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by pg314 10y ago
Can you share why you think he would make a good president?
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by pg314 10y ago
> honestly who cares if 370 economists said not to vote for trump? Maybe people having economical problems might have something to gain by listening to people who have studied economics? > Economics isn't a solved field and I&#x2
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by pg314 10y ago
He did not say that all Trump voters are idiots or ignorant fools, he said a large fraction. It is a fact that non-college-educated white voters overwhelmingly voted for Trump, while college-educated voters preferred Clinton. Not all colleg
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by pg314 10y ago
I had exactly the same idea: somewhere between Berlusconi and Mussolini. However, I don't think he is nearly as intelligent as either, so I don't think he will last more than 4 years. I agree on the Baltic states. Also, if you&#x2
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by pg314 10y ago
If only that was all it took: "do what it takes to make himself into a great president". Do you think George W. Bush didn't want to be a great president? If it was that simple, just pick a random person from the street. The m
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by pg314 10y ago
First of all, how do you know his net worth? Are you taking his word for it? He said that his net worth fluctuates “with markets and with attitudes and with feelings, even my own feelings” [1]. Any accountant will tell you that a person&#x2
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by pg314 10y ago
I think the personal attacks on Clinton were far, far worse: 'crooked Hillary', 'such a nasty woman', 'lock her up' (or 'hang that bitch' from the Trump supporters) without any due process, attacking
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by pg314 10y ago
Most of the raw Si is used in the steel industry. Only a tiny fraction is used in electronics applications. So, Si would not be the bottleneck (refining it to the high purity needed for electronics applications is very energy-intensive, tho
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by pg314 10y ago
You didn't define 'extensive'. Is it 20-30 miles/week over a long period, which you claim is already way too much for the majority? If I read study [1] correctly the runners were running 3.5 hours a week at the beginning
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by pg314 10y ago
It is not clear that running is bad for the knees. Recent studies ([1], [2]) find no evidence of any adverse effects, rather the contrary (lower incidence of knee osteoarthritis in the running group). One possible explanation is that the ru
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by pg314 11y ago
At the moment LLVM bit code generated by Clang is still architecture dependent (e.g. sizeof() still generates code that depends on the architecture).
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by pg314 11y ago
>Anyone can learn to read, and write, computer code I agree that most motivated learners could pick up some very basic software skills, and those would be beneficial to them. In a utopian world basic programming skills would be treated t
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by pg314 11y ago
While I do agree that having a compiler accessible on a platform is a positive, I'm somewhat skeptical of the claim that anyone can learn to use it and then use it. It glosses over the enormous learning curve to develop software with t
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by pg314 11y ago
You first statement seems like a gross simplification. Trying to summarise a complex situation like Greece in a one-liner or with a fable is unlikely to bring much insight. Maybe the 50%+ of unemployed youth in Greece just want a future. I
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by pg314 11y ago
The with-x style macros can indeed be replaced by functions that take a closure. E.g. in Scheme you have the function (call-with-input-file string proc). The macro is slightly more concise. Contrast (with-input-file (x "x") (p
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by pg314 11y ago
In my experience, Lisp-style macros are much less error-prone than the Ruby/Python-style meta-programming. I think it is probably because macros transform the source code at compile-time while Python's meta-programming happens all
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by pg314 11y ago
Comcast has considerable monopoly power: in certain areas there are no good alternatives or your apartment complex might have the cables from Comcast installed but not others. Apple has less monopoly power because of Android competition.
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by pg314 11y ago
Maybe the "dirty" work should be better paid. It is convenient to have a large supply of workers that have to take any work to survive, so the "dirty" work gets done cheaply, but that doesn't make it right.
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by pg314 12y ago
On page 7 in the 2011 annual report, Buffett wrote that, as a long-term shareholder, he wished for the IBM stock to languish throughout the following 5 years. The reason was that IBM was planning large share repurchases, and the lower the s
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by pg314 12y ago
DIRECTV was indeed a purchase by Ted Weschler and Todd Combs, as Buffett wrote in the 2012 Annual Report (p. 15). They operate pretty much autonomously.
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by pg314 12y ago
You cannot distinguish malicious from legitimate signatures. From the paper: 'This can be done in such a way that only the attacker, who made the malicious implementation, can extract the secret from the signature, and that the distri
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by pg314 12y ago
The oil price fell closer to 50% than 80% in 2014: WTI went from $110 to $53.
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by pg314 12y ago
AFAIK there is no evidence that running is bad for the knees. There is not enough research to draw firm conclusions, but a Stanford study ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2556152/ ) didn't fin
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by pg314 12y ago
Where do you get the 29% annual growth from? The article you linked to states 1,900% increase over 30 years. That works out to about 10.5% annual growth. That is still a decent increase, but no longer that extra-ordinary.
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by pg314 13y ago
I haven't looked at the gnutls code in depth, but I looked at Apple's 'goto fail' code. I have a write-up here: http://pgcode.blogspot.de/2014/02/lots-has-been-said-about-a... Cryptographic cod
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by pg314 13y ago
goto statements are not necessarily a bad practice. Many people have heard the title from a famous letter by Dijkstra, 'Go-to statement considered harmful' (see https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd02xx