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by ykler 9y ago
I certainly agree that something that just works is by far the most important priority and do worry about anything that could muddy that message. On the other hand, I suppose what the parent proposes could be useful for users with heighten
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by ykler 9y ago
I suppose, although with the money system it seem like there is this crazy hyperparameter of how much a single vote costs. Plus, if you want to make things more economically equal (which is something we should want), you can do that with r
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by ykler 9y ago
I didn't read the whole article, so maybe they address this, but instead of letting people buy votes with money, which favors the rich, why not allocate an equal number of special credits to everyone that they can apportion among diffe
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by ykler 9y ago
In snowdrift, in the case where your opponent is uncooperative, it is better for you to be cooperative.
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by ykler 9y ago
I still have no idea what the company does. "A user-generated digital marketplace trying to “normalize” real sex"?
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by ykler 9y ago
I would like to hear more about why so many people feel it would be intolerable for a woman to be assigned to work with this guy. I'm a Jewish man, and I feel that I could deal OK with being assigned to work with a radical anti-Semite
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by ykler 9y ago
This is wrong assuming, as is recommended practice, you use a hashing function like bcrypt or scrypt that is designed to be resistant against massive ASIC speedups, right?
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by ykler 9y ago
Your argument doesn't make any sense. If the insurance company is paying for the drug then they would rather pay $50 than $75 for it. If the person has a deductible, it is conceivable that they would forgo treatment if the price is $
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by ykler 9y ago
Thanks, I did read this (and thought that it should have been put much earlier in the article and expanded on). But what was left a little unclear to me is whether the deductible calculation was based on the list price. I guess it is, but
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by ykler 9y ago
This article left me confused about why this practice exists. It seems like it could only be because the insurance companies are getting some kind of kickback (maybe in the form of lower prices on drugs) in exchange for having these anti-g
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by ykler 9y ago
You forgot to sum over N
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by ykler 9y ago
It has happened in the history of science that people found an elegant theory unifying seemingly disparate phenomena. Or, while learning a subject, it may seem really complicated and confusing, and later, once you have learned it, it may s
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by ykler 9y ago
I don't think many people (and not the parent) "equate" FP with Haskell, but Haskell is in a way the most functional mainstream language because it is the only lazy one. You can have a purely functional language without lazi
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by ykler 9y ago
Maybe you are being downvoted because you find it understandable that people are joking about murdering bicyclists in front of this guy. It is possible to have a data-based debate about whether bicyclists increase the rate of accidents and
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by ykler 9y ago
"Hoi polloi" was an ill-chosen term since of course wealthy people are included in those who do not know the secrets one learns on becoming president. As for the evidence, one thing is that there have never really been any leaks a
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by ykler 9y ago
It seems to me there is nothing inherently anti-competitive about requiring people who buy your component to advertise that they are using it (or, a fortiori, with incentivizing them to do this with discounts). But offering rebates to cust
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by ykler 9y ago
I really doubt it. Sure one learns details, but all the evidence points to there being no game-changing secrets that the hoi polloi are not privy to. That said, perhaps when you become president people close to you try to see to it that g
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by ykler 9y ago
It seems that he has been generally correct about the economic problem gradually ending, though maybe inequality of distribution has been worse than he expected, so we are still somewhat distant from the real end. But if his picture is rig
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by ykler 9y ago
Who uses m4? It has been around forever, but I have never really seen it used except in autoconf. When I looked at it (a long time ago) it struck me as really tricky and confusing, even more than lisp macros (but maybe on a par with TeX).
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by ykler 9y ago
It seems like it would have been good for them to mention that the white paper they cite giving the estimate of $79 million dollars lost on delivery of inbound international mail at artificially low treaty prices in 2013 also estimates savi
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by ykler 9y ago
Yes, when the commas are at the beginning of the line they are really obvious. I have used commas-first style in JavaScript, and it definitely reduced the amount of times I forgot a comma. I wonder if people's aversion to commas first
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by ykler 9y ago
Can't it just accept two different syntaxes (if really necessary for disambiguation, perhaps requiring people to put some magic string at the beginning of the file to request the new syntax)?
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by ykler 9y ago
I wonder what they plan to use it for. Numpy kind of seems finished already.
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by ykler 9y ago
You mean biased agains the employee? Anyway, I guess the obvious thought is that situations of information asymmetry like this are not really biased against anyone but just lead to worse outcomes for everyone. Startups would prefer to com
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by ykler 9y ago
As Don Quixote should have said to the guy who said there is no book so bad it doesn't have something good in it, opportunity costs are huge these days.
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by ykler 9y ago
Hi, maybe I am one of the people who you would say thinks, "Let it be illegal, but let's keep the border-jumpers as our empathy pets." Let me try to explain the thinking (which, by the way, has nothing to do with some sort o
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by ykler 9y ago
Yes, but not all. For instance, Microsoft and Apple aren't.
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by ykler 9y ago
The article is about ice on land melting. But actually when floating ice melts it increases sea levels a little bit as well, as explained here: https://www.quora.com/If-water-is-denser-than-ice-why-do-sea... Note, especial
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by ykler 9y ago
Wow, I thought he had some cool typefaces, but I really hated this one. It is so uneven, so many different angles on serifs and things. The o sticks out so much -- it doesn't even look italic.
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by ykler 9y ago
It is obvious that it would be possible to match accounts in a great many cases, and if the commission wanted to know more precisely how good the matchings could be, it seems like it would make more sense for them to ask Facebook and WhatsA

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