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by gjulianm 7y ago
>People having terrible economic backyards may want to move near you Nothing to do with that. Facebook is saying that they have a new lawnmower that could improve some lawns, and I'm saying to stop it because Facebook has shown that
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by gjulianm 7y ago
And how is a corporation better? A corporation is made with the ultimate purpose of making money for their shareholders. The wellness of the customers is not a goal at all. Also, I disagree with the part about a corporation being "elec
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by gjulianm 7y ago
> Because if a bank runs the risk of failing (like BOTH of mine did in Holland) people freak out Most EU countries have had deposit guarantees for a while (even before the crisis). It's an EU-wide rule since 2014 [0]. Would FB have
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by gjulianm 7y ago
Do you care to expand?
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by gjulianm 7y ago
That only works in a perfect world where the public makes a collective risk assesment that is accurate. In reality, that does not happen. A single person might use Libra because it is useful for them, and one more user of Libra will not cha
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by gjulianm 7y ago
This is not another app. This is Facebook saying that they want to create a widespread currency, not just a payment system. And I don't need to use it to become affected by the monetary policy of the behemoth that Libra could become.
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by gjulianm 7y ago
Improve them how? Also, if they become more powerful than governments, they don't have to answer to no one. Once they control your livelihood, you wouldn't be able to even complain. It's basically putting them at the doors of
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by gjulianm 7y ago
Reddit Gold works on Reddit, and that's it. Libra pretends to be an actual currency, with which you can buy things. There's also the issue of scale. Facebook is everywhere, if it controls our money it can become more powerful than
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by gjulianm 7y ago
I get the impression from the article that no lawmakers had knowledge of the protocol. I hope Facebook does not plan to introduce this "sneakily" without taking into account laws and the financial issues this can introduce. Honest
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by gjulianm 7y ago
Saying "haters" makes it look like the people criticizing Facebook don't have serious concerns about the influence it has on the world. It's not being a hater of Vim, or Python. This is far bigger.
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by gjulianm 8y ago
Yes there is. A dollar is a dollar every time, but it is very different to spend two hours a week playing a game while commuting, for example, and spending those same two hours playing the game when you wake up and being late for work becau
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by gjulianm 8y ago
It does not make too much sense to compare textbooks and class notes, specially when you get to higher level classes where the textbooks are reference textbooks, hardly readable by someone who is not already familiar with the material. Your
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by gjulianm 8y ago
OP describes exactly how he abstracts away the mechanical task of writing LaTeX and can focus on the content. I did a similar thing in my classes and after a little bit of practice and tool adjustment you just don't think about LaTeX m
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by gjulianm 8y ago
I want to highlight that part: "Participants using laptops are more likely to take lengthier transcription-like notes with greater verbatim overlap with the lecture" In other words, there is nothing intrinsically wrong
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by gjulianm 8y ago
I did take LaTeX notes for most courses on my math degree, and I passed all of them. In fact, the ones where I dedicated more time to the notes were the ones that I could study more easily as I put in more effort to understand and review wh
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by gjulianm 8y ago
The cost of lawyers he's sued is the same no matter the legislation. I assume that different laws give different ways to sue, but I don't think that cost depends that much on the cost of firing someone. If the employer does everyt
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by gjulianm 8y ago
IIRC, the compensation for firing someone is 0.25 months of salary per worked year (first ten years, after that it's 0.33 months). It's not that much, and if he has enough work to take on extra staff he probably could put away t
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by gjulianm 8y ago
I don't think I've used awk scripts more than in one or two occasions, I use it mostly for one liners and there I like awk's simplicity. When I need something more complex I resort to Python which is slower but usually manage
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by gjulianm 8y ago
You still have to create the SQLite database and have the client handy. Awk is there by default in all *nix systems, and for these basic tasks it's incredibly easy (see http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~dholland/computer
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by gjulianm 8y ago
I don't think it's much better to use SQL, it's literally killing flies with nuclear bombs. Awk does the job perfectly well and you don't have to spin up a SQL database, import the data, deal with any possible problem wh
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by gjulianm 8y ago
Becoming a millionaire is harder, yes, but so is also crash down to poverty. Safety nets such as cheap/free education, free healthcare, public retirement funds, more protective labor laws and such make it easier for everybody to avoid
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by gjulianm 8y ago
I think Bash is the only common-use language that uses dynamic scoping. Whenever you get into more than two functions everything can quickly become unmanageable if you don't prefix all your declarations with 'local'. Forget o
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by gjulianm 8y ago
The fact that it's a shorthand means that it's not in the definition, just a convention. In fact, nowhere in my studies I saw anyone using 'division' when working explicitly with fields in algebra, it's always multi
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by gjulianm 8y ago
The usual definition of division is the multiplicative inverse, yes. But that does not mean that, as an intellectual curiosity (which is how I take this post) you can't define "division" as having other value. Sometimes that&
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by gjulianm 8y ago
I think OP means that nothing breaks mathematically. It is not inconsistent and not false, so you can work with it. The only issue is to deal specially with the case of division by zero, which you have to do anyways. Code that assumes that
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by gjulianm 8y ago
You are completely missing the parent's point. They say that this is one of the examples where hires are not performed 100% based on merit but that existing networks and references are an important aspect, without denying that this per
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by gjulianm 9y ago
Is it really that hard to implement the policies of the GDPR? The way I see it it is basically breach notification and right to access/delete data, which does not seem that difficult and probably not a burden for a startup to "not
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by gjulianm 9y ago
Sorry but I do not agree at all. First, the fact that they chose the same photo might not necessarily mean that photo is the "optimal choice" according to some algorithm: it can perfectly be a coincidence. I find it even more impr
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by gjulianm 9y ago
Me neither. I don't think synthesia is even remotely comparable in usefulness to a partition. It's really hard to read ahead (without the keyboard reference it seems really hard to identify which note is which) and estimating not
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by gjulianm 9y ago
Just out of curiosity, which states do your developers put git in? I’ve worked with people that were learning git and the worst they’ve done is committing files with conflicts after a merge or putting in files that should be ignored. Oh, an

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