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by BlackFly 2y ago
It's not misunderstood. People also have costs some of which are tax deductible, yet their income is seen to be completely taxed before costs are deducted. In both personal and corporate taxes, some costs are deductible and others not.
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by BlackFly 2y ago
There is no distinction in logic between a positive statement and a negative statement. Every proof of a proposition P is also a proof of !Q where Q = !P. Proof by contradiction is just that, assume P -> get contradiction, therefore proo
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by BlackFly 2y ago
Well when you are building a feature that can only be appreciated by a subculture of people (privacy advocates), and they complain about the most basic faux pas that you could do in their culture (not asking them before you phone home with
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by BlackFly 2y ago
> Because it protects you from nasty surprises, it slows down the codebase’s progression into a mess, and it allows you to take advantage of future improvements. The codebase is already a nasty surprise for people coming in from the outs
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by BlackFly 2y ago
The very difference between somewhat and full homomorphic encryption hinges on this leakage as explained in the paper. The definition of differential privacy as well. They directly admit to leaking a certain amount of information by stating
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by BlackFly 2y ago
This discussion got quite long without anyone mentioning the novel technical implementation paper "Scalable Private Search with Wally". Kudos to Apple for researching this, but shame on them for enabling this by default. As a some
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by BlackFly 2y ago
FRAND registry of copyrighted works. The registry would be provably connected to the creator, the royalty rate would be published ahead of time based on use. Infringement could be seen as accidental at first instance and royalty rates charg
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by BlackFly 2y ago
Because microservices have a granularity that allows a sort of distinction as an architecture that a big ball of mud cannot provide. The sign that the design is bad in the first case is that the services are far too chatty, but that is not
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by BlackFly 2y ago
It is precisely a sum type, no? https://go.dev/play/p/xlRegSDYytg As defined, the set of the type Ordered is exactly the sum of all elements of int, uint and string. The intersection of int and string would be emp
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by BlackFly 2y ago
Containers are sort of the leading order use of generics: I put something in and want to statically get that type back (so no cast, still safe). Second use I usually find is when I have some structs with some behavior and some associated bu
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by BlackFly 2y ago
> how customers navigate their store [a]isles. Sure, physical stores can do that in certain way, certainly they cannot reverse pickpocket GPS trackers into our pockets or stalk us around the city. You can ask your customers how they fou
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by BlackFly 2y ago
You are not EU based, you are not a processor/controller operating in the union, public international law doesn't grant EU law jurisdiction: the GDPR has no direct effect on you. It could be that you are running ads and your ad pr
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by BlackFly 2y ago
> but cyclists feel they are exempt from the rules of traffic, making the situation worse in some immature act of defiance. The vast majority of drivers are continuously violating laws. On top of the continuous speeding violation (+10-15
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by BlackFly 2y ago
> I am not compelled to look to my right as I am timing my turn because I am not expecting traffic to be there since a right turn has you crossing zero lanes of traffic and merging with on-coning that would be on your left. Except you m
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by BlackFly 2y ago
Observing someone by chance in public is protected. Stalking them is generally a crime, although jurisdictions differ in their inclusion of surveillance (without contact or purpose) only as a form of stalking. Generally speaking, if someone
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by BlackFly 2y ago
You might be interested in this classic pdf: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/steele.pdf (Growing a language) Without those function names that you talk about, you wouldn't really recogni
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by BlackFly 2y ago
> If you ever change machine or do pair programming or whatever where you are not using your highly-tweaked config, and you are essentially a frustrated jibbering wreck Not really, for much of the same reasons that I don't lose it w
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by BlackFly 2y ago
In the EU such clauses are voidable under the Unfair contract terms directive. Basically any contract term that creates a high imbalance between the rights and obligations favoring the business in the face of the customer is considered to b
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by BlackFly 2y ago
Your quotes are actually reinforcing and not detracting from the point I was trying to make. Because it is a question of tradeoffs, for some people the robustness principle could be argued against right from the start. Lots of strict protoc
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by BlackFly 2y ago
Early spec of TCP had a section on the robustness principle that was generally known as Postel's law ( https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc761#section-2.10 ). At the time and until recently this was consid
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by BlackFly 2y ago
Not once did I mention unit testing. What I mentioned was an adapter and port. If you can only run against a postgres database, your integration test is going to require setup and be slow. If you can easily swap the postgres adapter out for
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by BlackFly 2y ago
This sort of response on second thought seems like a knee-jerk, but in the off chance that you might be open to seeing the perspective that values a hexagonal architecture. You always have two concrete implementations: the production applic
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by BlackFly 2y ago
Yes, potentially, but my understanding by following this case and others is that the EU has no legislation on taxes other than non-discrimination. So there is no EU law to supercede Irish law.
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by BlackFly 2y ago
Buying cosmetics in games is basically just playing digital barbie, and I do not mean that pejoratively. Dressing up dolls (both male and female) is an activity loved by people of all ages and genders. Pay to win has its defenders from peop
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by BlackFly 2y ago
Sure, Ireland did wrong by insinuating to Apple that they could have special treatment when in fact EU law prohibits it, but Apple failed to pay the prevailing tax rates which can be demanded long after the fact. Ireland has sovereign immun
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by BlackFly 2y ago
This article appears to simply be UK propaganda to convince UK citizens not to copy German regulation. The argument seems to be that they are addicted to older industry and thus their economic growth (dubiously but traditionally measured vi
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by BlackFly 2y ago
I always thought the real reason was that the cadence of the lessons more closely matched what is possible for a person of average or above intelligence who was motivated to learn. The rate at which information is taught to children in scho
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by BlackFly 2y ago
Well, I have personally had luck with this. It took a very long time after the initial laws on digital content for refunds to become widely available but it happened. I am doing my part, I do not share your cynicism here. To me it appears t
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by BlackFly 2y ago
They answer the questions to their ability and their purpose. They are not courts and are thus not finders of fact. If you phrase a question that would get them to act as one then their correct course of action is to simply state which rele
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by BlackFly 2y ago
Vote with your money is by definition an approval of oligarchy, not democracy. It is appalling it is so common a refrain nowadays. People with more money shouldn't necessarily get more say in our society's norms. You are free to y

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