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by sagarm 5y ago
The term you are looking for is pointer stability. It can be a useful property, but you can also get it storing pointers in a vector. That would often be faster in practice than a linked list.
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by sagarm 5y ago
A hash table has E[O(1)] inserts and lookups. Most people ignore the expected part and just say those operations are O(1). Asymptotic complexity is of course only loosely correlated with speed. In real systems with real workload sizes, cons
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by sagarm 5y ago
Just did the math and supporting a ~70F (50F-> 120F) rise at 1GPM (faucets are limited to about this) requires 9kW, or about 40A at 240W. Supporting a bunch of 40A circuits in a typical home would require a massively upgraded circuit pan
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by sagarm 5y ago
The article specifically calls out nuisance lawsuits, inexperienced project management, and extra costs incurred to avoid disruptions for drivers.
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by sagarm 5y ago
That's exactly what NeoVIM supports: you get a live preview of searches and replaces. The behavior can be enabled with ":set inccommand=split" (preview in a separate window) or ":set inccommand=nosplit" (inline prev
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by sagarm 5y ago
Raise land value tax rates, lower property tax rates, tax on assessed values, and end income tax. The end result should be a healthier and more dynamic economy that rewards productive activity without subsidizing slumlords.
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by sagarm 5y ago
Doesn't seem unreasonable to me. Our power usage is dominated by our household's ~100-150w baseline power consumption. Idle draw for a high end machine is probably around that amount.
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by sagarm 5y ago
This is a bailout more so for landlords than renters. IMO this should be done via a non-refundable property tax rebate. Don't pay property taxes? Then you already get your subsidy on an ongoing basis.
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by sagarm 5y ago
The NYTimes has a good rent-vs-buy calculator that can help you figure out the cost (not cash flow) of owning vs renting. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-cal... You have completely ne
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by sagarm 5y ago
Sorry, I didn't follow. Why would housing crash because wages go up?
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by sagarm 5y ago
The assertion that inflation hurts the poor is often stated, but I haven't seen data supporting it. Real wage growth and inflation are linked, of course, but almost certainly not anti-correlated (high inflation => low or negative re
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by sagarm 5y ago
The price of gasoline is incredibly volatile. It regularly hits 50% y/y change!
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by sagarm 5y ago
Why the heck do you need to be constantly pushed headlines, sport scores, and non-urgent messages? Just make them load fast, so when you only use resources on the device when the app is actually in use. It's exactly this kind of wastef
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by sagarm 5y ago
Chrome supports installing web apps to your home screen, though clearly even among the HN crowd that is not common knowledge.
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by sagarm 5y ago
I replied elsewhere: nobody is having to flee anything. If they would rather sell and keep gains rather than spend them to continue living there, that's their choice.
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by sagarm 5y ago
They could take an loan against the unrealized gain on their asset if they'd like to continue living there. If they'd rather sell and keep the cash, that's their choice. Letting them both keep the windfall and shortchange the
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by sagarm 5y ago
Rent control has been instituted or strengthened as a response to rising rents in cities across the country.
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by sagarm 5y ago
From your own article: However, there isn’t enough research to definitively link pay transparency to pay equality. At U.S. government agencies, most of which are required to publicly release pay information, women make 81% of what men make,
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by sagarm 5y ago
Regulatory backlash.
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by sagarm 5y ago
Why is it a joke? Your property value went up significantly, you are in fact a winner. Why should you get to shirk your responsibility to your community?
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by sagarm 5y ago
Towns normally set the property tax rate to meet their budget, so appraisals increasing across the board would not increase you property taxes. Prop 13 leads to perverse outcomes like subsidizing slums and trust fund kids while penalizing n
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by sagarm 5y ago
The foundations listed are basically political entities. When you or I make political donations, we have to do it with post-tax money. Why shouldn't the wealthy have to do the same?
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by sagarm 5y ago
Diminishing marginal utility is a basic economic concept.
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by sagarm 5y ago
REBCO = rare earth barium copper oxide HTS = high temperature superconductor Apparently we can now make tapes of REBCO, which is a high temperature superconductor. The primary intended application is fusion research? Why wouldn't this
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by sagarm 5y ago
unique_ptr is simple and and easy to use for individually managed memory. shared_ptr can dramatically simplify some concurrent code, as well. For arena allocated memory, you have to manage the lifetimes manually just as you would for C -- e
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by sagarm 5y ago
LVT has been tried in Pennsylvania, actually: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/3/6/non-glamorous-g... It's worked well in some cities but been repealed in others because people were upset th
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by sagarm 5y ago
Yachts are depreciating assets that don't confer the ability to rent-seek. Let them buy yachts.
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by sagarm 5y ago
Why fix it now when it helps them vertically integrate?
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by sagarm 5y ago
Looks like 17% of Americans, and declining, live in the Midwest[1]. Meanwhile the south and west are home to 60% of Americans and growing. I'd expect to see these warmer growing regions, especially the densely populated coasts, to see
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by sagarm 5y ago
> Gas stations are everywhere. For now. As fewer people need them, that will likely change.

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