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by thedance 7y ago
I doubt any serious economist could corral up enough spare tike to waste on a rebuttal of this idea. Not every idea rises to the level of serious discourse. The Yang UBI amount was much smaller than the amount paid by social welfare progr
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by thedance 7y ago
If you're going to write a mile-long article about the URL, at least get the details correct. The leftmost part of a URL is not the "protocol". It is called the "scheme". The scheme doesn't tell you "the
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by thedance 7y ago
You're right about the housing. If we have government policy that restrains supply (as we clearly do) and at the same time a government policy that stimulates demand (UBI) rents are guaranteed to increase. That doesn't mean UBI is
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by thedance 7y ago
I imagine he's talking about the response to the Yang campaign, where liberals quite rightly derided his plan to replace all "entitlement" programs with the dramatically smaller $1000/mo UBI. If someone who has been a li
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by thedance 7y ago
Same data, way fewer ads: http://ev-sales.blogspot.com/2020/02/europe-january-2020.htm...
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by thedance 7y ago
People find this stuff exciting because most of our industry works on systems that are at least ten years behind the state of the art. A good example is HDFS, an extremely bad likeness of GFS which itself wasn't great and died ten year
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by thedance 7y ago
Well I did find this 2017 article so I guess they have been covered a bit. https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/27/these-are-the-autonomous-t...
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by thedance 7y ago
Arizona also allows people under 30 to drive, and every age group under 30 has a much higher accident rate than 80+. People under the age of 18 have quadruple the accident rate of people aged 80. The reason people incorrectly believe that o
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by thedance 7y ago
I've been wondering for years why nobody mentions this. I saw them on the road in Sunnyvale in 2018. Maybe people assume they are just regular trucks used to transport Waymo cars or something.
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by thedance 7y ago
Sigh. Forest roads are absolutely not dedicated to logging, they are frequently used by hikers, backpackers, cyclists, and equestrians, and just people driving to a picnic spot. At least in America working forests are also public lands.
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by thedance 7y ago
Just to put numbers on this, on an Intel Skylake CPU, brunsli compressed a 1MB image in .16s, lepton needed .5s, more than triple the CPU time. Brunsli peaked at 100MB while lepton peaked at 44MB of RAM. Decoding with lepton wants .23s and
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by thedance 7y ago
I don't know. I feel like I've always needed to think about any line of code with several operators on the same line, but I've been in this business for a long time, so I might have learned the habit from negative experience
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by thedance 7y ago
The article rests on the notion that this is confusing, but fails to prove it: int x = 0, y = 1, z = 0; int r = (x & y) == z; // 1 int s = x & (y == z); // 0 int t = x & y == z; // 0
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by thedance 7y ago
Every place you said "should" is actually "must" otherwise how can anything work? Clearly the next version MUST be able to read the stored data of the current version and just as clearly the next version MUST write data
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by thedance 7y ago
No, monorepos don't solve this at all. It's not even related. RPC services are described by IDL and you can't ever break the semantics of the service for any client that was ever using any released version of the IDL. Full
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by thedance 7y ago
That's ridiculous. Just don't break anything, ever. If you need a service to behave differently, you give it a different name and roll it out and wait for traffic on the original to fall to zero and then you wait a bit longer an
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by thedance 7y ago
I wonder what fraction of the work was done in the final year. BOINC capacity has expanded 600% in the last 5 years, and it's still not even all that large (fewer than a million hosts, average resources per host similar to a desktop c
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by thedance 7y ago
Where is the phone number I can call to order a binder full of transaction data about you from Google?
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by thedance 7y ago
The maps themselves are counterproductive because they attract visitors, who are all idiots. There's a new house some guy built in Mono County in what was a Bortle class 2 area and the whole house is surrounded by up-pointing lights b
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by thedance 7y ago
You don’t need leaks, you just need to read the marketing materials of these firms. They sell your data. They are ten times worse than what Google does in the worst fever dreams of the most tiresome DDG/Brave user on HN.
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by thedance 7y ago
Google didn't move to clang/llvm because they hate copyleft. They moved because people who work on compilers prefer to work on clang/llvm, and if you have a compiler group you need to keep them happy.
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by thedance 7y ago
If it “builds wealth” faster than any other means then it necessarily becomes more expensive for new entrants. This is an inescapable outcome.
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by thedance 7y ago
Local policy is broken but I’m not convinced that it dominates. The Feds have the mortgage interest deduction and Fanny, which both stimulate the demand side very greatly.
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by thedance 7y ago
Have your seen any of them open their mouths at the debate? Moderator: solve black poverty Candidate: we’ve got to get them into houses so they can build wealth.
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by thedance 7y ago
Don’t worry, literally every single one of the presidential candidates in the democratic primary wants to “build wealth” by making housing ever more expensive. It’s practically state policy to make it impossible for a first-time buyer.
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by thedance 7y ago
A key reason why BeyondCorp actually works is hardly anybody needs to SSH to prod, and people who do need it, need it rarely. Everything at Google has rich RPC control surfaces and the tools are installed on users' workstations to invo
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by thedance 7y ago
Highly questionable. Facebook has been serving me Spanish-language ads for years, just because I said in my profile that I live in Venezuela, a country I've never even visited. None of my friends ever post on FB in Spanish and I don&
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by thedance 7y ago
More like: make app hideous and bloated; make app slightly smaller; crow about your harvest of low-hanging fruit
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by thedance 7y ago
Because trucking isn't Uber. The company that is shipping out million-dollar medical automation robots calls the same trucking company every day. If they ever found out that the sensors had been tampered with, and it would be obvious
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by thedance 7y ago
I'll tell you what, the image on this press release is a perfect microcosm of American life. A couple of hugely expensive cars are parked on a dilapidated street in San Francisco, in front of two ancient examples of what used to be wor

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