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by spott 9y ago
Anyone have any good data on the profitability of hospitals? I've always gotten the feeling that they are generally not making a whole lot of money, but I don't have much data to back it up. Is this kind of data even public? You
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by spott 9y ago
PhD programs (which are the ones that are usually getting tuition wavers) don't usually increase lifetime earnings. Generally speaking, when you graduate, you make about as much as you would have if you had been working for 5-7 years.
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by spott 9y ago
There are a number of well done municipal internet projects around the country that have done just that: Chattanooga, Tennessee; Longmont, Colorado; Salt Lake City, Utah to name just a few. For more: https://muninetworks.org&#x2
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by spott 9y ago
They did change it.
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by spott 9y ago
25ms is 1.5 * (1/60)... Is your monitor running at 60Hz?
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by spott 9y ago
As in everything: figure out what you are trying to get out of your side project. If you want something to generate a nice supplementary income stream, or practice for starting a company when you get "that great idea" then this a
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by spott 9y ago
>Yeast can't ferment starch directly This isn't really true. Saccharomyces cerevisiae can't generally ferment starch directly, but various forms of Brettanomyces can. Wild yeast and bacteria that can ferment starch are p
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by spott 9y ago
There is a lot more to a DSLR than the image quality. Ergonomics and other features in a number of cases are much more important.
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by spott 9y ago
The flip side is that there is pretty obviously a market for such a product. If it isn't released by google or apple, it will be released by someone else. If it isn't, then that is a pretty good idea for a startup.
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by spott 9y ago
I don't. I learned all this while trying my own hand[0] at writing a sparse matrix library in Haskell and running into some of these issues. Unfortunately, I mostly gave up. [0] https://xkcd.com/1831/
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by spott 9y ago
>But rather, I believe the problem they were hinting at is that the current Haskell numeric hierarchy is insufficient to capture the patterns we want for the vast kinds of numerical computing we do today. But even then, the tools we need
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by spott 9y ago
> has poor support for numerical computing. The issue comes from being lazy by default. When you are writing lazy functional code, you essentially build up a system of thunks[0] that collapse to a value when you need it. This works grea
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by spott 9y ago
Not necessarily. Bonding III/V materials onto Silicon is a thing[0]. Not to say it would be easy, but it should be doable. [0] https://optoelectronics.ece.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/201...
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by spott 9y ago
The average time between stock market crashes is roughly 8 years... so 2 in 10 isn't outrageous.
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by spott 9y ago
I think he is pointing out that if you look at the 2008-2009 timeframe, the hedge funds had a loss of roughly 5-15%, while the S&P500 had a loss of roughly 20%. The hedge funds did better in bear markets... they just don't do well
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by spott 10y ago
> I like lambda a, b: a + b syntax better than lambda a_b: a_b[0] + a_b[1] uh, `lambda a,b: a + b` works in 3.6... > I prefer ... to return lists rather than iterable: Why? I'm just curious. Iterables are much more flexible tha
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by spott 10y ago
To play devil's advocate: If they don't have overhead in their networks, they cannot offer faster service to some net traffic over other net traffic. The ability to sell faster connections to some services incentivises them to ha
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by spott 10y ago
What do you love about C and hate about C++?
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by spott 10y ago
I think this can be viewed two ways: A) Use peer pressure to keep people at work even when sick. Incentivize coming to work regardless, because you don't want to "let the team down". B) Incentivize a group to care about ea
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by spott 10y ago
Is the refresh rate on e-paper screens good enough for drawing on yet? I was under the distinct impression that they still have a long enough refresh rate to make the delay... distracting.
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by spott 10y ago
This probably needs more explanation: From the docs: "nbdime provides tools for diffing and merging Jupyter notebooks." It includes both graphical diff and merge tools, command line diff and merge tools, VCS integration for git (s
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by spott 10y ago
Check out nbdime[0], it might be what you are looking for. [0] https://nbdime.readthedocs.io/en/latest/vcs.html
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by spott 10y ago
>But an air bladder is a spring, no matter that they call it "for cushioning". Everything that "absorbs energy and returns it" is a spring.
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by spott 10y ago
Swimming ran into this kind of problem with full body swim suits. It turns out that reducing friction really sped up the swimmers, and the fancier suits were subsequently banned from FINA races[0]. There is probably always going to be so
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by spott 10y ago
I'm not sure where you are getting your numbers: care to elaborate? This[0] directly contradicts you: https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-bud...
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by spott 10y ago
It doesn't have to be exactly mathematically correct to improve readability. Most of your points are basically "it doesn't look right to me", which is fine, you probably shouldn't use this, but that doesn't me
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by spott 10y ago
>The ToS changes here grant such a license to all GitHub users, and not just to use site functionality (e.g. hitting the "fork" button). Sure. But if you have code that has a licence that doesn't allow that... you shouldn
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by spott 10y ago
Much of this seems to be safeguarding Github from legal issues related to their internal handling of the data the repository: reproducing without attribution is necessary for internal search, integrity of source will be violated by search
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by spott 10y ago
The problem with the efficiency gap metric is that it incentivizes cooperation between the parties to generate "safe" districts. You can turn it into an optimization problem instead if you try to minimize the wasted votes for the
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by spott 10y ago
>Given all that, talking about proportional representation is a complete waste of time, and it gets in the way of having constructive conversation about this subject. It is constitutionally impossible to disband the House of Representati

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