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by butlerm 5y ago
In retrospect, they should have left all these special input types out and let application developers handle it with Javascript. There are too many real world cases they cannot handle, and real world knowledge probably shouldn't be ha
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by butlerm 5y ago
The problem is that the banking system carries a large systematic risk of going bankrupt all at once, and deposit insurance is not adequate to deal with that. The real guarantor of your deposits is the Fed not the FDIC, and fortunately the
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by butlerm 5y ago
The health insurance tax subsidy for self employed individuals is not as extensive as that indirectly provided to conventionally employed persons through their employer because it does not reduce the self employment tax, which is substantia
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by butlerm 5y ago
The reason why that won't happen spontaneously is that the employer purchased health insurance subsidy amounts to something like $273 billion per year (as of 2019). Employees would have to pay a comparable amount in additional income
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by butlerm 5y ago
Most employers did it for decades before they were legally required to. The tax benefit to having your employer purchase your healthcare has been substantial since about World War II and such plans have been commonplace ever since, outside
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by butlerm 5y ago
The Fed currently has about $9 Trillion in assets (and corresponding liabilities). $100 billion from the Treasury for the FDIC is a rounding error. In 2008, the Fed doubled their balance sheet practically overnight from $1T to $2T. The Fe
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by butlerm 5y ago
Last I checked the FDIC had about $50B in assets to back $2T in bank deposits. In other words, they could hardly scratch the surface of a systematic problem.
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by butlerm 5y ago
Who cares what is "fair"? A decision like that should be based on an elementary productivity calculation. If not the inmates have taken over the asylum.
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by butlerm 5y ago
If you install it locally, that is pretty much the definition of an unmanaged database. Other than by the user of course.
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by butlerm 5y ago
Pretty sure you could track down instances of this technology going back decades now. Nothing is new under the sun. Doesn't mean you can use it.
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by butlerm 5y ago
> C fans tend to regard BCPL as an unimportant transitional step, but it was used in two celebrated OSes. One was the TRIPOS operating system, later used as the original basis of AmigaOS. The latter is a bit of an exaggeration. Tripos re
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by butlerm 5y ago
Ease of manufacturing and ease of use are two different things.
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by butlerm 5y ago
> CP/M predates the open source movement by thirty years. CP/M was first developed in 1974, the FSF was founded in 1985, so I would say more like eleven years.
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by butlerm 5y ago
If it is a service they provide for free, charging a fee to get something important (like a total account ban) fairly reconsidered would be perfectly reasonable. Google is big enough the government should require that sort of thing. "
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by butlerm 5y ago
The analog RGB signals from an Amiga are so standard that you can easily break them out and plug into almost any analog RGB monitor, including any decent VGA monitor with an off the shelf adapter. Composite support is an aberration and no
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by butlerm 5y ago
I think the answer is you can't know. You have to trust the integrity of the peer review process (at Nature in this case) until someone comes up with better evidence. 'Nature' is a well respected scientific journal, not an
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by butlerm 5y ago
This is semantics, but the payor in a commercial transaction is normally considered to be the customer / purchaser regardless of whether anyone anywhere extends credit to them. It is their name on the account. The credit card issuer do
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by butlerm 5y ago
Some companies did manage to produce NES compatible cartridges without NES permission, but it wasn't easy. They had to work around or defeat the lock out chip designed to prevent that.
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by butlerm 5y ago
The Amiga had analog RGB output that was used by everyone because high resolution text (640x200) was unreadable with the composite output. Composite was okay for playing video games (inevitably 320x200), but few actually did that. One RGB
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by butlerm 5y ago
Some academic types seem to believe that no paper should ever bear a date other than the date of formal publication. Not quite sure why that is, the date of a draft seems like incredibly helpful information to me.
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by butlerm 5y ago
Credit card providers not only do not buy anything that goes on your account, they do not pay for anything that goes on your account. They transfer funds for purchases that you make, and make payments on your behalf. As such they are neit
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by butlerm 5y ago
Haiti would not count as a warm water port for this purpose, because it would not serve the Russian mainland at all. Russia has plenty of foreign "warm water" ports it can use already. Other than the unfortunate Haitians, who have
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by butlerm 5y ago
The overhead is completely unnecessary in far too many cases. So what they should have done is kept sprintf to its traditional behavior and invented a new, slower alternative for those fairly unusual cases that need locale sensitivity. Loca
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by butlerm 5y ago
With a shared medium trusting customer premise equipment to do proper, compatible media access control is pretty much inevitable. A device could just as easily transmit noise all day long, ruining service for everyone on the same cable seg
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by butlerm 5y ago
Should we take the claim that seventy percent of the world's Internet traffic both start and terminates in Virginia data centers seriously? Or is the claim that 70% of the world's Internet traffic either starts or terminates in Vi
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by butlerm 5y ago
Transit providers accept traffic for delivery anywhere in the world at a tiny fraction of that figure, suggesting that the fully allocated cost per GB is not quite as high as they represent. I trust transit service is not in a venture capi
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by butlerm 5y ago
Thanks for the clarification on that. Either way, MAI v. Peak was kind of a disastrous decision that presumably could have easily been resolved under fair use for the service contractor. Congress included Section 107 for a reason, and no d
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by butlerm 5y ago
The Supreme Court conclusively established that Google's use of the APIs was fair use under copyright law, so they did not need to reach the underlying question. I believe it would be safe to conclude that API descriptions such as hea
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by butlerm 5y ago
I think that is correct. "Derivative work" is a legal term in copyright law that the framers of the GPL were wise not to try to redefine in the text of the license. They seem to like the term "derived work", but do not
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by butlerm 5y ago
It is not just fair use, Congress has written an explicit exemption for copies and adaptations necessary to use a program on a machine into the law.

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