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by repsilat 9y ago
> std::set::contains() I live in a "fast languages only when necessary, and with restraint" shop. Our C++ is not idiomatic, it is meant for programmers from other languages. Anything with iterators is a bit sketchy. It tends to
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by repsilat 9y ago
Hiring people is expensive. Training people is expensive. Retaining good employees is good business sense. Encouraging employees to look after themselves can reduce costs. Helping employees be fulfilled and letting them use their judgement
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by repsilat 9y ago
They could also just have a centralised service validating transactions. No need to mine, no need for stake. Not exactly a traditional cryptocurrency at that point, but in day-to-day use no different (and rather more attractive to political
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by repsilat 9y ago
They can set the prices with a simple standing offer to buy and sell at a given rate. If the Venezuelan government will sell anyone one oilcoin for a barrel of oil, nobody would buy one for more. If the Venezuelan government will buy an oil
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by repsilat 9y ago
And what happens when the prices get jacked up? Ideally (perhaps too optimistically) new competitors will arrive on the newly competitive market. If the loss-leading is unsustainable then it hardly needs to be discouraged, and if it's
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by repsilat 9y ago
> When this happens, statistically the closest driver will take X less time to get to you. If everyone is spaced evenly around the place and there's no congestion, you need four times as many drivers to halve response times. For a
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by repsilat 9y ago
> AIUI, increased grip due to weight scales linearly, whereas the increase in power required (and thus the increase in grip required) scales geometrically The high-school physics model of grip has them both linear, but more sophisticat
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by repsilat 9y ago
It's not all them -- I think the saying that "Moore given and Gates taketh away probably translates across to browsers and web pages, too. Browser speed increases to render HTML and run JS faster, people worry less about performan
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by repsilat 9y ago
> prices are sky high even in areas where foreign buyers are not the slightest bit interested in putting their money. That shouldn't matter. Foreign investors bidding up property in place A forces English buyers into place B, and
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by repsilat 9y ago
Maybe I'm new, but I've not had problems with `venv/bin/pip install` either.
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by repsilat 9y ago
Not when transitioning -- sonic booms ("a sonic boom"?) are/is emitted continually at supersonic speeds.
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by repsilat 9y ago
100k in your pocket sure, but 100k gross? That's 120k USD, not sky high for the US. And don't taxes net out so you only end up paying the higher of the two rates in most places? In Europe total income taxes are likely higher than
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by repsilat 9y ago
Haha, this exactly describes arbitrage. My old company was "sent ... updated odds" (well, we scraped their sites often...) and "we would broadcast to the other companies" by betting on those other companies' sites w
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by repsilat 9y ago
As someone who has worked in the sports betting industry, it depends a lot on the bookmaker. UK retail bookies hate anyone with any savvy, and will ban their accounts fast. Ditto "weird" betting that looks like it might be machine
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by repsilat 9y ago
What are the chances a will like this could be successfully challenged in court by your descendants? I'm not a lawyer, but I wouldn't trust that purpose to stay protected. (No idea about blockchain contracts either, though, much l
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by repsilat 9y ago
> there no reason for our product to have be a fancy SPA, it would be just as useful if it were a static site. So common, so true, but certainly an argument you'll never win. > the cli generates about 2/3s of our users re
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by repsilat 9y ago
When companies reinvest their money, people complain that they aren't doing their part by paying taxes on profits. They can't win. https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/amazon-takes-over-the-world... > So
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by repsilat 9y ago
In theory as opposed to _unrestrained_ capitalism. As the idea goes, abusive monopolies get out-competed. The logic goes that money will inevitably buy power, so a government of limited purview (but unlimited strength to check market excess
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by repsilat 9y ago
> maximizing control over markets and maximizing rent seeking. This is typically called "crony capitalism" -- it's a "false calitalism". To the capitalist faithful, rent seeking and monopolies tend to result fr
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by repsilat 9y ago
I wonder if you could approximate the readability of proportional fonts with kerning rules -- let some letters steal or donate width, so it's not perfectly monospaced within any word, but word boundaries still line up.
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by repsilat 9y ago
You can partition the list with zero branches (aside from the loop test.) You don't need to sort it. (Though, of course, the original algorithm can be written in a one-pass branchless fashion anyway, so the point is kinda moot.)
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by repsilat 9y ago
> everyone was going to be talking about it on Tuesday anyway I imagine I'll see a headline in the news on Tuesday, probably a HN thread, and maybe a 30% chance someone at work will mention that there's a new iphone coming out.
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by repsilat 9y ago
I know nothing about wheat farming or it's environmental impacts, obviously my guesses were off the mark. Thanks for the correction on matters of fact, though it looks like our conclusions weren't really at odds -- mine being that
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by repsilat 9y ago
Being able to give free bread to hungry people at the end of the day is a positive externality. I'm sure there are negative ones too (wasted water from farming excess wheat being one) but bakers pay for that, and if they're not
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by repsilat 9y ago
Even if the bad schools can't respond to incentives to improve, allowing students to choose good schools over bad ones naturally increases utility.
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by repsilat 9y ago
With some competitive pressure from school choice at the margins, coupled with per-student funding, it would also provide incentives for schools to improve.
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by repsilat 9y ago
Does this make the novelty of "real Bresenham's algorithm" a historical curiosity? Now that all we care about is cache misses (hyperbole), how much do we care much about a division per row of pixels? More to the point: if you
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by repsilat 9y ago
> algorithms and data structures being the most applicable There's really not much off that to be had -- one introductory theory + algorithms course, one course on algorithms and complexity for parallel and distributed programs, a
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by repsilat 9y ago
No, they're not at all the same thing. Consider radioactive decay. An isotope has a half-life that remains constant over time. After one half-life, the remaining material of that isotope isn't there because it's "special
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by repsilat 9y ago
You don't do that. Each one is usually allocated on its own, and you keep a pointer to each. Though you could store them contiguously if each contains a length member or they're delimited in some other way.

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