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by beojan 8y ago
Please re-read the title. Swiss household is now higher...
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by beojan 8y ago
They added queues for nationals because a large proportion of the people entering the country are people returning from a trip abroad.
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by beojan 8y ago
The title (both here, and on the article) is talking about debt-to-GDP ratios. The parenthetical note is just a parenthetical note.
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by beojan 8y ago
Adjust a debt-to-GDP ratio for inflation?
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by beojan 8y ago
That doesn't count. You can't refuse service (or provide worse service) because someone doesn't consent to unrelated data collecting / processing.
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by beojan 8y ago
The issue is the law requires no tracking by default, and that it be as easy to opt out as to opt in. Unfortunately sites have decided not to comply with this portion.
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by beojan 8y ago
The GDPR notices are supposed to make it as easy to opt out as to opt in, so they shouldn't really be warnings. The problem is websites have apparently decided it's safe not to comply with that portion, presumably knowing everyone
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by beojan 8y ago
The web of trust isn't really helpful here. Ideally we'd have government run certification authorities issuing official X.509 certificates to individuals and corporations.
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by beojan 8y ago
I think that's the mostly useless official exchange rate rather than the defacto one.
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by beojan 8y ago
But you can say "Take a look at column 4" instead, which is unambiguous.
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by beojan 8y ago
> no zero hour on our clocks There is. We call it 12 for some crazy reason (it goes 12 AM, 1 AM, 2 AM, ..., 11 AM, 12 PM, 1 PM, ...). > no zero year in our calendar Which is quite irritating really. New Year's Day 2000 wasn'
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by beojan 8y ago
They're not equal. British newspapers on both sides have well known biases that they're pretty open about.
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by beojan 8y ago
> it's that people lost faith in the currency What do you think happens when you devalue your currency to pay your debts?
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by beojan 8y ago
No, the Telegraph has a known anti-EU bias.
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by beojan 8y ago
> Devaluation risk is switched into bankruptcy risk And for the inhabitants, this is a good thing. Look at Venezuela to see what happens when a country devalues its currency to pay its debts. The situation would have been even better (fo
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by beojan 8y ago
I'd say if you're going with the second option, stop, think, then go with the first option. This would mean either limiting your supported systems to recent ones or limiting the features you use to those available in whatever &quo
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by beojan 8y ago
> 14,000 years people didn’t live pass 30 Are you sure? Life expectency of ~30 doesn't mean people didn't live past that, since that's due mostly to child mortality.
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by beojan 8y ago
AGPL is just fine for that.
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by beojan 8y ago
That only works if they let you cancel. Otherwise they can't lose customers.
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by beojan 8y ago
That's harder than you would think due to name mangling. Basically they can only talk to each other through a C interface.
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by beojan 8y ago
What's the point of using a permissive license then? Why not just use a (situation appropriate -- i.e. LGPL, GPL, or AGPL depending on what precisely the software is) copyleft license?
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by beojan 8y ago
A scripting language isn't necessary if you just want to throw a page together. It's only really necessary for today's web-as-an-application-platform model. If the front-end language were Scheme we would simply see fewer (but
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by beojan 8y ago
> originally Netscape were going to port Scheme to their browser Imagine where we'd be if they'd just done that.
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by beojan 8y ago
> To me Rust is more a C++ replacement than a C replacement Precisely. Rust is what C++ would be if it didn't need to be backwards compatible (though I'm not a fan of some of the syntax choices in Rust). Unfortunately, there&#x
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by beojan 8y ago
The professors or graduate students hired to do research aren't the ones who end up teaching wildly incorrect material. That happens when you hire people specifically to teach, and don't pay them very much at all.
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by beojan 8y ago
It's to avoid having to write out complex types that the compiler already knows about. It's particularly useful with generic code that makes heavy use of templates, or code that uses iterators. In these cases, it just isn't t
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by beojan 8y ago
I don't think you can ever write code that's completely safe then, if nothing else some processor flaw will come along and ruin everything.
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by beojan 8y ago
And that's why just going to the cheapest university is a bad idea.
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by beojan 8y ago
Wouldn't it be easier to exempt prizes from income tax and instead have a sweepstakes tax paid by the sponsor instead?
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by beojan 8y ago
It was invented at [Caltech]( http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/ ).

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