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by denotational 2y ago
I misread your original comment, but I don’t think replacing the management company is any easier than purchasing the freehold, aside from capital considerations. The right exists in principle, but 50% of flats (as I understand it, all of t
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by denotational 2y ago
Off topic: why is a cam.ac.uk domain pointing to something that is actually a Medium blog with the usual subscription popups and (illegal) notifications telling me it’s going to store tracking cookies whether I like it or not?
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by denotational 2y ago
That’s fine if you have a share of freehold. Lots of people don’t, and are beholden to the whims of large commercial landlords. Replacing the management (or attempting to purchase the freehold) is tricky in buildings where the majority of u
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by denotational 2y ago
High-rise new-builds are tainted until we have leasehold reform; £8k p/a service charges and several hundred pounds ground rent, with failure to pay leading to the confiscation of your £1MM apartment by the freeholder, is insane, and i
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by denotational 2y ago
> 450GB is 450 TRILLION characters. 450GB is ~450•10^9 B (~ to handle the fact that it might be GiB), which is 450 billion bytes in the short scale (450 thousand million/450 milliard in the long scale). 1B may or may not equal 1 c
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by denotational 2y ago
I doubt even Kafka could have come up with “corner-locked land”: that this might yet reach the Supreme Court instead of being thrown out with prejudice at first hearing is bizarre.
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by denotational 2y ago
https://archive.is/Ddwkq
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Battle for the American West(ft.com)
3 points by denotational 2y ago|2 comments
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by denotational 3y ago
How does the involvement of a notary at the time of formation reduce the risk of the company going bankrupt? Is the notary able to model creditworthiness (i.e. they’re acting as a rating agency), or do they just sniff out “undesirables” by
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by denotational 3y ago
It’s a process in the UK too, abuse of which could lead to the courts imposing sanctions ranging from barring the directors from company directorship all the way to piercing the corporate veil and holding directors liable for the company’s
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by denotational 3y ago
The original claim wasn’t qualified with a year: > Despite being a criminally negligent organization, Boeing still failed to kill anyone because of the FAA Adopting the assumptions of the original comment, Boeing have managed to kill p
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by denotational 3y ago
Ah, you’re literally thinking in a higher dimension to me!
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by denotational 3y ago
> both the straight line and the great circle distance Curious what you mean by “straight line”; Rhumb line?
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by denotational 3y ago
A “normal” piano with strings uses stretch tuning too.
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by denotational 3y ago
> Germany is still a conservative digital dinosaur underneath Using one’s native language as opposed to English is sufficient to make one a “conservative digital dinosaur”? I think your conclusion is correct, but I don’t think this Anglo
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by denotational 3y ago
They’re saying that a “commodity NIC” doubles in bandwidth every 2 years, and extrapolating forward given that 1Gb was (supposedly) standard in 2003; the website in the post transcribed this incorrectly and put 1Gb in the description of the
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by denotational 3y ago
The original source linked from this post [0] is using models that assume exponential growth of bandwidths over time (see the JavaScript at the bottom of the page): this is fun, but these figures are real things that can be measured, so I t
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by denotational 3y ago
This figure quoted on this website is completely wrong: the serialisation delay of 1KiB on a 1Gb link is much higher than that, it’s actually closer to 10us. This is a transcription error from the source data, which as it turns out is based
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by denotational 3y ago
> According to the cybersecurity company, it replied by saying it wouldn't agree to swift disclosure, and pointed JetBrains to its policy against silently patching vulnerabilities, which stipulates that if companies violate that pol
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by denotational 3y ago
Title should be Hush-A-Phone Corp. v. United States .
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by denotational 3y ago
Title should be updated: “Frog”, not “Fro”.
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by denotational 3y ago
> there may still be a useful semi-/decidable subset. Yes, but note that the entire language HALT is semi-decidable (or Turing-recognisable if you use Sipser’s terminology); in this case it’s only the (strictly) decidable subset tha
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by denotational 3y ago
> In other words, where a mid-wit would step through the code (and be right), a high-brow might deems the problem impossible because it fits to a generic class of which this particular instance is trivial. In this situation, “mid-wit” mi
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by denotational 3y ago
> Translators are a secondary service that must only rebroadcast their primary service. I must be missing something, because this seems an arbitrary rule that has no purpose except to increase the FCC’s licensing revenues by allowing the
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by denotational 3y ago
I read Lambda-Calculus and Combinators: An Introduction by J Roger Hindley as an undergraduate and found it was very accessible.
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by denotational 3y ago
Not that it’s relevant in this case, because there aren’t any UCITS/NURS BTC ETFs yet, but in the UK one can only pay into a single S&S ISA (a tax-wrapper, the US equivalent of which I think would be a Roth IRA) in any given tax ye
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by denotational 3y ago
I can only speak for EU (Ireland) domiciled ETFs, but there shouldn’t be any possibility of such contagion: something highly liquid like NASDAQ 100 will be 100% physically replicated with the assets held by a custodian. The collapse of a se
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by denotational 3y ago
> Well, since thread cancellation is implemented using exceptions, and thread cancellation can happen in arbitrary places, we’re always liable to a cancellation happening in a noexcept block, which is undefined behavior, and which in pra
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by denotational 3y ago
> and of those that do care, they are likely to lean against copyleft What is this based on? Asking in good faith.
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by denotational 3y ago
*Axel Springer, not to be confused with Springer Nature; I’d imagine most HN readers outside Germany would use unqualified ‘Springer’ for the latter since they’re a big publisher of academic journals/texts, but the two are unrelated.

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