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by timerol 8y ago
The linguistic term is actually just a "stop", though you can use occlusive or plosive to sound fancy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_consonant
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by timerol 8y ago
Somehow "Have millennials killed X?" turned out to be a really good clickbait article format. I suspect that this is due to clickbait becoming widespread as millennials came of age. At this point it's just going on momentum.
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by timerol 8y ago
For everyone who finds this (and similar work by ESR) valuable, consider supporting him on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/esr
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by timerol 8y ago
Note that the arbitrage batteries can also respond faster than the rest of the grid, so you also gain some of the benefits of HFT with your call options.
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by timerol 8y ago
Quantum did a bunch to speed up rendering, and Electrolysis added a multi-process architecture that makes more sense than Chrome, IMO. You essentially have a main process and multiple content processes. The number of content processes is li
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by timerol 8y ago
Note that not all roads induce enough development to sustain the relevant maintenance, which leads to a fair amount of municipal funding problems: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/12/4/5-ways-fede
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by timerol 8y ago
Effort, not money. As a Firefox/gmail user who routinely shits on Google, it's mostly the lock-in of any email address that keeps me coming back. I've actually opened a few paid accounts, but effort to switch is real. I gave
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by timerol 8y ago
If 90% of shares are non-intervening that means hostile takeovers are now 10x cheaper to implement. It would be weird to be a company with market cap $100M, where $10M could buy a controlling interest in voting shares.
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by timerol 8y ago
I think you misread the comment. Assuming that NFS was sold by NFS-Co, GitHub, as part of Microsoft, would be a big enough customer to get NFS-Co to fix the bug quickly. However, GitLab would be a tiny NFS-Co customer, and so the bug would
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by timerol 8y ago
One potential counterargument to this is scale. Before 2012, I hadn't heard of Bitcoin. Back in '13, it was me and a couple of my nerd friends who were talking about this crazy Bitcoin surge. I read some about the algorithm, thoug
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by timerol 8y ago
Basically, because it's much easier (in time and money) to switch leases than it is to go through the hassle of buying and selling a house. There are some markets where owning is cheaper, and some markets where renting is cheaper.
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by timerol 8y ago
If a house is a home, I'd rather be homeless. I personally view a house as more of a shackle than a benefit. I enjoy moving every 2-5 years. I value novelty over routine. My first 12 years of life were in the same home, but other than
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by timerol 8y ago
Doing business with China has also helped lift 500 million people out of extreme poverty in the past 35 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_China
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by timerol 8y ago
Insurance companies notice a correlation, so increase rates to compensate. (Since insurance companies are in the business of spotting and correcting for correlations more than causes.) Therefore a correlation between states which legalize m
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by timerol 8y ago
The graph in TFA does show Intel's 14nm as having better density than competing 14nm nodes, though the lead seems to be less than a full process node.
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by timerol 8y ago
In support of that point, from the article: "He also reveals that when he left the company, he declined an offere [sic] of $850,000,000 in unvested stock in exchange for signing a nondisclosure agreement that would have kept him from d
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by timerol 8y ago
I own similar ear protection that I wear to sleep on the bus, plane, and if I'm going to bed early while my neighbors are being loud. Mine are completely black, and almost look like big headphones with earbud wires coming out of the bo
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by timerol 8y ago
> Are we running out of something? Yeah, money. In the US, new transportation projects are generally financed with federal help, while maintenance is left to the local government. This essentially creates a Ponzi scheme, where cities are
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by timerol 8y ago
The article mentions Reddit being censored and lame, but that is just a reflection of the specific subs that one subscribes to. My rule of thumb is based on HN: If a sub has significantly more upvotes for it's top posts than HN does, t
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by timerol 8y ago
The way modern heat pumps work, I can't answer your question yet. What's the outside temperature? Let's say that taking your room from 15C to 20C takes 1.0 energy unit. If it's 15C outside, then I can use a heat pump to
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by timerol 8y ago
FYI, you probably meant "conscious", as in mentally aware of the world. "Conscience" is your internal moral compass, which makes your sentence read as though people care less about right and wrong after a period of time.
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by timerol 8y ago
Methodology aside, I really appreciate that Arscht went through the effort of abbreviating the metric as WAR. Reading about a general's lifetime WAR was amusing the whole time, even if the statistic computed doesn't quite match up
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by timerol 8y ago
I'm actively making my way through Heisig's Remembering the Kanji, and am currently around 650 kanji. Here's an example that I found funny, combining 立 (stand), with 里 (pictograph of computer - see the monitor and keyboard, t
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by timerol 8y ago
Practically speaking, the people in your level 0 category would respond to a financial setback by accumulating debt, generally via credit cards. This puts them below level 1 by definition. Being at level 1 means being wealthy, though obviou
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by timerol 8y ago
Potentially most relevant: https://www.xkcd.com/1958/
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by timerol 8y ago
The surviving lizards are the ones who are capable of holding on through hurricanes. The title almost implies that the lizards as a whole trained to get better at holding on. The article explains it well: "He found that, on average, th
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by timerol 8y ago
Note that this is a small block of land. The article describes Quayside as "a dozen acres". 12 acres would make a square with side lengths of ~1/8th mile. About 2 blocks in Manhattan. I think $50 million is about the right am
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by timerol 8y ago
Since all languages should be able to compile to wasm, that question is pretty close to "Which language is the most performant?", which is a can of worms that I'm not going to open. Maybe something like the Benchmarks Game wo
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by timerol 8y ago
Is there a good word for when a member of a group is biased against the group that they're a part of? > I wouldn’t want to work in a place where management is close to my age without a gold-plated guarantee they share the “Let’s try
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by timerol 8y ago
A comedic explanation is given by Mitchell & Webb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E "Some logged in on the bank website and committed identity theft electronically." "I see, did they take anyth

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