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by tgb 6y ago
What's the counter example here supposed to be? Gresham's law says that people want to get rid of (spend) their bad money and get paid by the good money (US dollars, here). But government regulations mean they have to take the bad
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by tgb 6y ago
I think this is key to Gresham's law: government regulation of the value of the bad currency is what makes the bad currency be used. Without that legal protection, the bad money wouldn't be accepted. If it's required to be ac
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by tgb 6y ago
I was curious what googling only a negative query would do and for this, -"Yahoo" returns just the dictionary definition of the word "yahoo" and no search results.
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by tgb 6y ago
I think there will always be a trade-off where charge/discharge rates need to be comparable to the durations of peaks and troughs in supply/demand or else capacity must be over-provisioned. If peaks/troughs last N hours and y
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by tgb 6y ago
When I started programming, it was to make games during middle/high school and I always had the problem of getting them running on anyone else's hardware. I haven't touched that for years, so what are the easy ways to make th
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by tgb 6y ago
I got into programming from a no-code tool as a kid: Stagecraft. An education/gamedev tool aimed at kids and looking back it was really neat. You had a grid and gave rules to objects on the grid by pattern-matching the surrounding grid
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by tgb 6y ago
Wouldn't that be inherently included in the HIT calculation?
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by tgb 6y ago
Isn't that a different number, though? You have to factor in that vaccines aren't 100% effective at preventing disease. Wikipedia spells it out in the vaccine section here [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by tgb 6y ago
I didn't read that as complaining about CAR/CDR, but rather it was making a joke: the section header is "Cons".
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by tgb 6y ago
Thanks, I get it now and basically agree on the ones I've read too. I did feel like I missed some of the motivations for some factions in the Fifth Season series. I've added Book of the New Sun to my wishlist.
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by tgb 6y ago
What does "mustache twirling" refer to here? Is it a good thing?
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by tgb 6y ago
I agree with your emotions. 538 puts Biden up only about 6 points in Pennsylvania (their tipping point state). If the race tightens by a few points and the polls are off by a few points, then a very tight race in Pennsylvania is plausible a
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by tgb 6y ago
If you're running a compute task that is slow and takes an hour, then 5% additional speed saves you 3 minutes. If the computer gets 2x faster, then an additional 5% improvement only saves you 1.5 minutes. So if utility is proportional
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by tgb 6y ago
In contrast with most of the opinions here, I prefer Fire Upon the Deep. I think the alien species it explores is much more interestingly non-human than the one in Deepness in the Sky and that the bad guys in Deepness are kind of comically
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by tgb 6y ago
In an N dimensional vector space, yes, you can always choose a basis and write vectors down that way, but it turns out to often be a bad way to work. For example, picture a surface. At any point on the surface, there is a plane of vectors t
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by tgb 6y ago
Interesting but for me on Chrome on Android, the results plots are completely off. My dot in 1992 was shown as later than the 2000 year mark, for example. So take care when reading the results.
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by tgb 6y ago
What about the vitamin D hypothesis that HN loves so much? I'm far from sold on it yet, but summer in the northern hemisphere should correlate with increased Vitamin D levels, which is hypothesized to be protective from severe results
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by tgb 6y ago
Can the DifferentialEquations package actually solve quaternion equations correctly? Quaternions are non-commutative and I'd hazard to guess that some solver methods would assume commutativity at some point.
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by tgb 6y ago
Thanks for answering - not sure why someone would downvote someone directly answering a question!
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by tgb 6y ago
What's the process for if your phone dies or you lose it?
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by tgb 6y ago
"They" presumably refers to Subsaharan farmers.
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by tgb 6y ago
It's a rather weird way of saying that, but I suppose that must be what they meant.
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by tgb 6y ago
If anything, you seem to be saying the opposite of the Baumol effect! From Wikipedia: > The rise of wages in jobs without productivity gains derives from the requirement to compete for employees with jobs that have experienced gains an
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by tgb 6y ago
I used that too for ~6 months some years back and definitely got something out of it, though it was imperfect. There's too much lag in any such MIDI system for it to truly correct your timing and PianoMarvel doesn't even attempt t
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by tgb 6y ago
At the risk of being pedantic (or misremembering college classes), there's more to it than that. First, at the relevant distance scales, the magnets aren't point particles, they have an extent and very close to that surface it sho
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by tgb 6y ago
In case anyone doesn't notice it, the full text is available at the corresponding PubMedCentral link. Personally, this would be where I would have linked instead: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5
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by tgb 6y ago
Dumb question: how do race cars and their drivers handle "blind spots"? Edit to answer my own question: apparently they use spotters that radio in to them whether or not it's clear, and (at least in NASCAR) the cars don'
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by tgb 6y ago
But it's not really in black and white, every Nth row and Nth column is in color (where N is something like 5?). Still kind of interesting, though.
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by tgb 6y ago
They make this sound like a large change to the fundamental design of these chips. That gets me wondering: how do they test redesigns during development? I assume it's very hard to predict the performance impact of many changes. How of
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by tgb 6y ago
Show me such a barber and I'll agree that they exist.

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