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by tomp 3y ago
No, it’s orthogonal. My 2 cousins grew up in a one-bedroom flat of 50m2. On the other hand, I would have wanted a larger flat / house even if I remained childless and/or single. Schooling in the UK is indeed a fuckup of epic propo
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by tomp 3y ago
I’m an outlier here probably, I’d support the child in doing almost whatever they wanted to do, including euthanasia.
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by tomp 3y ago
I’m pretty sure you can. Someone is unconscious and dying, you can save them with surgery, surely it’s highly unethical to wait for their explicit consent?!
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by tomp 3y ago
> I learn new things every day, constantly move my horizons. I couldn't do that if I were tied down with a family. Try explaining these concepts to children. Now that’s a challenge! > And once people become parents their sex
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by tomp 3y ago
> Having and raising children is expensive (both financially and otherwise) regardless any factor(s). Any parent will corroborate this. I’m a parent, I disagree. I might have thought in my 20s that having kids is expensive, but in my 3
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by tomp 3y ago
Poor and less educated people already have more kids than middle class and more educated people. So there seem to be systematic incentives that skew the desire to have kids. We should work towards counteracting those systemic incentives, by
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by tomp 3y ago
You might have been scammed by propaganda. https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/carbon-... Carbon offsetting schemes are ‘fraud’, says major airline CEO
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by tomp 3y ago
The "tedious recipe blogs that require so much scrolling" usually first start with an emotional story about how the dish reminds the author of their childhood, which is included (presumably) to milk SEO and also annoy readers, f
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by tomp 3y ago
> we’re still breaking a paragraph into separate posts Um,... just because OP does that, doesn't mean it's necessary. Here's an example of a long-form post, with embedded images: https://twitter.com/myles_c
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by tomp 3y ago
@dang the title is wrong. should be Michael Bloomberg Is Throwing $500M at Efforts to Shut Down All U.S. Coal Plants (to avoid confusion with the company)
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by tomp 3y ago
Can anyone ELI5 (well, or, "explain like I'm someone who understands how autoencoders, transformers & convolutional networks work") diffusion? What makes it work so much better than alternatives mentioned above?
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by tomp 3y ago
with green threads, every result is "delayed" and available exactly when you want it (i.e. as indicated by naive reading of the control flow in code) > eager execution, interleave multiple concurrent tasks green threads give yo
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by tomp 3y ago
This is code with async/await: async fn read_file(filename): f = await os.open(filename) let data = f.read() await f.close() return data this is equivalent code with green threads: fn read_file(filename):
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by tomp 3y ago
Name another white collar job that’s simultaneously as complex and as creative as being a programmer. Architects build houses. Software engineers build whole cities, and they exist only in their minds! (i.e they can’t even see them, they’re
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by tomp 3y ago
Noone needs the internet, yet here you are posting on HN. Western/industrial human civilisation has long since surpassed most human needs and moved on to human wants . And that’s a good thing.
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by tomp 3y ago
right, I mean quant trading - i.e. where people actually use data :D you want things relatively standardised, which means using a common unit of account - for most funds AFAIK that's USD
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by tomp 3y ago
Interesting. As someone with a lot of data experience, and in particular including financial data (trading team in a hedge fund) I definitely prefer the column format where each currency is its own column. That way it's very easy to
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by tomp 3y ago
> Perversely, some governments reward terrorists’ (and other criminals’) families with monthly stipends[1]. Well you're stretching the argument here. Arguably Palestinian government doesn't view those that attack Israelis as &q
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by tomp 3y ago
Ah, Knight Capital. The warning story for every quant trader / engineer. This is what people don't realize when they say HFT (high frequency trading) is risk-free, leeching off people, etc. You make a million every day with very l
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by tomp 3y ago
No, you're mixing up different things. You can be pro-sustainability and pro-growth. Examples are (product-neutral) carbon tax and solar&nuclear power. You can also be anti-growth and disguised as pro-sustainability. Examples are
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by tomp 3y ago
> more efficient devices, more robust consumer products that can be replaced once a decade or less, more local production to reduce long-distance transportation, PR campaigns against over consumption You're advocating for degrowth p
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by tomp 3y ago
Wow. As if rescinding offers isn't bad enough, doing so with $1B in cash makes you a mega asshole.
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by tomp 3y ago
No. I recently tested exactly this use case, with iPhone apps 3D Scanner , Polycam and magicplan . The results were, how do I put it nicely, not very useful. For example, the floor wasn't even flat/straight! One would think th
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by tomp 3y ago
> Youtube, Gmail, Spotify, banks and a few other major websites start using Google's WEI API for internal user reputation scoring, forcing non-compliant browsers through more captchas. You forgot the biggest threat: CloudFlare
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by tomp 3y ago
Yeah maybe it's not the best term but it's quite accurate and I didn't spend more than 5 seconds thinking about it. The point is, however, that this ("gang violence") isn't really happening in most of Europe (o
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by tomp 3y ago
"residential explosions" sounds like it was gas leaks or some other accidents, but in fact it was "gang bombings" according to the text of the article
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by tomp 3y ago
Are you even required to pay that? Like, why would you just pay some random invoice some company sends you, without you asking for it? Would they pay your “resort guest fee” if you sent them an invoice?
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by tomp 3y ago
Almost all other societal structures are way less rigid and tyrannical. Name another institution where inmates have to ask for permission to go to the toilet, besides school and jail . Edit: or another institution where people can atta
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by tomp 3y ago
It was the same for me with stochastic processes. Most likely has nothing to do with age, but simply the fact that it was the second time you’ve encountered it. Your brain spent 2 years subconsciously processing it.
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by tomp 3y ago
For anyone wondering how to fix the above query so that it works for arbitrary X (which can be NULL or non-NULL): SELECT * FROM users WHERE status IS NOT DISTINCT FROM $x

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