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finitemonkey

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    Comment #36461323

    > Having roommates in late 30s out of necessity rather than choice 1. It's not as bad as you describe it. Not for tech workers, at least. Please go to the lady working at Walmart a…

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    Comment #36461295

    You might want to check what the difference between mean and marginal tax rate is. For somebody with a lifestyle in which $162k a year is considered "barey livable" that should be …

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    Comment #36443075

    Oh yeah. The media. How convenient. Nobody would have an interest in this if it wasn't for "the media" pushing for a story.

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    Comment #36443062

    He's still busy microchipping everybody in the west, you know..

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    Comment #36443057

    At age 19, you can disconnect from your parents if they do dumb things you don't agree with and drag yourself down. Quite literally in this case. It can impact your life financiall…

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    Comment #36438885

    > It's like climbing Everest, They died close to the shipwreck. Maybe the Titanic site will slowly fill up with corpses, just like Everest is doing. > Of course all lives should be…

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    Comment #36438812

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    Comment #36433620

    > likely brains of people in subordinate positions syncing with brains of people in dominate positions might have advantage surviving an organized social structures through human h…

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    Comment #36428455

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    Comment #36425159

    > On the other hand, knowing the complexity of all algorithms and blindly assuming "good complexity = good performance" while never checking is a recipe for desaster. Exactly. That…

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    Comment #36425133

    > They said “basically,” so no need to nitpick. The inflationary use of "infinite" especially in tech crowds that should know better deserves pushback. There are models of computat…

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    Comment #36414840

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    Comment #36414793

    Apollo 1 has been too long ago. Collective memory fades. Each generation seems to need its own disasters to keep its safety standards up.

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    Comment #36414763

    > and now they are incredibly powerful but can take basically infinite memory and time. Which is why the "RE" in the article is excrutiatingly slow, given that it needs to perform …

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    Comment #36414731

    > The machine I'm using to type this comment is also a finite state machine, as due to having non-infinite memory, it also cannot count arbitrarily high. Right. And if you really w…