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by yomly 5y ago
To be fair, it is well accepted that high inflation is bad as everyone stops spending. This holds true for asset inflation as well - you can be damned sure that in the current environment tonnes of people will be taking money out of the sys
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by yomly 5y ago
I was thinking about this the other day. Suppose it is true and there was a leak, given the current balance of the world it would probably lead to WW3. I am happy not knowing the truth if my hunch proves right.
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by yomly 5y ago
I don't know. What was the GP's point? That FP people like to think too much and sometimes you just want to get stuff done? Or that FP purists don't know how to actually build useful things? Trololol it took Haskell until the
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by yomly 5y ago
Would love to know what has been proved? Very up for an open and honest discussion. I'm back to writing imperative after years of functional. I think it is a very pragmatic choice today to go with an imperative language but I find clas
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by yomly 5y ago
Your LED example is an interesting one. In the basic model of a computer architecture, the screen is abstracted as a pixel array in memory - set those bits and the screen will render the pixels. The rest is hand waved as hardware. A pixel a
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by yomly 5y ago
To add to the anecdotes, an undergraduate proposed the structure of diborane off the cuff while doing his homework research on Boron so the legend goes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diborane
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by yomly 5y ago
I had a lot of personal issues going on at the same time I had committed to running the marathon. Spending hours on the road alone in your own head knowing you've inflicted extra suffering on yourself through the personal choices of dr
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by yomly 5y ago
as a criminal you can just opt out of Apple hardware, and/or implement separately encrypted content. Better - maintain your facade of having an Apple device for your daytime phone and use a burner by night. Has DRM really stopped pirac
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by yomly 5y ago
Just to augment my reply with a more personal and positive note on toughness. As a kid I was super active, doing lots of physical sports and training very hard. By the time I was 18 I had that reckless abandon and confidence that only an 18
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by yomly 5y ago
I'm up for debating whether hitting your children makes them tough - I'm on the fence personally. Maybe tough is a dirty word. Not tough in the toxic masculine sense but tough as in resilient. Being physically tough can often buil
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by yomly 5y ago
I guess the two values I see are having an extra level in your varieties of punishment - a "nuclear option" perhaps. The other is softer - I am curious how normalising pain may positively benefit a developing child. Could it build
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by yomly 5y ago
My parents did hit me and I did turn out fine. They did their best with the tools and knowledge they had available to them. Would I hit my kids? Probably not, I can see some value in it, but I think ultimately your parenting style shouldn&#
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by yomly 5y ago
Don't know why you are getting downvoted and people are getting emotional. I have family members who work in compliance. Everything is fair game for surveillance. I know of someone who got fired for accidentally uploading his whatsapp
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by yomly 5y ago
FWIW Amazon has had to deal with and figured would bear the costs of refund
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by yomly 5y ago
Unfortunately, for energy state of the art is calorimetry for now. But relying on just "energy" or calorimetry is a terrible heuristic for energy uptake or nutrition/dieting. I am not a nutritionist but I'd probably choo
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by yomly 5y ago
Also calories are so dumb. In its most primitive form, we burn food as a proxy for metabolism. Slightly more sophisticated techniques first breakdown the food by its components (sugars/fats) Calories are not just calories. That level o
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by yomly 5y ago
I'm starting to come to the conclusion that performance is much more important than we realise. This thread is about how Spotify seemed like magic in the early days. The original iPhone seemed like magic. Netflix seems like magic in ho
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by yomly 5y ago
To draw an analogy - we are more than happy passing around the works of Shakespeare in its textual form. But as we know, a good performance can bring so much more than is encoded in the text at face value. Music is really just a non-verbal
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by yomly 5y ago
I'm reminded of that story of how airline ticketing systems assumed names ending with the suffix "*MR" had an honorific appended and so cleverly stripped it. Cue the Arabic name "Amr" The thing is with this types of
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by yomly 5y ago
I mean we had the Amazonians, Boudica, Cleopatra, Jean D'Arc, Mulan, Wu Zetian... It's not like if you have a large enough sample size you won't discover alpha females in even the human world when it was dominated by physical
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by yomly 5y ago
Kind of tangential but China recently made sweeping changes and essentially outlawed private education. (it was more focused and nuanced than that, sure) When push comes to shove I wonder whether people who are anti public-schools would wel
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by yomly 5y ago
Maybe modern education sucks? Maybe money isn't the greatest motivator for learning something? Maybe earning decent money in return for your skill at a specific skill has a high bar. Have you seen how hard it is to make money as a musi
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by yomly 5y ago
whoops I googled it and found some memes and just took that without looking deeper! Thanks for the correction, have always sucked with quotes
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by yomly 5y ago
Maybe this is an unpopular opinion but "hard" is very defeatist. As yoda once said "there is no try, only do". Hard is a relative concept - watch a one year old try to walk or a two year old try to climb over obstacles.
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by yomly 5y ago
>1) (学区房) Apartments that are in good school districts. The usual trick is to purchase a very small apartment (may still cost some 2-3 million USD in Beijing for example for a something like a 20 m^2 one). One recent policy (before this
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by yomly 5y ago
Sometimes you don't always have a choice with the task. Eg filing your taxes. You can pay someone to do your taxes but my point is there are plenty of procrastinating triggering tasks in life you can't escape
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by yomly 5y ago
You're quite right on both size of buildings and also survivorship bias! Although the prevalence of old housing across the UK suggests (to me at least) that something systematic has changed. The fact that people can have an obsession w
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by yomly 5y ago
Them = the buildings. This is pure conjecture but you could plan a cycle like the following: Build new housing development Sell all properties on it with 99 year leases When 50 years to go on lease conduct on block sale (maybe developer pay
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by yomly 5y ago
While over any time frame a building will eventually collapse it's worth recalling that in europe many of the buildings are substantially older than those in the US. I foresee collapsing buildings becoming more and more of an issue for
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by yomly 5y ago
Do you roll your own power grid? Do you roll your own ISP + telecoms network? As a software engineer I live by the ethos that coupling and dependency is bad, but if you unravel the layers you start to realise much of our life is centralised

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