SparklingCotton

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by SparklingCotton 6y ago
I've used lens for years and years, but don't fully grok it. Who cares? Lens is also like category theory, you don't need to understand the details in order to use it.
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by SparklingCotton 6y ago
Well of course they are using some sort of "lint" system and they know the reason. Why not give the information to the user? There is no need to use any manual labor here.
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by SparklingCotton 6y ago
I'm in exactly the same situation. It's impossible to know what they are after and my extension has a fraction of the permissions that you have.
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by SparklingCotton 6y ago
Many good reasons why this would work in Europe. - Logistics in Germany is awesome, and Amazon really doesn't have a leg up on the already existing logistics solutions there. - For a cloud provider, negotiating deals now when AMD is on
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by SparklingCotton 8y ago
Then at least make it free for off-peak hours.
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by SparklingCotton 8y ago
In a simple tax system there aren't that many deductions. This is especially true for low-tax jurisdictions. If you want non-standard deductions, create a company and do normal accounting. 50-100 standard deductions can be handled cen
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by SparklingCotton 8y ago
Chile has both lower taxes and automatic taxation. In 2019 they will even have automatic taxation for small businesses based on the statistical average for the industry and various signals. So basically taxation based on machine learning. Y
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by SparklingCotton 8y ago
But even within a region, having corporations do private deals with the government is corrpution. You are not supposed to be able to get special privileges to your company to the detriment of your competitors. There can be no free market wh
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by SparklingCotton 8y ago
Amazing how your single data point lead you to that conclusion..
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by SparklingCotton 8y ago
Apple should be forced to pay back 10x what they gained in this illegal deal. It's bleedingly obvious that it's illegal to be taxed differently than other companies. Paying back €13bn is nothing. Companies that "make deals&q
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by SparklingCotton 8y ago
It should have been obvious to Apple that they were receiving illegal subsidies, given that they were taxed differently than other companies. "The Irish government agreed a deal with Apple in 1991 to only tax a certain bracket of its e
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by SparklingCotton 8y ago
> While it's certainly Apple's prerogative to play EU states off against each other to get the best deal It certainly IS NOT. When Apple "get's a deal" it is by definition market manipulation. You're not s
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by SparklingCotton 8y ago
Since the EU wants Google to stop within 90 days, I assume they can give them a fresh €4.5bn fine if they refuse. At least that's something.
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by SparklingCotton 8y ago
That's a good reason why fines (like what Google is getting) should be huge. It's deliberate to kill competition while not being in a dominant position, and then when in a dominant position, continue the trajectory by defining def
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by SparklingCotton 8y ago
But what you can do as a user is not really relevant. I cannot change the defaults in an Android phone and sell it to you. That's the problem.
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by SparklingCotton 8y ago
I don't see this reasoning at all. The fine is because Google is illegally cementing it's position as a dominant search engine through licensing of the android platform. Where is the problem with making Android free?
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by SparklingCotton 8y ago
Yes Google (if that's what you mean by Android) does "block" having Bing as the pre-installed search engine.
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by SparklingCotton 8y ago
Monopolies are not illegal, so your argument is irrelevant.
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by SparklingCotton 8y ago
> If the EU wants to preserve any credibility .. It's the other way around. EU is building credibility that seems to be lacking elsewhere by penalizing anti-competitive behavior.
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by SparklingCotton 11y ago
Then why did you call your variables x and y, and not y and x? Surprise: because there IS a semantic meaning to the order. The haskell variable naming convention is bad. What is worse is that when someone points it out, there is ALWAYS th
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by SparklingCotton 11y ago
But "real memory" is neither what C presents or the copy semantics that is used in FP. The CPU will keep memory in 64-byte cache lines. There is a complex bus protocol to shuffle cache lines and subparts of cache lines to main me
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by SparklingCotton 12y ago
No it simply does not, because the language forces you to write pure functions. The type system invites you to express invariants. There are very fundamental connections between strong typing, program verification, and proofs. http:/
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by SparklingCotton 12y ago
What you say can easily be disproved, and you are simply asking for too much if you ask for something to be a drop-in replacement for OpenSSL. Some re-architecting is requred simply because of the insecurity of C. For example, a shared l
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by SparklingCotton 12y ago
There is a "just use X". If you code in a language where you can express the invariants in your code, and make the compiler check those invariants, then your code is immune to all of the vulnerabilities that we have seen in OpenS
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by SparklingCotton 12y ago
C and AsmJS are just as open to side channel attacks. AsmJS is safe, C is unsafe. I'd take javascript over C any day.
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by SparklingCotton 12y ago
What are the efficient ways of preventing this kind of bug, if not type systems? The parent had a good point and you should really try to look at Haskell before you say that kind of nonsense. All the tools that are available for static anal