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by chalst 5y ago
I'm not enthusiastic about continuing this argument, but since you have clearly thought about this before responding, I'll go on. You seem to think there is some sort of incoherence in what I've been saying, but none of your
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Thanks.
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An excellent backgrounder on the #polexit crisis from March: Poland’s Rule of Law Breakdown: A Five-Year Assessment of EU’s (In)Action [1]; Laurent Pech, Patryk Wachowiec & Dariusz Mazur; Hague Journal on the Rule of Law volume 13:1–43
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by chalst 5y ago
It's very different constitutionally: the German situation is that the supreme court holds that EU constitutional supremacy is valid, but must not contradict the basic law. The Polish situation is that the supreme court was pushed to o
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I'm very interested in your friend's opinion. If you can't post a link, perhaps just a pointer to a web presence.
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Since the term was quoted in Pyramus' comment, this goes from being overly literal to being perversely pedantic.
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by chalst 5y ago
> This tech company employee (aka the "Facebook Whistleblower") is refusing to share the documents she stole with the FTC. Source?
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I think it's hard but absolutely posssible, but the quality of statistics in nutrition research depresses me. Good work exists, but the publication incentives do not lead it to rise to the top, meaning the correlation between study qua
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by chalst 5y ago
This is an interesting and somewhat irritating take by Greenwald. I'll just put a counterpoint to one point he made that I was careful to get a grasp of what was going on: Greenwald [Today]> Their control over multiple huge platform
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<strikeout> En Marche benefitted from the peculiarity of France's electoral system, which combines proportional representation in a 1st round with a "sudden death" 2nd round for the powerful presidency with only t
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by chalst 5y ago
I have the impression that it would take a long exchange before we could discuss this matter in a manner that doesn't annoy me, and I am not interested in a lengthy exchange. A few suggestions on 'HN-iquette' that might mean
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I didn't downvote asabjorn's comment, although I found it weak (e.g., "critical social justice" is a rhetorical portmanteau that does not have a determinate meaning [1]: it's a term to be avoided if you want curious
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Character assassination is not done in one press release. It's done in a campaign of PRs and cossetting friendly journalists and newspapers. Perhaps it's premature to call it character assassination, but we've seen this play
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My regular reminder that there is no fiduciary duty to behave unethically. Fiduciary duty is a class of highly specific legal obligations on directors to act attentively and not put their own financial interests above those of shareholders.
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SEC cases are hard to put together, but the the SEC is far from toothless. Cf. [1]. Lying to Congress is another matter: perjury convictions are pretty rare. [1]: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=9333
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Raph Levien implemented an attack-resistant trust-metric that had some formal similarities to PageRank for Advogato, a free-software developer community which failed: it turned out it needed some moderation even with this mechanism, and it
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Why Modern Open Source Projects Fail (2017)(arxiv.org)
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If you look at each as languages for staging computations, what you stage with macros happens before "normal" computation, so likely happens at compile time, while what you stage with monads happens after, so must be deferred to r
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Perhaps wisdom starts by accepting the conjunction of both the saying and your retort, which is not so far from a better-known saying, "the devil is in the details".
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Race to the bottom: The disastrous, blindfolded rush to mine the deep sea(theguardian.com)
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It's typically pretty easy to turn Python+numpy into performant Julia.
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The massive investments in autonomous vehicles are maybe a causal factor in the trucker shortage: fewer people want to invest in getting the license if they attach any credence to the widespread claims that the job might not exist in 5 year
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Arcan as Operating System Design(arcan-fe.com)
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> It's to demonstrate that there are more than one way to handle a crisis that nobody knows how to deal with This the article doesn't succeed in doing. It's so focussed on the rhetorical aspects of rubbing the nose of MSM
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Turing's Pilot ACE, that Turing considered didn't have enough memory for real work, had 32 mercury delay lines with 1024 bits each: that's four times as much memory as the ZX81.
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It's also the case that Church only knew that the notion of function defined by the lambda calculus was coherent once the Church-Rosser property was proven, and that was not published before Turing submitted his article.
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Fairphone did exactly this with the Fairphone 3+: they emphasised that they were just upgrading two components of the Fairphone 3 that had attracted criticism (the camera and speaker) and otherwise didn't want to change anything about
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Yes, a moat is not a profit centre, it is a cost centre. You appear to have misunderstood the point you replied to.
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Right. I don't think conscientious HN readers should have to check this.
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Xenophon was an Athenian, but he was positively disposed towards Sparta and had seen military service under Spartan commanders. He's probably our best source. https://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/sparta-a.html

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