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by tomalpha 9y ago
Taking that further: assuming good faith on the part of your sexual partner, perhaps this also has a role in forcing you to have an upfront conversation about your preferences and what you enjoy. The whole sign-here-to-consent-to-sex thing
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The Dutch people that I know (and I’ll admit its only a handful) can be very very direct in conversation. That includes areas around sex and relationships. Before rushing to judgment, this _might_ be more culturally-alligned to it’s home co
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> While you're protected by law, litigating any offenses through court is nearly impossible in reality. LegalFling creates a legally binding agreement, which means any offense is a breach of contract. Supposedly this isn’t just abou
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by tomalpha 9y ago
Do you have any plans to add more languages to code intelligence? (Particularly C and C++)
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The premise appears to be that using an old, simple, easy-to-verify cpu/architecture makes it harder to embed malware in the nuclear-disarmament-verification code that hostile (or at least somewhat untrusting) states would both need to
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by tomalpha 9y ago
Thanks. I’ll get reading. Edit: completely agree with calling out corporate doublespeak
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Do you have a source for that? I’m particularly interested because I’m due to fly on a British Airways 747 in a couple of weeks to the US. As an aside, BA appears to have the largest remaining passenger 747 fleet[0] and doesn’t plan to ful
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by tomalpha 9y ago
I hate to overplay these things (I'm a stereotypically emotionally repressed Brit of the old school), but it's nice to see a positive story and have something to celebrate. Bravo guys and girls.
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According to a 2011 article[0], the US has (or at least had) the largest number of deaths per passenger-mile in the world. It’s easy to overweight recent events. Can this be true? It feels like there’s a piece missing somewhere. [0] https:
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by tomalpha 9y ago
This feels similar in nature to the reason that lifts (elevators) have mirrors in them, whilst waiting for them, or both: http://platformliftco.co.uk/news-pr/why-do-lifts-have-mirror...
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by tomalpha 9y ago
Indeed. Intel finally having some really competitive competitors (as it were) is great to see. I was going to mutter about this great competition coming from overseas and being an example of the Decline Of The West, but Global Foundries app
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Problem solving within a constrained system. It’s fun stuff and I always find it amazing how adversity and particularly time pressure can bring out the ingenuousness in people. I guess wartime inventions are possibly an extreme example (goo
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In the UK about ten years ago there was a rash of news reports about children being sent to schools in tough neighbourhoods wearing stab-proof clothing. It was never clear whether it was commonplace or just marketing from a startup. I haven
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IANAL too, but believe that in common law systems like the U.K. and most of the U.S. that intent is required. In the jargon: Mens Rea is required in addition to Actus Rea. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea That
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by tomalpha 9y ago
>”...largely funded at the request of Harry Reid...” >”Most of the money went to an aerospace research company run by a billionaire entrepreneur and longtime friend of Mr. Reid’s” I don’t know who these people are beyond the fact that
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by tomalpha 9y ago
Hear hear on both counts. Its gentle rivalry and lack of melodrama would be great to see again. It would need a new presenter now of course, and they’d be pretty big shoes to fill.
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That's an interesting question. How is a mall closing a problem provided that people are still buying things, albeit from a different company to the one they bought from before? If money continues to move around the system, surely this
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by tomalpha 9y ago
To summarise the summary: - Amazon is taking all their business and will continue to do so even more Longer summary: - shopping malls have been in decline for years - the decline seems likely to continue due to amazon's growth - once l
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by tomalpha 9y ago
It's a good read and I enjoy his writing style. I did chuckle at a few of his thoughts though and hope that they were intended to be as tongue-in-cheek as I took them to be: > As we walk through the factory, our small group is perma
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I think the point being made is that however rare it might be in the US that it’s even rarer to the point of non-existent in Germany (or the UK etc). Edit: things don’t have to be very common for people to have deep seated fears and want to
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by tomalpha 9y ago
Not OP, and not quite he same argument, but at least you’re still shocked. That might be cold comfort to the dead man, but it does suggest there could be a glimmer of hope. If everyone stops being shocked at things like this, it will have b
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by tomalpha 9y ago
> I couldn’t believe how badly trained the police officer was Is there a study anywhere that tries to correlate amount/quality-of-police-training and deaths involving police? I think that could be really interesting.
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That is an excellent, well thought out and well written post. It’s not short but it’s well worth a read. I think he pretty much nails it. He also manages to be reasonably objective which can be tough for someone close to the subject matter.
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by tomalpha 9y ago
It’s common to receive an annual bonus in cash, with some percentage deferred for a few years in some form. The form can vary: hedge funds often put the money into their fund(s) and you can withdraw it after a couple of years, publically tr
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by tomalpha 9y ago
I’ve known many quants use both R and python/numpy/pandas for complimentary tasks. The R standard library was generally spoken about in positive terms, but for data massaging and manipulation beyond pure maths/stats analysis
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They were indeed monochrome. The one I saw was orange-on-black and I was also told that colour ones were coming “soon”.
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I remember talking to a guy who worked on an HFT firm's in-house microwave network. Sniper In Mahwah is (or at least was - I'm a little out of that world these days) pretty much bang on the mark. It's amazing what you can fin
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Just my limited knowledge and memory. Feel free to mentally substitute 10 years instead of the 15 years I wrote if that helps. And the prototype wasn't new in 2001 - it had been around for a year or maybe two before that, so 10 years f
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It very much depends on the company you're working for. I've always been fairly keen on work/life balance and haven't found it that hard to find finance firms that respect (and even embrace) that way of thinking. Finance
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I remember visiting a Philips research facility near Maastricht back in 2001 back when they still made mobile phones. They had a prototype oled-display phone they were showing off. It took some 15 more years for that to go mainstream. Inter

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