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by sobani 5y ago
They are the exceptions, that's why we talk about them.
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by sobani 5y ago
Yes. But the question is not whether people in Shenzen are better off with those manufacturing jobs, but whether it people in _the US_ would be better off if the manufacturing came back. So then either you have to 'force' people t
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by sobani 5y ago
> some ambiguous objectives that I haven't fully disclosed to you Isn't the one of the major pillars of Agile to let the devs know about all the objectives, so they can make better solutions? You know, the sole reason the Busin
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by sobani 5y ago
Or just an eunuch saying: "Don't worry, I'll run your kingdom in your best interest." Historically eunuchs had the reputation of playing the political game of power and influence with the best of them.
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by sobani 5y ago
To expand on @hansvm answer, an example would be a hash table. Insertion is O(1) (constant time), most of the time. But once in a while the collection will need to increase the size of the underlying array, which causes the entire table to
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by sobani 5y ago
> the more material you put into your house, the less vulnerable it is I think you have cause and effect backwards. Yes, if you want to build a more secure house, you will need more material than another house with equivalent functionali
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by sobani 5y ago
In the Netherlands the standard beer bottle is 330ml. When going to a bar there are several types of glasses available for a beer from the tap ranging from 200ml to 570ml (English pint size). When you order a beer, by default you get a 250m
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by sobani 5y ago
When I look at the IT industry, I see deflation that has been going on for at least 50 years. Every year you can buy more computer for less money. Yet, people keep buying computers. Why? I would argue deflation has been the most significant
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by sobani 5y ago
I think @laurent92 didn't say something like: Bitcoin is bad, because bad countries use it. I think it was more like: There's a risk _for Bitcoin_ if the US brings out the ban hammer, because bad countries use it. Nowadays a lot o
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by sobani 5y ago
> Ethereum minus smart contracts [...] is "nothing for humanity" No shit, if you take away the defining feature of something, you will be left with very of value indeed. That's like saying the web without HTTP is nothing f
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by sobani 5y ago
Of course you don't want the legislative or executive branch to appoint members of the judicial branch. All three branches are supposed to be strictly separate from each other. If you did allow the other branches to appoint judges, the
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by sobani 5y ago
That's mostly because of a rule change at the start of the pandemic that made a lot of previously M2 money suddenly classify as M1 money. If you look at the M2 money stock (of which M1 is a subset), you can see that things are a whole
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by sobani 6y ago
If the crash of March 2020 wasn't big enough for you, I'm afraid you're going to be waiting a very long time.
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by sobani 6y ago
> Link to a pro-vegan website, you must support every terrible ideology that has had at least one vegetarian supporter? We're all adults here, you can say "Hitler". So, unless you completely denounce vegetarianism, you are
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by sobani 6y ago
To keep up their margin requirements to allow GME trading. If they had kept blocking GME buying, they wouldn't have needed the extra funds, but also would've pissed off their clients even more.
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by sobani 6y ago
In a way that's the case with every company. Each part is more valuable on it's own, unless it's more valuable together with another part. :P btw, it looks like you have some sort of shadowban. I don't see any terrible c
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by sobani 6y ago
> And malloc is also very slow. Isn't one of the advantages of a GC environment that malloc is basically free? Afaik the implementation of malloc_in_gc comes down to result_address = first_free_address; first_free_address
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by sobani 6y ago
One of the most popular beauty vlogger (NikkieTutorials) is trans. She became the most popular before that was publicly known about a year ago. Would it have been ok for a newspaper to write about "One the most popular beauty vlogger&q
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by sobani 6y ago
When a million monkeys are typing stories, the odds of two of them being similar enough to be considered the same is _not just_ the odds of the millionth monkey creating a similar story. Just like the odds of two people in a group having th
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by sobani 6y ago
I figure that's what @ceejayoz is talking about. This probably won't happen between 'mom and pop' apps, but maybe a failing SV unicorn might become desperate enough to pay $1MM, or however much a blackhat will ask for th
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by sobani 6y ago
The universe didn't form uniformly, so if a bunch of dark matter formed as a clump, it would remain like that. Also dark matter is gravitationally affected by light matter, which does interact. My intuition tells me that the interactio
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by sobani 6y ago
You do realize that a major part of helping moving is in the socializing, right? You'd rather pay someone than be with them.
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by sobani 6y ago
In the Netherlands WhatsApp is so ubiquitous that it always surprises me to hear other countries are not 100% WA. (Besides China, for obvious reasons it doesn't surprise me China has their own app.) The only people I know who don'
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by sobani 6y ago
Another part of the driving equation is that we judge others by their actions and ourselves by our intentions. "I barely swerved when I got distracted by my child" vs "That asshole almost ran me off the road. On purpose!&qu
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by sobani 6y ago
> the code itself is pretty questionable Sounds like you got yourself a high quality code base! It's normal for a code base to be over a decade old, during which time it was worked on by a team of a dozen positions, each of which tu
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by sobani 6y ago
Why is it so obvious that there wouldn't be any severe cases in vaccinated patients 18-55, when there have been severe cases in infected people 18-55 (outside this trial, I don't know enough about this trial to make a comment ab
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by sobani 6y ago
You're not supposed to let them touch. You won't go to space^W^W^W have fusion today if the magnetically confined plasma somehow escapes its confinement and touches the walls of the plasma chamber, let alone the cryogenics of the
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by sobani 6y ago
Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers (open-source software development model)
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by sobani 6y ago
Isn't a new email address basically free? So any abuser would have to spend just an insignificant amount of time to create a new account?
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by sobani 6y ago
or: "waste your personal life, one competitive year at a time"

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