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Share a datetime with people in various timezones(dpatti.github.io)
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by thedufer 3y ago
NYC uses ginkgos for this purpose. They still make up a fairly small portion of the trees in the city, though. They're also particularly hardy when it comes to handling pollution, which is obviously valuable in cities. I believe this
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by thedufer 3y ago
The argument against this is that a company spends millions of dollars in research to learn something valuable, and anyone who didn't spend that money can trivially outbid for the employee that knows the results, since they can pay the
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by thedufer 3y ago
They're not applied as widely as it may seem. The terms are typically "up to" the length of time, and in practice firms waive 50-100% of the non-compete length pretty frequently, which is a decent sign that the cost is non-n
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by thedufer 3y ago
The original comment was confusing - they're getting $60B, and also have a mandate to modernize. Only a minority of that money is actually being spent on the modernization. Most of it is being spent on additional auditing of tax retu
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by thedufer 3y ago
It's a bit more complex than this, but roughly each block must contain either all pointers/ints or no pointers. There's a tag at the beginning of each block indicating what type of block it is (and some other stuff - the GC
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by thedufer 3y ago
In the context of NYC, it's the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the entity in charge of most of NYC's public transit (subway, buses, etc).
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by thedufer 3y ago
The initial value is optional for `reduce`, but required for `fold`. If you don't pass the initial value to `reduce`, and the sequence argument is empty, then `reduce` calls the function with no arguments, which is unique - in all oth
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by thedufer 3y ago
I strongly suspect that any sources that claimed that simply made the same error that you did. Looking at the source you provided from the Chairman of the FDIC, it actually says that the top ten accounts held $13.3B - not _more than_ $13.3B
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by thedufer 3y ago
I think that's a misinterpretation of the data. Based on reports, SVB had around 130B of deposits when it was taken into receivership. Something like 90% of that was uninsured, so around 115B of uninsured deposits. The 20B hole means t
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by thedufer 3y ago
Yeah, the amounts they're worried about are a few orders of magnitude larger than that. I don't think that's a compelling counter-example. > If the Fed keeps trying to fix failed banks through indirect money printing (cov
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by thedufer 3y ago
I think you're describing "narrow banking". It doesn't exist in the US because the government doesn't allow it. As I understand it, they don't allow it because it would be obviously better for deposits individu
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by thedufer 4y ago
This service keeps around a lot of long-lived per-session state, which leads to a very different memory profile from a typical web service, like what you're describing. Your point is valid in general, but doesn't seem to be relev
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by thedufer 4y ago
It sounds like you might be inferring that $100 in deposits is both a) $100 owed to their banking customers and b) $100 in cash. It is only the former, though - the cash was lent out to make the loans or used to purchase income-producing a
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by thedufer 4y ago
It does not, unless you define "equally" in a very particular way. Under consumption-based tax schemes, poor people spend a larger portion of their income on taxes than rich people (because they spend more of their income, and co
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by thedufer 4y ago
Consumption taxes are regressive, so this would shift a lot of tax burden from the rich to the poor.
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by thedufer 4y ago
The open source use pattern for expect tests in OCaml (via dune) is exactly as you describe (see https://dune.readthedocs.io/en/stable/tests.html ) - you run the tests with `--auto-promote` to tell it to update. T
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by thedufer 4y ago
FTL is in the app store on iOS. I remember playing it on an iPad years ago - looks like it's been available there since 2014.
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by thedufer 4y ago
My reading was that they're suggesting that in so-called two-party consent states, getting a third person in the room (whether or not it's done surreptitiously) and then having consent from 2/3 parties makes the recording leg
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by thedufer 4y ago
Not explicitly, but can you come up with any other plausible explanation for you could "STILL end up with a diploma from a Major university"? That seems quite clear.
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by thedufer 4y ago
I think you've misunderstood the suggestion. "excellent instructors at the most critical time of higher education" is a reference to the two years you would spend at a full university after knocking out a bunch of credits at
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by thedufer 4y ago
That doesn't materially change the situation, though. It can't be cheaper to a) do the computation, b) generate a proof, and c) validate the proof many, many times than to just do the computation. You can cut down the number of
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by thedufer 4y ago
> Eventually the computational capacity will reach the levels that virtually any app can be replicated inside of it This only makes sense if blockchains can catch up to traditional methods, because applications in the real world will jus
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by thedufer 4y ago
Your website says on the homepage "No undefined behavior". Integer overflow in C is explicitly undefined behavior. What does the phrase "undefined behavior" mean to you? Because it's clearly something very differ
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by thedufer 4y ago
But the 1T number is mid-crash - I think the pre-crash figure I've seen was around 3T. Adjusted for inflation, crypto is still a bit short of the dot-com crash, but not by a lot, and it doesn't seem like it's over.
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by thedufer 4y ago
Companies posting every month could just as easily be continuously growing (or, I suppose, have consistent attrition problems). Most of the places I've worked at have had a perpetually-open listings for SWEs, despite regularly hiring
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by thedufer 4y ago
You're so hung up on Austin, which isn't at all relevant to this conversation. Austin has nearly an order of magnitude more people than even the largest towns under discussion here. Austin has a median income 40% higher and medi
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by thedufer 4y ago
> Matt Levine had a pretty different take, pointing out that if Elon Musk suddenly appears to be unwilling to buy Twitter, his financing might see that and - suddenly, but perfectly legitimately - evaporate, which would be a valid reason
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by thedufer 4y ago
> Musk should just pay the break fee of $1bn, and renegotiate for $42.69 or whatever meme number he fancies. Why pay $42bn total for something when you can get it for $30bn. That's not really how the break fee works. There's a
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by thedufer 5y ago
VTSAX is a very popular broad-market index fund. Its price was overall flat from October 2007 to sometime in January 2013 - over 5 years - while returning dividends of around 1.5%. 3% beats that pretty handily.

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