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by venning 2y ago
It may be worth pointing out: these are equivalent comparisons when testing for even numbers but cannot be extrapolated to testing for odd numbers. The reason being that a negative odd number modulus 2 is -1, not 1. So `n % 2 == 1` sho
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by venning 2y ago
From the linked study: [1] Total operational water "footprint" of data centers in 2018: 5.13 * 10^8 m^3. Of that, indirect consumption through electricity generation: 3.83 * 10^8 m^3, or 74.7%. And indirect consumption related t
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by venning 6y ago
> ... 1906 ... to 1932 ... as the period of her infection of others ... That's still not 38 years ... I never stated that she infected others for 38 years. Being an asymptomatic carrier does not require continually infecting othe
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by venning 6y ago
The Wikipedia article doesn't cover everything. Reference for the sibling comment: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3959940/
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by venning 6y ago
"Typhoid Mary" was an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid fever for at least 38 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mallon
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by venning 8y ago
> I think even the VAT is added on checkout to the price No. VAT in Germany is not charged to American servicemen and women and dependants. This is covered under the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) [1]. One may also receive reimbu
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by venning 8y ago
It just worked for me. Opened the "web" link in an Incognito tab on Android Chrome.
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by venning 8y ago
> ...Americans use 500 million plastic straws a day ... hundreds of thousands of straws are found littering coastlines around the world each year... If "hundreds of thousands" means 500 thousand, then this is saying that 0.00
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by venning 8y ago
As a counterpoint, I found it to be very helpful in understanding the information presented. The animals breakdown (Chart B) contains 10 values, ranging from 1 Gt to 0.002 Gt. That's a difference of 500x. That's a bit hard to
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by venning 8y ago
I can't find the source for this but, as I recall, HN has a system where certain new or recent submissions are artificially promoted to a low position on the front page for a few minutes to see if they gain traction naturally. Also, I
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by venning 8y ago
As a former car salesperson, I can tell you that, in the state of Virginia, car sales contracts are not valid until the customer has physically taken possession of the vehicle. As a result, we were always very reticent to sell a car "
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by venning 8y ago
According to CNBC: > Those reservation holders must pay an additional $2,500 to turn their reservations into an order, at which point the original $1,000 deposit goes toward the overall payment for the car. Buyers can cancel their order
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by venning 8y ago
Ah, thank you. I see now there are better articles. I'll update the original comment.
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by venning 8y ago
But the article isn't about offering deposits. It's about ordering.
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by venning 8y ago
Last I read, Tesla is holding $985MM in customer deposits. [1] Now they are asking for, I'm assuming, full payment for cars starting at $48,000. However, the soonest one can be delivered is in "two to four months" and that&
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by venning 8y ago
You started by questioning jail time, then brought in the SEC. Now you're stating the SEC doesn't deal with industrial sabotage and talking about fines, which no one else mentioned. As for actual jail time, here [1] is a single e
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by venning 8y ago
> the hundreds of $1000 spent just defending his short position through hiring former Herbalife people, funding legal campaigns, funding support groups You are describing entirely legal actions. Sabotage and (this form of) industrial
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by venning 8y ago
I've always seen <base> as somewhat analogous to with in JavaScript, whose usage is strongly discouraged [1]. Recent exploits using <base> seem to confirm that a bit. [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-
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by venning 8y ago
Mods, can you change this to the original source article? https://blog.secondmeasure.com/2018/06/04/tesla-faces-accele...
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by venning 8y ago
> I've read 12% somewhere In the article. Musk stated 12% last August.
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by venning 8y ago
A quick Googling says they are Summer class of 2015.
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by venning 8y ago
The point I was trying to make is that, in practice, everyone will run at full optimization, since that's the point of something like Closure. It's not gzip where "good enough" exists sometimes. JavaScript compilers
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by venning 8y ago
It's been a while since I looked at Closure's codebase but, as I recall, the individual optimizations are not loosely overlaid, but somewhat dependent on each other and specifically ordered, so "lower optimization levels&quot
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by venning 8y ago
> a global optimizing compile tends to be dominated by the O(f(x)) of the optimization passes Really good point. Closure Compiler, at least historically, rejected many valid optimizations because they aren't common enough to just
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by venning 8y ago
This article contains a dead link in the third paragraph marked as "bugs the lead language designer". Here is an archive.org link from the same time period: https://web.archive.org/web/20140822173033/htt
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by venning 8y ago
Towards the end of the Introduction, they have a paragraph where they discuss how the study intends to test the "greater male variability hypothesis", something I had not heard of before. They reference other studies which have sh
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by venning 8y ago
Mods, perhaps "Sex Differences in the Adult Human Brain: Evidence from 5216 Participants" would be less editorialized while not overly long.
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by venning 8y ago
There are a couple mentions in this article that reference marketing emails and consent and the GDPR affecting them. I'm pretty sure this is wrong. The Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR) govern marketing communi
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by venning 8y ago
In which case, continued usage of obsolete headers is to Fastly's benefit. Turning them off saves the customer money. For what it's worth, the author is listed as a "Developer Advocate".
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by venning 8y ago
No. Object.keys() does not allow iteration on strings or `arguments` or HTMLCollections. It only returns an array of indices not values. You can call Array#forEach() on the resultant array, but you'd need another iteratee signatur

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