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by repsilat 8y ago
For a man on the street to invest in Cruise, would he need to invest in GM? (Or "invest in GM and short Ford" or something?) It sounds like they're serious business, but I don't want to dilute a bet on self-driving cars
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by repsilat 8y ago
Not a bad solution. Having a top-level `by` function isn't a bad tradeoff if it's easily understood. For me there are two problems, though. Most importantly: 1. It doesn't generalise past lookups. Say I want to sort a list of
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by repsilat 8y ago
There's a hypothetical world in which organ distribution is so efficient and prevalent that the average fatal car crash saves net lives. What a strange kind of "trolley problem" that raises...
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by repsilat 8y ago
> maintenance will probably increase Total vehicle miles will probably increase, but fleet vehicles tend to require less maintenance because they're more regularly maintained on average (I'm told.) Maintenance will probably als
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by repsilat 8y ago
Hmm, `yarn add` reliably takes a few years in my environment (WSL). Maybe the environment is the problem, though.
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by repsilat 8y ago
I agree that Haskell is a good comparison. I think matrices and math are too closely focused on in array languages (and dismissals of array languages), though. For fun I'm writing a "spreadsheet programming language" that bor
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by repsilat 8y ago
> terrified of firing They aren't. From experience, startups have no problem firing people for simply not being exceptional. Startups are worried about wasting time, though -- the cost of a bad hire is taking longer to get someone
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by repsilat 8y ago
> Matrices have to be truly spectacularly large to benefit from Strassens I don't have personal experience with other mmult methods, but Wikipedia says Strassen's algorithm is at least beneficial at matrix sizes that fit in cac
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by repsilat 8y ago
Holy excluded middle, Batman :-). Most of the US[1] are in "at will" employment states, in which individuals can be fired without cause. This is probably what the grandparent was comparing France's law to. The WARN act probab
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by repsilat 8y ago
A lot of matrix routines will have sparse matrix support. Though often the line between wanting a sparse matrix and wanting some kind of adjacency-list graph structure can be pretty fine... Also, only tangentially related, but if you can ch
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by repsilat 8y ago
This is a great point even outside the metaphor -- voters will stay at home if neither candidate "speaks to them", and if the voter distribution is "lumpy", a third candidate angling to own the second-biggest "lump&
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by repsilat 8y ago
This doesn't work. If a third candidate comes along and places themself anywhere along the beach that the two candidates are in the middle of, they'll lose to the candidate opposite. (I think the single-dimensional political axis
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by repsilat 8y ago
Layout is reasonable on my phone, but the type is so distracting...
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by repsilat 8y ago
As someone who is just starting to head "up the other side" this is a difficult comment to read, but a necessary one. Thanks for writing it. I suppose you could generalise the curve by saying "One curve for creating a product
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by repsilat 8y ago
A simpler explanation might be "They don't know you bought the thing." Either because they're different retailers, or because the data are hard to put through from the checkout to the marketing department. Maybe it'
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by repsilat 8y ago
I think the philosophical difference is meant to be that in HTML tables the layout was part of the markup (and so had -- or should have had -- semantic meaning) whereas with CSS Grid the table layout is part of the styling. This is alluded
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by repsilat 8y ago
Normally it's defined exactly as S(S(0)) like you said, so the above should constitute a proof that 1+1=2. Anyone disputing that sort of proof normally needs to take issue with one or more of, - The axioms, - The rules of inference. So
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by repsilat 8y ago
> isnt 1+1=2 true in the same way that 0=0 is true, namely by definition? In the "traditional" formalism, it matters exactly what you mean by "+1" :-). People normally define a binary addition relation (two operands -
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by repsilat 8y ago
I suppose you have to use your TOS for that. (In fact, a banner that tells European users that they aren't allowed to use your site is probably the easiest way to insulate yourself -- if you collect their data because they used your se
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by repsilat 8y ago
So long as it isn't too helpful, I guess. A coworker of mine at a previous job used a JS autoformatter built into his editor, and he couldn't insert a `debugger` statement into his source when testing locally because his editor
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by repsilat 8y ago
Eh, Zealandia doesn't make most lists of continents. It's more traditional to say that New Zealand is not part of a continent.
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by repsilat 8y ago
It's possible with hash tables too... Also, the Unix approach can do something like this by spitting out days at a time and sorting them, and then doing a sort -m "$month/*" | uniq -c on the individual files. `s
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by repsilat 8y ago
They're not saying it's "something to complain about". You're arguing against something they didn't say -- the two points, - The tax changes were a net benefit, and - The tax changes make people less likely to
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by repsilat 8y ago
It's fine. You can interpret "talent" as a mass noun, in which case you wouldn't pluralise it ("There's a lot of talent here.") Alternatively, you could use it in another sense ("He is a great talent,
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by repsilat 8y ago
Don't account for cost overruns, you only make it worse. See Hofstadter's law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstadter%27s_law
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by repsilat 8y ago
Mm. For me there are only a few reasons to use inheritance: - Common operations between classes, operating on common data, but requiring an external API (so composition is a pain because you would have to proxy those actions to the member.)
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by repsilat 8y ago
> below boiling point Could also be "at boiling point but at a lower power setting". When at boiling point, each ml of evaporated water takes some amount of energy, it is not just a matter of time. Power at boiling point is bas
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by repsilat 8y ago
"How difficult" isn't really at issue -- value is. If Nadella provides 1% more value than the next guy, that's a lot of money (from leverage, as you say.) Why wouldn't Microsoft pay top dollar for him if it means no
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by repsilat 8y ago
Insurance would be fine (though Christians might suggest "Numbers" as a more accurate biblical name.) I think as a business they'd have more of an objection to Christianity being associated with moneylending.
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by repsilat 8y ago
For countries with public health systems, retiree squirrel-suit fliers are the ideal -- they die cheaply, and have finished paying taxes and started taking pensions.

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