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by nlitened 5y ago
Sorry, my comment was tongue-in-cheek. In my opinion, it takes quite a bit of hypocrisy or doublethink for people who drive cars (but not bycicles), who live in apartments or houses (but not in dormitories), to type on their Macs and iPhone
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by nlitened 5y ago
The entire consumer economy?
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by nlitened 5y ago
Why wouldn’t you start a business, and pay blue collar workers what they deserve?
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by nlitened 5y ago
Market cap assumes that the company captures revenue over multiple years of its future existence. Therefore it could easily be more than one year ad spending, especially if it is assumed that year over year the spending would grow, and the
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by nlitened 5y ago
Yes. Unfortunately, not that many free countries are left on earth, where one can download and distribute scientific papers without getting into jail.
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by nlitened 5y ago
Scientific method gives you only falsifiable theories and inexact beliefs. Anything “universally true” and “exact” is a religion.
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by nlitened 5y ago
I assume you mean something like clojure.core.match https://github.com/clojure/core.match ? It is available, but not used that often.
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by nlitened 5y ago
I’d argue that “far fewer” is not that much of a science. How much less of each exactly? How does the smaller amount affect cancer and other diseases? (linearly? sublinearly? no long-term effect from this reduction in dose? Higher cancer ri
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by nlitened 5y ago
Yes, but one should understand how science is usually done. Some scientists are getting grants from private funds, some don’t, and most scientists rely heavily on getting grant money to live and to continue their research. In medical scienc
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by nlitened 5y ago
Guess which fuckers paid for that
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by nlitened 5y ago
> We should be using whatever abstraction is easiest to reason about I dare mention Rich Hickey and his talk “Simple Made Easy”, and postulate that we should be using whatever abstraction is _the simplest_ (not the easiest one) to reason
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by nlitened 5y ago
For someone living in Russia, having a VPN is essential for browsing if you want uninterrupted access to all international websites at full speed. And I think that number of countries with internet restrictions is growing, not shrinking.
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by nlitened 5y ago
Do you mean crypto arbitrage?
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by nlitened 5y ago
> Engineers are problem solvers, and a manager who applies pressure becomes the problem the engineers decide they need to solve. If it is really important to deliver Something™ by the date, engineers will, if enough pressure is applied,
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by nlitened 5y ago
As far as I understand, government has very little to do with it. It's a signed mutual agreement between the investor and the founder.
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by nlitened 5y ago
> If I can move gigabytes of my data into arrays of structs, then 1) I greatly reduce memory requirements (far fewer pointers), and 2) I greatly reduce the amount of work that GC has to do. As an aside, and not to say that Valhalla is no
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by nlitened 5y ago
No biggie, they will just make a new fork of modified ETH blockchain where this error is fixed, and all the users will follow.
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by nlitened 5y ago
> It is a huge shame which central bankers somehow will have to pay for. You surely mean that central bankers will have to pay nothing, and poor people will pay.
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by nlitened 5y ago
I understand what you’re saying, but I have to highlight a mistake. In science, what you’re talking about is not a “probability of being right”, but a probability of not getting the same experimental results completely randomly, without any
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by nlitened 5y ago
Oh, in this case I misunderstood what the parent meant, and I replied to a wrong interpretation of their words. Thank you for the clarification.
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by nlitened 5y ago
I am sorry, I might be missing something, but I call bullshit. How much does it cost for Amazon to store several bytes that make a key? 5 cents per decade? “Yeah, so uhm, you hit zero, so we deleted all your keys in an irrecoverable way, so
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by nlitened 5y ago
> If your database hits your cost limit, do you stop serving requests? Delete the data? To what extent do you want 'cost protection' for resources you signed up for? Sounds like a reasonable configurable option rather than “you
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by nlitened 5y ago
Yeah but do you guarantee that you will cover any real billing differences, or you’re not sure enough to put your money where your mouth is?
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by nlitened 5y ago
Doesn't the optimizing compiler of C just replace the entire loop with a single assignment or even a no-op? Not sure if benchmarking was done properly here.
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by nlitened 5y ago
I am sorry, I mistakenly assumed that you thought it would be better if the new GUI library used some language like C++ instead of Clojure.
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by nlitened 5y ago
If I understand correctly, the author talks about pure-data approach to building GUI, and that’s pretty much the opposite of OO and inheritance.
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by nlitened 5y ago
As far as I understand, the core graphics library will be Skia, and it’s C++. So to some extent, your wish has been granted.
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by nlitened 5y ago
To be fair, I know quite a bit about how social sciences are done, and most of such research is not reproducible. Nine out of ten social scientists know barely enough statistics to p-hack the outcome into what they want to believe in the fi
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by nlitened 5y ago
As far as I know, that’s not how banks make loans. They don’t lend deposited money, the money they lend is created out of thin air.
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by nlitened 5y ago
> the return type of functions which can possibly throw unchecked exceptions would not indicate that they can throw or what they can throw As far as I know, that's how Java's "throws" method signature works, which has

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