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by redahs 10y ago
"Message passing" might be considered a component of a "shared nothing" system. If so, a thread-based message passing implementation might still use shared process memory behind the scenes to efficiently pass messages be
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by redahs 10y ago
Yes, in a multithreaded scenario it's possible to think of poll() and epoll() primarily as an alternative to pthread_cond_timedwait(). These functions are not about 'event dispatching' so much as they are about putting the cu
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by redahs 10y ago
The problem with approval voting is that it does not give voters a mechanism by which to indicate partial approval. If there is a centrist candidate which many voters only slightly support, there would still be a media horse race over wheth
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by redahs 10y ago
You might like 'undefined behavior'. The following video covers 'Range Voting' in relation to Arrow's Theorem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3GFG0sXIig
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by redahs 10y ago
That's the goal from their perspective. Neoreactionaries are former anarcho-capitalists who want to break up the public democratic government so that they can implement private government. https://techcrunch.com/2013&#x
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Peter Thiel is an anti-democracy monarchist. It ends when the country is broken up into small enough chunks that he can declare himself King of one of them. https://techcrunch.com/2013/11/22/geeks-for-monarchy
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The issue is that he was trying to lock in a 99 year lease on lakefront land for only $10. If Chicago wants to incentivize high value property improvements and minimize flat \ single-story parking facilities, they would get rid of sales, ea
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by redahs 10y ago
> Even a really rich dude can't expect to get the single best public site in a large metropolitan area to build a monument to himself. If he is willing to pay an extremely high annual property tax on the unimproved value of the land
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by redahs 10y ago
User donations earmarked for X phone model + Y OS version held in trust and paid out to the first developer who completes (X,Y) port of the OS as a one-time cash prizes, with Z% overhead taken out each donation to fund the central developer
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> Myhrvold is chief executive of a company called Intellectual Ventures, which sells patents 'Sells patents' is the most polite possible way to describe their racket.
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by redahs 10y ago
I use a single flat text file + VIM for all personal todos. The first header is "calendar". For each line below it, there is a date and the name of an important non-recurring meeting to attend. The second header is "schedule&
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by redahs 11y ago
The culture war is a non-issue because California allows two members of the same party to win the nomination and challenge each other in the general election. There was 15% voter turnout for the 2012 primary in which Feinstein (49.5%) and E
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There was 15% voter turnout for the 2012 primary in which Feinstein (49.5%) and Emken (12.7%) were nominated. In other words Emken got on the ballot to challenge Feinstein with only 1.9% of voter support. California allows two members of th
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by redahs 11y ago
Encryption policy will ultimately be resolved by the legislature and not the president. The only presidential candidate who was on the record as explicitly against encryption backdoors was Rand Paul, but that ship has sailed: http:/&#
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by redahs 11y ago
> fonts on my Linux box either render strangely or are downright ugly The "fc-match" command can be used with font-family name to figure out what fallback font your system is selecting by default. There is also a "fonts.
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by redahs 11y ago
School vouchers or, even better, tutor vouchers are the way to go. If students actually had a choice in how education funding was allocated, they would spend it directly on higher teacher salaries to pay for the additional teacher labor h
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by redahs 11y ago
If they want to throw money around, they should fund an individual tutor voucher program which offers students a choice in how the money is spent. Then students can spend the money directly on additional teacher salaries by seeking out indi
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by redahs 11y ago
Open source is inherently more secure then closed source, not because of how the code is written and reviewed, but because of how the code is published and distributed. Suppose we have two projects with 100% identical source code, which are
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by redahs 11y ago
C is one of the easier languages to do unit testing in: 1. write a new one file script which parses function declarations from a source code file 2. have the script find all function declarations which start with "utest_", accept
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by redahs 11y ago
The OS should still allow users to install and run applications without going through an all-or-nothing permission approval process. The API should just provide the application with blank data for each data source for which permission has n
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by redahs 11y ago
> accelerating a Mir-sized craft towards Mars and decelerating it to orbit while keeping the crew alive ... and having enough fuel to accelerate back to Earth ... You don't need to ship enough fuel to return to Earth in the same t
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by redahs 11y ago
I experience an unpleasantly large amount of input lag when attempting to scroll to the bottom of the page and back up in Chromium. Oddly enough, the lag is much worse at the bottom of the page when the 3D animation is off screen. Firefox i
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by redahs 11y ago
Maybe related to 6, inexplicable anger, but 10, bad marketing. The product's namesake reminds me too much of cannibalism, coercive social engineering, industrial meat-processing with lax oversight, and neo-Malthusianism to produce any
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by redahs 11y ago
> It's impossible to have a 1:1 teacher to student ratio in common education. Well, this assertion of impossibility is demonstrably and historically false, because since the times of Ancient Greece, that is how precisely how many
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by redahs 11y ago
I don't think it's suitably addressed in current education structures. Under the principal of spaced repetition, you might also want people in the workforce infrequently tutoring college students, graduate students infrequently tu
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by redahs 11y ago
The mistake you are making is assuming that synchronous group activities are a necessary and important part of teaching. There will always be deviations from the mean, regardless of whether or not they are pathologized as behavioral disorde
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by redahs 11y ago
But what psychology currently tells us is that spaced repetition and recall is necessary to consolidate information into long term memory. Interacting with younger people who force you to reexplain and repeat things you were previously taug
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Scaling import tariffs tied directly to public human rights data concerning each country of origin. No elections in past 10 years, +5% tariff, suppressing political parties, +5% tariff, imprisoning journalists, +5% tariff, internet censorsh
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by redahs 11y ago
Well none of this is happening unless we are using a new mail protocol, and if we are using a new protocol we might as well throw in the kitchen sink and give you a new mail transfer agent and mail client application as well. And in the ne
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by redahs 11y ago
Power becomes increasingly ambiguous when discussing large social groupings and divide and conquer is only a tactic. The explicit ideal of American foreign policy is the Jeffersonian idea of an Empire of Liberty: https://en.wikip

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