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by throwawaymsft 10y ago
From Trump's perspective, Mexico benefits by having illegal immigrants in the US send money back to Mexico. There is no real reason for Mexico to enforce the border. Trump wants to deter this behavior (not enforcing the border) by assi
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by throwawaymsft 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_prevalenc... Singapore has the lowest rates in the world. Sometimes regulations have the intended effect.
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by throwawaymsft 10y ago
Sure; some rules are easier to circumvent than others. The real question is whether it's onerous enough to act as a deterrent, not whether some people will circumvent it. In this thread someone said it's like trying to stop the im
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by throwawaymsft 10y ago
You realize this same logic could seemingly dismiss any regulation (assault weapons, child labor, tax evasion), right? "People will smuggle illegal guns from abroad. Or buy the parts and assemble them. Or get a machine shop and make th
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by throwawaymsft 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game) Legends trace the origin of the game to the mythical Chinese emperor Yao (2337–2258 BC), who was said to have had his counselor Shun design it for his unruly son, Danzhu, to favo
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by throwawaymsft 10y ago
Middlebrow dismissal. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4693920
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by throwawaymsft 10y ago
Are you sure the only way autonomous cars can help is with 100% market penetration? How about * Better carpooling options * Automatically taking side streets (based on traffic) to reduce load * Less swerving/lane changing/rubber
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by throwawaymsft 10y ago
You mean when a puddle of mud simultaneously covers the cameras (front, rear, side facing), radar, and ultrasonics? I guess the vehicle would slow down and pull over (the driver can always take over you know). Will the new form of vandalism
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by throwawaymsft 10y ago
You may be happier subscribing to a feed of shipped products on Dell's website, rather than, say, sciencebulletin.org.
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by throwawaymsft 10y ago
Yep. I feel javascript library authors forget it's lines of code spent , not lines of code written. How would they feel about a contractor who had to rebuild their house 4 times? "Oh, they're really good about revving their
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by throwawaymsft 10y ago
Assuming it's computation bound, it's a factor of 5400 (~13 doublings in CPU power required to get to real-time, assuming no algorithmic improvements).
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by throwawaymsft 10y ago
Step 5: Blog post about the wonderful journey users are about to embark on.
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by throwawaymsft 10y ago
Correct. And are the politics of getting your plugin accepted in the Wordpress directory more or less than getting tenure? See the edit above. You are saying two things must be equal because they are both non-zero. It's a very strange
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by throwawaymsft 10y ago
That sucks, but politics in the workplace can be dialed from mega-corp to startup to consultancy to freelancer to anonymous author of a SaaS. How much politics did patio11 deal with when running Bingo Card Creator?
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by throwawaymsft 10y ago
Yes, but (importantly) degrees vary. The politics of working for an adviser chasing tenure are different from, say, running a SaaS, writing an ebook, or selling a plugin.
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by throwawaymsft 10y ago
That part of the presentation was awful and had me rolling my eyes. "Oh, I wonder what Pokemon it's going to be inside this egg... Pikachu!" <halfhearted claps> They could have made it funny by having the worst Pokemon
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by throwawaymsft 10y ago
That's good to hear. I have the hankering to return to school at some point, and I really just want to learn and contribute.
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by throwawaymsft 10y ago
"Properties you find appealing..." * Freedom * Ownership * Personal freedom ... <Later...> * Getting into a PhD program: references, references, references * Student adviser relationship * Pre-vs-post te
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by throwawaymsft 10y ago
Don't worry about justifying your interests to people who don't get it.
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by throwawaymsft 10y ago
The average talking speed is above 100 wpm. Why not learn to transcribe your thoughts (internal speech) in real time?
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by throwawaymsft 10y ago
How does giving everyone a monthly tax rebate (essentially a negative income tax) change who owns the means of production?
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by throwawaymsft 10y ago
You've never taken an Uber. For your own market education try it sometime.
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by throwawaymsft 10y ago
The max risk is known when selling a put. If I sell a put for 100 shares of Apple at $95, the most I can lose is 9500 (minus the premium I earned).
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by throwawaymsft 10y ago
Reputations are often earned.
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by throwawaymsft 10y ago
It's strange how many aren't self-aware enough to realize when they aren't the target market.
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by throwawaymsft 10y ago
Some people will always be petty. It says more about them than the object of their critique. You can cure cancer and someone will complain it took you long enough.
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by throwawaymsft 10y ago
Does Google need to sell the stock to realize their gains and hand investors bags of money?
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by throwawaymsft 10y ago
You'd hope a CRUD app used in "hello world" tutorials ( https://www.fullstackreact.com/articles/react-tutorial-cloni... ) would be simpler than a 3d physics engine.
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by throwawaymsft 10y ago
Exactly. "Betting its future" is a line MSFT has to trot out every few years to get people to pay attention. They previous bet their future on .net, phones, tablets, Azure, cloud...
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by throwawaymsft 10y ago
I understand your point, but there is inefficient vs. efficient use of resources. You could say it's ok to package a toothpick in a shoebox because cargo space is meant to be consumed. When the ASCII text of a webpage is measured in t

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