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811.
by repsilat 10y ago
AWS is wildly profitable, but Amazon as a whole isn't consistently making profits. They've been in the black lately, but that's largely just to keep up appearances. Who knows of they'll choose to carry on that way. The
812.
by repsilat 10y ago
Ajax might have existed back then, but it was probably still called "DHTML" :-). To be honest I'm not really sure why you'd want javascript running on a blog today let alone more than decade ago.
813.
by repsilat 10y ago
Back in undergrad I picked up PHP for the first time one day and built a blog with comments in one sitting. Super easy, anyone could do it, no frameworks (or javascript) required.
814.
by repsilat 10y ago
The DynDDOS attack a couple of months back made it hard for us to reach github at a few points during the day. Was pretty bad...
815.
by repsilat 10y ago
> city streets with stoplights on each corner. I used to think about this because my commute strongly resembled it. My model was, - Signals alternate in the two major directions, - Lights always last the same amount of time, - No phasi
816.
by repsilat 10y ago
I can't remember who recommended "The Strategy of Conflict" to me, but it's an incredible read -- for people with or without a background in game theory or international relations. It shows how important commitment is, h
817.
by repsilat 10y ago
> a limited set of enumerated powers (among them: foreign policy, national defense, regulation of interstate commerce) Unfortunately, the modern interpretation of "interstate commerce" is roughly "any other powers they m
818.
by repsilat 10y ago
> You are only focusing on the drawbacks of titan, and not on its significant benefits. I only talked about the (meagre) utility of Titan as a life-raft in the foreseeable future because that's what this thread is about. I didn&#x
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by repsilat 10y ago
Even if everybody eats twice as many animals as they do now and moves further away from their workplaces, Earth will remain a more livable place than Titan. Maybe that isn't true if we kick off a nuclear war, but it probably still is.
820.
by repsilat 10y ago
Is your $215k Aussie house in close to town in Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane? There are plenty of cheap houses in America too, living in LA/SF/NYC is a luxury that people pay a premium for.
821.
by repsilat 10y ago
I have seen reports that a lot of money is expatriated from China into real estate because it's easy to launder that way. I don't know about rents, but overseas investment certainly drive up price to own in Auckland NZ and Vanco
822.
by repsilat 10y ago
There's no doubt in my mind that low rates are driving up house prices, but the link to rental prices is a bit more tenuous to me. Yeah, the link to house prices is clear: low rates means you can afford a larger mortgage, so prices g
823.
by repsilat 10y ago
Iceland already uses no coal for electricity... From googling around it sounds like there are a number of others too, though most of those that don't burn coal seem to burn a lot of oil instead. Iceland just uses hydro power and geothe
824.
by repsilat 10y ago
> you get a Gaussian distribution as the dimension goes to infinity. Wow, that's really cool. I wonder, I'm sure you could prove this in more direct ways, but is it also a consequence of the central limit theorem?
825.
by repsilat 10y ago
The simplest way (imo) to think about the Oberth effect is "you want to maximize the amount of time you're falling inwards (i.e. speeding up) and minimize the amount of time shooting outwards (i.e. slowing down.)" It doesn&#x
826.
by repsilat 10y ago
> Integer programming is effectively searching the edge of a convex polygon... Great definition of linear programming. In a sense the thing that makes integer programming hard is that the feasible region is not convex -- for two feasib
827.
by repsilat 10y ago
Doubly magical now that computers (and solvers) are so fast. A few times I've thought, "Oh, I could reduce this to a max-flow problem, and write/dig up an algorithm to solve it" before realising it'd just be easier
828.
by repsilat 10y ago
> why not go for a slightly larger box One upside is that this will fit in your carry-on luggage. Cheaper than a beefy laptop, but I'm not sure portability buys you much if you'd need to think about mouse/keyboard/mon
829.
by repsilat 10y ago
> the entity that backs it has no integrity. Funnily enough, one of the most perplexing thing about Venezuela's disintegration is that they haven't defaulted on any bonds, even though they're paying exorbitant interest rat
830.
by repsilat 10y ago
Another fix is to let you set the value yourself, and treat it as a standing offer to sell (at some premium, maybe.)
831.
by repsilat 10y ago
Perhaps more even-handed libertarian dig is that it's "the things we force ourselves to do together." In that view it's a solution to market failures around externalities and bad game-theoretic outcomes in collective act
832.
by repsilat 10y ago
> but why? In Python (almost?) any unqualified identifier you see in an expression is either a builtin function or it's defined/imported somewhere else in the file. I find Ruby a little stressful by comparison (without even get
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by repsilat 10y ago
> You can't end a war without leaving the past behind. I found this article[1] on the idea well worth reading. The thesis is that long memories keep longstanding grudges alive, so the "forget" part of "forgive and f
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by repsilat 10y ago
That explains most of it -- the not biting, the displacement effect. Still, infertility is strongly selected against. Unless the introduced mosquitoes completely displace existing males in the mating pool, or the bacteria are transmitted
835.
by repsilat 10y ago
How is "Can't breed" a good thing? Something to do with > good bugs ... will stop bad ones from reproducing ? Are mosquitos monogamous (or do they just get really tired after sex, or do they transmit the infection to other
836.
by repsilat 10y ago
I wondered about that dog on the couch... Still, pretty neat (and, come to think of it, a little less worrying than giving Facebook access to a webcam in my house.)
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by repsilat 10y ago
I live in the US and I wasn't able to sign up... Good luck.
838.
by repsilat 10y ago
I think TFA was more about "when to invalidate/recompute" than "how to invalidate/update" -- that you need to take care to enumerate all of the times the denormalized value may get out of sync with the rest of
839.
by repsilat 10y ago
Genghis Khan: a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens. I like it.
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by repsilat 10y ago
> built on landfill Silly question, but does this mean "built on reclaimed land" in the US? Where I'm from it would mean "built on top of literal garbage."

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