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by rz2k 8y ago
If you’re on iOS, minihack works well except for #3. It isn’t free, but it quickly releases bug fixes whenever there are changes to the hn api, and there aren’t any ads.
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by rz2k 8y ago
40 years of collecting rent, or alternately deriving utility from living there is a significant part of the return on top of the increase in market price.
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by rz2k 8y ago
What's your experience on the upgrade from an iPad Air to a new iPad Pro?
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by rz2k 8y ago
I remember reading some posts early on, either on Reddit or in the mailing list, where people asked about its suitability for web frameworks and servers. The idea was that what it let you abstract away, and what it made easy to do at a low
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by rz2k 8y ago
<rant> The 2000s New York decision to put bike lanes all over the place made the city less livable. For example, Hudson St went from three or four lanes of one-way traffic moving predictably, to two lanes of one-way traffic going a pr
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by rz2k 8y ago
Is it possible that by preceding the "capacitor plague"[1] they are less vulnerable? I have electronics in the house dating back to the 80s that are doing fine. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plag
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by rz2k 8y ago
To be fair it hasn't taught you not to say such astonishing things either!
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by rz2k 8y ago
Hand waving statements about the autopilot being safer than human drivers, and blaming passenger-drivers for not taking control earlier whenever there’s wreck is ridiculous, but it sounded more like overconfidence than bad faith. That secon
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by rz2k 8y ago
The third point can be misinterpreted to make it sound like gps involves a steady tone generated from a known location like more traditional navigation aids used in aviation, rather than clocks taking advantage of our understanding relativi
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by rz2k 9y ago
Why is speculating in food bad? Futures markets feature in explanations of why economies without centralized planning are the ones that never have famines.
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by rz2k 9y ago
Would 802.11n be better than 802.11ac with a lot of constraints on the networking bandwidth?
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by rz2k 9y ago
Yet if a particular CPU is produced in enough quantity and is cheap enough people will engineer uses out of it that the designers never thought of, and had no intention of making possible. It reminds me of talking to another player in an on
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by rz2k 9y ago
While you will possibly have to upgrade your OS for some software sooner rather than later, MacOS High Sierra should continue to get security updates for a while, and you will be able to run it in a virtual machine like Virtualbox or Veertu
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by rz2k 9y ago
The oldest Macs that support Sierra (10.12) or High Sierra (10.13) are from 2009. You may be able to bypass these restrictions which are often based on graphics chips through kernel extensions, but discontinued support for 32bit probably ha
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by rz2k 9y ago
Someone else will know the details a lot better, but Apple has changed the licensing details on many of its older OS X versions to legally permit virtualization if the host is a Mac. Which OS version images I can download for free in the st
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by rz2k 9y ago
As a proficient R user, though, you probably agree that it makes a certain sense when you get into a rhythm. I think it surprisingly makes a lot of sense to social scientists, in spite of seeming backwards to computer scientists. I remember
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by rz2k 9y ago
I suppose you could use the power generated to desalinate water, grow forests where there otherwise isn't enough water, then bury the trees before they have an opportunity to decay into the atmosphere.
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by rz2k 9y ago
I wonder how much of it is equivalent to depriving the Pacific Ocean of rainfall, and whether that has meaningful implications.
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by rz2k 9y ago
In fact I use Jupyter almost exclusively for Sage, though too infrequently to get a subscription to CoCalc. Incidentally it isn't clear to me how I can get the Sage kernel into another installation of Jupyter, or other kernels into the
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by rz2k 9y ago
> 4. The non-linear workflow of Jupyter This has always seemed crazy to me for something that is called a notebook and seems designed for exploratory analysis. It seems like there should be a record of the order cells were run, and what
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by rz2k 9y ago
It is a ceiling, but there are so many signals prior to hitting that ceiling that the simplification of the Malthusian growth model does not seem to have any utility. Take for example US population density west of the Mississippi. No one ne
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by rz2k 9y ago
I think he was simply bad at functional analysis compared to current understandings. The output of growth functions with multiple inputs tends to look like a logistic function when inputs change and the output shifts to a new equilibrium. T
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by rz2k 9y ago
Such a legal environment existed in the US between the Civil War and WWII.[1] > On March 30, 1908, Green Cottenham was arrested by the sheriff of Shelby County, Alabama, and charged with "vagrancy." Cottenham had committed no t
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by rz2k 9y ago
Additionally, being "stuck" pointing straight into the wind isn't a situation where you are stuck with zero velocity indefinitely. The wind is forcing you backwards, and the arrangement of the rudder and keel/centerboard
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by rz2k 9y ago
Interestingly, it is really difficult to explain how the rudder doesn’t just change the boat’s direction when teaching sailing. It especially happens after a student has just begun to understand that they can only move in some directions re
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by rz2k 9y ago
You are right, but in practice you have to deal with the repercussions of inspiring leaders among the waiting crowd to police your actions. Going down to the 17th or 16th floor and catching the “up” elevator might not get as many glares. Wh
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by rz2k 9y ago
People can do this with regular elevators, too. Imagine you’re in a building with 22 floors, and your event with a few hundred people just ended on the 18th floor. The elevator has three bays with cars that only carry about 20 people at a t
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by rz2k 9y ago
I think it would be more accurate to say that human population growth rate has never been exponential and was never going to be, than to say that production has grown at a faster exponential rate. Malthus has historically been excused with
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by rz2k 9y ago
It seems like an unusual problem. Zagat reviewers[1] were volunteers, but they remained anonymous so there was little opportunity to promote themselves. If I remember people seemed motivated by getting a guide sent to them and feeling like
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by rz2k 9y ago
It has always seemed like Malthus simply made the mistake that a logistic function looks a lot like an exponential function early on during a transition to a new equilibrium. Maybe he was saying that a decrease in fertility had to be an exp

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