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by thefaux 3y ago
I have been in almost exactly the scenario you described as vehicle A. I came up to an intersection and my view was occluded by a car parked to my right in a no parking zone. There also was a gradual bend in the road a few hundred feet to m
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by thefaux 3y ago
Just as true in the US.
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by thefaux 3y ago
I think that broadly you're right that few people are going to be your friend solely because of your external achievements and/or status (and you really don't want to be close with anyone for whom that is the case). At the sa
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by thefaux 3y ago
I do. I know a number of people who have been mugged (and I have been accosted myself though escaped without injury or theft). I have never heard a story where a police officer intervened to stop the event. Now of course I'm sure that
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by thefaux 3y ago
I don't understand why you would use memoization for fibonacci ever and hence its relevance for dynamic programming. It can be solved with a tail recursive function with three input parameters. Solution left to the reader as an exercis
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by thefaux 3y ago
Before I left academia, I felt that I would be a terrible failure. The people I was surrounded by looked at leaving the academy as a sad admission of defeat. In retrospect, I think this was largely a reflection of their own insecurity and l
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by thefaux 3y ago
There is a fun book about this phenomenon called Survival of the Richest by Douglas Rushkoff. He met other billionaires who were planning to build apocalypse bunkers with private security forces, They were all flummoxed by his question: how
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by thefaux 3y ago
Here's something else to try imagining: your brother falls on hard times, starts taking meth and ends up violently robbing someone to support his habit. Would you want him to be left to rot in prison for 10 years or would you want him
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by thefaux 3y ago
What exactly does lightning fast mean? Is vim not lightning fast?
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by thefaux 3y ago
Yes. My solution though is to just pretend that naked assignment isn't supported and don't use global variables.
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by thefaux 3y ago
Sounds like you may have made the classic engineering mistake of ignoring PMF before building.
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by thefaux 3y ago
How exactly does the market work without the government enforcing contracts and property rights?
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by thefaux 3y ago
I'm sure then you'd be perfectly content if your otherwise perfect car were replaced with one identical in all ways except that the acceleration was 1/4 of the previous rate.
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by thefaux 3y ago
I always feel like the goal of every Scott Alexander sentence is to show how he is smarter and/or more rational than other people.
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by thefaux 3y ago
Religious is also a modern pejorative. It's pretty silly the way it's used given that extreme atheism is just as dogmatic as so called religious faith.
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by thefaux 3y ago
There is tremendous upside to intimacy (which I admittedly struggle with too). By closing yourself off, you foreclose the possibility of deep relationships in which you are truly seem for the whole person you are. We are all deeply flawed a
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by thefaux 3y ago
This question reminds me of is golf a sport or a game? A colloquial definition of systems language seems close to: "exposes low level details and doesn't have garbage collection." By this definition c, c++, zig and rust are s
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by thefaux 3y ago
The problem is we have stigmatized the concept of cults into more or less any belief system we disagree with. Everyone has a belief system and in my mind is a part of a kind of cult. The more anyone denies this about themself, the more cult
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by thefaux 3y ago
Hitchens was brilliant but also seemingly rather unselfconscious of how his atheistic zealotry mirrored the religious dogmatism that he constantly railed against. This is the paradox of religious criticism: the more you accuse of others of
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by thefaux 3y ago
I feel like if they were serious about seizing assets that are connected to a crime they'd start raiding Sotheby's art auctions. That'd be fun to watch play out in court.
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by thefaux 3y ago
Honestly, I wonder if the best solution is just no bike lane at all. The thing I hated about the old lane was the need to constantly move in and out of the lane to avoid parked cars which felt more unsafe than just riding with traffic (whic
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by thefaux 3y ago
Imagine if you had to write english sentences annotating every noun and verb "(Bob: Person) (went: Verb) to the (beach: Place)." That's what mandatory type annotation feels like to me.
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by thefaux 3y ago
I'm not sure you and the OP are even in significant disagreement. When exactly did the OP say developers are like babies who don't learn from experience? From my perspective, the OP seems to be critiquing the culture of indoctrina
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by thefaux 3y ago
Even within bike racing, defining 99% is tricky. The sport generally punishes all-arounders. In road racing, most winners either have great sprints with just enough aerobic capacity to hang on til the finish or have massive aerobic capacity
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by thefaux 3y ago
This is true. It also has a strange combination of being very big in the sense that there are many areas I almost never visit and very small in the sense that you _can_ walk anywhere (but, as you point out, it may be unpleasant, dangerous o
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by thefaux 3y ago
Based on the title, I was assuming this was going to be about plea bargains and overbooked courts which more seriously undermine the public's right to due process imo. This is a complicated issue but there are significant tradeoffs inv
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by thefaux 3y ago
There is a relatively simple solution to this problem in many cases: higher prices and buybacks.
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by thefaux 3y ago
The problem is that the people with the strongest and least flexible religious views are precisely those who deny that they are religious.
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by thefaux 3y ago
How is this an either/or question? Does consumption not influence production and vice versa?
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by thefaux 3y ago
Amen on syntax highlighting. We collectively have wasted a staggering amount of tine on this finnicky anti-feature. Personally I used it for at least a decade until I finally realized it was 98% distraction. When you think about it, it beco

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