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by vtail 7y ago
Regarding your second point - I don't have a horse in that race, other than tremendously enjoying my personal license that I pay for out of my pocket; but I found their arguments[1] quite reasonable. I think there was an HN discussion
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by vtail 7y ago
While I don't disagree with your definition of reproducibility, I want to point out that very few papers would satisfy that criteria, regardless of their use of a closed- vs open-source software. Here is a recent example: Imperial Coll
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by vtail 7y ago
My advice is to find a good book that teaches the fundamentals. I'm currently reading "Power Programming with Mathematica: The Kernel" by David B. Wagner. It was published in 1996 and covers then-new version 3, but boy is it
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by vtail 7y ago
Many people on this and similar threads rightly question whether results received with the help of a closed source software are reproducible. I think it's a fair question, but these discussions often miss a couple of important points.
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by vtail 7y ago
It's hard to come up with a short answer to explain the greatness of the tightly integrated system with tons of functionality and highly sophisticated function/rule based programming style, but let me give you a quick taste of it:
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by vtail 7y ago
I’m in the same boat: Wolfram Language has enlightened me (or you may say, corrupted me completely), so a prerequisite for any new computing device is that it can ran Mathematica. Which is way I had to switch back from OpenBSD (which doesn’
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by vtail 7y ago
According to this dashboard, there are 40k infected outside of China vs 80k inside, and the 40k number is still growing exponentially. It’s just a matter of days until we have more cases outside of China. https://gisanddata.maps.
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by vtail 7y ago
I hate to be that guy, but I want to point out that more people not always equate to more output. E.g. if you create a "controller" role, they would try to justify their existence and create more work/overhead for others. And
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by vtail 7y ago
My guess the reason he is not moving on to different topics is that there thousands of people with official credentials who completely misunderstand statistics, and fat tails in particular.
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by vtail 7y ago
Yes - it's a good example of a survivorship bias.
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by vtail 7y ago
Firefox is actively moving away from XUL.
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by vtail 7y ago
Good rationale from a maker, not a purist, and good luck with your projects! I liked the site, it's clean and to the point. Just a small nitpick: right under the Demo download button, you say "(Demo does not have Pro features such
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by vtail 7y ago
it’s a common misconception: bitcoin is NOT supposed to be anonymous (it has a full ledger), but pseudonymous.
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by vtail 7y ago
You might enjoy his "Idea Makers: Personal Perspectives on the Lives & Ideas of Some Notable People", which consists of short essays on a few interesting people, some of which he knew personally.
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by vtail 7y ago
Text UI
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by vtail 7y ago
Thank you for reading the article and summarizing it - I flagged the submission, and recommend others do the same.
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by vtail 7y ago
It was! Also, in early 1990s we had food shortages and long lines in stores for basically everything (in Moscow! things were much worse in the regions), which was a direct result of the government controlling the economy for many years thro
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by vtail 7y ago
People buying apartments to rent out via Airbnb is not inherently a bad thing - it just indicates there is existing unsatisfied demand for short term rentals, which cannot be fulfilled by hotel industry. And guess what - hotel industry is a
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by vtail 7y ago
And only really wealthy people can afford to stay in a 5-star luxury hotel. The underlying mechanisms are the same: when demand for a resource is greater than supply, you can either artificially limited the demand by some controlling body,
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by vtail 7y ago
You are using emotionally charged words ("artificial", "abuse", "greed"), which makes a bit hard to have a constructive argument, but let me try :). One way to think about prices is as a signal . When greedy l
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by vtail 7y ago
Raising prices = Demand > Supply. You can either try to curb the demand (by e.g. creating incentives for companies to build offices elsewhere, move government bureaucracy somewhere else, etc.) or improve the supply by facilitating new co
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by vtail 7y ago
As a person born and raised in Soviet Union, I strongly believe that whoever thinks that a proper economic response to raising prices is literally to order them to stop raising , is a lunatic.
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by vtail 7y ago
Could you please share tips on how you opted out of arbitration? I’m waiting for my M3 to be delivered, and would like to understand the pros and cons. I’m in CA, US if that matters.
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by vtail 7y ago
Can you apply the same logic to Uber/Lyft?
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by vtail 7y ago
So Nassim Taleb's "Silent Risk"[1], a mathematical parallel version to Incerto, is not good enough? [1] http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/SilentRisk.pdf
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by vtail 8y ago
True. But security considerations add an important dimension to the conversation which is often missed.
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by vtail 8y ago
Here is an alternative view from Theo De Raadt, OpenBSD founder: “[firefox catching up with chrome’s security] is lipstick on a pig”: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=152872551609819
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by vtail 8y ago
It does have access to .cache and .config as well
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by vtail 8y ago
I've fixed Fontconfig error by properly capitalizing DOCTYPE and SYSTEM and using double quotes: <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
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by vtail 8y ago
Some more: 1) .cwmrc has a parse error around chrome command - fixed by adding quotes around “chrome —enable-unveil” 2) I copied your fonts.conf exactly, and see “Fontconfig error, line 2: syntax error”. Can’t figure out yet what’s going on

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