2zcon

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by 2zcon 7y ago
>you would need something else other than just possession of a number to make that possession illegal. Yes, the index, which would itself be the encoding of the file. It's just Huffman coding optimising for the ratio between a circl
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by 2zcon 7y ago
Not currency, unless you're a forex trader. And not if you're aiming to collect a dividend* or to exert control over a company. *In the tech hysteria, it's easy to forget that this is where the fundamental value comes from.
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by 2zcon 7y ago
This figure includes the second phase up to Liverpool
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by 2zcon 7y ago
I find many (other) cyclists' safety arguments don't place enough emphasis on the danger of annoying someone in a car. They can hurt you intentionally and they can get away with it.
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by 2zcon 7y ago
I find pulling up Wikipedia easier than carrying the book, albeit not when it references the book!
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by 2zcon 7y ago
It's a pet belief of mine that Guinness World Records are a 'scam'. The big sporting records, like fastest 100 m sprint, are actually tracked by the sports bodies. What say they have in the matter is its own debate (e.g. ther
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by 2zcon 7y ago
It's exactly the reason people think particles know they're being observed
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by 2zcon 7y ago
It takes a very low false-positive rate before most of the people you're catching are just nervous, not cheaters.
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by 2zcon 7y ago
That must take a lot of memory, Clang @ -j16 gets OOMed on my machine.
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by 2zcon 7y ago
If I drive my UK small-city commute by car, it's mostly stop-start traffic through 20/30 mph roads. It won't help on the motorway but the carbon efficient replacement for that is a train, not an EV.
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by 2zcon 7y ago
Read it again. Those are examples that need a presence.
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by 2zcon 7y ago
>A year later, Walnut Tree Farm was bought by a couple, Jasmin and Titus Rowlandson, who have maintained his commitment to ungentrified country living...it is warmed by an Aga stove. There's not much more gentric than an Aga
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by 2zcon 7y ago
Ah, but they got their money from zooplankton.
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by 2zcon 7y ago
Following the money is an unconvincing argument that leads to publicly traded companies being mostly nationless, Nissan being primarily French, Jaguar being primarily Indian, and WeWork being fully Japanese.
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by 2zcon 7y ago
That's fine. You don't have to use every rule, you just have to express why you're choosing not to use them. That's why they're separated into categories.
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by 2zcon 7y ago
Or we could stagnate for 30 years, like Japan, and be forced to start drawing down before it has a chance to grow. You don't get a Mulligan. The current fetishisation of index funds - which I am entirely complicit in - seems to be base
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by 2zcon 7y ago
You're not including the defined contribution retirement plans, which are a vehicle for investment. N.B. I believe 'pension' ≡ 'defined benefit' is an American English thing, which may the source of the confusion. I