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by repsilat 7y ago
(1) Food producers unilaterally refusing to sell food could be just as disruptive as drug producers refusing to sell drugs. "You can just grow it yourself" isn't a reasonable distinction -- from a practical standpoint most pe
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by repsilat 7y ago
> everybody is trying to protect their "investment" Nearby construction can decrease your property values, but upzoning and by-right permitting increase property values by making them more attractive to developers. I think it
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by repsilat 7y ago
Like food, right? If people stopped selling you food you would die, so surely they can charge extortionate rates for it. Of course, there are competitive markets for both food and insulin in the US. Quoting from a letter to the WSJ yesterda
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by repsilat 7y ago
> they are not hurting anything except Musk's feelings Investors help companies, right? They add to the demand for the stock, and keep the price up. Stockholders have invested in the company. When shares are created and sold, the
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by repsilat 7y ago
Good on you.
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by repsilat 7y ago
> I think I’m the odd one who actually like working with legacy code. I had a fun bit of legacy code wrangling a month or so back. I looked at production profiles of some very compute-heavy jobs (we have great tools for that) and found
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by repsilat 7y ago
A year ago I thought Conway's law was nonsense, but recent experience has led me to walk some of that back. I would replace " are constrained to " with " grow to ", or perhaps just " often ". On my first d
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by repsilat 7y ago
A per-share valuation would be more appropriate, I think. Otherwise someone shorting could lose even if WeWork raised a down round.
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by repsilat 7y ago
> using recycled materials more efficient by: > ... > - 5% for aluminum cans I found this phrasing confusing. From the article you linked, >> Aluminum can be recycled using less than 5 percent of the energy used to mak
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by repsilat 7y ago
User space shouldn't care about implementation details like storage primary keys. I don't think copies are difficult either, but I guess some other storage scheme could make them simpler.
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by repsilat 7y ago
It sounds like this is a pretty easy problem to solve if files aren't identified by their names. If a file just has a name (and a parent, and a bunch of tags...) then tags are trivially stable when moves/renames/writes happ
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by repsilat 7y ago
Terrifying power? Amazon has succeeded by getting customers what they want, and doing it cheaper, faster and more conveniently than their competition. Of all the tech companies to be cynical about, they most obviously make people's liv
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by repsilat 7y ago
Eh, no place is perfect. I feel a bit bad for griping about it, I heard the bad news recently and I guess it's still a little raw. On the upside, it's probably healthier to find a hobby further away from a computer screen...
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by repsilat 7y ago
Sure, but then you need to make sure they never get out of sync. If you add a "remove order" action you need to remember to decrease the sum. Really, if we're smart and diligent enough to be able to correctly update all the d
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by repsilat 7y ago
One thing I'd love to explore (but can't because of my employer's IP policies) is how to get selectors running in sublinear time the same way "immutable data structures" get reducers to run in sublinear time. Like,
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by repsilat 7y ago
With this definition, different parts of the input might be "meaningful" for two algorithms that solve the same problem. This makes the size of the "meaningful" part of the input ill suited for comparing efficiency. (It
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by repsilat 7y ago
I think it would be tough to find a suitable definition of "meaningful". When searching for an element in an ordered list, how many items are meaningful? One if it's present, zero otherwise? Always log(n)? Always n? If "
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by repsilat 7y ago
That holds for houses, but most inflation measures index housing on rent , not house price, possibly to account for the sensitivity of house prices to interest rates. From another angle, look at consumer goods a year ago compared to today.
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by repsilat 7y ago
> above the allowed 2% per year. The US Fed's inflation target is symmetric about 2%, though it has almost consistently undershot it in recent years. Some argue that higher inflation is less scary than deflation because "intere
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by repsilat 7y ago
Sure, though the grandparent is kinda correct in one sense -- if one were to use a set operator to mean logical implication, you could use "is a subset of". Imagine the set universe has just one element, "truth". Eve
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by repsilat 7y ago
"Exponential" is often colloquial short-hand for EXPTIME, which is closed under some useful operations (because there's an "any polynomial" in the exponent.) For one thing, it's robust to reasonable changes o
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by repsilat 7y ago
It's also a robust distinction because polymomials are closed under addition, multiplication and composition. Converting an algorithm from a Turing machine to a random-access model will often give you a polynomial speedup, but not an e
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by repsilat 7y ago
Apparently colourless too: https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/31587/are-ther... Some other neat things I found along the way, mostly on Wikipedia: heavy waters freeze at 4-5 degrees Celsius, the heavier
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by repsilat 7y ago
Heavy water is also clear, where normal water has a very slight blue colour. You'd notice it in a swimming pool of it, but not a glass. https://i.stack.imgur.com/J4gay.gif
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by repsilat 7y ago
Nah, you just have to also encode all arrays like ["array", [...]] ;-)
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by repsilat 7y ago
For convenient definitions of "secure" :-). "Unscrambling" a particular function could be in P but still effectively intractable. (For a fun angle not related to complexity, the algorithm itself could be so large that
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by repsilat 7y ago
Water in London is very "hard". It crusts up your kettle, and some people don't like the taste.
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by repsilat 7y ago
> this depends on a rough prediction of when the next crash will occur If you think the tails are mispriced (and you have some kind of alternative distribution), and markets are liquid, can't you just keep on making Kelly bets? Ma
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by repsilat 7y ago
As a programmer, it doesn't seem like a strange thing to do at all. That's a fair description of using Python or Ruby -- 100x "less efficient" than other approaches, but very convenient. People value convenience over abs
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by repsilat 7y ago
I read it a long long time ago. Got it from a garage sale as a kid. Strangely most of what I can remember is "future slang" and not plot or tech or themes or characters. One chapter started with a definition of a word, which was &

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