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by jeeeb 6y ago
One thing I think is worth considering is the effect of living spaces on WFH enjoyment/productivity. There’s a lot less living space in the typical Japanese house/apartment compared to the much of the west. A lot of the apartments
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by jeeeb 6y ago
It doesn’t answer your question but Sean Carol did a very interesting podcast interview with the biologist Michael Levin recently talking about basically this subject. My layman’s summary of it is that the way genes express themselves is de
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by jeeeb 6y ago
> They "fitted" the rotation curves of three galaxies with their very obscure model with a bunch of parameters I don’t quite follow this objection. Do you mean there are more free parameters in the model than data points so the
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by jeeeb 6y ago
As an Australian I actually don’t have much of a problem with this. I didn’t see it mentioned in the article but of the total of 53.4 million doses of AZ vaccine Australia has ordered 50 million are being manufactured in Australia. What’s m
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by jeeeb 6y ago
Your example relates to the properties of lazy sequences, which are generally acknowledge as a good idea and implemented as part of the standard libraries of most major languages (e.g. Java, C#, Python 3). For example, the following Python
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by jeeeb 6y ago
Nitpick: It would be more correct to say that FB collects GST for the Australian Tax Office. In an accounting sense only consumers actually pay GST. Also worth pointing out that FB’s tax bill in Australia is pretty minimal (rightly or wrong
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by jeeeb 6y ago
So far it seems like only press statements have been released. ABC is reporting some small tweaks to the law ( https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-23/facebook-reverses-new... ) 1. Introduction of a good faith mediat
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by jeeeb 6y ago
To clarify, by face saving PR I mean that yes of course Facebook can take down its entire news service going forward. That wasn’t really in doubt. What doesn’t seem to be the case is that Facebook can discriminate against content from barga
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by jeeeb 6y ago
It’s not clear what this actually means in practice. Most news source I searched are reporting small (but logical) tweaks to the law, to the point that it seems Facebook largely conceded and then put out some face saving PR. In practice the