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by scott_s 8y ago
I say "Wake me up at 7" and "Turn off my alarm" every work night and work morning. If I'm ever timing something (like how long to let my French press steep), I say "Set a timer for x minutes."
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by scott_s 8y ago
They can and do, but as per an instance in the submitted piece, you can still encounter individual providers who never agreed to that price. Then the patient is responsible for it.
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by scott_s 8y ago
Take out the word "grim", and I would say because that's how large groups of humans have figured out how to civilly work together over the long term.
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by scott_s 8y ago
Agreed. There's a famous essay from the feminism movement about this: "The Tyranny of Structurelessness", https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm It has been discussed on HN multiple times: https:&
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by scott_s 8y ago
Yup, and after that, he issued a complete mea culpa and made it a point to look at the actual data.
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by scott_s 8y ago
One benefit of cooking "a meal" is that the effort to cook 1 meal for 2 people is not significantly different than the effort to cook 2 meals for 2 people. Since Blue Aprons competition is people cooking and preparing their own me
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by scott_s 8y ago
I agree. I think people's shock was a failure of imagination . They couldn't imagine a Trump win, so even though the polling data showed he could, they discounted it. That, I think, explains why Silver was criticized so heavily f
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by scott_s 8y ago
Nate Silver analyzes their recent predictions against actual outcomes here: How FiveThirtyEight’s 2018 Midterm Forecasts Did, https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-fivethirtyeights-20...
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by scott_s 8y ago
I agree. I think Silver laid it out clearly in a piece that people called him a troll for writing: Election Update: Yes, Donald Trump Has A Path To Victory, https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/election-update-yes-don..
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by scott_s 8y ago
I have some idea. I think the force of impact would be between 1 Newton and 10 Newton. That's saying the mass involved is between 0.001 g (typical mass of an ant) and 0.0001 g (because I don't know how much of the ant's act
911.
by scott_s 8y ago
The story's video has examples as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9dsINb64Q0
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by scott_s 8y ago
The global reaction to his death felt like the entire world realizing at once how much they loved him.
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by scott_s 8y ago
Rust brought something new that no other language had: memory safety through statically enforcing object ownership and borrowing. Anyone who has done manual memory management already is familiar with those concepts, and how difficult that c
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by scott_s 8y ago
I found the author's Twitter summary of the paper useful as well: https://twitter.com/Astro_Jamie/status/1070302359325151233
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by scott_s 8y ago
And that sleep deprivation has no effect on learning ability.
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by scott_s 8y ago
The point is that being self-reliant on oil does not insulate you from the geopolitics of oil. Even if the US is self-reliant regarding oil, it still has national interest in what goes on in other oil-producing countries.
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by scott_s 8y ago
Which is fine, as it does not disagree with my main point: we are not a large enough producer to set the market price.
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by scott_s 8y ago
We are not the largest ( https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/index.php?page=oil_where ): > About 100 countries produce crude oil. In 2017, 48% of the world's total crude oil production came from five countries:
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by scott_s 8y ago
Okay, that's the source of the confusion. I was not replying to that sentiment, which is a nuanced discussion on what an int should be. I was replying to the_clarence's categorical dismissal of variable width integer types.
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by scott_s 8y ago
Not just breathing patterns, but during the brief but intense period of a lift, the muscles of your tongue are engaged in a way they are not normally.
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by scott_s 8y ago
Sure, but did I imply it was? I’m genuinely confused.
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by scott_s 8y ago
I mostly read about passive firms voting more on special issues like climate change or good governance. Where did they they talk about voting out directors who didn’t deliver profits? (Honest question, I mostly read the article, then came b
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by scott_s 8y ago
Your comment still assumes active investors who are looking for value stocks. Index funds don't discriminate, they just buy stocks in the entire market.
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by scott_s 8y ago
I don't disagree with your comment, and I don't think your comment disagrees with mine. I was agreeing with dahart that a computer science undergrad curriculum is mostly not about doing computer science, but then pointing that tha
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by scott_s 8y ago
I actually agree. I was responding to someone who dismissed the entire concept.
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by scott_s 8y ago
I think you were unfortunately downvoted. I think you're mostly accurate, but I think all sciences at the undergrad level don't teach how to do science. They teach about science. Yes, I know that there are labs, but that'
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by scott_s 8y ago
My response to that: https://www.scott-a-s.com/cs-is-not-math/
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by scott_s 8y ago
It's a rational practice when your language allows casting pointers to integers. Since the size of the pointer itself will vary based on the underlying architecture, you need an integer type which will also vary based on the underlying
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by scott_s 8y ago
The author, Kate Wagner, is also the author of the McMansion Hell blog: http://mcmansionhell.com/ If you haven't read it before, spend a few minutes there. It's a treat.
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by scott_s 8y ago
Codified laws are always interpreted by judges. Our legal system is not a computer program; humans are in the loop, and that is a feature, not a bug.

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