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by sagarm 6y ago
Worse, it means you can't pull the drive out of a dead or to-be-resold laptop to salvage or secure the data on it.
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by sagarm 6y ago
Building your own walls was very exploitable, so I can understand removing the ability.
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by sagarm 6y ago
They've tried: https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323539804578264...
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by sagarm 6y ago
I think an underlying assumption of Pascal's wager is that choosing incorrectly not to believe has an infinite downside in the form of eternal torture (that is, hell). Charming, really.
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by sagarm 6y ago
Police brutality is a systemic issue. Peaceful protest over the years haven't changed the system. Charging that one officer doesn't solve it either. The Police reaction to these protests clearly shows systemic reform is needed. Pe
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by sagarm 6y ago
I assume you meant the top 10%. They pay the majority of taxes because they earn the majority of the income and have something like 80% of the nation's wealth. There's little left to take from the bottom 90%.
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by sagarm 6y ago
A realistic speedup to expect from vectorization is probably closer to 10x. Other overheads start to dominate once you've optimized your inner loops. It's also not reasonable to expect to vectorize everything; for example a web se
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by sagarm 6y ago
If you have a non-recourse mortgage, the bank is entitled only to the collateral (the house). Several states allow only non-recourse mortgages. https://www.quickenloans.com/learn/the-difference-between-re...
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by sagarm 7y ago
Electric cars still produce particulate pollution from tire wear. We need to start working on regulation in this space too.
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by sagarm 7y ago
Do you have any statistics on "actual phone" usage? I'd imagine it's very low these days.
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by sagarm 7y ago
Because of the SALT cap in the 2017 tax bill, property tax is effectively no longer deductible. The MID is also worth much less because of the higher standard deduction and the SALT cap.
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by sagarm 7y ago
> ideally, there would be a 3rd path, which would be direct forgiveness of those debts for a small period. All creditors would take the haircut, instead of the debtors. this means that incoming money would go back into the productive eco
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by sagarm 7y ago
There's plenty of evidence that single payer polls better than Sanders. Maybe a candidate without his baggage can get it done.
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by sagarm 7y ago
I 100% agree with the title, but some of the complaints in this article have been addressed since the article was published by C++11, C++14, or C++17. Others are just weird. > If you've heard anything about C++, you've probably
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by sagarm 7y ago
People in Urban and suburban areas are perfectly aware their food come from mostly rural areas. Almost everything else in your home; your car; the technology they depend on; the road, telecom, hospital, etc infrastructure and the technology
766.
by sagarm 7y ago
Does boiling the water help if it's contaminated with lead?
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by sagarm 7y ago
std::unordered_map is usually slow while std::sort is quite fast. std::unordered_map's API includes pointer stability across map resizes, which requires storing the contents of the map out-of-line in a separately allocated memory bloc
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by sagarm 7y ago
Economic power is leveraged into political power. This power is used to maintain the status quo in favor of the currently economically powerful through regulatory capture, patronage, and increasingly outright corruption. We cannot remain an
769.
by sagarm 7y ago
The wire encoding for protos is much more compact than the in-memory representation, especially for sparsely populated messages (very common especially in mature systems). You'd still have to figure out some way to serialize nested mes
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by sagarm 7y ago
Bike share helps reduce this problem quite a bit where it is available. For a commute: zoning often requires parking for cars. It should be updated to require parking for bikes.
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by sagarm 7y ago
With only two competitors here, there'll be plenty of producer surplus I'm sure.
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by sagarm 7y ago
AFAIK developers have not formed a cabal that is trying to manipulate local real estate pricing. Developers will build as long as it seems profitable to do so. Presumably this means that when the prices do go down, a few projects will end u
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by sagarm 7y ago
Are those residents going to build that 6-unit themselves?
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by sagarm 7y ago
Yes, it's also economically efficient. A moral objection to land taxation is common enough that I now lead with the moral argument.
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by sagarm 7y ago
They're quite different, because improvements to the land (buildings, etc) are not taxed under a land value tax but are taxed under a property tax. The argument is that the value of the land itself is collectively created, so it is mor
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by sagarm 7y ago
Those clips/connectors don't come for free, but the ability to price discriminate is obviously highly valuable to Apple.
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by sagarm 7y ago
> Contextualising this within Trump's ugly rhetoric is another thing entirely and this part subject to interpretation. A different administration could have implemented a policy that limited travel from certain countries without bac
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by sagarm 7y ago
I have passed controlled burns in the Sierras before, so it cannot be categorically true that California works to prevent all fires. Do you have a citation for this claim?
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by sagarm 7y ago
Taxis have long benefited from special treatment, including the ability to use bus lanes. That predates Uber and Lyft AFAIK.
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by sagarm 7y ago
According to the data gp linked, Irvine and Davis are 16% and 27% white. If you were assuming all non-whites at Irvine or Davis were not American, let this be a teachable moment.

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