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Re:Why is history always about humans?
on Friday July 20, 2018 @07:20PM (#17579777)
For humans, elephants are write-only memory.
Re:The Wrong Abstraction (2016)
on Friday July 20, 2018 @07:18PM (#17579765)
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.
Re:The Wrong Abstraction (2016)
on Friday July 20, 2018 @07:11PM (#17579739)
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 than simply not having created the shared component in the first place.
Re:Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine
on Thursday July 19, 2018 @03:40PM (#17569605)
The sun is radioactive. Sunlight is not radioactive, it's radiation.
Re:Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine
on Thursday July 19, 2018 @03:38PM (#17569595)
How would you feel if your body temperature increased 3%? Barely visible in a 0-based graph.
Re:Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine
on Thursday July 19, 2018 @03:36PM (#17569574)
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.
Re:Federal Reserve chair says decline in workers' share of profits 've...
on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @06:06PM (#17553882)
That doesn't help people who are getting paid less for doing useful work with the skills they already have.
Re:Federal Reserve chair says decline in workers' share of profits 've...
on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @06:01PM (#17553844)
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.
Re:Federal Reserve chair says decline in workers' share of profits 've...
on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @05:59PM (#17553827)
Tyranny of minority isn't better than tyranny of the majority.
Re:Federal Reserve chair says decline in workers' share of profits 've...
on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @05:58PM (#17553815)
housing, food, clothing, and energy must be paid for before the rest of income is invested. 20% annual growth of 0 is 0.
Re:Federal Reserve chair says decline in workers' share of profits 've...
on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @05:56PM (#17553801)
If you don't have high wages you can't buy stock.
Re:Federal Reserve chair says decline in workers' share of profits 've...
on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @05:52PM (#17553771)
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.
Re:Federal Reserve chair says decline in workers' share of profits 've...
on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @05:50PM (#17553757)
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.
Re:Federal Reserve chair says decline in workers' share of profits 've...
on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @05:49PM (#17553746)
Please don't toss around stereotyping caricatures.
Re:Federal Reserve chair says decline in workers' share of profits 've...
on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @05:47PM (#17553734)
I will as soon as I get some wages for my work, but unfortunately that's unlikely, per the OP article.
Re:Federal Reserve chair says decline in workers' share of profits 've...
on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @05:47PM (#17553732)
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.)
Re:Federal Reserve chair says decline in workers' share of profits 've...
on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @05:44PM (#17553714)
That's a start, but land is only a small fraction of capital.
Re:Health Insurers Are Vacuuming Up Details About Customers
on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @04:45PM (#17553195)
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 that kill you before you need long-expensive term care.
Re:Did Qatar pay a billion dollar ransom?
on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @02:47PM (#17552068)
"Connections - Episode 1: The Trigger Effect"
https://www".dailymotion.com/video/x4e30ki
The punchline is at 29minutes
Re:Learning advanced math by drawing, playing with beach balls and kni...
on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @02:38PM (#17551994)
I'll defer to the math professor on this one.
Re:Learning advanced math by drawing, playing with beach balls and kni...
on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @02:34PM (#17551958)
https://csunplugged.org is not exactly but might be nice.
Re:Learning advanced math by drawing, playing with beach balls and kni...
on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @02:33PM (#17551949)
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.
Re:Learning advanced math by drawing, playing with beach balls and kni...
on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @02:32PM (#17551931)
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/haskell-program...
Re:Backblaze Durability Is Eleven 9s – And Why It Doesn’t Matter
on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @02:25PM (#17551877)
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.
Re:White House earmarks over $1B for quantum technology research
on Friday July 13, 2018 @07:55PM (#17527822)
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?
Re:The Haskell School of Music – From Signals to Symphonies (2014) [pdf]
on Friday July 13, 2018 @06:02PM (#17527192)
She also wrote a Python port:
https://github.com/donya/PythonEuterpea
(I don't know how complete it is.)
Re:‘Find Your Passion’ Is Awful Advice
on Friday July 13, 2018 @05:12PM (#17526735)
Hauling trash in USA is a terrible job. Overflowing with criminals and safety hazards.
https://features.propublica.org/sanitation-salvage/sanitatio...
Re:‘Find Your Passion’ Is Awful Advice
on Friday July 13, 2018 @05:09PM (#17526718)
"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 sponge.
"Tying your shoes" is for mundane but necessary tasks. "Sharpening your saw" is for tangential work that indirectly makes your output better.
Re:Amazon’s share of the US e-commerce market is now 49%
on Friday July 13, 2018 @04:38PM (#17526498)
What does "modern" mean?
Re:Amazon’s share of the US e-commerce market is now 49%
on Friday July 13, 2018 @04:38PM (#17526495)
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?