doubles

Unums shouldn't be seen as better than ints, longs, floats, or doubles anymore than a double is seen as better than an int.

But for numerical computation, it seems like the only real flaw with unums compared to doubles is the nonexistence of a hardware implementation, and the existing popularity of doubles.

Yes, but Flash alone doubles the attack vector of a browser - that's nothing to be sneezed at.

Especially when computing with doubles, a relative error in the order of 2^-53 = ~10^-16 isn't really significant.

She says -- correctly -- that a CT scan during pregnancy doubles the risk of leukemia.

Bestio is like a your own personal Product Hunt - that doubles as a favorites journal.

Also working on a LeanPub book that doubles as framework documentation for our company until complete.

A fresh lake gets infested with algae and the amount of algae doubles every day.

This also doubles as an easy way to resize the viewport when testing responsive design/media queries without resizing the entire window.

So obviously a single socket connection doubles the number of users a single box can handle - does it actually scale that way??

As another commenter said, it doubles your attack surface and for little benefit.

Apart from the minimalism I feel that the extension doubles up to hinder procrastination since the list is visible every time you fire up the browser or open a new tab.

Performance is too complicated to just say "CPU X doubles perf"..

On reading "doubles" my brain went "2^x" by reflex.

I would argue that unums are a "superior replacement" for doubles in many cases, though: in the case that you support unums that are "wide" enough, you can represent doubles exactly, plus you have additional values, plus some nice rules about when approximation error occurs/is propagated and not as many bits need to be stored or moved around on buses.

> Scott Sumner explaining how all capital income taxes are additive w.r.t labor income tax He certainly asserts that income tax "doubles [sic] taxes the money saved, once as wages, and again as capital income." But this is a ludicrous assertion, since the part taxed as labor income is not taxed as capital income.