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by pzone 11y ago
No, actually what you're saying is a pile of crap. The only irresponsible ones in this situation are the members of Congress. The United States is not immune to economic forces, yet for years despite all the evidence to the contrary th
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by pzone 11y ago
That is absolutely horrifying. How could someone like that possibly make sound business decisions?
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by pzone 11y ago
You're the one in a position of power with the ability to change things, you coward.
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by pzone 11y ago
This is such narrow minded logic. I know you're referencing the logic of concentrated benefits and diffuse costs. Saying for any individual consumer, paying an extra 5% for their maple syrup on average is a drop in the bucket, so if sa
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by pzone 11y ago
Because of its entrenched political power.
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by pzone 11y ago
It needs no coordination, that's why futures markets exist. We get estimates of future prices of these products. If the future prices make storage attractive, speculators can purchase syrup to store for sale in the future, each based
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by pzone 11y ago
You're mixing up two separate things which the cartel offers: insurance and quotas. You can also roughly split the "membership dues" into to parts. The 12% can be thought of as a fee for "all-in" crop insurance, whi
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by pzone 11y ago
Yes, which is why legalized cartels are one of the most heinous abuses of regulation that exist.
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by pzone 11y ago
Looks like it supports X and W32. Unless it's using a lot of the crufty "draw a stippled line" sort of functionality that X provides it would be pretty easy to port. That is, if all it does is construct a bitmap in memory and
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by pzone 11y ago
Yes, first thing I thought of was Lava soap, which uses ground pumice stone.
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by pzone 11y ago
Suppose you're a researcher doing something cool at Microsoft. If some OSS project sees your academic paper "Hey, that's awesome, I want to try this out in my new project!" you have to say "Sorry, Microsoft owns pat
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by pzone 11y ago
Large Wall Street firms view these guys the way a rhinoceros views the birds snatching bugs off its back. It's not a competitive relationship, they coexist. To push the analogy, sometimes the rhino gets annoyed and pecked too hard, but
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by pzone 11y ago
It's sort of the opposite, it's that the compiler won't permit you to neglect any aspect of memory management until it deems your work passable. You think about memory management even more than you would in most languages. T
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by pzone 11y ago
That's a ridiculous claim. Systemd is not going to swallow SSL, libjpeg, or GTK. Clearly there are boundaries for it, even if they are a little fuzzy.
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by pzone 11y ago
Can't a project have fuzzy boundaries yet not be an abomination? Systemd got started when trying to write a new init system and daemon manager that took advantage of Linux's new cgroups features. The implementers and users of syst
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by pzone 11y ago
That's because Java is pedantically and obsessively object-oriented
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by pzone 11y ago
Looks like Apple provides something called "SourceKit" which is kind of like Clang's LibTooling, and "SourceKitten" is an open source wrapper providing something comparable to OmniSharp.
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by pzone 11y ago
Not the OP, but my own emacs development MO is to run a persistent shell buffer and bind F8/F9 to send make/run commands. I think that would work with your use case. You'd still keep a synced code folder since you have to run
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by pzone 11y ago
That is bordering on the absurd. Kudos to Red Hat for what they do.
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by pzone 11y ago
Calibration here means simulation to find the right parameter values. Genetic algorithm isn't particularly useful here, it's a more general high dimensional optimization problem. But if you can cut down the simulation time from e.
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by pzone 11y ago
Agreed. I worked on the FRBNY research floor, this model has real mindshare with policy makers, porting it is a huge investment in the language. They may be training scads of RAs in writing and using Julia, many of them will go off and do P
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by pzone 11y ago
Yes, and that's why 160+ world leaders are gathering in Paris to take steps toward a global carbon emissions agreement
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by pzone 11y ago
In that case, then the medallions also include the value of owners being able to maintain their monopoly through lobbying efforts. Whether or not you have any sympathy for them, striking a deal is the best solution. (Other question: do yo
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by pzone 11y ago
Well, lower taxes on poor people. Increase welfare, subsidize public transportation and other things that help transfer money to people who are hurt by the tax. "Figure out the best way to produce energy" is not something we can
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by pzone 11y ago
Suppose we want a tax of $50 / ton of co2 emitted. Then we do some chemistry and figure that burning 5 barrels of oil emits a ton of co2 into the air. Then the government adds a tax of $10 per barrel. Every producer who buys from th
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by pzone 11y ago
FUD stands for "fear, uncertainty, and doubt," referring to studies that question global warming Nominal in this context means a tax passed just symbolically as a feel-good measure, i.e. a tiny and ineffective tax
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by pzone 11y ago
I agree that a subsidy is infeasible policy. But it wouldn't be effective even if it were feasible to pull off. Suppose the government gives out free Priuses. Well, then people are going to drive more. Even though some people may be d
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by pzone 11y ago
Oh god, that article, classic /r/badeconomics No, we don't have to worry about heating up the planet from our energy use, the only major factor is the degree to which the atmosphere traps heat
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by pzone 11y ago
Are you joking? It is harder to find a tighter consensus among experts than the conclusion that a tax is the best policy to curb carbon emissions. http://www.brookings.edu/research/opinions/2013/03/12-tax
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by pzone 11y ago
That sounds like a lovely economist's utopia, but probably we should be tackling our problems one at a time

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