MarkMc

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   by MarkMc 8y ago

   Plus your chance of being hit at all is much lower at 30km/h because the driver has more time to react.
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   by MarkMc 8y ago

   I don't see how it's an irrelevant detail. If enforcing the speed limit does indeed save lives then I'm more inclined to accept some loss of privacy.
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   by MarkMc 8y ago

   Reminds me of the time Warren Buffet's company insured a gambling company against a "billion dollar" payout [0]. Buffett noted that the insured value of the payout was far less than a billion dollars because the payout was sp
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   by MarkMc 8y ago

   That's a surprising statistic given that life expectancy in Netherlands is almost 3 years more than in the US.
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   by MarkMc 8y ago

   By letting the application load all required components into memory before running the test(s). If Component A needs Component B which needs Component C, they all get loaded as they would in production (ie. without mocks). If this means t
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   by MarkMc 8y ago

   Yes, the US government could simply print all the money it needs then pay off all it's creditors. But how would those creditors respond? They would refuse to lend in US dollars in future, and the US government and private companies wou
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   by MarkMc 8y ago

   So Google will charge Samsung $1,000 per handset for Play Services, but then pay Samsung $1,000 to have Chrome, Gmail, YouTube, etc pre-installed. Result: Google meets its legal obligations to unbundle their software but in practice the han
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   by MarkMc 8y ago

   I don't understand why Google are doing this. I thought the EU imposed that huge fine because Google had a clause in their contract with handset manufacturers that said, "If you want Play Services, you cannot sell a forked version
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   by MarkMc 8y ago

   Coincidentally I just finished reading the section on minimal guidance in the great book, "How I Wish I'd Taught Maths" [1] Here's the relevant bit: --------- Guided discovery lesson plans can be found on most topics in
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    Twitter Under Formal Investigation for How It Tracks Users in the GDPR Era(amp.timeinc.net)

    2 points by MarkMc 8y ago|0 comments
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    by MarkMc 8y ago

    Companies exist to make money, and by that metric Google is a long, long way from dying, as the author admits: "It is indeed possible, even likely, that Google can continue onward without the kinds of changes that I and other Google su
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    by MarkMc 8y ago

    I find it difficult to reconcile the 1.2% GDP figure with this part: "The estimated $54 trillion in damage from 2.7 degrees of warming would grow to $69 trillion if the world continues to warm by 3.6 degrees and beyond, the report foun
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    by MarkMc 8y ago

    Not everyone is in a position to take advantage of every loophole.
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    by MarkMc 8y ago

    Yes exactly. It would be like Facebook only paying a bug bounty if you can identify the hacker who breached their security.
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    by MarkMc 8y ago

    There should be a "bug bounty" program for taxes. If you identify a loophole or scam which was costing the government $100 million you get $1 million.
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    by MarkMc 8y ago

    "Trust the client" is terrible security. Isn't Grindr risking significant lawsuits, especially under GDPR?
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    by MarkMc 8y ago

    You may find this graph useful: https://ourworldindata.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Life-e... It suggests that life expectancy has gone up sinificantly for all age groups, not just life expectancy at b
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    by MarkMc 8y ago

    Not just commoditization of self-driving tech. Many people will switch from buying cars to hailing self-driving taxis. And nobody really cares about the brand, styling or horsepower of the taxi they take to work. To that degree each manufac
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    by MarkMc 8y ago

    "Localizer, localizer" seems too obscure - "Landing on taxiway" is much clearer. It's interesting to listen to the radio chatter for this near-miss [1]. The air traffic controller misses a few chances to notice th
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    by MarkMc 8y ago

    From Steven Pinker's great book "Enlightenment Now": The miner, it was said, “went down to work as to an open grave, not knowing when it might close on him.” . . . Unprotected powershafts maimed and killed hoopskirted workers
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    by MarkMc 8y ago

    I must admit I don't really understand Stripe's competitive advantage. When Uber wants to charge a customer's credit card, their main concern is the payment processor's commission, isn't it? It seems like the ultima
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    by MarkMc 8y ago

    If I understand correctly, Zuckerberg forced Acton to hold onto his Facebook shares - and the value of those shares then doubled in a three-year period. Surely that must mollify Acton's animosity somewhat. It reminds me of the scene i
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    by MarkMc 8y ago

    I agree that capital punishment for drug offences is abhorrent, but in terms of personal safety you need to also consider other risks. Singapore has a population of 5.6 million and each year about 2 people are executed for drug offences and
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    by MarkMc 8y ago

    > These things are far too opaque for the general public to understand or care about. Or perhaps your preference is a minority opinion, and most people will trade privacy for convenience even when fully informed and aware of Google'
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    by MarkMc 8y ago

    "But to be successful online, a magazine can't just take what it has in print and move it to the electronic realm. There isn't enough depth or interactivity in print content to overcome the drawbacks of the online medium. If
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    by MarkMc 8y ago

    Pinker has a pretty good explanation in his book, "Enlightenment Now". His answer boils down to: 1. More people now live in a market economy which produces more goods and services for everyone, even poor people 2. Better leadershi
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    by MarkMc 8y ago

    I'm working on a project to get Flutter running on Mac and Windows: https://feather-apps.com There's also this project which uses Go to run Flutter on Windows and Linux: https://github.com/Drakirus&#x2F
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    by MarkMc 8y ago

    I agree that Flutter would have been better off using a popular language like Swift or Kotlin. However, it really isn't a difficult language to pick up. I ported a Java app to Flutter and it was mostly just a case of copying the class
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    by MarkMc 8y ago

    I first started developing with Flutter about a year ago. One thing that has really impressed me is how responsive the Flutter team is to developers. Often when I posted a question on Stack Overflow it would be answered perfectly within 24
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    by MarkMc 8y ago

    Thanks for the clarification. Using 'number of views' would seem to be a valid metric, so now I'm not so sure about which graph is more realistic.