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by pitaj 8y ago
> something close to JavaVM and HTML DOM exposed to it > ugly WebAsm WASM isn't fully functional as a standalone alternative to JS in the browser, yet, but you can essentially use it that way with things like wasm-bindgen in the
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by pitaj 8y ago
That would be an interesting study.
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by pitaj 8y ago
> Yes, because having extra fire safety in hotels is certainly designed to keep people from operating amateur hotels. Should fire safety not apply to all large residential buildings? Why just hotels? Would generally applicable regulation
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by pitaj 8y ago
> Hotel and taxi laws were put in place for a reason That reason being to entrench the incumbent players by raising the barrier to competition.
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by pitaj 8y ago
My claim is not positive. My claim is that employer provided insurance is unlikely without government involvement. That is a negative claim. Your claim is the opposite. You can prove it by showing that employer provided insurance started gr
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by pitaj 8y ago
> The taxes reinforce this system, but it would still be self-perpetuating without them. Prove it. You are making the positive claim. You have the burden of proof.
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by pitaj 8y ago
Ah yes, price controls. This has never resulted in problems like shortages before.
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by pitaj 8y ago
> Employers, quite rationally and of their own free will, choose to offer health insurance as a benefit because it attracts and retains talent better than other similarly priced incentives. The fact that you're hesitant to take a le
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by pitaj 8y ago
Emergency situations are exactly what insurance is for. Emergencies account for a minority (<15% IIRC) of health care spending. Nobody advocating for free market healthcare is expecting people to shop around in emergencies. People are ex
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by pitaj 8y ago
You might need a hotter pan with more butter/oil.
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by pitaj 8y ago
Standard library support
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by pitaj 8y ago
It's not necessarily false - that's up for various attorneys to decide.
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by pitaj 8y ago
How dare they give people more options for investment! Despicable.
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by pitaj 8y ago
The trial is essentially a joke. Here's some more context: > participants included in the study were on aircraft at significantly lower altitude (mean of 0.6 m for participants v mean of 9146 m for non-participants; P<0.001) and
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by pitaj 8y ago
As far as I can tell, it wasn't Ajit Pai that suggested this tax - it was an advisory committee within the FCC.
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by pitaj 8y ago
This isn't just something where you should go "oh, well, guess I'll switch". Please report such issues, and try to debug what is going on because it sounds like it might be a problem with your computer in general.
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by pitaj 8y ago
> In the past, the wealthy created communal public spaces and affordable services of value. This ended, unsurprisingly, when government displaced them in that role.
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by pitaj 8y ago
The government has slowly killed the economy. As decades of accumulating onerous regulation, heavily distortionary policy, and over-taxation catch up with our economy.
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by pitaj 8y ago
TSMC's 7nm and Intel's 14nm are about the same in actual dimensions on silicon IIRC. The names for the processes are mostly fluff.
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by pitaj 8y ago
> It is objectively better for employees to not have to go through a company-issued arbiter when the company has wronged them. The main argument of your parent comment is that it's better for both employees and employers due to gen
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by pitaj 8y ago
Pretty sure PWM has nothing to do with cheap LED Christmas lights, beyond the basic "periodic wave resulting in flickering" idea.
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by pitaj 8y ago
That's how I understand it.
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by pitaj 8y ago
Don't forget to mention that old waste can even be consumed in modern reactors.
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by pitaj 8y ago
Everything about our current economy looks like one enormous bubble about to pop, and I think it's going to be much worse than 2008, depending on what actions the government takes. I see malinvestment everywhere, from venture capital t
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by pitaj 8y ago
You might be interested in GeckoView [1] [1]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/GeckoView
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by pitaj 8y ago
Probably a lack of hardware acceleration on the virtual machine.
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by pitaj 8y ago
Illumos is where it's at now.
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by pitaj 8y ago
Yeah the GPU-accelerated part is what I was referring to. Doesn't seem like it makes much of a difference these days.
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by pitaj 8y ago
Maybe it's just my perception, but fewer and fewer games these days seem to be using PhysX.
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by pitaj 8y ago
Memes and whatnot are almost always protected under fair use, which the EUCD does not have.

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