srssays

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by srssays 9y ago
The US hardly lacks collectivism, it is merely on an incomprehensibly grand scale. Pay your taxes and the state will help you, evade them and the state will punish you. Certain African countries are strongly individualistic. The state is to
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by srssays 9y ago
Except for Vietnam!
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by srssays 9y ago
> Linked lists are a very convenient and surprisingly universal data structure, but they really shine wherever you have a recursive algorithm. Which is, in the languages mentioned, almost all the time. Linked lists were way ahead of thei
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by srssays 9y ago
!! is an extremely common idiom, across multiple different programming languages. Code should be written so that it is understandable by other professional programmers, not people who started programming two weeks ago.
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by srssays 9y ago
C++ is somewhat of a low bar, because of the state of the art in package management in C++ land is "download a header-only library". C++ does have sum types in the form of boost::variant, but boost is an abomination. The danger to
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by srssays 9y ago
People who change their religion are often disowned by their family, their spouse might divorce them, etc. It can in no way be considered a choice.
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by srssays 9y ago
Software is written better. In the past, computational complexity was lowered by arbitrary size limits. e.g. if you had a O(n^2) algorithm you might cap n at 10 and now you have a O(1) algorithm. Job done. Now, computational complexity is l
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by srssays 9y ago
Nope. Fruit juice is mostly water. Even raw sugar is only 380 kcal/g, just a bit more than French fries (310 kcal/g). If you're underweight, you should eat food.
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by srssays 9y ago
Apple is $750b company built on one product (iPhone). Their business hangs on a thread. What happens if they have a big recall like Samsung had?
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by srssays 9y ago
It is written by PR people, wire services and politicos. The journalist simply assembles the ready-made components into the lowest energy configuration.
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by srssays 9y ago
Small claims court?
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by srssays 9y ago
Chilies are popular around the world for exactly this reason, that you can take cheap ingredients and, with some chilies, create an appetising meal. Because Britain lacks a (good) cuisine of its own, we tend to eat exclusively the food of o
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by srssays 9y ago
"good" and "bad" are comparisons, not quantifications. The correct question is something like: all else being equal, what is the difference in expected lifespan between a juice drinker and a juice abstainer? I'm pre
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by srssays 9y ago
Perhaps the exception that proves the rule, but TextEdit is open source! https://developer.apple.com/library/content/samplecode/TextE...
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by srssays 9y ago
I don't know about in the US, but in the UK when the Green party attempted to propose UBI they were ridiculed because it would be so expensive. Apparently even the average person can see there are orders of magnitude between the cost o
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by srssays 9y ago
Societal collapse doesn't have to mean going back to the stone age, it could mean e.g. the Iranian revolution. Or for a contemporary example: the Syrian civil war. Even Spain was a dictatorship until 1975. Everybody should consider the
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by srssays 9y ago
How do you pay for tickets in Vienna then? I kind of like the barriers, if you are on the station platform, then you have definitely paid. For me, the stations that don't have barriers are more stressful, as you run the risk of forgett
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by srssays 9y ago
Laptops won over tablets. The whole post-PC era just isn't happening. That is Apple's problem, they're stuck in the year of 2010 and can't escape. Nowadays, people want to have a phone and a laptop. Tablets are dumbed-do
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by srssays 9y ago
The physical resolution of the screen is 2880x1800. The scaled resolution modes work by rendering at 2x then downsampling. So in the mode you quote it is actually rendering at 3840x2400 (!!) then downsampling, but there's still only 28
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by srssays 9y ago
You're ignoring the quality of the teacher. If you learn remotely, you can learn from good (or at least adequate) teachers, at a pace that is right for you. I wish that resources such as Khan Academy existed when I was at school. I don
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by srssays 9y ago
It has its own Snapchat Stories now.
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by srssays 9y ago
The average person eats a diet primarily of carbohydrates, particularly rice. Humans have been high carb diets for the entirety of recorded history. It would be quite the failure of natural selection if eating a normal human diet caused ty
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by srssays 9y ago
Programming sucked before HTTP+JSON became the lingua franca of machine communication. Being able to use any programming language with modern HTTP-based protocols is a real luxury. Before, you could only use a programming language if ha
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by srssays 9y ago
Use Safari then.
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by srssays 9y ago
Electron is great for user experience. Compare to something like JetBrains' IDEs which are written in Java and are much less native feeling than Atom (and just as resource-hungry).
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by srssays 9y ago
For a counterexample see Brexit. The FTSE 100 went up after Brexit, when other economic indicators were negative, because it primarily contains large multinationals which are insulated from the local economy. So a stock market index is on
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by srssays 9y ago
According to archive.org this essay is from at most June 2006, which would put it at Python 2.4 or earlier. The specific performance characteristics of Python will have changed greatly in the intervening period.
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by srssays 9y ago
They are not only similar but indiscernible. There is no single definition of "unemployment", therefore there is no single unemployment percentage.
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by srssays 9y ago
Perhaps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibbutz
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by srssays 9y ago
If we didn't have telescopes, you could make the same argument about the existence of other galaxies.

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