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by pg314 10y ago
> In any half-way modern editor indentation-aware copy and paste/block indent/dedent is super easy. Sure. But I've made mistakes in Python because I didn't select e.g. the last line of a region. If you've used bo
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by pg314 10y ago
I agree with your conclusion (that tech companies will move), but don't agree with your reasoning. It is exactly the opposite. Capital crosses borders much more easily than human capital. There are all kinds of impediments for human ca
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by pg314 10y ago
A PostgreSQL (recursive) WITH query [1] can deal with that: CREATE TABLE employee ( id int primary key, name text, manager int references employee(id) ); INSERT INTO employee(id, name, manager) VALUES (
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by pg314 10y ago
The PostgreSQL manual [1] is an incredible resource. The first 100 or so pages give you a lay of the land. If you read those you will be lightyears ahead of the average web dev. After that you can dig into other chapters/topics that in
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by pg314 10y ago
It seems dubious that those custom cars will ever amount to more than a very small niche market.
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by pg314 10y ago
> Oh, and by the way, those Apple profits? None of them actually go back to the U.S., they sit in foreign, tax exempt, bank accounts. Those profits will come back during the next tax holiday. In the mean time Apple is borrowing and distr
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by pg314 10y ago
> Sam Altman does not understand or appreciate the above point. Maybe because the above point is dubious at best? In a complex domain like an economics, it is very hard to make proclamations such as yours with anything resembling your ce
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by pg314 10y ago
Even if you start erecting trade barriers, you are not going to get back the jobs lost to automation. Whoever is telling that is lying. A large fraction of the low-skill, well-paying factory jobs of the past are permanently gone. This is no
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by pg314 10y ago
I disagree. When you want to move a block of code around, it makes it too easy to make mistakes. Or if you want to add e.g. a div around a bunch of other elements, you need to be very careful with the indentation. I've worked with both
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by pg314 10y ago
Has anything changed on that front since 2013? Has the GRAT loophole been closed? [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-12-17/accidenta...
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by pg314 10y ago
I have an economics degree, but feel I've learned more from his shareholder's letters than 4 years of university. So I too recommend them. The letters starting from 1995 can be consulted at http://www.berkshirehathaway.
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> He believes in companies that pay dividends, yet BH does not. The reason he likes companies that pay dividends is that often he can allocate capital better than the companies. CEOs are often tempted to reinvest profits in projects (suc
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by pg314 10y ago
If you use a C library and have hardly any Python code running it obviously goes faster. That misses the point I was making. At some point you'll have to write some Python code, and that will lower the number of requests dramatically.
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by pg314 10y ago
As soon as you do anything else than return 'hello, world' in Python, your performance will drop dramatically. Just parsing a tiny JSON string a million times in python takes 7s (i5-2467M). $ time python -c "import json;
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by pg314 10y ago
That is a silly argument. You can argue equally well that Clinton won the electoral college except for Wyoming, North Dakota, Alaska, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, West Virginia, Kansas, Utah, Arkansas, Mississippi, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kentucky
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by pg314 10y ago
> Every nation gets the government it deserves. That sounds catchy, but isn't true. Think of all the dictators who came to power after a coup (sometimes backed by foreign powers).
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by pg314 10y ago
I agree that another humanitarian thing to do would be to stop bombing/droning other countries. But you are presenting it as if you only get to do one humanitarian thing. That is incorrect. You can do both. If you are trying to argue
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by pg314 10y ago
> In the world of realpolitik humanitarian is not a valid reason. You're moving the goalposts. First you say there is no good reason, then you reframe it 'in the world of realpolitik'. If you want to support your original
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by pg314 10y ago
> There is no good reason to allow entry of people from countries that are at (civil) war There is a very good reason: a humanitarian one. I do not know how a nation where 70% of the population calls itself christian could turn away refu
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by pg314 10y ago
Do you have any evidence Bezos is influencing the editorial direction of the WaPo? All statements I have seen of people working for or having worked for the WaPo say that there is a clear separation between Bezos and the editorial board.
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by pg314 10y ago
> [2] Talk is cheap. Honestly, what do you think is going to happen? And in 4 years when we look back, if it doesn't happen - what will you think? You think it is ok for a presidential candidate to make those statements? Do you know
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by pg314 10y ago
On his efforts to undermine a free press, just a couple that come to mind: - he threatened legal action against the NYT [1] - he said he would 'open up those libel laws' [2] - he lies about falling subscription numbers at
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by pg314 10y ago
Technically it's still not a lie. But you would be delusional. I don't know what is worse in a president.
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by pg314 10y ago
When did he say he was gifting all profits from foreign ventures to the US Treasury? Last I read about it, his pledge only related to profits from foreign governments for his hotels and similar businesses. The WaPo addressed the shortcoming
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by pg314 10y ago
According to [1] most scientists are indeed liberal: 52% of scientists describe themselves as liberal versus 9% as conservative. The numbers for the general public are 20% and 37%, respectively. [1] http://www.people-press.org&#x
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by pg314 10y ago
Bill Maher is not news. If you treat him as such and lump him in with the WaPo or The Economist, I don't think we can have a constructive discussion. The articles about the Trump dossier in the WaPo, NYT, The Economist, CNN all came wi
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by pg314 10y ago
> That is the root of the problem: It does NOT[1]. Yes it does. There is a difference between saying there is an unverified report alleging kompromat on Trump and saying the pope supported Trump. The latter is categorically false, the fo
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by pg314 10y ago
The implementation of PostgreSQL is complex, no doubt about that. But if you need strong data consistency and durability guarantees, it provides a rock-solid foundation. SQL might take some getting used, but it is also not rocket science. I
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by pg314 10y ago
Maybe this is obvious, but the PostgreSQL manual [1] is excellent. The first 100 or so pages (at least up to and including chapter 7) will give you a good overview. I suggest you read through them at least once. Then you can dig into the re
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by pg314 10y ago
In the US, maybe. In other countries (that rank better [1] on science and math at 15), they seem to be ok. [1] http://www.bbc.com/news/business-32608772

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