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by biorach 5y ago
Hyperinflation is one-way volatility. In either case the value changes rapidly making the "currency" in question useless as a long-term store of value.
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by biorach 5y ago
Absolute nonsense. English law is the preferred basis for cross-border contracts and English courts are the preferred venue for litigation between entities from different jurisdictions. This is very well attested - e.g. first result from Go
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by biorach 5y ago
> In which democratic legal framework inciting against the territorial integrity of a country is NOT illegal? Most modern democracies... E.g. https://www.snp.org/policy-area/constitution/
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by biorach 5y ago
that text doesn't appear on that page. and that's a very generalised statement covering a long period of time and wide area. My understanding was that adults were rarely castrated, rather boys from certain regions were targeted (I
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by biorach 5y ago
Ah, it _was_ a joke. I really wasn't sure.
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by biorach 5y ago
Anyone who believes that Rust will quickly replace C in the kernel clearly knows very little about Rust or the kernel, and definitely should not be taken as a spokesperson for either. I suspect that this "RIIR" that you seem to be
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by biorach 5y ago
nice? It's on most of the smartphones on the planet. Plus it is the dominant server OS. Plus in the top 3 in many embedded categories (a highly diverse set of technologies)
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by biorach 5y ago
> The issue with Kernel development is that it's a dying profession. Nobody is interested in it. That's a pretty wild assertion and files in the face of the highly active kernel development process. e.g. > Linus has release
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by biorach 5y ago
> Netflix emphasizes "team" over "family" to explicitly promote an environment where getting fired is easy. Is that really a better alternative? Considering the same labour laws apply to Airbnb and Netflix, yes it&#x2
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by biorach 5y ago
> Higher Ed is an apprenticeship program for creating new instructors and researchers That is completely wrong when applied to e.g. Engineering. And completely true when applied to e.g. Philosophy. CS courses on the other hand vary in t
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by biorach 5y ago
1) Employing only the cheapest contracting shops for several years and being baffled when all progress ground to a halt due to a mountain of spaghetti. 2) then deciding to rewrite
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by biorach 5y ago
being blocked from a facebook page is not being cancelled
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by biorach 5y ago
> The CEO capped the full time headcount at 49 people so he wouldn't be subject to a California law requiring him to provide his employees with a health care plan. ... words fail me
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by biorach 5y ago
> [internal parasites] can cause, among other things, diarrhoea, fatigue and weight loss. However, they only pose a graver threat if their numbers grow out of control. Such “hyper-infection”, which is often fatal, becomes far more likely
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by biorach 5y ago
Looks like there is some hardware incompatibility - the whole window, except for a small bit in the top left corner where I can see the "Open Folder" icon, is black. ``` $ lapce MESA-INTEL: warning: Haswell Vulkan support is inco
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by biorach 5y ago
> it would be a death sentence for Israel That's a massive exaggeration. It would theoretically be a risk for Israeli citizens living close to the border, but would lead to an overwhelming punitive response from the Israeli army, st
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by biorach 5y ago
The occupation of the West Bank does nothing to deter this. The annexation of the Golan Heights is somewhat justifiable on strategic grounds. The occupation of the West Bank is a land grab, pure and simple.
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by biorach 5y ago
you're thinking of Finnegan's Wake. And it doesn't.. but
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by biorach 5y ago
I think you're really overestimating the gap between python 2 and 3. My experience was that just diving into a large python3 codebase got me most of the way really quickly. The only thing I can think of that I had to really read up on
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by biorach 5y ago
Of all the new features I think `class` is the one I've seen least adoption of. Not that I've read a huge amount of JS. There are some cases where it can be nice, but often it feels like a somewhat unnatural bolt-on to the langua
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by biorach 5y ago
It's always a lottery but one where you can massively tilt the odds on your favour by leading a healthy lifestyle.
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by biorach 5y ago
I've read a lot of code. Peter Norvig's code operates at a different level to anything else I've ever read. And he's been doing this a long time. I've read part of the way through "Paradigms of Artificial Intel
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by biorach 5y ago
...or you had the embarrassment of directing your users to an installer that bundled the Ask toolbar ....the Ask toolbar. Had happily forgotten about that. shudder
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by biorach 5y ago
link?
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by biorach 5y ago
He said _he_ is not going to look at it. That's all. Tax authorities, YC's due diligence team and others will want to look at it. Anyone competent enough to start a company will know this. Interpreting this as "pg says balanc
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by biorach 5y ago
> Instead he claims to have never read a balance sheet, It's pretty clear from the context that he means that he has never read the balance sheet of a company applying for VC funding as the information there is irrelevant at that ti
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by biorach 5y ago
> This is all just semantic nonsense. No it's not. The point is that what most start-ups submit as a "business plan" is just a load of b.s. The questions that are asked in the YC interview draw out the information that _sh
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by biorach 5y ago
ITER vs SpaceX is a really poor comparison. ITER is a high risk foray into still-experimental technology with no hope of direct return on investment (it can not function as a commercial power plant). It had to be built at this scale because
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by biorach 5y ago
Yes, many, but not all, Lego sets these days are more specific and have more specialised parts. But in the end, most children end up with a big box with a jumble of many sets, same as past decades. Maybe the first few days of a new set bein
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by biorach 5y ago
> the views published in it are painfully true enough to make you real life enemies That is not why the Economist's articles are anonymous. Please read the article I posted which explains why.

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