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by scott_s 8y ago
That's rather the point: when all actors are behaving rationally, yet the outcome is not something that is good for society, we need to change the rules to change behavior.
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by scott_s 8y ago
I just did a dive on that, too. I grew up in the area and I never heard that before.
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A story about Upwork and freelancers(twitter.com)
342 points by scott_s 8y ago|140 comments
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by scott_s 8y ago
Very cool stuff! And yes, I took a look at the paper, as I noted in my edit. But I think there's still two classes of race conditions outside of its scope: ones that require simultaneous execution (where you can get surprising interlea
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by scott_s 8y ago
Being slower is not, I think, the major downside. It is that an entire class of errors - race conditions - are basically outside of the scope of the tool. Which is understandable! Race conditions are hard, and when I read about the tool, my
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by scott_s 8y ago
I'm on LIGO's side on this one, but I disagree that one must be able to offer an alternative explanation in order to claim a result is bogus. That is, I don't need an alternate theory in order to falsify yours. Again, to be c
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by scott_s 8y ago
I don't think that's uncommon. You have something which you think reduces problem X , and you give it to half of your population, and a placebo to the other half. Over a long period of time, you observe the rate of problem X ac
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by scott_s 8y ago
I have co-authored a paper where we cited the solution in a StackOverflow post. See reference 1: https://www.scott-a-s.com/files/debs2017_daba.pdf I noticed that in a paper written by different authors, rather than cit
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by scott_s 8y ago
On that theme, this piece from three years ago devastated me: "The Lonely Death of George Bell", https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/nyregion/dying-alone-in-n...
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by scott_s 8y ago
This may be the story you're talking about: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2015/03/12/in-2...
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by scott_s 8y ago
Since the linked explanation assumes you know what it is and what it stands for: Fastest Fourier Transform in the West, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFTW
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by scott_s 8y ago
It doesn't de-anonymize someone, but it's a much bigger hurdle than an email address, which is free and someone can get on a whim. More friction could curb troll accounts.
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by scott_s 8y ago
Yes, and if you want to know the user space stack, you may be able to attach gdb to the process: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2308653/can-i-use-gdb-to...
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by scott_s 8y ago
What gives you that impression? I don't think any physics teacher would consider that their goal; rather, they would want the students to gain an understanding of the concepts of force, mass, acceleration and how they interact. Being a
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by scott_s 8y ago
We're in agreement on the facts, but not apparently on what we want to do about them. I have no problem that this would take most supplements off the market, as I think the current system makes companies exploiting consumers very likel
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by scott_s 8y ago
Yes, you can. You have to submit safety information, but you're not barred from entering the market. From an article about a supplement that was essentially an unregulated drug because it was an unknown drug: > Under a 1994 feder
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by scott_s 8y ago
The FDA is prohibited from requiring safety and efficacy evidence before supplements go on the market. This is unlike substances categorized as drugs, which require both safety and efficacy evidence before going on the market. So the FDA wo
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by scott_s 8y ago
I buy whey protein at the grocery store, and I'm comfortable doing so because it makes no promises other than being something I can use to get some easy calories and protein. But places like GNC have lots more than just protein and cre
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by scott_s 8y ago
You are correct that most of the supplements in this study are not sold at retail, as explained in the article: > Since FDA sampling has focused on dietary supplements found online or through import screenings, this data analysis does n
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by scott_s 8y ago
Forgive me if I'm reading your take wrong, but I believe your general attitude is buyer beware . That is, you're assuming there are bad actors out there, and the onus is on individuals to avoid those bad actors. My take is that i
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by scott_s 8y ago
I imagine that if you're training for an endurance-based competition, getting all of your required calories in one sitting once a day will either not happen reliably, or be really uncomfortable.
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Unapproved Pharmaceutical Ingredients Included in Dietary Supplements(jamanetwork.com)
67 points by scott_s 8y ago|67 comments
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by scott_s 8y ago
I've recently grown to like violin plots for latency ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violin_plot ). I've also added 99%ile tick marks, which with the already present median mark, gives a relatively full picture
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by scott_s 8y ago
And my perspective is that as long as you have a process where administrative staff are making the changes, they will cut corners. For them, these transfers are routine. They do dozens every month. You need a process which removes them from
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by scott_s 8y ago
Correct, but my point was that a process with allocates a lot of physical memory will not interfere with the other processes that have locked pages.
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by scott_s 8y ago
A service where the payees have to sign in and change the payment information themselves.
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by scott_s 8y ago
Yes, the problem is people on the paying side not realizing that payment change requests are fraudulent. So a better process removes people on the paying side routinely changing payment information. Require that payees sign into a separate
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by scott_s 8y ago
I think that just kicks the ball further down the court, as it's yet another thing to track. It think it's better to just explain that (for the most part), high virtual memory usage isn't a problem. But as someone pointed out
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by scott_s 8y ago
The author explicitly defines his notion of static garbage collection in opposition to what it's like programming in C: > This also opens up two more things about why I don’t feel that “Rust is too hard and so you should use a GC’d
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by scott_s 8y ago
Which is why I said it's a process problem. But you definitely want email out of the process since it's not reliable.

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