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by tdg 9y ago
My reply is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16398806
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by tdg 9y ago
I don't get it. He says there are IQ differences between people. Who are these "people" if not men and women? He either means men are smarter or he just randomly went on a tangent. Let me ask you, when he says there are IQ di
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by tdg 9y ago
Here (section "Why we are blind"): "[...] the Left tends to deny science concerning biological differences between people (e.g., IQ and sex differences)" I don't know how else to read that other than "men are s
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by tdg 9y ago
It definitely mentions it. Here (section "Why we are blind"): "[...] the Left tends to deny science concerning biological differences between people (e.g., IQ and sex differences)" I don't know how else to read tha
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by tdg 10y ago
Some states in US allow you to take a photo of your ballot. This means they can already do the things you mention. But they don't, because it is illegal. It will continue to remain illegal. If you are very worried about such a scenario
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by tdg 10y ago
This idea encrypts your ballot with your voter ID + some secret key that you know and creates encrypted data E. It, then, publishes a (E, your ballot) pair. Since only you can decrypt E, others won't know how you vote.
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If the age of self-driving cars is upon us, what's keeping them off the roads?(theguardian.com)
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by tdg 12y ago
Hmm, turns out I am wrong about the second point. Obj-C does not store the refcount in the pointer address: https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2013-09-27-arm64-an... They store it in isa field. Still, as long as
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by tdg 12y ago
I don't get how your code works. Why do you decrement first, then increment? Regardless, your explanation is mostly correct. There will be an incref/decref pair for most accesses. However, LLVM (and Apple's refcount implement
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by tdg 13y ago
Not to be nitpicking but a common criticism of China is that they manipulate their currency to _increase_ the value of dollar not devalue it.
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by tdg 13y ago
This is not PFS but a simplified example of how you may not be able to decrypt a conversation with one side's private key: Server X and User Y are communicating. Some guy Z has X's private key. Z is also passively listening the co
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by tdg 13y ago
A lot of Keynesian economists are arguing that now is not the time for austerity. The government's current mission should be to lower employment even if it means higher deficits (and debt) _for now_. Once we are out of this slump, the argum
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by tdg 14y ago
Simple. You use unique smart pointers if you do not know the size of your data at compile time.
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by tdg 14y ago
Last year had an extra week. So per-week profit is higher (which is what should matter).
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by tdg 14y ago
Goroutines are extremely lightweight. It is common to run hundreds of thousands of them on one machine. (The main reason for that is goroutines start off with a very small stack and extend it as necessary) It is up to executorService to dec
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by tdg 14y ago
That's exactly like BigTable[1]. It makes sense that they built on top of that. [1] http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrust...
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by tdg 14y ago
First of all, congratulations on what seems to be a very well executed rewrite. That being said, it will be interesting to see how this compares to all the stories about dangers of rewriting. I definitely want to see an update in a few mont