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by nv-vn 8y ago
In my experience that was not accurate at all to the real class. In reality, we didn't cover about 50% of that at all (since it doesn't appear on the test). Instead, it was all arrays and for loops then 3-4 questions about how inh
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by nv-vn 8y ago
I wish I could double upvote this. There is pretty much nothing redeemable about these two courses and they have absolutely nothing to do with CS.
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by nv-vn 8y ago
It's not saying shit. It's just that you want the best education for your child, and you can get the greatest marginal gain not by donating to the school system but by just sending your child to a private school. It's not eve
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by nv-vn 8y ago
This x1000. I've talked about this course before in my post history, but the entire class is just awfully designed. I took it with a teacher and 99% of the class still could not keep up. Even the people who did well on the exam mostly
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by nv-vn 8y ago
Both of these are symptoms of schizophrenia. I imagine what we saw is him on meds vs. him off meds.
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by nv-vn 8y ago
To be fair to the GP, none of those would really be possible in 1960s America or under Apartheid. I think there's some middle ground between both views of India here.
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by nv-vn 8y ago
The fact that TV news is so highly correlated with happiness basically reveals that something significant is wrong with the data.
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by nv-vn 8y ago
I've heard many libertarians who are in favor of universal basic income, because it solves many of the problems that current welfare systems introduce. Also, there are some who are in favor of universal healthcare. There are indeed a w
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by nv-vn 8y ago
Only if you start with the assumption that everything to do with them is evil. At the end of the day, they still employ and support thousands of people. There certainly are many cases in which they do the wrong thing, but their power for go
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by nv-vn 8y ago
My argument is just that not all laws are good, and following the law does not equate to doing the right thing.
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by nv-vn 8y ago
>I think it is reasonable to say that everyone should agree that if there are rules they should be universally applied What happens if the rules are bad rules? E.g. if it's illegal for Facebook to allow advertisements for marijuana
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by nv-vn 8y ago
It's easy until you realize how global Facebook's audience is. What happens if California makes this type of advertising illegal for hotels and Sri Lanka makes it illegal for movie theaters? Now repeat for every possible advertisi
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by nv-vn 8y ago
Yes. You are talking about taking people's property away with legal force because you don't like how they used it after they've agreed to buy it under different conditions.
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by nv-vn 8y ago
Sounds very close to ex post facto
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by nv-vn 8y ago
Well I don't think in their case it had much to do with democracy. But a better example might be a country like India or Japan even, where they have a ton of bureaucracy in place that makes it super hard to make any headway when trying
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by nv-vn 8y ago
It's also a very short-sighted statement. People should probably have the freedom to incorporate a company whenever they want. We've seen the effects of the opposite and they're not pretty.
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by nv-vn 8y ago
I would say there's no independent variable here because the effect goes both ways. Suppliers set their prices based on the quantity demanded, and consumers choose a quantity to purchase based on the price set.
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by nv-vn 8y ago
The price should approach the limit price if you assume there's no initial cost of making the software. And for most SaaS, there's still an upkeep cost the company must pay. Free software just isn't feasible in the real world
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by nv-vn 8y ago
The GP was probably just making up numbers or basing it on costs for a single person.
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by nv-vn 8y ago
Yep. In Atlanta pretty much every business is on a 35-45 mph road and people do not take kindly to you driving the speed limit, let alone 10mph below it. But that shouldn't even be an issue -- real, street legal mopeds have existed for
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by nv-vn 8y ago
I don't know why that article is written in the way that it is, but generally "demonstrated interest" in college admissions is a way of evaluating a student's preference for the school. Most top schools don't use th
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by nv-vn 8y ago
There is absolutely no way you'll remember this but years and years ago--when I was maybe 13--I found Katahdin somewhere online and was absolutely enamored by the idea (I can say with a lot of confidence that it's what sparked my
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by nv-vn 8y ago
Wow, I didn't even realize how big an impact it makes. It literally outperforms everything else on a large margin except for one test, and gets like 117% more performance in ebizzy than the 7980xe.
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by nv-vn 8y ago
2x core count hardly ever offers anywhere near a 100% performance gain, even across Intel's lineup [1]. Very few workloads are that parallelizeable, and almost everything (from the program to the OS to the CPU itself) introduces some f
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by nv-vn 8y ago
The 2990wx blew everything out of the water in rendering. It's like 37% faster than the 7980xe in the Blender benchmark.
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by nv-vn 8y ago
It's funny to me how much range there is in these tests. Some of these are seemingly backwards with better CPUs ranking so much worse and some look completely random. But wow, the performance on these new TR chips is just insane. Never
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by nv-vn 8y ago
Well it's private property so it's kind of up to the owner to decide that.
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by nv-vn 8y ago
I mean, if that's your logic about this, does the system even matter? If we're eventually gonna hit a stopping point that reverts us back to starvation then it seems like everything is an equally bad choice.
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by nv-vn 8y ago
I mean, it is still related to value in the economic sense, but not necessarily the intuitive sense. For example, the Kardashians are certainly "worth" less in cultural value than custodians, but their economic value is much highe
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by nv-vn 8y ago
To be fair though, a lot of the more advanced European countries have much lower corporate tax rates than the US does (or at least did). E.g. Sweden's is 22% and there's no state corporate income tax rate on top of that. In fact,

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