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by wolfgke 7y ago
> The average cost of college for a state school over four years is $80K ( https://www.valuepenguin.com/student-loans/average-cost-of-c... ) and consider that the average household has 2 kids. > How much would you
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by wolfgke 7y ago
If this were true, I believe US-Americans would lead a more frugal life and avoid unnecessary expenses in an attempt to save as much money as possible for cases of emergency.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> I have read the article, and I feel is missed one obvious possible thing. Maybe highly intelligent people don't care about being rich? A different consideration: maybe there exists a relationship between intelligence and "les
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by wolfgke 7y ago
Firebird is still actively developed as open source software: http://firebirdsql.org/
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Further, you can not even watch higer resolution than 720p Netflix on Chrome Which is rather a DRM measure on Netflix' side.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
Perhaps I missed this point - but if the empathy point exists, the other side did not show empathy, either.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> I think that both sides create a burden. In my opinion, the difference is that, it is a one-to-many kind of matching scenario. One person (the one opting out of using the preferred messaging method of all their friends) creates a burde
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> The important thing to understand is, from your communication partners point of view, you create a burden without reason They create a burden without reason.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
Use Shift + 'scroll wheel' when there is a (mouse) focus on the scrolling iframe.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> There comes a point at which a book belongs more to its readers than to its author. EGA is well past that point. Try imagining the world we'd live in now if Euclid had managed to suppress all copies of his _Geometry_. Tell this to
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> What is EGA? Éléments de géométrie algébrique https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%C3%89l%C3%A9ment...
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by wolfgke 7y ago
A question to the experts: Of EGA I, there exist two editions: 1. the 1960 edition, which is available at http://www.numdam.org/item/?id=PMIHES_1960__4__5_0 2. the 1971 edition: mentioned under https://en.wi
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> "but all must pass hardcore coding test." The time necessary for this means a huge opportunity cost for every applicant.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> This argument proves too much. By this reasoning, "Qualcomm-owned Cisco" is "injecting backdoors" into their chips as well.[1] I would not consider this to be past my belief ...
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by wolfgke 7y ago
Of course, processors that use one of the Atom/Celeron/Pentium microarchitectures are not the best choice if you desire maximum speed, but otherwise they are surprisingly interesting processors (IMHO much more interesting than wha
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Zen2 is freeking awesome. :) SHA-NI was introduced with the Intel Goldmont microarchitecture.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
In Germany, they are. As far as I am aware, among all the Euro countries, Germans are particularly fond of cash. Since I work in an area that is related to finance (think in the direction of planning/writing business applications for t
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> According to that same article, the reason for retiring the note was because the people who benefited the most from its existence are criminals, who need to do their business in cash -- the fewer notes, the easier for them. This is wh
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> It would take a bit of time and research before I felt confident enough at identifying these bills to accept them in a trade. If such bills were in common use, nearly everybody would know and be aware of the usual security features. So
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> See e.g. the right-to-repair debate. The function is important enough for farmers to demand regulation and drive the prices of old, non-locked-down tractors through the roof. This is in fact a textbook example for how markets work. By
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> That seems similar to the way people say PIN number even though PIN itself means personal identification number. At least in Germany/German language, if you use such a redundant wording, you are often considered to be not very kno
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by wolfgke 7y ago
As the market data shows, most customers value a very low price over anything else. So the market delivers. On the other hand, if the noble ethical goals that you list were more important for the customer, he would prefer devices that satis
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Indeed. I think this is a textbook example of market failure No, it shows that markets work perfectly - they just optimize for what the customer wants to buy, not for some noble goal that you desire.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
CERN did not create the internet. Tim Berners-Lee created the world wide web . Also keep in mind that there actually existed many predecessors of hypertext systems (EDIT: see https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> were made by the same programmer: Chris Sawyer. ... in x86 assembly language: > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=RollerCoaster_Tyc... > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?tit
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by wolfgke 7y ago
A lawyer's opinion. ;-)
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by wolfgke 7y ago
$$$
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Civilization was very different centuries ago, but people were not. Very different civilizations imply very different ethical questions that are relevant. I just say that the global (network) interconnectness brought a huge plethora of
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Require everyone - computer science majors included - to read and discuss classic literature, history, and philosophy. These books/things taught me nothing (nil) about ethics - they are about questions that were relevant centuri
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by wolfgke 7y ago
Because producing a full sim might take a lot more time and you don't have the production capacity to satisfy the (sudden) huge demand (demand spike?).

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