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1921.
by sampo 10y ago
Some journals agree to publish your article as open access, if you pay them an extra fee (which is in line with full open access journals usually also charging a publication fee). Nothing would stop Nature also offering this option if they
1922.
by sampo 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_Kin...
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by sampo 10y ago
> But ultimately the only way to significantly cut costs would be to ration care. As far as I know, Western European countries spend about half (per capita) on health care as what USA spends. I don't know if US health care is that
1924.
by sampo 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETA_(separatist_group)
1925.
by sampo 10y ago
> are creating long-term housing shortages that displace residents This could be avoided, if the cities would be willing to allow building more homes in the areas where demand is high. (Usually it's even the same people opposing bui
1926.
by sampo 10y ago
If a self-driving car makes driving more palatable, people will buy homes behind even longer commutes, and you get even more traffic (more miles driven per day). The throughput capacity of a road (cars per hour) will not improve much, so th
1927.
by sampo 10y ago
> how Americans wanted (and maybe still want) to live In a free market economy, we should take home prices as an indication of how people want to live. The densest, most walkable city centers tend to have the most expensive homes. Manhat
1928.
by sampo 10y ago
Fortran has pointers since Fortran 90. But you don't always need to resort to pointers like in C, as Fortran also has allocatable arrays. You can still follow a null pointer, though, if you don't test for it first.
1929.
by sampo 10y ago
If you were in master when you merged bugfix in ("git merge bugfix"), then you can git cat-file -p master and see which commit, A or B, is listed as the first parent. This belongs to the master.
1930.
by sampo 10y ago
> branches give you a way to track the branches a commit is a part of which is good for long-running branches (I think of things like master, maybe a long running refactor or major feature branch) If you always merge "from the right
1931.
by sampo 10y ago
In Fortran you can overload the "+" operator for string concatenation, if you like.
1932.
by sampo 10y ago
> 2) What makes Fortran so much 'faster' at computation than C? I think it's more like this: As long as the numerics is vectors, matrices and multidimensional arrays (no complex graph or tree data structures implemented
1933.
by sampo 10y ago
> One interesting feature of Fortran that might help with the second question is how restricted the use of pointers is. There is no restrictions in the use of pointers in Fortran, the compiler knows pointers can overlap. The restrictio
1934.
by sampo 10y ago
> 1) What makes a language like Fortran so intimidating? FORTRAN 77 (and FORTRAN 66) was a pretty primitive language. Source code still used line numbers, no malloc, no recursion (there is a workaround, though), very cumbersome text ma
1935.
by sampo 10y ago
Gotta admit that array slicing syntax is still friendlier in Fortran a = [1,2,3,4,5,6] a(1:3) ! gives [1,2,3] than with std::valarray a = {1,2,3,4,5,6}; a[slice(0,3,0)]; // gives {1,2,3} And I couldn&#x27
1936.
by sampo 10y ago
> My first impression when I came to US 4 years ago and in CA specifically was the amount of homeless people. California is like the world capital for homelessness. It isn't nearly that bad in some other parts of the US.
1937.
by sampo 10y ago
> A disincentive to work by cancelling benefits is a feature of nearly every current system. It is extremely important that someone test a system without this in it to see how a people react. One example we can look at are university s
1938.
by sampo 10y ago
If the West had not supported the rebels, the dictators could have crushed the rebels, and the countries could have gone back to relative stable life, albeit under a harsh regime. With less loss of lives that what happened now.
1939.
by sampo 10y ago
> If one out of every 3 cars has vomit or syringes in it or feces 1 in 3... you must be from San Francisco?
1940.
by sampo 10y ago
When a whole suburb is taking self-driving car every morning to get to the train, I guess someone will innovate and start offering rides in a minibus or even a bus.
1941.
by sampo 10y ago
> Who is building and planning for this new social utopia once people no longer have to bag groceries? I grew up in a country (Finland) where people bag their own groceries. The table behind the cashier just has a bit more room and some
1942.
by sampo 10y ago
> I take economic value to mean tradable/purchasable by another party. Improving public health and reducing e.g. lung cancer can have value for the national economy, even if individual people do not perceive tradable value in things
1943.
by sampo 10y ago
Urban vegetation: 1. Has high reflectance in the infrared, so they reflect sunlight back to the sky before it is converted to heat. Built surfaces would absorb this radiation and heat up. 2. Reduce heat also by evaporating water. 3. Reduce
1944.
by sampo 10y ago
> diesels (which pollute more even though they consume less fuel). Diesels pollute more (much more) the kind of air pollution (NOx) which makes bad air quality locally. But they pollute somewhat less greenhouse gas pollution, which is di
1945.
by sampo 10y ago
> Even if my car is self-driving, I still don't want to share one with anyone. If you can let your self-driving car drive uber and get you something like $10/hour while you are at work, I think some people would do this.
1946.
by sampo 10y ago
> replace tail(x) with x(2:) in the internal implementations of fold[lr]. Tried this for foldl with gfortran. Totally helps. Summing 10 000 int64's, memory consumption drops from 400M to 4M. Also time complexity becomes linear.
1947.
by sampo 10y ago
I am afraid the line tail = x(2:) in the implementation of the tail_xxx functions does allocate a new array. I wrote a test program to use foldl to calculate the sum of an array, and it seems to have n^2 time complexity. Also a tes
1948.
by sampo 10y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the idea of perl6 was announced in 2000, and perl6 was finally published in 2015. So there was a 15 year gap when perl5 was perceived on its way to become obsolete, but perl6 was not available. I am unsure
1949.
by sampo 10y ago
> In the EU if something is called "Greek yoghurt" it has to come from Greece. As a counterexample, these "Greek yogurt" [1], "Turkish yogurt" [2] and "Yogurt of Bulgaria" [3] are all definitely
1950.
by sampo 10y ago
(The letter ø doesn't actually exist in Swedish. Swedish uses ö, Danish and Norvegian use ø.)

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