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by e3b0c 7y ago
If by the wealth you mean land, then yes it's finite. But the ownership of man-crafted things is not. You can always create new apps or websites that generate values. Those man-crafted things can become useless someday as well. For exa
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by e3b0c 7y ago
This is definitely a problem worth more innovations. But it should be kept in mind that the core idea of coming up with such a model is literally to design a contract. By recognizing that, it becomes evident that the contract must benefit,
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by e3b0c 7y ago
It can be seen as an energy storage technology for renewables.
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by e3b0c 7y ago
> Rognlie, Matthew. 2015. Deciphering the Fall and Rise in the Net Capital Share. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 46(1): 1–69 The paper briefly mentions it but does not address or refute the point further.
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by e3b0c 7y ago
In my opinion, `git add -p` should be the default, and a `-a` or alike to forcibly commit the entire working tree. I have developed a habit that I wouldn't feel comfortable if I haven't reviewed the chunks I am going to make into
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by e3b0c 7y ago
That risk assessment assumes only the technical aspects. But there are still institutional, management and other 'people' issues that could render any engineering guarantee fruitless. Otherwise, the delivery of nuclear plants woul
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by e3b0c 8y ago
As far as I know, China's grid and power plants are not run by the government either.
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by e3b0c 8y ago
Has anyone read Schopenhauer's books like The world as will and representation ? His idea doesn't seem to be talked about much. However, I would admit that I don't fully comprehend the ideas of that book either.
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by e3b0c 8y ago
I recently realized that there are roughly two kinds of people, namely people who are good at symbolic/abstract ideas and people who are good at real/physical/touchable things, which can be considered orthogonal to the extrov
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by e3b0c 8y ago
That assumes the demand and the supply are independent variables. More people would mean smaller pieces if the size of the pie held constant. But what if there are also fewer people making the pie? In reality, it's even more complicate
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by e3b0c 8y ago
That would probably be true if all other conditions held constant. However, Silicon Valley can pay handsome money because many companies located there run well and outperform their competitors for a fertile global market. And those companie
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by e3b0c 8y ago
My point is not about how an individual player gets their enjoyment from the game. Some players would want to beat every other to the death, even in the real world. My point is individual player tends to complain how the game sucks from hi
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by e3b0c 8y ago
Imagine that we are designing an MMORPG world. We know that individual player would seek to maximize their "gains" and to advance their ranking in the game as a part of the gaming experience. Meanwhile, as the game operator, we do
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by e3b0c 8y ago
If "the business interests of the upper class" makes governments do all the evils, why do you think this time will be different?
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by e3b0c 8y ago
I learned that Git stores data as DAG at the very beginning when introduced to it. But I came to get clicked until I realized that it is not only a DAG but an immutable one. That is, existing nodes of the DAG are never changed once create
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by e3b0c 8y ago
Comparing nuclear waste with other waste like those from manufacturing solar panels does not help. You don't need to build the facilities like the Yucca Moutain Project to contain the waste from making silicon chips. (Yes, comparing th
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by e3b0c 8y ago
Monorepo could be a decent choice if your software stack does not require too much external dependencies. Or more precisely, the ratio of own code to the third-party code is reasonably high. Let me give a concrete example. The Android open
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by e3b0c 8y ago
When talking about "efficient communication" between the computer and the programmer, it does not necessarily imply the characteristics of the runtime performance. For instance, Fortran is very performant in numerical computing, e
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by e3b0c 8y ago
C is a language designed to enable more efficient communication between the computer and the programmer in mind. C++ is a language designed to enable more communication between the compiler and the programmer. Go is a language designed to e
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by e3b0c 8y ago
> In my opinion, if you're a start-up and you've got all those boxes checked, you're possibly doing the right things in the wrong order, and that's a red flag for me. In my opinion, that depends on the experience&#x2F
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by e3b0c 8y ago
You probably underestimate the mindset difference between the American's skepticism toward the government (as this thread shows) and how the Chinese tend to see their government as a parental role. When a U.S company refuses to be comp
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by e3b0c 8y ago
Both Chinese and Americans can protest about the US government's scandals on an internet forum hosted on the US, not the other way around though.
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by e3b0c 8y ago
You reasoning misses an important aspect: the incentives. Does China government have the incentives to take the advantages when it has the opportunity? Does Huawei have the incentives/disincentives to/not to respond to the demands
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by e3b0c 8y ago
The difference is when the US government does something nasty, it's relatively transparent and accountable. It is not the case for the China government.
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by e3b0c 8y ago
Does it also imply that a non-blocking event loop in the userspace application is energy-inefficient? Likewise, given that some OSes APIs (syscalls) provide both non-blocking and blocking modes, should we prefer the blocking ones concerning
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by e3b0c 8y ago
> The RoC consider themselves the rightful "China" too. That's a minority/extremity opinion which isn't remotely prevalent even among those who feel intimate with China. It used to be the 'political-correct&
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by e3b0c 8y ago
For companies, those who have much bigger stakes in China are suffering (e.g., Foxconn). But there are also companies benefiting from the trade war since they don't incur the extra cost like their China-based competitors. The companies
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by e3b0c 8y ago
Now that the binary size issue has finally come into the spotlight thanks to the WebAssembly, hopefully, embedded devs could benefit from the future efforts of size reduction too.
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by e3b0c 8y ago
As the article points out, the company's turnover rate surged and the quality of employees went down. What the article does not address seems to be the changes to the incentive structure after the transition. Which I believe contribute
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by e3b0c 8y ago
Not necessarily. I am afraid that such sentiment would be priced in as well. If people are so certain about the market, the price would be led by the expectation rather than the fundamental.

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