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My reply is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16398806

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.…

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 r…

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)"…

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…

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 decr…

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 sto…

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. …

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.

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…

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 (a…

Simple. You use unique smart pointers if you do not know the size of your data at compile time.

Last year had an extra week. So per-week profit is higher (which is what should matter).

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 an…

That's exactly like BigTable[1]. It makes sense that they built on top of that. [1] http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrust...

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…