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by scott_s 6y ago
I'm not concerned with the counter itself, either. I'm concerned with the implementation of the synchronization at that level. I'm afraid the solution at that level is a strawman. There is a better solution for the "syst
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by scott_s 6y ago
> Innovative architecture does not equal problems, it is commonly done all over the world. I believe PaulHoule's point was not that innovative architecture will always be problematic. But, rather, that all buildings will encounter
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by scott_s 6y ago
Yes, but I think CockroadDB is in also in a position most other people are not: they are a database , so data storage is not only their expertise, it's their reason for existing. They have the people, the expertise, and it's core
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by scott_s 6y ago
The author correctly identifies the problems with sched_yield() [1], but then used it anyway. In my experience, using nanosleep() with an exponential backoff and a threshold performs well and results in the kind of behavior people want when
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by scott_s 6y ago
I did a double-take based on your comment, but after looking closely at the CBP pictures, and the pictures in this review [1], I think they are likely to be OnePlus pods. The thing that caught me (and maybe you) is that the OnePlus pods hav
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by scott_s 6y ago
When it comes to understanding why some politician doesn’t take up an issue as their primary cause, I think it’s not useful to consider what the good-faith debate would look like. That doesn’t happen. Often the untrue things your opponent
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by scott_s 6y ago
For many years, I filled out a 1040 EZ, and I used TurboTax to do it. For me, it wasn't about ease of filling out my taxes , as they were trivial. It was about ease of filing my taxes , as it was all online and I didn't have to
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by scott_s 6y ago
"Low" is ambiguous. We are clarifying it.
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by scott_s 6y ago
Only about half of Americans have any investment in the stock market - and yes, that includes 401ks. That means more than half the population can file taxes without information from brokers or portfolio managers, which means not having th
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by scott_s 6y ago
You may think it's a ridiculous thing to say, and I also think it's a ridiculous thing to say. But Grover Norquist uses this exact line of reasoning when arguing against the IRS pre-populating taxes - and Grover Norquist has enorm
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by scott_s 6y ago
Because we know the answer: the IRS is prevented from doing that by law. Lobbied by Intuit. If you google around, you can find stories on it. edit: save_ferris linked to an excellent story below: https://www.propublica.org/a
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by scott_s 6y ago
The IRS is not allowed to do this, by law. Intuit lobbied for that law, which made Intuit (and others?) offer a free version. Of course, Intuit goes to great lengths to guide people away from that free version. edit: save_ferris linked to a
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by scott_s 6y ago
> Their UI is very nice though, especially for guiding people through a process that they almost intrinsically hate. Which is evidence towards the idea that if they wanted to make choosing the free or paid versions easy and obvious whi
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by scott_s 6y ago
"Deficient" is not the same as "lower end of the normal range." If you suspect you are deficient, go to a doctor.
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by scott_s 6y ago
You're still assuming that Vitamin D is involved in some interaction that itself is the cause of people being sick. Your reasoning is not allowing for the simpler possibility: sick people have less Vitamin D because sick people are too
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by scott_s 6y ago
It's possible , but we have no positive evidence for it. Absent that evidence, I don't think we should assume that possibility is reality.
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by scott_s 6y ago
> This is a departure from the discussion of supplementing vitamin D though, isn't it? I don't think so, no. If my hypothesis is correct, the problem is not that they didn't go outside and play sports. The problem is tha
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by scott_s 6y ago
I find it odd to encourage people to skip what I consider the most important conclusion for most people: "Vitamin D does not appear to prevent disease in healthy adults."
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by scott_s 6y ago
Linked does not mean caused by . In fact, this entire post is laying out the evidence that low Vitamin D is unlikely to cause any of these illnesses.
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by scott_s 6y ago
I would frame it in the opposite direction: having a serious illness is correlated with low levels of Vitamin D. People with a serious illness may stay inside more, and go outside less. It's possible that "low levels" of Vita
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The H Index for Computer Science(web.cs.ucla.edu)
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by scott_s 6y ago
If everyone was rational and had full information, yes. But it can take a while for outsiders to catch on, and people are not fully rational. For two high profile examples, look at GE and Boeing. They had a reckoning, but it took a long tim
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by scott_s 6y ago
I think you're coming to the opposite conclusion I implied. Because corporate insiders' wealth is tied up in company stock, they are incentivized to optimize for the value of the stock , which may be counter to the long-term heal
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by scott_s 6y ago
These days, those corporate insiders have a lot of their wealth tied up their company's stock. So while it's a terrible way to think about running a company, a lot of companies are run that way because it benefits the people runni
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by scott_s 6y ago
> But I don't think a contemporary PL person would think of Java as a prime exemplar of the value that the research community brings to the world. For someone focused on the language itself, I agree. But consider the JVM: an enormo
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by scott_s 6y ago
Then what is the benefit of this arrangement? That is, based on what you said, it sounds like there is no meaningful difference between having a non-profit do all the work, and a for-profit doing work on behalf of the non-profit that owns i
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by scott_s 6y ago
Excellent point. But the information I want before going to a URL is different from the information I want while there . But if we could reliably separate the two, I don't think I would object to this kind of a UI change in principl
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by scott_s 6y ago
Something I haven't seen anyone here bring up yet: many URLs are meaningless to humans past the domain. For an example, look at the top of this page. The only semantic meaning in the URL for this post is `news.ycombinator.com`. The r
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by scott_s 6y ago
Not only did I not know that a non-profit could wholly own a for-profit, not only did I not know that they could share executive leadership, I certainly did not know this was the case for Mozilla.
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by scott_s 6y ago
Correct, but that's the question: is this a random sample, or do their methods have a selection bias?

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