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by scott_s 7y ago
I wrote a paper on pretty much that problem: "Evaluation of Streaming Aggregation on Parallel Hardware Architectures", https://www.scott-a-s.com/files/debs2010.pdf Conclusion in brief: in order to "win&q
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One can cook processed meals at home. The supplementary material has the diets: https://www.cell.com/cms/10.1016/j.cmet.2019.05.008/attachme...
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And condos? But I don't think this actually changes anything. Clearly, homes and condos are considered private property. Whether or not the government has certain rights to that property (eminent domain, search with a warrant), most pe
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> Real estate is a kind of property that one owns at the mercy of the state. It is not something that anyone -- other than sovereign governments -- really own. That would be true if that tax was only on the value of the land . But it&#x
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> However, the idea that the government has any right to tax private property at whatever valuation they see fit is a quick step towards a totalitarian nightmare. Many (most?) towns already have a property tax on houses and condos.
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It was not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodical_cicadas
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LLVM is a huge one.
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If explicitly naming the type is better, then do that. I find it useful for cases such as: OurConfabulatorWithADashOfSpice confab = new OurConfabulatorWithADashOfSpice(); Versus: var confab = new OurConfabulatorWithADashOfSpice()
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Sorry, I don't have any further insight, as my reply was based on information from the posted story.
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The planets on the large size of the gap are not gas giants, so that cannot explain it.
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Yes, agreed. We now have a prediction. We will collect more data to see if that prediction holds. If it does, we'll work on theories to explain it. (Of course, these two processes will actually happen in tandem, as how things work in p
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For those following along at home: I had difficulty seeing it when the y-axis is on a log scale, because the gap between 0.1 and 0.2 Mjup is so small. I turned off log scale on the y-axis, then zoomed in so that the gap between 0.1 and 0.2
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> But I highly doubt you'll find a lot of poor white kids in West Virginia getting boosted scores via this scheme. That is exactly what I expect to happen - as well as poor kids who happen to belong to racial minorities. The Coll
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It was a big change for HN.
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In retrospect, I think the biggest mistake early kickstarter campaigns made was to promise merchandize unrelated to the primary thing being promised. Such things detract from the main mission, not add to it. Stretch goals should be more o
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Go to the comments for a story.
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If I had to choose between the systems, I would choose the non-adversarial approach. There's a famous paper, "Land without Plea Bargaining: How the Germans Do It", https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquisitorial_system Some such systems, such as the one in Germany, don't have "jury of your peers," but a panel of professional jurists who act as both judge and jury.
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Dave Wolf told stories about his EVAs to Radiolab. It's a good listen: https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/242184-dark-side-earth
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I saw it in a theater. It was astounding. I bought the soundtrack. I find that when explaining what it is to other people, I have to take care to emphasize it is not the normal documentary format of: historical footage with narration, inter
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Reading over the opinion and the dissent ( https://www.scribd.com/document/409788583/Apple-Supreme-Cour... ), I think the crux for the majority is that the customers purchase the app through Apple . The Illinois Br
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That's not a bad way of thinking about it. The HotOS workshop is not a place where people publish completed work, but rather present new, early-stage ideas. From the call-for-papers ( https://hotos19.sigops.org/cfp.html
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This is the key question to any blockchain-for-X proposal: explain why you can't just use a secured database. My personal suspicion is that all commercial activity already requires enough trust that using a secured database is tenable
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I found the authors' points about reports from the past several months disingenuous, since he's advertising a book that was clearly written and edited well before those announcements. It's valid to talk about those points in
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I'm not going to address "listened to," because that is limited to one medium. But we have learned that even when people may have had suicide ideation for some time, the actual decision to do it is often an impulsive act. So
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> Even more, do we stop the news from talking about it because doesn't the media coverage of suicide also increase suicides? Responsible media already is careful about how they discuss suicide for exactly this reason. One of the maj
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Oddly, the current URL does not link to the story for me. This URL works for me: https://www.npr.org/2019/04/30/718529255/teen-suicide-spiked...
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by scott_s 8y ago
I like your pictures. (I'm not a photographer, just someone who can look at some stuff and say "I like that" and not necessarily know why.) But I find some of your comments odd. Such as: "Another shot of the lighthouse i
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Do my push-wall exercise in front of a mirror, and look at your back. I bet you it's arched. Obviously, don't do something that's painful. But it's important to recognize the difference between "painful" and &q
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It's all tied to the nervous system. But given a certain muscle mass, there's a limit to how much weight you can move, even with optimal technique and an optimally trained nervous system. Eventually, you'll need to add more

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