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by Padding 12y ago
> Of course there are macro-economic arguments against it If there were, wouldn't the market eventually take care of it?
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by Padding 12y ago
> I have no interest in such asinine "philosophies". I bet no one does .. the real issue is how to decide on what is "asinine". After all, why are your views and beliefs any more valid than any one else's?
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by Padding 12y ago
Do you have a source for this? Afair, it was always Intel that was touting "made in US" on its marketing slides..
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by Padding 12y ago
I'm curious why some people think that something like this would even be possible in principle. My first intuition was that this is impossible (at least not with math alone). I have no (proper) proof however. Ultimately anything could
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by Padding 12y ago
> There is a trade‐off here for them; as a general rule, such languages have immutable strings This is a bit disingenuous. I understand what he's aiming at, and he also mentions StringBuilder later on, but saying that a GC necessati
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by Padding 12y ago
For better or worse, this isn't true. Software development to some extent is a creative process, thus eluding automation in many ways, though not for lack of trying. Much like book authors, in the general case, can't really "
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by Padding 12y ago
> In reality automation seems to be a source of widespread immiseration beneficial to only a few. Are you serious? The printing press alone has benefitted humanity as a whole immensly over the last centuries. And there were piles and pil
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by Padding 12y ago
That you have been downvoted is very telling of the crowd that CS people are. We pretend to be all rational professionals on our high horses, decorated with degrees and what not.. And yet, when something manages to hit us on an emotional le
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by Padding 12y ago
> How is it a success if he burns through the money and fails to bring the product to market in a meaningful way? A lot of regular people "burn through money" and fail to deliver any sort of value in the process of their daily
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by Padding 12y ago
You didn't get the point of the argument. What do you do when something with 51% mortality in 15 days comes up? And then something with 49% in 13 days .. where do you draw the line? And what do you do when people continue to cry out?
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by Padding 12y ago
I fully agree with you. This is the rational decision to make, and the best one, considering the fallibility of humans. At the same time though, we need to realize that this is primarily about protecting the health professionals and care gi
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by Padding 12y ago
> People ruin their lives trying to fulfill dreams or ideas that weren't worth pursuing from the beginning and pay dearly for it. On the other hand, society as a whole profits immensly. Would you really want to give up on that? Wasn
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by Padding 12y ago
I don't know about that. Isn't raising 13m $ the equivalent of receiving tenure? Even if this fails somehere along the way, it sure will be a success for the "inventor" .. and thus be a success-story for other hopeful wa
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by Padding 12y ago
That's mean :P
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by Padding 12y ago
> Hang on, we all enjoy the process of dating, right? Well, I don't know. Is there really nothing you'd rather do with that much time and money? And if the relationship only lasts some 5 years... :x
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by Padding 12y ago
> Energy burned needs to be >= energy taken in. I guess that's the equivalent of Stroustrup's "If you understand int and vector you understand C++", for nutritionists.
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by Padding 12y ago
I'm genuinely curious. Is there any evidence that dieticians are more than just cargo-cultists? Talking to them usually results in "more of this and less of that and exercise and being thorough and blah blah blah". That sound
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by Padding 12y ago
> all you get is smoother text and smoother pictures on a less than 5 inch screen. I don't think smoother text (and pictures) is anything to be trivialized. I mean it actually looks much much nicer and (imho) comforting - I experien
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by Padding 12y ago
> The same way females wear rings in their ears. That's an odd way of phrasing it. Are you a Ferrengi? Usually we call them women, not females.
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by Padding 12y ago
I don't know about that .. Humidity is the one thing that isn't fun :x
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by Padding 12y ago
I'm curious too. What's the "turnover" with those clothes - i.e. how often do you buy new ones and throw out the old ones? Ever gotten any weird looks for running around in mostly the same outfits? What do you do when yo
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by Padding 12y ago
I'm curious why the weather argument comes up so often. Aren't we, as "software people", under a roof and in front of a screen most of the time anyways? Then again, I'm "deep inside" Europe, so I have no i
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by Padding 12y ago
> While this makes things little confusing for newcomers, A "little confusing" is way off the mark here. If it weren't for Google Search working its magic, it would be practically insurmountable. > it still necessary to
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by Padding 12y ago
What many people seem to miss in these sorts of discussions is that "pauseless" usually also means less throughput. I guess it's not different from real-time systems being slower in practice than non-deterministic ones. If wh
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by Padding 12y ago
> I'm happy to call it fraud instead? [...] at the very least, breach of contract Well, downloading youtube videos is a breach of contract too. You can try to attach all sorts of alternate labels to this, it doesn't change the
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by Padding 12y ago
> it devalues the value of debt ask any home owner That's hardly a benefit for most, seeing as how they (most likely) (1) actually need their home for living in it, so it doesn't make much difference how highly its priced (2) h
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by Padding 12y ago
> Evading that judgment by trickery (especially when that can involve tricking the employee) is something very different Yes, agreed. My point was that if it's a wide-spread issue, as the article claims, then employees engaging in t
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by Padding 12y ago
I see. Thanks!
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by Padding 12y ago
What exactly is the issue here? How is this different from her being struck by any other car/driver? I'm not sure what the laws in the US are like, but in Germany that would already be covered by the mandatory insurance every car
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by Padding 12y ago
Indeed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinderkennzeichnungs-_und_Rindf...

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