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by pg314 9y ago
> The numbers in that study make absolutely no sense as anyone who has exercised will tell you. I've exercised, they make sense to me. > Bicycling at 12-13mph same level of energy expenditure as push-ups? Nope. > Running at 9
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by pg314 9y ago
Yes. The first time they didn't have the new machines yet. The second time, they had the machines, but they didn't work for my passport. That didn't matter (except for some stress that they might turn me away), since you stil
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by pg314 9y ago
> This is the experience of 99.9% of those who visit. Seems unlikely. The two times I visited the US last year the immigration queue at JFK was a multi-hour wait.
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by pg314 9y ago
> Traveling to the US is a breeze for Europeans. No, it isn't. I am European, travelled twice to the US last year. Each time multi-hour wait for the USCBP check. From take-off in Brussels to landing in NYC took less time than gettin
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by pg314 9y ago
> You might not like the idea of a hot sweaty cycle ride to work. You don't have to exert yourself until you start sweating. Cycling at around 10 mph is equivalent to walking at a brisk pace (3.5-4 mph) [1]. On really hot days you&#
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by pg314 9y ago
According to RMS [1], even the secretaries in Bernie Greenberg's office were extending Emacs in Emacs Lisp. Nobody had told them what they were doing was programming and they were able to pick it up from a manual. The parentheses can&#
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by pg314 9y ago
That is not always how objects are implemented. It is but one way to implement objects. A JIT-ing interpreter, for example, doesn't have to use function pointers to implement objects.
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by pg314 9y ago
Exactly. To quote Alan Perlis: Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.
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by pg314 9y ago
You're not missing anything. It's just another conspiracy theory. They'll claim that the gold price is being kept at an artificial level.
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by pg314 9y ago
> I also find it a bit strange that they seemed to go through a lot of effort in melting these bars to make sure no one can inspect the originals . You're inferring a motive. The stated reason is that those bars didn't confor
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by pg314 9y ago
> I suspect they won't even be able to name a single German university, let alone consider studying at one. You are wrong. In 2015, 30.000 Chinese students were studying at German higher education institutions [1]. That would obviou
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by pg314 9y ago
Some people work that way. Other people do a more in-depth evaluation. The first group tends to end up with MySQL, the second with PostgreSQL. I'm painting with a broad brush here, there are situations where it might make more sense to
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by pg314 9y ago
This is not a response from the PostgreSQL team. The author is a consultant specialising in PostgreSQL.
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by pg314 9y ago
Yes and yes. If I compare myself against when I just started, I'm easily 10x more valuable now (in some cases 100x). And I would still choose my current self over 5 copies of myself at 5-7 years of experience. Maybe if you have a simpl
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by pg314 9y ago
That is nonsense. There are plenty of natural monopolies [1], where competitors are free to enter the market but simple can't compete. E.g. if there are economies of scale (e.g. Google search engine) or network effects (e.g. Facebook).
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by pg314 9y ago
So if I understand it correctly, if Apple manufactures in India, the Indian government would take a more favourable view of 'dumping of hazardous electronic waste'? It sounds like a pretext to me. I agree that the free market does
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by pg314 9y ago
> But not consuming is bad for the economy, so the invisible hand does its best to prevent reduction and reuse. That 'the invisible hand' (by which I assume you mean the free market) prevents reuse is simply not true. In a comp
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by pg314 9y ago
> no one wants to drift aimlessly while being given money for doing nothing, no matter how great that might sound on the surface. That is not true. Plenty of people are happy to retire. And quite a few people who have the means choose no
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by pg314 9y ago
> The entirety of the internet runs on AWS. The rest is an inconsequential rounding error. None of the top 5 Alexa websites [1] (Google, YouTube, Facebook, Baidu and Wikipedia) run on AWS as far as I know. I'm not sure what rounding
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by pg314 9y ago
> There's no survivorship bias in going to med school, becoming a specialist and then earning 400k/yr. There is, just not as pronounced as in the lottery example. You ignore all the students who failed or dropped out of med sch
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by pg314 9y ago
That the stock market is an efficient mechanism in allocating capital to the right businesses is a myth. For one, the stock price of a company has no direct bearing on its capital. Only at IPO time or when a company is raising additional ca
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by pg314 9y ago
You complain about moving goalposts in another comment in this thread, but you're doing that exact thing here. In your original comment you asked about societal collapse, here you're talking about threats to humanity. There are pl
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by pg314 9y ago
> You're assuming all the bombs will be dropped on population centers. He isn't. He is assuming 5% of bombs will be dropped on population centers. > Removing your enemy's ability to wage war will always take priority ov
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by pg314 9y ago
Barring one gender from participating is not the same thing as having different categories per gender. There are also different categories for different age groups. That is just a reflection of the difference in athletic abilities. No reaso
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by pg314 9y ago
> If it relied upon content hashes, then make would have to hash the files each time it ran (taking time---checking the timestamp is faster). For a large project, this might be too excessive. You can combine timestamps with content hashe
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by pg314 9y ago
>Which means it can be faster. If you need to be able to write a file, but have the build system recognize that the new one is the same as the old; this can be accomplished with a simple `sponge`-like script that only writes the file if
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by pg314 9y ago
Make has some serious shortcomings though. Some that I can think of: it relies on timestamps instead of content hashes, it doesn't rebuild things when e.g. compiler flags change, its approach to header dependencies in C/C++ is clu
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by pg314 9y ago
Apple is trading at a discounted P/E compared to Nasdaq as a whole, and has done so for years. They have caught up a bit in the last couple of months, though. I'm not sure it's because of their large cash reserves, but it mig
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by pg314 9y ago
Warren Buffet seems to agree: Berkshire Hathaway built a $18B position in Apple recently. And I'm pretty sure that he would love nothing more than for Apple's stock price to go down in the short run, so that buybacks increase his
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by pg314 9y ago
The $246B is misleading: it doesn't count the $79B they raised in debt to finance their capital returns. They are returning a lot of money to their shareholders: through dividends and share buy-backs. They plan to have returned $250 bi

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