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by repsilat 7y ago
Anecdotally I see more Cruise cars in SF and more Waymo cars in Mountain View. I heard Cruise doesn't drive on freeways either, and that would affect disengagements per mile quite a bit. Still Cruise's disengagement rate is astoni
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by repsilat 7y ago
> a security breach Wasn't it a security vulnerability? IIRC they were returning data they shouldn't have for some calls, but didn't have conclusive evidence that anyone had ever made those calls because of log rotation po
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by repsilat 7y ago
Similarly, in the 90s everyone thought Japan was going to eclipse the US economically, and (to my recollection) they weren't seen as geopolitical rivals to the US. Maybe it has something to do with population size, but IMO it is more t
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by repsilat 7y ago
I might have misunderstood it when I read it (and it has been a while), but I thought the general idea was about shitty Nash equilibria. So far capitalism has driven moral progress and increased standards of living, but maybe we'd be w
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by repsilat 8y ago
I guess there could be some fun workarounds with ptrdiff_t instead of pointers. "My child is 1000 bytes that way in memory" etc.
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by repsilat 8y ago
That's the protobuf approach, but things like Capnp are different, right? Isn't its wire format its in-memory format? I thought it was closer to the "straight memcpy" approach. Protobuf serialization functions can turn i
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by repsilat 8y ago
You're right, it was out of line. Edited, and thanks.
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by repsilat 8y ago
Interesting how it's different to branch coverage. If you have if(X) {} else {} if(Y) {} else {} "normal test coverage" is weaker than SQLite tests with the following lines added: testcase(X &&a
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by repsilat 8y ago
> The assert() macro in C is roughly just if ... { panic() } in Go The article very clearly says that (unlike normal C behaviour) it's a no-op in release builds of SQLite, because otherwise they get a ~3x slowdown. Does Go compile
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by repsilat 8y ago
Individual actions to enforce norms often costs more than the individual infringements. Arresting, prosecuting and rehabilitating someone who commits property crime could cost many tens of thousands of dollars. It's worth it in the lon
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by repsilat 8y ago
Yeah, in the US at the moment. Transaction costs are a big one. In some countries there's stamp duty, in the US there are unusually high closing costs (6%?). That said, the bigger the investment the longer I want to hold it, and those
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by repsilat 8y ago
Wow, I'll have to consider changing. I'd probably borrow to invest at those rates, after running a model to figure out how much risk to take. Though maybe LEAPS (and for indexes, futures) are a still cheaper way to get leverage. E
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by repsilat 8y ago
Mortgage rates are substantially lower than margin lending rates though. Borrowing to buy a house at 4.5% you might think, "Not much risk, will likely appreciate faster." Borrowing to buy stocks at 10% and you're almost certa
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by repsilat 8y ago
It's not principal agent problem, it's a competition problem. Maybe Sprint can't buy T-Mobile, but if Vanguard owns both it amounts to the same thing.
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by repsilat 8y ago
Online. Could have something to do with it. Some classes were very good, but on the whole I think of it mostly as a cheap thumb on the H-1B scales. (Not true on the whole, though -- students of the online program are statistically far mor
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by repsilat 8y ago
For a countervailing viewpoint, I got a Masters in CS from Georgia Tech, and it was just coursework at the level of my 3rd and 4th years of undergrad in New Zealand. Bit of a let-down.
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by repsilat 8y ago
They also have large conflicts of interest -- they don't just own a big chunk of a company, they own a big chunk of its competitors too.
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by repsilat 8y ago
And JS :-). let x = ()=>42 let y = ()=>42 let z = ()=>x()+y() z() // 84 y = ()->69 z() // 111
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by repsilat 8y ago
This is (my understanding of) Wittgenstein in a nutshell. Definitions in the real world don't have distinct borders. Words' meanings depend on how they're used, how we teach them to each other, how we experiment with them. Mo
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by repsilat 8y ago
It also discourages downsizing. If you're old and retired, and want to move into a house that's a bit smaller now that your kids have moved out, maybe you can't afford to because it would mean paying more in rent than you d
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by repsilat 8y ago
Nah, just a forum lurker who had a folder full of mods and maps and engine binaries much too large much too late. Didn't know how to code back then, and probably can't rocket jump anymore now. Mostly just surprised at having that
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by repsilat 8y ago
Holy cow, are you the Quake Aardappel? That is a name I haven't heard in a long, long time...
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by repsilat 8y ago
I fully agree with your first point. The investors aren't doing this out of the goodness of their hearts, they think it's positive expectation in the long run. The second point makes sense too. I think a weaker argument along thos
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by repsilat 8y ago
It's a lossy transfer, though. Profitable companies are typically win/win/win for customers, employees and investors. Unprofitable companies are win/win/lose at best. Take all the money the investor had lost, and if
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by repsilat 8y ago
I suppose you could argue something along the (slightly different) positions that nuclear weapons reduce the likelihood of interstate conflict, and tasers increase the use of police force -- i.e. when war was the only recourse, the result w
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by repsilat 8y ago
With apologies to Tony Hoare: > There are two ways of constructing a corporate tax system: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no loopholes, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious l
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by repsilat 8y ago
These companies are self-interested, and for companies "self interest" usually means "customer-focus". Their reputation and the long-term health and loyalty of their users are worth a lot to them. But yeah, Facebook tr
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by repsilat 8y ago
> on company time, or use company property, equipment, or anything paid for by the company Mine have also said "relating to the company's business" which I imagine (IANAL) can make a lot of programming projects difficult
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by repsilat 8y ago
> Even if you decide your unit of measurement of volume is the volume of entire observable universe then the planck volume Sure, but if your unit of measurement is (for whatever reason) 10^billion times the observable universe that sta
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by repsilat 8y ago
Price to income ratios have indeed gotten worse in many places. I don't know how widespread that effect is, though. I put it down to a combination of consistently low interest rates (both in the short term and in the long-term trend),

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