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by simplestats 5y ago
In fact I think Standard Oil wasn't far above that by the time action was taken. They were also cutting prices and modernizing heavily. To get much beyond that I think you need some special advantage like govt protection. I suspect the
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by simplestats 5y ago
I could be wrong but all the fancy stuff you are doing to impose constants, including your bug, look like c++11 to me. Without these the complexity in your example disappears, and every word has direct intuitive meaning. Except for the ugly
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by simplestats 5y ago
Where I live now, you can wander around at night no problem. A cop might get suspicious and hassle you is about the worst. I have also lived in places where not only would I advise more-vulnerable people against going out at night, I wouldn
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by simplestats 5y ago
> Firstly, let's dismiss this idea that C++ can avoid wasting a single cycle or byte, it doesn't aim for that. It aims for a much lower bar, albeit still a significant achievement - it says you won't do better by hand. You
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by simplestats 5y ago
Your examples might fit the discussion better if you made unreadable C++03 code that worked. But nonetheless, I don't agree. I can directly read what your first attempt at a loop is trying to do. Your second one hides almost everything
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by simplestats 5y ago
I've been in the same niche for years and can certainly tell you what I could and couldn't figure out. There's no magic in what I do, else only 23 year-old geniuses who think outside the box would be dominating all the patent
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by simplestats 5y ago
How hard is it to read a "for" loop? Even when programming in python, half the time I find myself switching to a simple loop over an index because I realize I need the index. Often it's for debugging, because that index has a
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by simplestats 5y ago
Does anyone using C++ for a real project actually enjoy 3-second compile times? It wasn't a great example to make their case (except in a narrow comparison to C), but it doesn't make for a very realistic counter-point much either.
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by simplestats 5y ago
> Yes, labor is how wealth is produced, but in a sense, an individual's labor is more than that: a person's unrealized wealth is the discounted future value of their lifetime income minus necessary survival expenses. That'
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by simplestats 5y ago
I'm having trouble thinking of examples of what you mean. It's not like people invent new branches of math to make a patent like with revolutionary ideas in physics. Do I get 6-12 months (or even more) working on the same problem
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by simplestats 5y ago
I dealt with a manufacturing patent where you had to align certain parts off-center , because lining them up was patented. Of course it didn't really matter how you did it. Hence a subsequent patent was eventually actually awarded to
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by simplestats 5y ago
You're saying "Primary" was a downgrade from "Original" at the same price? What works best here may be field-dependent. "Poorer quality" is not acceptable in some applications, where it directly affects th
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by simplestats 5y ago
This is certainly the ideal scenario. But typically, they didn't exist before because they are incremental improvements based on things which didn't exist before and use technology which didn't exist before. The claim that th
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by simplestats 5y ago
In the US I think it's entirely up to the school. Or at least the accreditation bodies in different fields and regions. When I was in school, one applied to "MS/PhD" programs most typically. And all imaginable variants e
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by simplestats 5y ago
Master's degrees cost about $30k per year for a couple years. Not available to the average person I'd say. And even so, judging by the proliferation of MS programs at unranked schools without research programs, many of which overw
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by simplestats 5y ago
Not sure where this person is, but in the US chargebacks exist because they are required by law. There is also an arbitration processs they are required to provide for disputes, which is pretty cheap.
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by simplestats 5y ago
And therefore when there's a chargeback they take 20% of the hit. He needs to go after the thief. Upwork certainly ought to help with that, rather than trying to get the bank to not do the chargeback and screw over the fraud victim aft
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by simplestats 5y ago
So labor is wealth now? This is the same argument again. I could also discover oil on my property, or build a bigger house on it with my own labor, or all the other houses could get destroyed in an earthquake. Or, on the other side, someone
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by simplestats 5y ago
I think the poster's point was about general data reporting, not specific to the situation. If you're going to use data to argue something, you need to be careful not to overstate what the data says. And the worst misuses of stats
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by simplestats 5y ago
Assets going up in value isn't really a wealth transfer by itself. The buyer is just exchanging a lot more cash for an asset worth a lot more. Their wealth doesn't change overall. Rents are a different story perhaps. The unfair pr
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by simplestats 5y ago
You mean because the show is about them? In the scheme of things they seem to be basically rank-and-file detectives. All the science/tech stuff they do tends to make me cringe. A hair from a nearly-extinct field mouse found in just one
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by simplestats 5y ago
Yeah I can certainly agree that some would use a broad definition of propaganda. But it's a very loaded word. One should avoid using loaded words where a less emotional description is applicable. One could as well argue that the use of
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by simplestats 5y ago
You mean because it has gotten so unreadable and vast? I've never worked with a place using C++ that didn't make their own core libraries. As a low-level language, there's almost always a way to get some performance benefit b
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by simplestats 5y ago
Looks like that's because the library isn't for anything specific, other than general C++ programming at Facebook. They might worded it a bit better, like "core library" or common library" or something.
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by simplestats 5y ago
Yes. They suck at preventing decent algorithms from getting through. They are a way to gather data and filter out most of the least-sophisticated bots. Not any kind of real security.
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by simplestats 5y ago
I'd say both sides make the other side's terminology into epithets. But mostly only the left seems to take it personally and stop using the word. Meanwhile the right will continue to embrace being labelled by what the left treats
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by simplestats 5y ago
I'd say Fox exists as a reaction against the left-leaning bias of media. If audiences want anti-woke content all day (or conspiracy theories, or commie-stomping superagents, or...) I don't think a business that chases ratings and
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by simplestats 5y ago
On NCIS everyone is a superhuman at whatever they do. In addition to the traditional super-cop there's the super-forensics genius and the super-hacker from MIT. I think it's just the kind of show more than the kind of character. A
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by simplestats 5y ago
I think the assumption is getting fired instantly from a toxic organization is probably a good thing. The problem is that a high likelihood of a better outcome (as opposed to ending up living in your car), still isn't a guarantee. The
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by simplestats 5y ago
In South Korea, the most pro-north political parties are on the left. With the most extremely-pro-north being the extreme left.

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