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by dmurray 3y ago
"The game can be used to encode a Turing machine" is not at all the same as "it is difficult to write a program that can play a legal action in every situation". It's the latter that seems to be difficult for the bo
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by dmurray 3y ago
>> "in the opinion of the Secretary of State” The MP was being a bit disingenuous in querying this wording when she pondered whether the Secretary of State knew "his SQL from his Javascript". In British law, this phrase
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by dmurray 3y ago
First I'd heard of this. But apparently true! But even publications treating the sister very sympathetically and hating on "cis white men" [0] make it clear that she seems to be mentally ill. [0] https://www.themar
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by dmurray 3y ago
KPMG and the other big accounting/consultancy firms absolutely will sell you a carbon audit, if you ask. But their incentives are going to be aligned with the client's, and if the client makes a case for some unusual treatment of
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by dmurray 3y ago
> As society has elevated the status of victims past and present, it is unsurprising that passive aggression has become one of the dominant social dynamics of our age. I liked this interpretation of events. Celebration of victimhood is
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by dmurray 3y ago
If your failure mode is "Google loses my data", putting it in the secure safe is best. It's not likely Google will have data loss on the same day your house burns down. What emergency could affect both you and Google, but not
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by dmurray 3y ago
There's a fourth scenario - the homeowner pays off the mortgage early. In the US, early payment can involve a penalty, so the homeowner buys out the loan significantly above market rate. Over the course of a mortgage, a significant num
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by dmurray 3y ago
> That’s in part thanks to mortgage rates. The monthly payment on a new home has increased by more than 50 percent in the past three years, as 30-year mortgage rates have climbed from less than 3 percent to nearly 8 percent. Sounds like
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by dmurray 3y ago
> The only question is whether to plan in advance to build a throwaway, or to promise to deliver the throwaway to customers. Seen this way, the answer is much clearer. It's not that clear! Perhaps you will only learn the lessons of
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by dmurray 3y ago
Duolingo introduced drawing Hanzi a couple of months ago. Worth checking out their approach if you haven't seen it.
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by dmurray 3y ago
Not sure why you're downvoted, but yes! Modern wood burning stoves can come with catalytic converters [0], which can make the stove burn more efficiently as well as lowering emissions. Generally the stoves are designed specially for th
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by dmurray 3y ago
There's a sentence in the article which says that this is an explicit policy decision of the company. > It is supposedly “Against the technology strategic vision of the company” to allow “end-users” access to high level programming
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by dmurray 3y ago
> Because of - when you think about it, kinda obvious - timing issues that can mean at 25fps you have 40ms latency/slippage frame to frame, the data suggested the ball was kicked in one game, by Yaya Toure into the back of the oppos
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by dmurray 3y ago
To be fair, the EU responded to this case by enacting a new directive that says "the minimum corporate tax shall be 15%". OK, it's unfortunately 175 pages long [0] instead of seven words, but that really is the gist of it. Th
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by dmurray 3y ago
> TIL: Irish private citizens can file criminal suits. i wish the US had that. They cannot. Making a complaint is just reporting an alleged crime. This is exactly the same process as if your house was burgled and you can identify the bu
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by dmurray 3y ago
Only if it has uncorrelated returns and/or lower volatility than the index strategy. Buying stocks at random has the same average return as buying the index, but has higher volatility and highly correlated returns. Buying at random doe
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by dmurray 3y ago
SQLite doesn't generally take public contributions, you'd need to get hired by them to write code there </nit>.
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by dmurray 3y ago
I was sure the answer would be "most/all of the options don't actually quit OneDrive, but bring you to some 'help' page where it explains why you don't need to quit OneDrive", and MS wants you running OneD
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by dmurray 3y ago
OK, in that case I think it's a very reasonable choice! Perhaps it's worth clarifying that in the article. I might express a slight preference that your internal code is idiomatic if I'm going to be poking around in there at
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by dmurray 3y ago
But people are going to import your SDK, so your customers will be stuck with a mix of thrown exceptions and errors-as-values in their code. Based on your decision to write wrappers internally, presumably you'd argue that the sensible
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by dmurray 3y ago
The topic is explicitly about writing an SDK for the company's product, which is presumably intended to be imported in customers' code and used alongside hundreds of other libraries. As such, writing idiomatic code for the languag
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by dmurray 3y ago
Well yeah, I assume that devblogs.microsoft.com hosts hundreds of blogs by Microsoft® Expert Valued Partners® for .NET® 365® selling all kinds of shitware, but they also host exactly one writer with interesting technical content.
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by dmurray 3y ago
I had two P20s, probably my favourite phone I owned. Both died from water damage after about a year, which never happened to me with any other phone - not sure if I got unlucky or they have a particular design flaw here.
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by dmurray 3y ago
This is not true. Structuring is much more narrowly defined, including in that Wikipedia article. It requires you to be working around a legal or regulatory reporting requirement.
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by dmurray 3y ago
Is that even "working around" the restriction? Surely moving 50k on each of 4 days is what you're expected to do in that case. It still means the maximum a fraudster can get away with is 50k if the fraud is discovered in one
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by dmurray 3y ago
They have jurisdiction everywhere within the US, but enhanced powers near the borders. Some details in [0]. Specifically, they have the right to search and seize "with no suspicion of unlawful activity" within 100 miles of any bor
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by dmurray 3y ago
Note that this is an investment in companies at various stages of the nuclear pipeline, not directly a bet on uranium prices. A company that mines uranium will probably do well if the price goes up, but not if the price goes up because thei
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by dmurray 3y ago
At what point does this become not "homeschool", but "school, with different licensing requirements for the teachers"? It doesn't seem right to discuss this setup in the same breath as children schooled by their own
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by dmurray 3y ago
> Since the social media service could change the hash too, This might be a legit use case for PGP and signing your posts with your private key
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by dmurray 3y ago
Also, you can trade off bandwidth for error rate at a lower level of the networking stack, so if you know your applications will use error- correcting protocols like TCP, you can make your switches and routers talk to each other a little fa

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