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by sedachv 11y ago
> And the government has made the problem worse, by skewing the mortgage market with ultra-low interest rates and thereby making "as much as they can afford" significantly larger. In effect a transfer of taxpayer money to devel
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by sedachv 11y ago
Don't do it! Shady recruiters ask this so they can edit your resume without telling you. Only send PDFs to recruiters, the shady ones won't bother with those.
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by sedachv 11y ago
> If we allowed a large automaker to go bankrupt, we probably would have lost the supply chain and many supporting industries which would be gone (from the US) forever. That's what people thought about textiles and apparel. Neither
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by sedachv 11y ago
ZestFinance (former employee here) uses machine learning, I imagine Upstart does as well if they are talking about signals. There is a ton of data you can obtain about people from marketing and third party credit agencies, of course you mos
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by sedachv 11y ago
> However, many languages take an alternate approach and codify the most common programming patterns into their specification. The result is a compromise that works for the majority of cases, and better understood than custom macros. Tha
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by sedachv 11y ago
Between Macsyma, S-Graphics, and Statice Symbolics could have been a really great software business. S-Graphics was sold off to Nichimen and developed and marketed as Mirai until the early 2000s, and the Statice guys all left to make Object
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by sedachv 11y ago
> The first version of Mathematica ran on M68000 Macintosh machines. It's hard to imagine overcoming the pain that something slower than C would have inflicted on users. According to this ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by sedachv 11y ago
Presumably Maxima ( http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ ) or SciPy ( http://www.scipy.org/ )
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by sedachv 11y ago
> The people who do are continental philosophers who tend to get laughed out of the room And for good reason. For example, philosophers (Zizek included) raved about Badiou's Number and Numbers . It is a nice history of the approach
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by sedachv 11y ago
> The government take 8% or so of my paycheck every pay cycle, and when I retire I'll collect a pension because I paid for it. You are actually paying for the pensions of current retirees. The expectation for almost all pension sche
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by sedachv 11y ago
> Why should money be taken from my paycheck to support idle people who could be working? In general it's none of my business how people choose to spend their time, but if they expect me to pay their expenses it becomes my business
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by sedachv 11y ago
> Note that I have no particular objection whatsoever to having the government end welfare/unemployment/etc, and simply provide low wage employment for anyone who wants it building public works of various sorts. But my reasons
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by sedachv 11y ago
I wish people understood that concept when it comes to shooting clubs and hunting.
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by sedachv 11y ago
> It is notable that China is going gangbusters on building ARM variants rather than coming up with an entirely new architecture. There was the Longsoon which had an extended MIPS64 instruction set: http://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by sedachv 11y ago
There isn't anything new to this announcement. ISA-compatible microprocessors have been designed and manufactured in the Soviet Union since the 1970s: http://www.mikron.ru/en/company/history/ http:&#x2F
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by sedachv 11y ago
Do you have any more info on the ELVIS joint project? This is the only mention I've been able to find: http://articles.latimes.com/1993-03-17/business/fi-11913_1_n... The announcement is dated over a year aft
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by sedachv 11y ago
If you thought that was nuts, check out this anti-subway video produced by Beverly Hills NIMBYs on behalf of the Beverly Hills High School: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81tihdzaecc This is the same high school that has a
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by sedachv 12y ago
> Also, "middle of nowhere" as a description is a bit insulting and I don't think most people in a city would like to have oil wells next door. Some things happen away from the coasts. That's what oil industry PR want
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by sedachv 12y ago
> High margin junk like that edges out nicer stores because condo associations just want to go with the quick cash. For example, a lot of women here would love more boutique stores but the rent these stores can afford is being edged out
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by sedachv 12y ago
Thanks a lot for the airplane tip, I had no idea you could get a decent Cessna 172 for 20-30k. That would certainly be an awesome commute.
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by sedachv 12y ago
Option 3: motorcycles. Lane-splitting is legal in California. Instead of complaining about traffic, ride a motorcycle.
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by sedachv 12y ago
> and last but not least.... downtown LA is now a legitimate downtown. it took 10 years of concerted effort by the powers-that-be, but it's a cultural destination and nice place to live now. a residential construction boom (you coul
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by sedachv 12y ago
> In particular, delineating humans has the same problems as separating any species. You can have a group B that can interbreed with A and C, but A and C can't. Has anything useful come out of getting worked up over what to call spe
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by sedachv 12y ago
That was pretty much where Thinking Machines was headed before bankruptcy - their third model (CM5) was a SPARC cluster primarily for running Connection Machine Fortran and C*.
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by sedachv 12y ago
> is data-parallel computing on a GPU much worse somehow? OpenCL is a very awkward way to do vector processing - everything is hard-coded to an abstract model of a typical consumer GPU memory hierarchy. CUDA is even worse with a ton of v
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by sedachv 12y ago
> What if we could build an algorithm able to render movies from books? Bob Coyne has been working on a system for generating images of still scenes from text descriptions for about 15 years now: https://www.wordseye.com/
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by sedachv 12y ago
> As the name implies, before Wheat Ridge was a suburb of Denver > Despite the nostalgia, everyone pretty much hated the farm because it dragged down land values and contributed little tax income to the city compared to the ~40 or so
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by sedachv 12y ago
Here is the original Eclipse release announcement from almost 19 years ago: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/eclipse$20common$20...
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by sedachv 12y ago
> When she skips a day or two all hell breaks lose in our house. Only a "day or two?" Sounds like the placebo effect. Try swapping her fish oil capsules for something else and see if there is any difference.
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by sedachv 12y ago
> A programmable programming language? Aren't all languages like that? How would you write a program to write a program? How can you use this generated program in your other code? It's really hard to do with a lot of programmin

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