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by scatters 6y ago
> those are tertiary effects at best and consequential more than anything Those tertiary effects are the entire point of using the market to transmit policy. They work; the market works. > Making individual people at these corps respo
422.
by scatters 6y ago
Biologically delayed relative to what? Circadian rhythms have to be cued off some external driver, whether that's daylight hours, mealtimes or whatever.
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by scatters 6y ago
A 24" TV is $100 on Amazon. A Nokia 106 (unlocked) is $22. What did you pay for a TV 10 years ago, or for the phone that just broke?
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by scatters 6y ago
Also, this optimization is performed by any half-decent compiler. Of course, if you're on embedded, you may not have a half-decent compiler, or indeed an compiler at all.
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by scatters 6y ago
Having multiple (more than 2) children is a pyramid scheme. It only works at times of population explosion.
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by scatters 6y ago
Really, finding out where someone lives is not that hard, especially if they have a professional or social life. And you can do significant damage to someone's career without knowing where they live.
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by scatters 6y ago
You just described more or less every country in Europe (if not the entire world) at the time. Zionism came out of a desire for Jews to have a country where they could feel comfortable that demagogues wouldn't fire up the mob against t
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by scatters 6y ago
Where do you get 1% from? We're several orders of magnitude further than that from the Landauer limit, if that's what you're referring to. However, there is considerable economic incentive to keep Koomey's law going - mo
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by scatters 6y ago
> one of 2 people who built a major airlines checkin system within a couple of months That doesn't tell me whether you can code; it's entirely possible the other person did all the coding and you did architecture, requirements,
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by scatters 6y ago
> What about constant interruptions, loud neighbours and that white light above you, even though you'd rather have it yellow? All the inconveniences of sharing a place with other people, wouldn't any of this take a toll? Are yo
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by scatters 6y ago
The vested interest is the point. Why would you trust someone hyping a stock if they don't stand to benefit from any price rise?
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by scatters 6y ago
Why bother? Whatever you plug into it will have its own volume control, and when that switches off or disconnects the monitor will go into power saving mode.
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by scatters 6y ago
Cars get you to the nearest parking lot to where you want to go. Depending on the city, that could be further away than the nearest metro or rail station to your destination.
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by scatters 6y ago
> VS does not compile C That's out of date; VS is adding C11 and C17. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/c11-and-c17-standard-...
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by scatters 6y ago
That would make it possible to record the stream. The UK legal system is very apprehensive of allowing any recording of what takes place in a courtroom that isn't filtered through a human observer's memory.
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by scatters 6y ago
Why should you care how you're known outside your sector? People outside your sector aren't your customers, by definition.
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by scatters 6y ago
They claim that it will react with basalt (specifically, the calcium in the basalt formations they are pumping it into) to form calcite minerals. Honestly, even if it's only sequestered for a hundred years (a geological eyeblink) that
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by scatters 6y ago
You'd be correct if this system was reducing CO2 to elemental carbon, but in fact it stores CO2 in the earth, not carbon (or hydrocarbon). So it's equivalent to burning fossil carbon, extracting the CO2 from the exhaust stream, an
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by scatters 6y ago
A C header can contain function definitions, though - either using the inline keyword (since C99) or as macros. Moving all functionality behind a function call barrier may not give satisfactory performance.
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by scatters 6y ago
Some people are unable to recognize great architecture when they see it. Saarinen's building is applauded as one of the finest modernist structures in Britain and is rightly Grade II listed. https://www.economist.com/pr
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by scatters 6y ago
Resilience is unnecessary in countries with a safety net. Are individuals in those countries who make the rational decision to save less somehow worse off than those who have to carry a large savings buffer to guard against misfortune?
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by scatters 6y ago
Median wealth says absolutely nothing except how many homeowners you have and to what extent the housing market is out of control. The metric that actually reflects people's lives is consumption adjusted for purchasing power. Disposabl
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by scatters 6y ago
How do you prevent people interrupting you on chat?
444.
by scatters 6y ago
Unprecedented? The firebombing of Tokyo (and before that Dresden) witnessed similar levels of destruction and casualties.
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by scatters 6y ago
That's a smartwatch. Obviously you need an incentive to wear it continually; that could be exercise (step counting), health tracking (heart rate plus (as of a few months ago) pulse oximetry), etc. Also you can get contactless payment,
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by scatters 6y ago
OpenType font shaping is shockingly powerful ([e.g.]( https://blog.janestreet.com/commas-in-big-numbers-everywhere... ), so I'd be surprised if someone hasn't made a Roman numeral font already.
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by scatters 6y ago
Retroactive copyright extension makes a mockery of any argument based on contract rights.
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by scatters 6y ago
You're selecting for candidates that either have the kind of memory that lets them recollect those experiences on demand, or can fabulate it. Once word gets out about your interview process candidates will just prepare something ahead
449.
by scatters 6y ago
Why would you think you're paying the same price? Is grocery shopping not a competitive, low margin market?
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by scatters 6y ago
In the 2015 election the Tories got 36.8% and the Faragists 12.6%, summing to 49.4%; the Tories were at that point more or less neutral on Europe so by no means representing a Brexit constituency. In 2017 the Tories took 42.3% and the Nutta

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