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by repsilat 11y ago
> Sweden is about 6x more dense than Canada Canada quite a high effective density -- something like 80 or 90% of the population live within 100 miles of the US border. Those statistics are not terribly convincing. Better, I think, to not
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by repsilat 11y ago
Can you do better than a switch statement? Say function A calls into generator B, which has entry points X,Y,Z. Maybe you could generate code for functions A<X>, A<Y> and A<Z>, specialised on the entry point into B. When B
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by repsilat 11y ago
The dramatic reduction in parking is a common and reasonable conclusion, but I think the reduction in traffic is not so clear cut. Driverless cars will reduce the cost of trips, likely inducing more demand. You could also argue that empty
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by repsilat 11y ago
He's not assuming finiteness, just countability. An example of how this is useful: If it were provable that a program does not halt, an enumeration of all proofs would find the proof that the program does not halt. (If a program does
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by repsilat 11y ago
Why prefer int foo(auto a, auto &&b); to int foo(a, &&b); ? Too big a change? Too much magic? Maybe more difficult to read or parse. The argument "It's not clear that the function is a template&qu
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by repsilat 11y ago
Legal precedents are only set in legal judgements, aren't they? I think Apple unlocking the phone would only set a cultural precedent.
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by repsilat 11y ago
I found this confusing too. Some ideas: - The recent melts have only been of a relatively small mass of ice, and the two effects on rotation aren't linear, - There hasn't been enough time for the Earth's shape to have changed
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by repsilat 11y ago
Funny, I was just thinking "I don't know what the security is like on my phone, but maybe I should look into moving to an iPhone next time." Tangentially related, but my laptop mobo committed suicide a couple of weeks ago, an
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by repsilat 11y ago
I don't know if it's still the case, but New Zealand used to import a lot of Japanese second hand cars. Cheap, reliable, fuel-efficient and left hand drive. Less common in Australia because they have (had?) a domestic market to pr
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by repsilat 11y ago
mortgage interest And once you've paid off your mortgage, there's still investment opportunity cost. I agree that owning may be the smart thing to do on balance (though things like stamp duty add too much friction for me), but i
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by repsilat 11y ago
I find it gets harder and harder to do as you progressively become more affected by the topic. I like to think I'm pretty good at explaining concepts in physics to lay audiences, but the more real physics I do the more I think like a p
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by repsilat 11y ago
I think the key difference is whether the distortion is intentional or just incidental. All things being equal, we'd prefer fewer incidental distortions of smaller impact. As for intentional distortions, I think the idea goes that they
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by repsilat 11y ago
This experiment not detecting gravity waves might not be too big a deal -- "Oh, there just aren't as many sources of gravity waves floating around as we thought." Eventually, though, a conclusion that gravity waves don't
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by repsilat 11y ago
Is the "right solution" to use `tee`? I saw that once, and it seemed like we should be able to do better -- as if, had `tee` not been in the standard we wouldn't have any way to do it...
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by repsilat 11y ago
Manukau Institute of Technology in New Zealand is commonly called MIT.
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by repsilat 11y ago
> It's vary rare that a graduating mechanical engineer can weld, for example Funnily enough, the software engineers from my university (U of Auckland) are all taught how to weld, because all engineering students are (were?) sent t
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by repsilat 11y ago
Say you have an idea of what the demand curve looks like. For the sake of argument, let it be (100-p), so 100 people would want it for free, and none would want it at $100. If your marginal cost is $50, to maximise profit you'd set the
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by repsilat 11y ago
The article presents a lot of correlations, but it'd be good to see a little more investigation into which are actually explanatory. Fitness is associated both with income per capita and the share of adults holding a college degree, bu
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by repsilat 11y ago
Rings true to me: it looks like American teachers' salaries are further below average than in most countries: http://www.olinmontalvo.com/2012/09/ratio-of-teacher-salarie... There are a few questions worth as
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by repsilat 11y ago
US schools have among the highest per-student funding in the world. Funding has been steadily increasing for decades, though test scores haven't budged: http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/crackin
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by repsilat 11y ago
They're somewhere in the vicinity of 100% efficient as heat producers. Even the energy that goes into producing light just decays into heat after bouncing off a couple of walls. Less "efficient" than using a "heat pump,&
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by repsilat 11y ago
Yeah -- as I understand it, the legal framework in most places is "The road code says you can't be drunk and so on, but it doesn't say you have to be in control." http://www.wired.com/2015/05/se
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by repsilat 11y ago
It was a tangential comment relating to natch saying, > I wonder if they still allow the names of admissions candidates to be revealed to the people who review the applications? It seems that hiding this would be a really basic step. &
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by repsilat 11y ago
From NPR: 6 Words: 'My Name Is Jamaal ... I'm White' ... The principal who hired him told him he was lucky to get the job because they hadn't been planning to take another student teacher. Then Allan's application s
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by repsilat 11y ago
> worst case runtime For list append I think TFA lists amortized/average runtime, not worst-case.
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by repsilat 11y ago
They didn't answer the question, but I'd guess it's because it rests on their relationship with "partner" organisations. If those companies largely reside in the US, and if most students can't be expected to ge
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by repsilat 11y ago
> I've yet to find a better intra-office communication tool. > If I'm having trouble doing it with email, I immediately > switch gears and either get up and go talk to somebody or > to go do some fact-finding. ... >
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by repsilat 11y ago
Could that reported average be cap-weighted? It's possible that the very biggest companies have reasonable P/E ratios, but there are a large number of small stocks with crazy prices.
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by repsilat 11y ago
> this study is purely associational, so cannot show whether exercise actually causes changes in telomere length, only that people who exercise have longer telomeres. > ... > So the message seems clear, he says. “Exercise is goo
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by repsilat 11y ago
Having a taxi collect a $1 just to redistribute it back to taxi drivers seems a little pointless. The real impact will be in the levy money collected by Uber drivers, so the ratio of Uber drivers to taxi medallions is very relevant.

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