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by repsilat 7y ago
Yeah. Also from TFA: > Schwab says it plans to retain a “sizeable corporate footprint” in San Francisco, but the brokerage firm has slashed its workforce in the city by 90% since 2000 while expanding branches around the country. It sou
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by repsilat 7y ago
> foist crappy bread A more charitable interpretation is "American consumers care more about price than quality." Or perhaps it's a market for lemons. American consumers don't know which products are of good quality
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by repsilat 7y ago
Ooh, I had not idea this had a name and people were working on it. Super promising, I agree, though I think a lot of it depends on the expressiveness of the functional primitives, the practical efficiency of partial updates, and the amount
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by repsilat 7y ago
> it starts the vacuum, and when that's done dispatches the mopper Great point -- outsourcing control leads to logic that can improve and be coordinated between unrelated systems. > If I can tell a central system Or better ye
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by repsilat 7y ago
And less reasonably, something similar for regular expressions: for m in filter([re.match(...)], bool): ... ;-)
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by repsilat 7y ago
Autonomous cars and ride-hailing weren't/aren't meant to solve traffic congestion. Traffic tracking actually does help by allowing people to make use of underused capacity. Otherwise, I agree -- cars take up too much room, es
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by repsilat 7y ago
> remove money from politics entirely I used to think that the best (and only real effective) way to get money out of politics was to get the power out of politics. If the government can't subsidise companies/sectors, prote
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by repsilat 7y ago
> ...when it could generate $300,000 in revenue over a decade? If markets are competitive the profits will be lower. If markets are not competitive (not many companies can make or license self-driving AI) the rest will sell cars with s
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by repsilat 7y ago
> (for consistent choice of base for log) It's not clear the choice of log should be consistent. For radix sort the number of iterations is the log of the max element in the base of the number of buckets. For a merge sort the nu
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by repsilat 7y ago
That looks like an argument that you need more than twice as much fuel to get twice as much payload to orbit -- that fuel requirements go up more than linearly. Maybe this is obvious, but two rockets can get twice as much payload to orbit u
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by repsilat 7y ago
A comment on decentralisation: >> If there is one person who manages the payment system, it is this person who must comply with all the laws and regulations of the regulators, and if there is no central agent, then there is no one to
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by repsilat 7y ago
> However, if you drive down the stock price, it's just as likely that you'd be allowing the company to buy back its own stock at a bargain price, which could help the company by allowing them to retain greater control. Stock
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by repsilat 7y ago
> if processing latency is greater than about 10 ms (IIRC) it drives the listener nuts and they won't wear the aid For context, sound travels about 3.4 metres (11 feet) in 10 milliseconds. Of course, this is added to the time take
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by repsilat 7y ago
> big tech becoming more powerful than Nations on the global scenario Can you explain further? I guess the "on a global scenario" hedge is to note that in any local context they're less powerful than even the smallest
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by repsilat 7y ago
For a fixed input length all languages are decidable by regular expressions. Trivially, the union of all valid input strings of that length, like "(abc|def|...)". It's not an interesting property.
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by repsilat 7y ago
> I don't even know what you are trying to express by "not technically the legislation, as none [that I'm aware of] exists" - each state which has legalized cannabis has either passed legislation (which of course you
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by repsilat 7y ago
> Mj prohibition is ultimately racially and politically motivated On the other side of the equation, there's also the (much more charitable) point that we tried banning alcohol and it didn't work. It has a substantially lar
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by repsilat 7y ago
His arguments should be qualification enough. Of course, one's arguments are often not qualification enough to be listened to , but publication in the New York Times adds some weight on that side -- they lend him credibility, and if h
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by repsilat 7y ago
> sole focus on the investor does not, on the long run, lead to good outcomes for the investor. This is something that the market can sort out, isn't it? Amazon is famous for being customer-focussed, not shareholder-driven, and th
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by repsilat 7y ago
It rings true to me, at least in CS and especially software engineering. In mathematics, physics and "real engineering" departments I haven't seen it at all, though, and my experience may date me. It was my first semester o
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by repsilat 7y ago
There are certainly cases of weird degenerate solutions to optimization problems. Lots of examples in machine learning (one classic at https://openai.com/blog/faulty-reward-functions/ ). In more old-school convex o
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by repsilat 7y ago
It seems absurd that the cost of storing physical notes should have an impact on workable interest rates. Surely if the government wanted to allow you to sock away vast sums of money, they should provide a secure electronic sock and avoid t
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by repsilat 7y ago
The WSJ is owned by "Dow Jones the company". Not "the" Dow Jones, I'll grant. It comes up in their articles sometimes, and is probably why they prefer to refer to the DJIA as a measure of market price than the SPX.
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by repsilat 7y ago
Another alternative is to say, "How much time has passed since the last frame?" and update the game state based on that. When your computer can't hold a constant framerate, the game doesn't slow down.
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by repsilat 7y ago
> If it was straight stock, then yes it would be rather equivalent to getting cash and then buying stock right away. I guess this is purely academic for Netflix, but one difference in other companies is that the grant is made ahead of
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by repsilat 7y ago
It's just a median price, not a proper index. Probably just people buying bigger houses/better locations at some times of year.
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by repsilat 7y ago
Not that I think much of technical analysis, but from eyeballing those charts it looks like we're right on the (upwards) trend that has held all decade, with the exception of people getting a bit over-excited in 2018. I'm quietly
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by repsilat 7y ago
This article made my morning the other day for these lovely excerpts: > “I just wanna know your name and your Cash App / It ain’t trick-trick-trickin’, you can have that,” Mr. Bentley soliloquizes on his track, referring to a more
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by repsilat 7y ago
> $11 for the movie, or $12/mo for unlimited movies I can't decide whether this would be more or less likely to convert (and also, whether it would be more or less profitable) than "$11 for the movie, or $10/mo for
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by repsilat 7y ago
I'm a Python/C++ programmer and I think this is good advice. There are a lot of JavaScript programmers around, JS engines are fast and the tooling is great. I have rarely had an opportunity to share frontend and backend code, but

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