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by xyzzy4 10y ago
Haskell doesn't make it clear what things will process the fastest. For example in Java you can use hashmaps or arraylists depending on the situation and it is easy to optimize for run time. But I'd have no idea how to do this in
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
That's not true in the long term. For example if you buy a house and then rent it, you will eventually earn back the cost of buying it, unless there is some kind of disaster in the market. Stocks are really no different.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
I doubt she wrote a single word in that paper.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
"Today, India ranks second worldwide in farm output. Agriculture and allied sectors like forestry and fisheries accounted for 13.7% of the GDP (gross domestic product) in 2013,[2] about 50% of the workforce.[3][4]" - Wikipedia
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
Why do lives need a trajectory other than survival? Seems unnecessary and merely a cultural phenomenon. This is why higher education is a luxury.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
In India it's half of the workforce. So I don't think your 1% is accurate. Also most jobs are nonessential for human survival, unlike agriculture.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
Some sports cars have more owners from the top 1 percent than the bottom 60. What's the big deal? Besides, farming is the backbone of civilization. You don't need much education for that. Everything we have nowadays is extra.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
>How can a judge rule that a private party must sell their property to another private party? If the law says you can do it, and nothing in the state or federal constitution prevents it, then why not?
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
Well that depends if your ideal society is one that optimizes for rights or one that optimizes for good land use.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
You can win money from gambling. Also smoking makes people feel good and that counter-balances the negative health effect for some.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
I think your brain is optimized around preventing yourself from losing things (such as money, items, relationships, etc.). For example, if the hot water is left on in your house, most adults would rush over and shut it off.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
Most people who vote prioritize jobs, the economy, and stuff like that. They don't really think about the Constitution so much.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
That's the price of freedom. Banning birth control and abortions would probably keep the population growing or at least stagnant.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
The Bill of Rights is just a piece of paper. What really matters is how the people in various government branches interpret it.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
Good reason not to have kids.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
No. A more effective vector would be to send them to a funny video page to watch, that has nothing to do with McDonalds. And inside that video page you have a hidden iframe pointing to the malicious query which submits the McDonald's p
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Desperate for Slumber in Delhi, Homeless Encounter a ‘Sleep Mafia’(mobile.nytimes.com)
2 points by xyzzy4 10y ago|0 comments
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
Startup employees do just as much bullshit to make it seem like they're busy. Their main incentive is to keep their job, not make the company successful.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
It's possible to support transpeople without having to change the English language.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
Chelsea Manning isn't reading the HN thread, so why does it matter what gender you use? It's like telling someone to use Kolkata instead of Calcutta.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
HN might as well pin this article to the top since it gets reposted so much.
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Theranos reportedly laying off 41% of its workforce(cnbc.com)
154 points by xyzzy4 10y ago|95 comments
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
I doubt it. You don't think Bitcoin has a fair market cap at around $10-20 billion? Seems like a reasonable range to me, especially since gold is worth way over $1 trillion. The gold bubble should pop way before Bitcoin does.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
You can borrow Bitcoin from a friend, sell the Bitcoin on an exchange, and then buy your friend the same amount of Bitcoin a month from now.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
That's not true. I withdrew some Bitcoin out of the exchange at that time. It was a month or so later when it was impossible to withdraw any funds.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
Bitcoin is very useful for three things, which are a store of value similar to gold (although it is more volatile), money remittance to other countries, and illegal or anonymous activities. I don't know how many people are using it for
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
Seems intentional to me. They just don't want to carry the keychain around.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
I wish they would just pass a law banning office spaces without doors.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
I don't think many people actually listen to his music since it's never on the radio.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
Black bar?

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