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by nhaehnle 11y ago
computing the hash of a string key is typically an O(n) This is a good point, though to be fair, this aspect of it is usually also ignored when analyzing the main alternative data structures, which are balanced binary trees. At least ever
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
Unfortunately, they are not. Submitters have to be vetted by somebody at some point, so the people who do submit should usually at least have a university affiliation (or have had one at some point), but that's a relatively low bar. I
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
In a language that supports it reasonably, the advantage of genuinely separate types is that the language will prevent you from doing stupid things like accidentally multiplying to monetary amounts or adding a percentage to a monetary amoun
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
This is a very interesting point. I also believe that a proper fiscal structure for the Euro area is the only way for the Euro to survive long term. This means a Euro government, Euro area taxes, Euro area social systems, etc. Is this a har
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
My understanding is the rest of the pigs are, relative to Greece, much more viable [...] This explains why today, after the financial crisis of 2007/08, it happens to be Greece in this miserable situation. Greece was the weakest link
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
Germany enjoys the lowest unemployment rate in history This is simply false, and I wonder where you got this idea from. During the 1960s, the (West) German unemployment rate hovered around 1%, i.e. much lower than today. There's no d
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
smaller companies lead to a more modular economy This is a very interesting point, which I would extend to saying that it might lead to a more resilient economy. The trouble is, scale is such a powerful thing. When you look at industrie
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
It's possible that we just have different styles of working. Still, to clarify: Not all, but some of the situations I have in mind are situation where the changes in component A cannot possibly work without the changes in component B.
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
Running test before committing locally adds a lot of friction. It often happens to me that I work on a feature in component A, and in doing so, realize that it would be great to have some additional feature in component B (or perhaps ther
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
AWS-stuff is also a new tool that first has to be learned, and frankly it sounds like overkill for this kind of problem (not to mention that it probably comes with its own kind of overhead). lsiebert's comment about not generating such
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
If anybody else is having trouble accessing the presentation linked as an attachment: the download from the original LLVM bug at https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=5615 appears to be okay.
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
I'm not sure how you intended the example, but it's probably a bad one: If you take the integral of 1/x, say from x=1 to infty, you don't get a finite amount (because ln x goes to infinity). On the other hand, if you tak
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
How about a remote valley in the Andes? (Somewhat tongue in cheek, but it's good to remember that there's more to life - and perhaps even potential markets.)
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
Actually, it is often not the government that charges outrageous fees. Very often, a system is in place where you need to get a license from a private provider, and the private providers of licenses charge outrageous fees. Incidentally, thi
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
If a cab driver refuses you service take the next one. While the population in large cities is growing, plenty of people don't live in one. "Take the next one" simply isn't an option for those people (I speak from expe
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
Nitpick: What's with those charts trying to predict economic quantities such as debt ratios for decades into the future (as the last chart in the article does)? Such predictions are entirely impossible, and their only conceivable purpo
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
What on earth are you talking about? Take a look at the repository mirror here, for example: https://github.com/qtproject/qtbase/ . You can easily see plenty of commits that change src/widgets. Seriously, plea
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
None of this is an argument in favor of a fork. Even if what you write were true (and that hasn't been my impression), somebody would still have to do the work of improving QtWidgets even further. They might as well do that work in Qt
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
Attribution of motive is never helpful or appropriate as part of a supposedly-technical discussion. Disagree. Here's why: Other people's motives should never be a deciding factor in technical discussions. However , questionin
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
Your argument is not really an argument, but merely the statement of the assumption that value (in general) and monetary value are the same thing. It is hard to define value in general (and I cannot do it) simply because unlike money, there
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
Because there is no real work? Really? I suspect that our eyes are merely blinded to positive things that can be done but that currently nobody is willing to pay for. In ageing societies, think about services for the elderly. The elderly
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
Since people might not be familiar with the term yet, I feel it's useful to point out that it's spelled "presence" with a 'c', as in, you feel as if you were actually present in a virtual reality.
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
The banks emphatically do not get the money they loan out from deposits, because even though your bank makes loans, the money in your deposit is still there and available whenever you want. Compare this to a private investment arrangement w
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
The grandparent comment (i.e. by URspider94) is correct. What you write about banks is a common, but incorrect misconception about what banks do. The truth of the matter is: Banks do not need deposits to make loans. Quite the contrary: Ba
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
You have to wonder which of those trends are "secular" (in the economics sense) and which are indirect causes of high unemployment. The article already hints at this: Apart from the young cohort (until mid-20s), the rise in men go
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
A big part of the point of punishment is to act as a deterrent. 99 years of prison may be excessive, but there has to be some negative consequence for the person who breaks a law, otherwise there's no reason not to.
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
This is true, but it's also inefficient for society as a whole. Basically, what the other side is saying is that yes, negotiating is a skill, but the reason why our economy works so efficiently is that we instituted division of labor.
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
The graph is odd. According to the label, the Y axis is change in economic growth (probably meaning change in change in GDP). Honestly, I don't find it that surprising that the dots are all over the place. Economic growth is a variab
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
> I can calculate two messages (0 and 1) that both have the same hash. It's part of the definition of a (secure) cryptographic hash function that this is impossible. For a secure hash function, finding two messages with the same has
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
> one important property of cash is it is printed debt-free by the state, which can profit from the seigniorage This is actually not true in current typical monetary systems. There may be exceptions, but the typical setup is that the c

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