are words that were borrowed in to Turkish from French. To this day, I cannot remember which is which and I do not know the original French spellings. According to Google translate, _fiş_ is
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by nanis 5y ago
> And it all begs the question Does it beg or prompt the question? I ask because the meaning of the rest of the paragraph changes depending on which one you meant to use. I am an immigrant in the U.S. I do my best to communicate with eve
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by nanis 5y ago
In Bosnia, the Clinton administration and the EU provided cover for the Serbs while pretending to do something. This provided a cause around which Jihad movements could coalesce (along with Chechnya) leading to both the "Jihad travel n
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by nanis 5y ago
Are you implicitly assuming that the civil wars in Libya and Syria started without active involvement by the U.S. and other governments and they got involved afterwards?
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by nanis 5y ago
Developers end up hearing my admonition that their unit tests should not be uptime indicators for some third party API. Those external things should definitely be mocked. Whenever/wherever there is piece of code that can tested as part
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by nanis 5y ago
> For the trial hashwall, the browser just does some heavy computations. Yeah, I figured that out, but someone else might think you are trying mine some *coin or something. I am not sure if I would mind it if you did, but it would be goo
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by nanis 5y ago
When signing up for a trial, the page says: > To activate a trial account, you will need a reasonably modern browser and a phone number that can receive SMS texts. It makes no mention of the use of a "hashwall" ... It gives no
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by nanis 5y ago
Giving up interpreters and turning to serialization formats to inject logic into configuration (as opposed to injecting configuration into logic) makes our tasks more difficult and results in greater risk, but, hey, it's Google's
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Kubernetes YAML that is *also* valid AT&T syntax x86_64 assembly(twitter.com)
1 points by nanis 5y ago|2 comments
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by nanis 5y ago
The question is not Brit-specific so to speak. Saying "based off of" to mean "based on" and "based out of" to mean "based in" etc started relatively recently in the U.S. In the NYC area, people also s

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