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by payne92 9y ago
This will no doubt raise hackles, but instruction set architectures are FAR less relevant than they used to be. Fewer and fewer systems or people care about x86 vs ARM vs RISC-V. C has been the intermediate language of choice for decades n
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by payne92 9y ago
Free markets work really well…except when there is fraud. No economic system works when people don't follow the rules. And the only way to manage that is to make sure the expected value of the fraud is significantly lower (ideally gre
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by payne92 9y ago
It will be interesting to see how this strategy fares in the US, given the Alice ruling which made it much harder to patent methods that were purely software. Intel's strategy of going after other hardware companies may not translate n
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by payne92 9y ago
War IS disturbing. It's most certainly life-or-death for both sides, even when resources are asymmetric. When young men and women are forced to war against their will, they will find small ways to keep their own sanity and humanity
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by payne92 9y ago
Regarding the other comments here: this is a book review, not a general analysis of emissions cheating. I am about halfway through the book right now (so far, very highly recommended). There is a lot more in the book than is captured in th
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by payne92 9y ago
Different analysis: it's much more likely that a car can be damaged & completely unusable, leaving the owner in an expensive and inconvenient bind. We read about the occasional Airbnb horror story, but I think that scenario is re
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by payne92 9y ago
Underlying paper with all of the tech details: https://seaglass-web.s3.amazonaws.com/SeaGlass___PETS_2017.p... And the web site with all of the software: https://seaglass.cs.washington.edu/ (most interes
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by payne92 9y ago
The problem isn't the actuaries, it's the assumptions. For example, NOBODY KNOWS how much health care will cost in 20 years, but that's central to figuring out defined benefit obligations (as just one example). Or, what'
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by payne92 9y ago
And anti-answer: consider learning JavaScript from something other than a book. The publication cycle for conventional box is relatively long, relative to the pace of technology evolution. By the time the author writes it, it's pub
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by payne92 9y ago
I think it depends entirely how they are used. CAD (Onshape), programming, digital arts/photography, making video, collaborating on writing and presentations for group projects, collaborating with your classmates, doing research -- all
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by payne92 9y ago
Nice concept, BUT, when cars fail, people are hurt and/or lose jobs because they can't reliably make it to work. Cars are two orders of magnitude more expensive than PCs, and are not surfing Moore's law.
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by payne92 9y ago
This reminds me of certain credit card signature pads that generate an error if you don't begin your signature in a particular area on the pad. It's all too easy for designers to consider input constraints that (a) don't actu
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by payne92 9y ago
zipped source tarballs w/ anonymous FTP downloads. Then you emailed diff patches to maintainers and prayed.
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by payne92 9y ago
Complaint: https://www.bloomberglaw.com/iframe/document/X1Q6NR78D282/do... TL;DR: earnout disagreement, with the key earnout definitions completely redacted. This is why earnouts are SO hard: too many ext
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by payne92 9y ago
We are building smarter and smarter machines that nickel and dime from us at scale. How does this end?
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by payne92 9y ago
IANAL, but this likely meets the standards for FRAUD: "A false representation of a matter of fact—whether by words or by conduct, by false or misleading allegations, or by concealment of what should have been disclosed—that deceives a
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by payne92 9y ago
If the SEC truly wanted a transparent public market, all trade data would be published, for free, in near real time for anyone to use.
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by payne92 9y ago
I'm trying to figure out if this is "all hat, no cattle". There seems to be a lot of "framework" here, without much core functionality. Stated more precisely: if I'm stitching together things that process dat
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by payne92 10y ago
Oh wow. Imagine typesetting that in hot metal, many many decades before TeX and LaTeX!!
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by payne92 10y ago
I believe the contract is silent on the "static-ness" of static IPs.
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by payne92 10y ago
My how things change. At one point in the late 90s, I had an entire MIT Class C subnet at my house. Now, I've got 5 static IPs from Verizon FiOS on some ancient grandfathered plan. Years ago, they "changed" the addresses, p
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by payne92 10y ago
Spectrum auctioning is really bad policy. Spectrum is like the road network. Why would we sell it to the highest bidder for them to sell it back to us? Instead, spectrum should be public and free, like roads, for those that follow the usa
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by payne92 10y ago
The article highlights the problem: one asteroid would tank the entire platinum market.
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by payne92 10y ago
This analysis, like many others, compares gig economy workers to their full-time equivalents and therefore misses a lot of the positive aspects. The flexibility has huge value that is difficult to quantify, especially for folks that are aug
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by payne92 10y ago
Youtube (lots of great content if you look for it and set up your subscriptions) NY times, (subscribe! Support journalism) and Reddit (front page only)
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by payne92 10y ago
Now, when do we have the discussion how this request should never have been submitted in the first place? And better training (or retraining) for CBP agents on the proper scope of the law?
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by payne92 10y ago
My anecdotal experience: companies are much more "family friendly" when the CEO and senior managers themselves have families. Stated differently, paraphrasing the CEO that just had their first kid: "holy crap, this is a lot
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by payne92 10y ago
This should not be flagged. Even if you consider the argument flawed or disagree with it for other reasons, it's REALLY important to hear viewpoints from those in a position to set policy.
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by payne92 10y ago
Articles should be presumed useful until otherwise debated and shown not useful. The burden should be on the deleter.
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by payne92 10y ago
This one is the classic. And it just gets better with age.

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