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by throwaway373438 6y ago
No, his estimates look pretty accurate to me. I've also done a fair bit of both Perl and Python (including working with the internals in C). Perl is significantly faster than Python for many types of common string manipulation tasks. T
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by throwaway373438 6y ago
If what you're saying is true, then why aren't similar criticisms raised against Ruby? Most of the same obscure variables are also present in Ruby. "If hard-to-read-and-remember syntax exists, people WILL use it" This st
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by throwaway373438 6y ago
I've seen a lot of talk about how a police officer's job isn't particularly dangerous, with less chance of dying on the job than say a garbageman or taxi driver. An angle I don't see mentioned quite so often is that for
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by throwaway373438 6y ago
Covering actual costs without significant profit is a deterrent. If it costs $20 to register and you ask for $30 I think you're likely to get it.
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by throwaway373438 6y ago
Arbitration through UDRP is expensive, both in terms of process costs and employee time. A reasonable company would probably pay more than registration costs to avoid it.
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by throwaway373438 6y ago
Baseline trim Toyota Sienna has this and it isn't even an electric vehicle. Very simple, very useful feature.
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by throwaway373438 6y ago
The information we have is the scale of their operation. If they were trying to get flour to people in the most efficient way possible they'd be using that manpower to repackage from wholesale distributors. There's no shortage of
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by throwaway373438 6y ago
But also far more likely to go to zero.
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by throwaway373438 7y ago
America has a lot of gun availability and yet getting shot isn't the most common cause of on-the-job death for a police officer. In fact, law enforcement isn't a particularly dangerous line of work. I think a better question would
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by throwaway373438 7y ago
I agree those are examples of maintaining (often racist) power systems. But what you're providing aren't examples of gun rights, they're examples of gun control initiatives -- which are the opposite of gun rights. This exte
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by throwaway373438 7y ago
The argument you're describing is missing the point. Historically, most government abuse occurs at the local level and this is where a personal right to bear arms becomes relevant. Decades ago, a gun could prevent a lynching by a racis
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by throwaway373438 7y ago
Well sure, because it's cheap and available! The point here is that when price points change replacement good emerge causing us to never actually run out of the good in question. This process of substitution is a cornerstone of cornuco
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by throwaway373438 7y ago
Not always. Oil has many uses outside of energy production. It's also important to distinguish between energy production and energy transfer. Petrol products are very useful for energy transfer even if they aren't energy producing
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by throwaway373438 7y ago
No, they do not. We use fossil fuels in fertilizer production because it is cheap. It is not the only alternative, nor are fertilizers required to operate at scale in the first place. Fertilizer increases yield but has nothing to do with ou
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by throwaway373438 7y ago
You're mistakenly assuming that our only use for oil is energy production. Oil has many uses besides as an energy source. Even in transportation, oil is still useful as an energy transfer system even if it isn't an energy source.
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by throwaway373438 7y ago
> Once we use it, it's pretty much gone. Oil is as renewable as any other renewable resource. It's made from plants. We're only at risk of running out of cheap crude mined from the earth with a positive net energy return a
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by throwaway373438 7y ago
We're talking about the filesystem driver itself issuing the write. The above is a discussion about whether the filesystem driver or the block device driver would issue the SCSI commands. This would never happen from userspace.
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by throwaway373438 7y ago
It's both. Yahoo! used to maintain a policy against address reuse for exactly this reason.
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by throwaway373438 7y ago
They will all go to zero, given a sufficiently broad timeline. They're making a joke.
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by throwaway373438 7y ago
Whether looking for a low or a high the underlying challenge is identical.
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by throwaway373438 7y ago
Buying at a low point is lucrative, sure, but how will you know when we're at a low point? Should you have bought or sold Friday? Should you buy or sell this coming Monday? Answering these questions accurately is in fact hard.
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by throwaway373438 7y ago
Yes it is; all sites log. Not everyone does smart things with the data.
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by throwaway373438 7y ago
Mixing code and data is an inherent attribute of von Newmann architecture computer systems.
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by throwaway373438 7y ago
I suspect the opposite is true; the parent comment you're replying to is making subtle and insightful commentary on the nature of code and the futility of suggesting that inputs ought not be "code." Any sufficiently complex p
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by throwaway373438 7y ago
Well, during the Cold War the feds declared encryption to be "Auxiliary Military Equipment," listed on the USML [1]. It was illegal -- prison time illegal -- to ship software which could encrypt communications outside the USA up u
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by throwaway373438 7y ago
Because amphetamines make you high, whether or not they are treating a disorder. I have ADHD. I have taken quite a few medications for it over my lifetime, as have many of my friends. Clinically indicated amphetamine treatment does not mean