snarfybarfy

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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
Why would you conclude that all those MPs and Lords also live in London? Most likely they live somewhere much nicer and have a driver getting them to 'work' once a month. *Once a month on the assumption that most sessions are only
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
You should have asked your pointy haired boss. He could have explained the problem in much simpler terms. Would you expect 24 employees to write ONE email without 4 team leads and one department head? Obviously NO!! Your processors obviousl
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
My built in neural network already does this for me. And it only takes ONE neuron to do the job: func isGoodStyle() if (true) return false;
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
I think this is a classic market failure due to network effects/monopoly; one of those cases that could be resolved(?) by looking at the earnings of the company in question. Are they making a loss. Break even. Small profit. Large profi
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
It probably also depends on your experience. You might claim it is spaghetti code because you believe in some dogma that your predecessor did not adhere to. Maybe hold back for a while and try to understand what's going on first? I&#x2
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
Why would it only be about one side? Why is it NOT about the reveiver getting something for free? Why do I have to pay income tax on money I earned by working all year? I agree it is morally more complicated on the giver side, but on the ta
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
Yeah it is all his money. Because he is 100'000x smarter and works 20x more than the median guy. That's why he is 2'000'000x richer.
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
And then you have countries that are one step ahead where the 'poor' enjoy much cleaner air than the 'rich' because the rich all have their fireplaces going. No joke.
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
Well one good point would be with your death. Inheriting large fortunes has obviously nothing to do with resourcefulness and inventiveness.
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
It also seems they incorporate the 'if a situation is unclear, stick to the speed limit' heuristic that many human drivers also use. The car did not brake because it detected a 'false positive'??! The Uber Volvo SUV tha
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
You keep talking about defense. Is that like preemptive forward defense in other peoples countries?
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
I love the 'least awful type of government' line of reasoning. It sounds like we tried 100s of different things since we got rid of royality and after a lots experiments 'representative' democracy was proven best. I thin
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
Somebody should print this out and send a copy to Bill Gates so he can put it on his '5 books to read this year' list!!! Highly recommended!
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
Well there is a solution in some far away (mystical?) countries, which is called public (omg communist !!1!) transportation. I also live a longish way from work (30 km) but I've got like 12 trains an hour doing this in 20 - 25 mins. [T
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
I agree they should. However if someone does not follow the rules then the fines need to be vastly greater for cars. You don't need to be Einstein to understand: E = m/2*v^2 A good start would be to place all the burden of liabili
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
Good points. There also quite a few drivers that consider speed limit + 10 to be the minimum speed guaranteed by the constitution, and not the maxiumum speed when conditions are perfect.
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
“The only way that I can see to deploy this much financial resource is by converting my Amazon winnings into space travel,” Jeff said this spring. “I am going to use my financial lottery winnings from Amazon to fund that.” Haha, space trave
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
I do this and everybody else in the office hates me when I wish them a nice weekend on wednesday afternoon:-) 50% (3 x 7h) would be even better, as I don't know anyone being productive 8+ hours a day.
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
I'm not an economist myself but Vitaliks reasoning in regards to valueing cryptos seems unsound: For example, Ethereum’s transaction fees tend to be about $500,000 a day recently, which is about $180 million a year. If you tried to va
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
The health care and pharma industry is in serious need of some whistle-blowers.
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
I once wrote a class called SuperMario that did some plumbing between the database and the HTML template and people didn't think it was funny at all. Contrary to a lot of comments, I still think the word "plumbing" fits well
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
but, but, they are NOT evil, are they?
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
Consumption != Investment Imagine a world where everyone put 99% of his income into investments. There would be nothing to invest in, because nobody was consuming. And by this definition the poor are definitely putting the money to better u
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
You call 100% in 18 years normal? I sure do hope that your salary also doubled in those two decades.
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
I wonder if those wood cutters ever talked to Sir Roger Penrose. I have the feeling there is room for some optimizations.
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
If money is so important why don't you 'tiger' yourself, make a few million and then give them to your children?
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
Wow, I always knew it! Being forced to work 40h a week must be a disorder too according to their definition! It significantly impairs my personal, family and social affairs (not to mention my back!) And yet I keep doing it, even though I kn
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
Duh! Those places are probably also the most expensive to buy. I don't really know about the Bay Area but I would bet that rents are probably "cheap" compared to prices. Where I live, it currently takes 30 annual rents to buy
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
Multiline strings aka 'here documents' in most Shells. Rich datastructure literals in Clojure for sets #{'foo'}, maps {:a 1, :b 2}, lists (1,2,3) vectors [1, 2, 3] The serialization format EDN is basically JSON on ste
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
I think this only due to the fact that most owners equate mortgage payment to rent. If you properly account for running costs, depreciation and capital cost then renting "should" cost about the same as ownership.

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