kolpa

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by kolpa 8y ago
For humans, elephants are write-only memory.
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by kolpa 8y ago
You don't need to undo the abstraction, just opt out: Fork the shared artifact and modify or rewrite the copy (prune useless parts) as you need.
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by kolpa 8y ago
People often forget "copy-on-write". Coupling doesn't have to be permanent. If refactor to create a sahred component, and then you want to modify a shared component to help one client, you can fork it -- it's not worse t
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by kolpa 8y ago
The sun is radioactive. Sunlight is not radioactive, it's radiation.
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by kolpa 8y ago
How would you feel if your body temperature increased 3%? Barely visible in a 0-based graph.
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by kolpa 8y ago
0 is only relevant for linear utility/impact functions The effect of an isotope isn't necessarily linear in its magnitude from 0. The baseline should be something that matters, like maximum safe dose.
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by kolpa 8y ago
That doesn't help people who are getting paid less for doing useful work with the skills they already have.
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by kolpa 8y ago
Businesses don't have to sell stock. They can finance via debt, and many do. Annual reporting has nothing to do with how people response to the value of a company.
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by kolpa 8y ago
Tyranny of minority isn't better than tyranny of the majority.
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by kolpa 8y ago
housing, food, clothing, and energy must be paid for before the rest of income is invested. 20% annual growth of 0 is 0.
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by kolpa 8y ago
If you don't have high wages you can't buy stock.
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by kolpa 8y ago
The average American has no particular reason to stick with a "savings account". They could buy equities and ETFs that are as simple as savings accounts.
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by kolpa 8y ago
To be charitable, the Fed runs the money supply, but they don't control who gets the money. It's the job of Congress to regulate corporations and unions and minimum-wage and all that jazz.
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by kolpa 8y ago
Please don't toss around stereotyping caricatures.
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by kolpa 8y ago
I will as soon as I get some wages for my work, but unfortunately that's unlikely, per the OP article.
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by kolpa 8y ago
It's not even a relevant comparison. "Corporations" don't spend profits on luxuries for themselves. Their human owners do. Owners pay capital gains tax (which you can argue is too high or low or too easily avoided.)
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by kolpa 8y ago
That's a start, but land is only a small fraction of capital.
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by kolpa 8y ago
Insurers are paid in premiums, not health outcomes. An insurance company is incentivized to help avoid costly claims, but if you are likely to make costly claims, and they can't drop you, they are incentivized toward healthcare choices
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by kolpa 8y ago
"Connections - Episode 1: The Trigger Effect" https://www".dailymotion.com/video/x4e30ki The punchline is at 29minutes
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by kolpa 8y ago
I'll defer to the math professor on this one.
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by kolpa 8y ago
https://csunplugged.org is not exactly but might be nice.
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by kolpa 8y ago
Brains think brains are the best problem-solvers. Eyes see eyes as the most beautiful part of the body. Skin feels that skin is the best part to touch.
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by kolpa 8y ago
Obviously a place called Strange Loop is going to biased towards knitting and biased away from Haskell. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop_knitting https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21505192&#x
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by kolpa 8y ago
It's vanishingly unlikely that a bug would affect all their drives (across all recent models, and only after burn-in) simultaneously, unless the drives are managed by a remote server with a SPOF.
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by kolpa 8y ago
What happens when an "anonymous hacker" finds a way to adjust the trajectory of a satellite, and someone needs to rapid response dispose of the rerouted satellite safely?
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by kolpa 8y ago
She also wrote a Python port: https://github.com/donya/PythonEuterpea (I don't know how complete it is.)
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by kolpa 8y ago
Hauling trash in USA is a terrible job. Overflowing with criminals and safety hazards. https://features.propublica.org/sanitation-salvage/sanitatio...
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by kolpa 8y ago
"Yak shaving" is for things that seem ridiculous at first glance but turn out to be necessary or optimal due to unexpected constraints and requirement -- washing your car requires you to shave a yak to get the wool to build a sp
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by kolpa 8y ago
What does "modern" mean?
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by kolpa 8y ago
Amazon is better than brick and mortar because Amazon fails to deliver after a week, but a brick and mortar store fulfilled in 15 minutes?

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