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by bialpio 5y ago
Interesting! So I guess the enforcement will only start when it's needed to get rid of some troublemaker. "-The person is causing us grief, what can we do to expel them? -Check their vaccination status, and look for other normally
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by bialpio 5y ago
If I recall correctly, there are ways to ask for religious exemption to some of the requirements (e.g. vaccination when immigrating, answering "no" to an immigration question about willing to bear arms for the US), but they requir
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by bialpio 5y ago
They are required if you want to immigrate to the US [1], so I sure hope citizens-by-birth also have to follow similar rules. Maybe you don't need to prove anything because by default people would already either be vaccinated, or had t
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by bialpio 5y ago
Ah, rookie mistake, thanks! 20th place for Germany vs 4th for USA, even though the absolute difference in the coefficients are pretty small.
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by bialpio 5y ago
You're right! I just went with an example that used to be the most relevant to me personally (the "work visa" part, fortunately not the "abusive employer" part). Let's throw in one more reason: health insurance
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by bialpio 5y ago
Except sometimes just because you are able to quit doesn't mean you can quit. Hopefully that's less prevalent in IT, but does happen (e.g. people on work visas that cannot change their abusive employer w/o having to GTFO the
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by bialpio 5y ago
According to World Bank, wealth inequality is lower in Germany compared to the US. See Gini coefficient column: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_...
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by bialpio 5y ago
> When the reality is: if you work in tech you're likely receiving good health insurance coverage from your employer, and you're simultaneously paying lower taxes than in Germany. Just the fact that you need to add the "in
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by bialpio 5y ago
"rare" is subjective - I'd have written it the same way (DD.MM) if I were going to write those dates without thinking. The author is from Poland, and so am I. Old habits die hard.
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by bialpio 5y ago
Published on April Fool's, caveat lector.
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by bialpio 5y ago
Is anyone else weirded out by the fact that the Android app is published from something that that looks like a personal account, as opposed to some kind of organization? Not sure how publishing for Android works - is it possible to hand off
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by bialpio 5y ago
Except that Google uses C++ with exceptions disabled - IIUC, the throwing code would effectively behave like a call to std::terminate(), I haven't looked at the code to know if it would actually be a preferred behavior in this case. So
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by bialpio 5y ago
I really cannot make it clearer that I'm nitpicking on the statement that it is "sublinear". I'm not disagreeing that it's O(log(n)). I'm also not disagreeing that it's "sublinear with respect to n&qu
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by bialpio 5y ago
In our case n = value of the input, log(n) = size of the input. Complexity is expressed relative to the size of the input. Size of the input is also usually expressed as n, which is shadowed by "value of the input" in the problem
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by bialpio 5y ago
> Generally I would assume that multiplication and addition are constant time for big-O analysis, until given a reason otherwise. I think this assumption can still be taken for the exponentiation version - I'm more nitpicking about
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by bialpio 5y ago
They are representing n to mean 2 different things. In this case, n is meant to represent a value passed in to the algorithm. The problem is that complexity is usually expressed relative to size of the input, which in case of this algorithm
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by bialpio 5y ago
log(n) is ok. Sublinear with respect to n is also ok. "Sublinear" on its own is not, at least if my understanding is correct (sublinear relative to what?), although I can see that it can be a common shortcut to make.
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by bialpio 5y ago
Is it really sublinear though? The data that the algorithm accepts is a number n, the size of the data is thus m=log(n), so the algorithm runs in O(m) time -> linear in terms of data size. I vaguely recall there was some nuisance related
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by bialpio 5y ago
Can you waive those protections away by signing a contract that contains a clause that forbids salary discussions, or would that clause of the contract become unenforceable?
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by bialpio 5y ago
Not if there's another stall handing out slightly different bread but without the flyer. There's a lot of content available for free, depending on your goal there's always something descent to read.
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by bialpio 5y ago
Here's an idea for a song they should play: Rage Against The Machine - Killing In the Name https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWXazVhlyxQ
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by bialpio 5y ago
How is Windows currently guaranteeing safety of DRM'ed media content? I seem to recall that you cannot play back some types of content on Windows for example if kernel debugging is enabled. Maybe they aren't that far from being ab
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by bialpio 5y ago
Except you are not the only one paying taxes (and lobbying) and now the government needs to come up with solutions that satisfy everyone, with the current approach seemingly being that regulation is a slippery slope to socialism and eating
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by bialpio 5y ago
That's just invisible hand of the market at work. Why should a company spend more than it has to? Isn't this what the oh-so-sacred capitalism is all about?
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by bialpio 5y ago
This post was interesting to me and would mean that if the shot got into your bloodstream, it could've been mis-administered? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27464226
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by bialpio 5y ago
Unintended, can you explain why you think I dodged the question? My assumption was that felons are either in prison, or served their time.
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by bialpio 5y ago
Either that, or change the law so that it becomes enforceable, or spend more resources on enforcement. If the law is enforced in, say, 1% cases, why is it even there? Most people who break it face no consequences, and it has a potential to
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by bialpio 5y ago
If the existing laws are not enforced, maybe it's time to remove, or at least rethink the exemptions then?
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by bialpio 5y ago
Correct, exactly the same way as if you'd realized some gain a day before your death. Your heirs are also taxed again on the money you earned as a regular income. This is more of an argument against estate tax, not against step-up-basi
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by bialpio 5y ago
Thanks for the history lesson, but what was the point of it? Are you arguing that Japan was a liberator here, responding to calls for help from Hawaiian government-in-exile? In any case, they had attacked US military assets in full conscien

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