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by pzone 8y ago
The fact that developed nations spend 10% of GDP on healthcare belies this. (That fraction is significantly higher in the US.) The potential market for viable treatments to extend human lifespan is in the trillions. Maybe some individuals d
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by pzone 8y ago
1. X11/X.Org make precision monitor support (especially DPI) a royal PITA 2. Perpetually broken video card drivers mean basic acceleration can't be relied on. 3. GTK and Qt just don't have the polish of Metro or Cocoa. I thin
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by pzone 8y ago
Then why don't you see them in Europe either?
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by pzone 8y ago
On top of that: Chinese financial markets are strictly controlled and the rates of return on safe investments like bank deposits are artificially kept down. Chinese citizens have very few trustworthy investment options outside of housing or
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by pzone 8y ago
Reasons why your house is a good investment: - Massive tax subsidies provided by the government. Seriously apalling if you think about it hard enough, but since they're available, you should try to take advantage of them. That list is
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by pzone 8y ago
Brene Brown has some pretty great books as well.
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by pzone 8y ago
Yep, but you get romantics who just can't imagine reducing train service on those unused lines out of the romance, and they come and downvote people who suggest maybe this things aren't much of a public service, and people who are
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by pzone 8y ago
Taxpayers should barely subsidize trains, if at all. If they're not profitable it's a very strong sign they shouldn't be run in the first place. (Or prices should be increased.) America is very different from Europe and Japan
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by pzone 8y ago
Expanding airports isn't done for free. Airports charge fees to airlines for use of their runways, and they lease the commercial space inside. Any subsidies that go on here are second order - certainly not $32 per passenger.
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by pzone 8y ago
You could look up syllabi for masters and PhD programs in nutrition.
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by pzone 8y ago
But it's still easy to sucker 3 grand from all the people who didn't realize this.
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by pzone 8y ago
Profit motives in infrastructure don't necessarily choke anything. If you want cheap fares, ensure there is some competition. And if you really want to, you can subsidize fares. They don't need subsidies in Tokyo though, all of th
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by pzone 8y ago
It's not just that, it's an entire stack of unaccountable entrenched interests from top to bottom. Unions, contractors, MTA management, all the way up to the squabbling governor and mayor.
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by pzone 9y ago
Yeah, seems like this is a renaming announcement? I thought pyside was relatively well supported by the Qt foundation given how many applications depend on it.
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by pzone 9y ago
Type checking and calling help methods can be useful for debuggability! If you want to figure out what you're looking at in string format, call its .ToString method.
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by pzone 9y ago
It sounds to me like this is about the minimizing redundency, and switching to concurrent rather than sequential review. The environmental protection laws underpinning these reviews are unchanged. It seems like an honest attempt to improve
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by pzone 9y ago
There is one thing about Peterson that makes this interpretation a bit more difficult. For most of his career, the guy was a relatively obscure but respected academic, not making an effort to reach a broader audience with his message except
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by pzone 9y ago
Unreal Engine is a paid engine with highly developed, opinionated engineering in many subsystems. (visual blueprint scripting, unified material render engine, actor model) Its featureset is advanced enough to support AAA games. Godot is a f
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by pzone 9y ago
The idea of your life's accomplishments resounding loudly after you die seems like an overly lofty expectation. Kind of proud. What are you imagining for yourself? Invent something miraculous? Become President? It's unrealistic.
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by pzone 9y ago
Krita puts a heroic effort into bug workarounds for faulty graphic tablet drivers. Porting to Wayland/libinput will be very much nontrivial for them. They're guaranteed to run into Qt and KDElibs bugs as well. At a minimum, they s
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by pzone 9y ago
Krita is centered around digital illustration and painting. It can't really compete with Photoshop's advanced computer vision features like healing brush, quick selection tool and 3d panorama editing. But if you just need to do so
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by pzone 9y ago
Actually PBR is quite a very important workflow innovation in rasterizing engines, see my post above!
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by pzone 9y ago
That's not really what it's about! It's not about achieving physical correctness or ray tracing. You can have a PBR renderer selectively break energy conservation for artistic reasons. It's not about ray tracing either.
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by pzone 9y ago
Looks like a neat little language. Lua's syntax always appeared ugly to me - or if not ugly, then unnecessarily foreign. Something more Javascript-like lowers that barrier a good bit.
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by pzone 9y ago
Here's a really wild use: as a render engine for an animated kids show. https://youtu.be/Mfqj3CFZyxU
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by pzone 9y ago
I have to work with SAS now and again in my research. I grit my teeth and bear it.
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by pzone 9y ago
Wow, I didn't realize a maintainer could get something into Debian with so little oversight.
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by pzone 9y ago
Check out this YouTube tutorial to see the kinds of things they're doing with those knobs and panels. The inputs are roughly "An ordered sequence of footage clips" and the output is roughly "A final projection/broad
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by pzone 9y ago
That's not right - Linux is used on desktop workstations as well. Check out the discussion in this recent thread. https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/7zms77/gnome_2_spott...
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by pzone 9y ago
The logic here is slightly backwards. The reason there's a water crisis in California is because it's a fantastic place to grow things.

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