DoveBrown

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by DoveBrown 8y ago
What good things can you be doing with my stored data that you don't need to run your service?
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by DoveBrown 8y ago
I'm not a climatologist but as I understand it when looking at the climate over the long scale there are cycles as the climate changes that are predictable by natural processes (including effects of the Earths orbit and co2 changes). T
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by DoveBrown 8y ago
And health care was a lot worse in the 1960s and before. Let's not pretend that before the 1960s were some golden age. In 1965 infant mortality was 24.7 deaths per live births, in 2016 it was 4.3. Sources: 1965 number from: https:&#x2
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by DoveBrown 8y ago
From your link: "These increases in greenhouse gas concentrations and their marked rate of change are largely attributable to human activities since the Industrial Revolution (1800)." and "Data for the past 2000 years show th
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by DoveBrown 9y ago
A reason to not take on your profit is that your "cost of sales" can be a pretty nebulous concept. How much of your 99M costs is licensing to entities you control in other jurisdictions? I understand why it is fairer have it be pr
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by DoveBrown 9y ago
I really don't understand why corporations are taxed on profit. It produces weird effects such as where a company is better off paying interest on debt rather than dividends on stock. Having the tax be payable on revenue of a corporati
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by DoveBrown 9y ago
> If graphics is not the biggest issue, what is then in your opinion? Graphics is the biggest issue, but the issue isn't at the API level. It's in the driver and hardware differences below that layer. The "tax" as you
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by DoveBrown 9y ago
I agree that cost is a consideration of doing the port. From my experience what renderering API is used at the bottom is a very small factor in that cost calculation. I think where we disagree is that I don't think of the lower level A
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by DoveBrown 9y ago
I disagree with the characterisation that internal engines are less cross platform because of lock-in, the big publishers don't care about lock-in. It's not part of the calculus in deciding whether to support a platform or not. A
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by DoveBrown 9y ago
Sure, there is effort involved, but from my point of view it's a small one (a couple of man months on a project with 50+ coders). I'm going to have to make adjustments between the platforms because the hardware is different. Even
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by DoveBrown 9y ago
It's trivial in the sense that it's low technical risk. I've not worked in the games for a while. At one company with an inhouse engine the rendering backend was initially DirectX9 written mostly by one person. He then implem
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by DoveBrown 9y ago
There is a value to having competition. My guess that if it works out and Nvidia and AMD have it implemented on silicon, then they will push to have those features accessible through a Vulkan interface. I love open standards as much as the
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by DoveBrown 9y ago
Why do providers accept a loss doing treatments for Medicare? If it's a loss per patient, it's a loss and you'll go out of business. What is the advantage for the provider to do any Medicare work?
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by DoveBrown 9y ago
I'd personally prefer if we ameliorated your paid tax so that the rate applied over your entire lifetime earnings. That way you could use the same progressive rate but windfall years aren't a special case and lean years are an exa
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by DoveBrown 9y ago
If you're talking about the Irish referendum's on Lisbon, it wasn't a vote until you said yes. The Irish initially voted no for many reasons but I can tell you that my parents voted no on the first one because they felt they
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by DoveBrown 9y ago
No, the United Kingdom.
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by DoveBrown 9y ago
You can if they are maintained. Most dedicated bike paths around me have ripples in the surface from tree roots and have never been resurfaced since they were built. Using a road bike with skinny tires on them is bone jarring at low speed.
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by DoveBrown 9y ago
If you are digital services company then the only regulation you need to follow as those of your home jurisdiction. All relevant EU law is included in those regulations. Transport services are specific exception to the single market where l
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by DoveBrown 9y ago
That's not what they argued. The ECJ ruling is that the Uber is a company providing "‘a service in the field of transport’ within the meaning of EU law." Uber claimed they weren't. They were claiming to be just an i
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by DoveBrown 9y ago
The Treaty of Versailles specifically prohibited the German navy from having any submarines. They got around this by creating a company in the Netherlands through which the German high command ran their research and development. After 1933,
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by DoveBrown 9y ago
As far as I can tell Eurocopter don't have a heavy lift helicopter. Does anyone know of any development program they were running to make one?
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by DoveBrown 9y ago
I'm not sure you can say that gold is used in jewellery solely because it is valuable. Gold has physical properties being nonreactive and soft enough to be worked without large scale machinery that makes it a perfect material for makin
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by DoveBrown 9y ago
The tests for where someone is a self-employed contractor vs an ("disquised") employee are Control (how much control does the person have over how they do task), Substitution (do they personally have to do the task) and Mutuality