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by pg314 10y ago
Sure. Mine was macOS Sierra. If your <stdio> is comparable to mine, that's still about 30 times more bytes that the compiler sees for C++ compared to C.
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by pg314 10y ago
I'm no longer really following what OLPC does, but as far as I know that hasn't changed. Other loosely associated organisations like e.g. OLE Nepal (olenepal.org) are addressing that, though. I did not meet any Negroponte fans out
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by pg314 10y ago
I guess it depends on what you're used to. Each time I switch from C to C++, compile times take some adjusting. If you're not careful about how you organise your C++ code (be careful what you put in headers, don't go crazy wi
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by pg314 10y ago
Exactly. One of the things the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) project initially ignored was the infrastructure needed, such as electricity and internet access.
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by pg314 10y ago
> I don't think it's politically possible to create a strong welfare state in a country populated by identifiable groups with differing socioeconomic contributions to the common good. That is wrong. In Belgium you have a strong
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by pg314 10y ago
I know it is fashionable to label articles propaganda, but the term gets thrown around lightly. propaganda: information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of vie
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by pg314 10y ago
I don't think he was responsible for the 20th Anniversary Mac, which was released in March 1997. Apple bought NeXT in february 1997, and Jobs only be became de facto chief of Apple after Amelio was ousted in July 1997.
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by pg314 10y ago
What constitutes a crash for the Yuan (3% over 3 months), is way less than the volatility of bitcoin in one day...
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by pg314 10y ago
No, that doesn't follow from my statement. I was pointing out why 'can only be a very good thing' might be wrong. If bitcoin's advantages are enough to offset its drawbacks (of which enabling ransomware is one), that is
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by pg314 10y ago
> can only be a very good thing, No. It has enabled the rise of ransomware.
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by pg314 10y ago
And speculation, as it says in the headline of that NYT article. The volume of bitcoins bought with bolivars (Venezuela's currency) is inherently limited: you would only want to sell bitcoins in exchange for bolivars if you could spend
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by pg314 10y ago
You can do both: limit your energy consumption and make your energy cleaner. One does not preclude the other. Given that pretty much all of our current energy sources have a carbon cost (e.g. in the production of solar panels), it makes sen
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by pg314 10y ago
The economists are responding to one very specific version of UBI: Granting every American citizen over 21-years old a universal basic income of $13,000 a year — financed by eliminating all transfer programs (including Social Security, Med
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by pg314 10y ago
Do you have any indication that Bezos is exercising editorial control? According to a Poynter interview [1], Marty Baron, editor at the Washington Post, says "Bezos doesn't try to influence editors". The Washington Post doesn
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by pg314 10y ago
> beyond anyone's wildest expectation over the last 8 years... Some people were saying it was going to take over the world and replace fiat currencies. That hasn't happened yet. And when it crossed $1000 for the first time, s
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by pg314 10y ago
It's hard to get reliable numbers of the number of Venezuelans having bitcoin. According to [1], surbitcoin.com had 85,000 users in November 2016 (on a population of 30 million). Quartz reported in November 2016 a weekly bitcoin volume
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by pg314 10y ago
> nor base everything on linked lists. It seems your comment implies that Lisp bases everything on linked lists. That is a misconception. As early as Lisp 1.5 (1962), arrays were available (see section 4.4 of [1]). [1] http://
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by pg314 10y ago
> Besides, if you don't want to be embarrassed then don't do embarrassing things and then sulk when you're exposed. I don't think that is a very good argument. If you were to look through the email of most middle-size
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by pg314 10y ago
Lower compensation, but better social security (if you manage to get citizenship), better working hours, more holidays. I second learning the local language. That is one of the most important requirements to truly integrate.
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by pg314 10y ago
You are right that you can construct a scenario where e.g. screen components could have been cut by half. Thanks for typing it out. The WSJ article, though, attributes the cuts in component orders to weaker iPhone demand: 'because of w
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by pg314 10y ago
You are being very charitable to the WSJ. The WSJ article in question said in the second paragraph [1]: Apple's orders for iPhone 5 screens for the first quarter, for example, have dropped to roughly half of what the company had plann
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by pg314 10y ago
Human rights are things that are inherent to being human. That is your definition. If you look at the Universal Declaration of Human Rights [1], the definition they employ is much broader. E.g. Article 25. (1) Everyone has the right
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by pg314 10y ago
This is not the first time reputable organisations have wrongly inferred sluggish iPhone sales numbers. In Apple's 2013 Q1, Tim Cook, Apple's CEO, warned against reading too much into any rumors about order cuts gleaned from suppl
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by pg314 10y ago
Because you can select them for their expertise. E.g., to create medical regulations, you can select doctors and pharmacists.
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by pg314 10y ago
The 'dust' in your metaphor are human lives . Most software does not involve life-and-death situations. In cases that do, e.g. the space shuttle, they don't use rapid iteration [1]. [1] https://www.nap.edu/re
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by pg314 10y ago
> You can't protect people from themselves You can't protect all people from themselves, but you can protect a lot of people from themselves. If you look at smoking [1] in the US, smoking went from 42.4% in 1965 to 16.8% in 201
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by pg314 10y ago
This seems to imply the owner's right to "access" their device ends at the moment of theft. I don't think it implies that. But the two rights are in conflict and need to be balanced. One does not automatically override
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by pg314 10y ago
Can you illegally wiretap your own device? I'm not a lawyer, but it seems to me yes. The thief's right to privacy is being invaded. It's not because he broke the law that he suddenly no longer has any rights. Just like you
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by pg314 10y ago
I misunderstood your comment as agreeing with jey's comment and I concur with your explanation here. My apologies and thank you for expanding.
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by pg314 10y ago
From the abstract: analysis [was] adjusted for age, alcohol consumption, body mass index, systolic blood pressure, smoking status, Type 2 diabetes, previous myocardial infarction, resting heart rate and serum low-density lipoprotein choles

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