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by scott_s 7y ago
I felt the book made that point quite well. I saw the trailers for the movie, and never saw it because I felt it would do exactly what you said. For the book's author, Jon Krakauer, the story is a personal one because he himself did st
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by scott_s 7y ago
I agree. The way I think of this is that generics are compile-time polymorphism, and interfaces are run-time polymorphism. It seems natural to me that the language constructs to manage those things would be similar.
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by scott_s 7y ago
"Virtual memory" is not a synonym for swap space: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2937597
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by scott_s 7y ago
He is delightful . I want to watch more from him.
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by scott_s 7y ago
The conductor reminds me of a coach giving a pep talk to one of his best players after a botched play: I know you got this, I have faith in you.
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by scott_s 7y ago
A quibble: it's not necessarily "heavy numeric" problems, but problems where the calculations involve extensive data-reuse. (Of which matrix operations are the most obvious.) The GPU is massively parallel, but the up-front co
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by scott_s 7y ago
Yes, Cilk has been enormously influential. I have personally cited it many times. But I always had the impression it was a little too early for its time, and was never picked up by the HPC community, hence my question.
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by scott_s 7y ago
Do people use Cilk heavily in the high-performance computing world? They did not when I was part of it. I think OpenMP ( https://www.openmp.org/ ) is what more people would reach for. It started as a way to parallelize loops,
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by scott_s 7y ago
I don't believe that is what briandear was trying to imply. I read it as an honest question to understand why people are unbanked or underbanked.
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by scott_s 7y ago
They can. Why they are less likely to is, I believe, an area of active study. A 2017 study by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation cites the two main reasons as trust and fees (page 4): https://www.fdic.gov/householdsur
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by scott_s 7y ago
I think the problem is that poor people transferring money typically don't have such documentation on them. (As was the case in the situations I just googled, which are easy to find. For example: https://www.vox.com/201
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by scott_s 7y ago
I think the civil forfeiture cases involve what sounds like a contradiction: people who are relatively poor with a large sum of cash. The problem is that this cash is essentially their entire savings. Which means their ability to fight the
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by scott_s 7y ago
"Apollo 11" is available for purchase, both digitally and physically. It's one of the best documentaries I have ever seen, as it creates a narrative out of the footage without using any interviews or actual narration.
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by scott_s 7y ago
Scale and agility matter during emergencies, such as hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and earthquakes. In such circumstances, the smaller local organizations are affected by the same problem.
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by scott_s 7y ago
Such small operations typically can't scale and have greater difficulty dealing with emergencies.
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by scott_s 7y ago
I can't figure out how that relates to my point? We're operating under the assumption that people are donating something, which implies they worked, gained from it, and then decided to pass on their gain to someone else. My poin
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by scott_s 7y ago
> Non profit ceos make 100s of thousands of dollars a year. That money comes from cash donations. People don't want to line a ceos pockets they want to help their neighbor. This attitude frustrates me. Having the infrastructure in p
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by scott_s 7y ago
Look up the charity on https://www.charitynavigator.org to vet them. If you don't trust the charity with money, then find one you do trust with money and give to them.
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by scott_s 7y ago
The poster claimed Hillary Clinton was unique, meaning the only person that applied to. For me, she was not. Since she's not unique, then her being unique can't be used as evidence. Claiming that she's unusual , since you
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by scott_s 7y ago
I got curious and tried the names of a bunch of public figures. Some of "<first and last name> e" yielded "email" as the suggestion. But these did not: elizabeth holmes, tom jones, tom cruise, brad pitt, gwyneth pa
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by scott_s 7y ago
Yes - the second in my list is a private company's internal report, but it's hosted on Australian Energy Regulator servers. I assume the document was made public during some discovery process by the government.
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Road-Tripping with the Amazon Nomads(theverge.com)
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by scott_s 7y ago
This is far more of an analysis than a critique, and it's just as much about the evolution of technology and the internet as it is about Google itself.
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by scott_s 7y ago
The author of this post is in academia, so Matlab outside of academia may be as rare as you think.
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by scott_s 7y ago
If you're not currently a resident, I don't think so. I think that the US is unique or rare in taxing citizens who are non-residents.
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by scott_s 7y ago
Not only that, the CBD was given in addition to normal treatment: "A large retrospective case series at a psychiatric clinic involving clinical application of CBD for anxiety and sleep complaints as an adjunct to usual treatment.&quo
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by scott_s 7y ago
I encountered this last week as well, spurred on by the thought: where did the squirrels in NYC's Central Park come from ? According to this article, they were introduced by humans in 1877: http://nymag.com/news/f
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by scott_s 7y ago
That depends on the synchronization mechanism used, and whether or not that mechanism is hooked into the kernel scheduler. Sometimes it is (such as pthread_mutex) and sometimes it is not (such as rolling your own spin locks).
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by scott_s 7y ago
I don't think what you linked has anything to do with why . The why is straight-forward: what the phrase means in formal logic is not intuitive, and how people use the phrase colloquially is intuitive.
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by scott_s 7y ago
We lost. You'll feel better if you give up, too.

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