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WesternStar··on Startups that debuted at Y Combinator W17 Demo Day 2
Its 9 billion in america alone. 500 million /15 million adult black women is $33 which isn't even enough to buy the hair needed for a weave and much less than the cost of a service like dreads or braids. Maybe more like 50 billion but its definitely more than 500 million
WesternStar··on Ask HN: Leave job right before app goes to production?
Bus factor. You could die they would still have to go on. Move on.
WesternStar··on Intro to Computational Physics
Looks cool. Any way you can share the notes?
WesternStar··on Let researchers try new paths
I am saying that scientists should dabble. In fact we should force them to dabble.
WesternStar··on Applying the Linus Torvalds “Good Taste” Coding Requirement
Here is also a somewhat representative example of various grid initialization pay attention to version 3 where the compiler unrolls the loop in O3 its likely the fastest version. https://godbolt.org/g/mMBhuW
WesternStar··on Applying the Linus Torvalds “Good Taste” Coding Requirement
For the curious like me who wanted to see the assembly for the Linus examples and compare https://godbolt.org/g/sqdBrf. Most importantly they have the exact same number of branches and their loops are exactly the same size 4 instructions on all opt levels greater than 02. The setup code for the first one is much longer.
WesternStar··on Poor kids who do things right don't do better than rich kids who do things wrong
No you misunderstand people talk about and pretend to care about the latter. Unless you actually know what those experiences are like. It is very unlikely that a white man is going to go to the top graduate school in the country and discover that they don't give white people Phds. Black people can't say the same.
WesternStar··on ITT Technical Institutes Shuts Down
If you've never sold its kind of hard to understand but doormats are people who have nothing to offer and who's time isn't valuable. Part of selling things to people is selling yourself. People with high value are allowed to be arrogant and rude , in moderation.
WesternStar··on Show HN: A header only C++11 LRU Cache template class, with no dependencies
Looks like your insert function is missing an else . You're creating a new node when each time you find an existing node in the map.
WesternStar··on An Expat Has Time to Reflect, Now That the Party’s Over
http://watchdog.org/252413/nanny-state-pagedale-missouri-fin...
WesternStar··on LLVM based Just-in-Time-Compiler for C++
Why would I use this over Cling?
WesternStar··on How Black People Are Being Shut Out of America's Weed Boom
In this article they attempt to list area stopped and income as factors unrelated to race that should be controlled for. Do you think that's reasonable? Do those things have nothing to do with race in your world?
WesternStar··on U.S. predicts zero job growth for electrical engineers
I'm confused if there ever was a field at the intersection of Physics and Informatics, EE has got to be it. Shannon literally invented information theory....
WesternStar··on Faraday Future picks Nevada over California to build a $1B plant
Totally fine for California. I'm deeply convinced that tax incentives have negative impacts on the places that offer them. They only seem to attract race to the bottom businesses.
WesternStar··on Ways to Avoid Complexity in Modern C++ [pdf]
Of the listed features he suggests. All of them are C++11 features that are supported in Clang,GCC and VS. Which gets you the 3 major platforms for computing,mobile and cloud computing and through ARM the vast majority of cost effective embedded hardware.
WesternStar··on If Sweden and Germany Became US States, They Would Be Among the Poorest States
The Ludwig von Mises institute is certainly not apolitical by any stretch.
WesternStar··on Struct Iteration Through Abuse of the C Preprocessor
I had the same question #pragma pack works just fine.
WesternStar··on Computer Scientists Wield Artificial Intelligence to Battle Tax Evasion
Someguy who lives in Brooklyn. Has a trust fund.Tells you about how great he is and how the man is always keeping him down.
WesternStar··on St. Louis Fed official: No evidence QE boosted economy
While I agree that that both corruption and favoritism have negative effects on the investment environment and civil society. Wouldn't the money wasted in corruption and favoritism drive inflation even if only in the direct cost of the projects themselves.
WesternStar··on Ask HN: Books with a high signal to noise ratio?
Lately I've been reading about the functional artist and writer because ultimately they do similar work to what we do. Our work is more concrete and has definite correctness but at least for me some of the admonishments towards Craftsmanship are good. I'm Reading Art and Fear at the moment. On Writing Well is also good.
WesternStar··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2015)
Location: Melbourne,FL(relocation only) Remote: No Willing to Relocate: Yes Technologies: Python,C++ Resume:www.linkedin.com/in/alvinmcnair email:alvin.mcnair@gmail.com
WesternStar··on Ask HN: What made you choose your current career?
Got a degree in Physics when I was doing grad trips but had a conversation in the basement of a STEM dept in the northeast where I discovered that for people of my race they would have exactly one grad student and they would graduate them with a masters 7 years later(One of the kids from my school went and he has two masters they were ranked #1 at the time and I believe still are). At that point I decided grad school was too much of a risk. I worked in phones for 3 years, mostly technical support and I loved it it was easy for me. So I went back and did a degree in Computer Engineering which I loved and presented some really fun challenges and now I'm looking for something with smarter coworkers than my current government affiliated work.
WesternStar··on A note on Piketty and diminishing returns to capital (2014) [pdf]
The Swiss central bank is currently charging an interest rate of -0.75% on certain cash deposits.
WesternStar··on For Asian Americans, a changing landscape on college admissions
They rescaled the test in 1990 so that the std deviation would be 200 points. So if that's the case that's really odd.
WesternStar··on For Asian Americans, a changing landscape on college admissions
Yes but no one takes the writing portion as a real measure of anything concerning scholastic ability and its the most coach-able part of the test and even back when I was taking it a 200 point difference was taken to be no guarantee of differing levels of academic ability.
WesternStar··on [dead]
I have to be honest this reads like " I don't notice the problem so it must not exist.". Just because people don't feel comfortable talking to you about it, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
WesternStar··on Putin's Crimea Grab Shows He Misunderstands 21st Century Power
I didn't discuss Saddam because he was largely irrelevant to our strategic goals. The supporter I'm referring to is the ordinary citizen who helps to facilitate and fund the jihadi. Those 100k civilians were the medium for the message.

If those insurgents are largely focused on local state control that is a net win for the United States in my opinion.

WesternStar··on Putin's Crimea Grab Shows He Misunderstands 21st Century Power
I think they were. You have to look at the situation the US was in a the time. Long quagmires are politically untenable in the US and Afghanistan is the most tactically difficult terrain in the history of the world. Additionally my enemies really aren't states so much as a political movement who survives largely through the tacit support of the surrounding population. I need an easy war and I need a place to kill terrorists and expose the indifferent to the effects of their violence. Whether or not that was the stated purpose that was the effect of the Iraq war. I would argue that excluding the real dollar cost it was probably one of the most successful wars in American history.

As for Libya well to be honest it is no longer in America's interest to ensure stability in the middle east. In fact given the long reach of unhappy middle eastern people its our job to make sure they express that unhappiness right at home. The Libyan people are doing that right now.

WesternStar··on Perkins suggests rich should get more votes
It really doesn't matter how many votes you have if you're dead.
WesternStar··on Tech's Gender and Race Gap Starts in High School
Personally, I think they are underrepresented in technology leadership.
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