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by karatinversion 4y ago
I only realised quite recently that I could now select text in images on my iPhone the same way I could if I was looking at a web page.
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by karatinversion 4y ago
Let alone that the Portuguese were in Brazil, and the Spanish in the _Philippines_, for some 300 years
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by karatinversion 4y ago
That is what “de jure, not de facto” means - the ban is in place, but widely ignored and unenforced
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by karatinversion 4y ago
I don’t think you can do this without basically outlawing, say, pizza (intentionally contains wheat and dairy).
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by karatinversion 4y ago
Combining formatting and output is quite common - C has it in the printf family of functions (some of which do not output into anything, but return a string). Similarly, Java’s output streams have a format method, which can output to whatev
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by karatinversion 4y ago
An example discussed earlier this year on HN: Joseph Kelly tweeted > the only good Brit soldier is a deed one, burn auld fella, buuuuurn in relation to Tom Moore’s death. He deleted the tweet after 20 minutes. He was convicted of grossly
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by karatinversion 4y ago
The way I got this to stick in my head was to always think of * as dereferencing, and tell myself that int *x; is declaring that the type of *x is int.
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by karatinversion 4y ago
The community pays either way - they are the source of the revenue that has to cover any private enforcement! Law enforcement is a public good and will be under supplied by private parties that cannot internalise all the gain!
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by karatinversion 4y ago
What does it take to think of a number? We can certainly refer to particular uncomputable numbers - choose an enumeration of Turing machines, and let x be the real number whose binary expansion has 1 at the i-th place if the i-th Turing mac
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by karatinversion 4y ago
Note that the “shouting fire in a crowded theatre” argument comes from an overturned 1919 Supreme Court case which held that the federal government could ban the distribution of anti-draft pamphlets during WW1. https://en.m.wiki
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Ask HN: Modern Introduction to ML?
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by karatinversion 4y ago
Yes, and the deficit is equal to net government borrowing, because it is the part of expenditure financed through borrowing rather than taxes.
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by karatinversion 4y ago
The fed is the one with the money printers. The federal government finances its operations through taxes and borrowing.
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by karatinversion 4y ago
Note that Oslo is at 59.9 degrees northern latitude, while London is at 51.5 degrees northern latitude. Going the same 8.4 degrees south from London takes you to the Pyrenees, or Florence.
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by karatinversion 4y ago
I’ve used javadocs plenty, and really like them, but they are organised by package and class, so figuring out how to do something when you don’t know what package to use is very painful. Say you want to know how to delete a file at a given
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by karatinversion 4y ago
google.com [spaces] pwned.evilcorp.com it is
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by karatinversion 4y ago
IANAL Under GDPR you are the data controller of you decide what data is collected and for what purposes. I would expect this to cover you as the operator of the website (or other service). Your agreements with your tool providers probably s
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by karatinversion 4y ago
The analogy can be taken too far; if you can recognise a note by sight on sheet music, you’ve learnt everything there is to directly memorise in paying an instrument. All the rest is practice. This is not the case in language learning. A la
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by karatinversion 4y ago
At the time of the calendar reform, the months that are now called July and August were called Quintilis and Sextilis. The Julian calendar came into use on January 1, 45 BC. July was renamed in 44 BC (the year of Caesar’s assassination), an
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by karatinversion 4y ago
The fed has to keep adjusting rates as economic conditions change, yes.
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by karatinversion 4y ago
It is not. The whole point of the EU is to pool sovereignty for common benefit. Germany is constrained in things it can do: it cannot ban the importing of French wine, give huge subsidies to its domestic steel industry to gain market share
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by karatinversion 4y ago
That’s one way of looking at it. From the investor (and thus valuation) point of view, you need to pay $20,000 lump sum to obtain a recurring interest payment of $100.
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by karatinversion 4y ago
My pet theory is that the rise of SaaS in the 2010s is largely a function of the low prevailing interest rates. Standard pricing says that if interest rates are 0.5%, an annual recurring payment of $100 is worth $20,000; but if interest rat
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by karatinversion 4y ago
I’m curious what you think a good behaviour would have been? I’ve never used dating apps, but it seems to me that once you move to an island with the population of Cleveland, Ohio, your dating pool is limited to that island…
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by karatinversion 4y ago
Implication isn’t actually complete - you can’t construct negation from it, because (T, …, T) can only ever get mapped to T.
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by karatinversion 4y ago
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice, to coin a phrase; which is why many laws have an “intentionally or recklessly” clause
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by karatinversion 4y ago
Indeed, “1/60th cheaper” cannot be used either, as it would mean the prices were as 59 is to 60
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by karatinversion 4y ago
My mother used to keep a card I wrote her when preschool aged, which read “happy Mother’s Day” entirely mirrored, written right to left
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by karatinversion 4y ago
I suspect that a big chunk of YouTube’s audience puts it on and lets it auto play, the same way one might turn on a tv channel and see whatever is on. This audience has more tolerance for ads, and so is more lucrative than people seeking sh
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by karatinversion 4y ago
Mind you, the Assadists came out on top in Syria; they don’t use drones so much, but old fashioned siege warfare against population centres, terror bombing and chemical weapons.

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