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by krona 9y ago
This seems to fit in with the UKs ambivilence towards tax evasion. Do you have any evidence of that or are you just confusing evasion and avoidance, the latter being by definition legal? All the official statistics (from HMRC, not the gov
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by krona 9y ago
The powerful people who support Brexit most visibly For example want to reduce inport duties on African farmers and Chinese shoe manufacturers; the complete opposite of beggar thy neighbour , and does nothing to make rich people richer.
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by krona 9y ago
The problem you're describing is mostly attributable to property graph stores, and doesn't apply to named graph engines. This is the essential difference between neo4j (a property graph engine) and most RDF stores which support
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by krona 9y ago
One I know of is Williams Advanced Engineering who are building a battery factory for Aston Martin. That's fairly low volume, however. Another is the quite significant investments Dyson are making in EV technology; they plan to build a
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by krona 9y ago
The QE aircraft carriers with no aircraft This is hardly a design fault. Instead, how about Type-45 destroyer gas turbine engines suffering from overheating in gulf/Mediterranean temperatures.
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by krona 9y ago
Although at least the German navy know when to reject something that's clearly not fit for purpose.
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by krona 9y ago
If you're interested in developing that line of thought, I suggest reading Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning which is well researched and deeply insightful.
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by krona 9y ago
I don't know what the statistics for Iceland are, but at least in the UK such regulations would, on average, help men in their 20's more than women.
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by krona 9y ago
They are not representative of science in general or of climate science specifically. Citation needed. By the way, attributing wickedness is unnecessary; bias, incompetence and naivety seems sufficient for what's being described by O
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by krona 9y ago
The global financial system is in the midst of an everything bubble , and so in comparison to everything else, the tech bubble looks less significant than a year ago. The current regime wont last long if US inflation picks up in 2018, whic
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by krona 9y ago
From 2001 to 2007 (just 6 years), the proportion of US households that left their income quintile were (starting at the lowest quintile) 44%, 61%, 58%, 55%, and 34%. Even by global standards that's quite high income mobility.
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by krona 9y ago
The richest have gotten richer To be exact, it seems to be saying that the richest 500 are x% richer at the end of the year, not that the 500 richest at the beginning of the year are %x richer at the end of it. These are two different thi
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by krona 9y ago
The men generally don't select the women in these societies; the marriages are arranged by both sets of parents. That's quite a different type of inequality.
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by krona 9y ago
Despite what the article says, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) doesn't consider the wolves that inhabit the Eurasian continent to be endangered [1]. [1] http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/
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by krona 9y ago
The Pareto distribution more applicable in this case, since we're talking about research and scientific discovery.
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by krona 9y ago
The poverty rate as a percentage hasn't really changed since the mid 1960's, so I'm not sure what your point is. I'd much rather be in poverty in 2017 than in 1960.
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by krona 9y ago
Deep learning researchers rediscover Compressed Sensing. News at 11.
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by krona 9y ago
The problem with autonomous vehicles at the moment is that they act like a paranoid schizophrenics with the reactions of a F1 driver, anxious to apply full braking force for no discernible reason in less than 5ms, placing everyone in and ar
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by krona 9y ago
It's about productivity , not trade (the GDP forcast is available to read, which obviously no news agency has bothered to do.) Last I checked the UK had a 6-7% GDP trade deficit. The UK needs another supply-side revolution, and not to
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by krona 9y ago
Since the IMF is measuring in Dollar terms, Britain became the 6th largest economy the day after Brexit, solely as a result of the devaluation of GBP. And apparently, this is news.
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by krona 9y ago
19% of Americans think they are among the top 1% of earners and 20% more think they will be one day You attribute that to false optimism , but where's the actual evidence? Here's a more recent article, backed by empirical studi
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by krona 9y ago
> Or just take a look at the list of their billionaires. I laughed at that. Most of them live in in England, Switzerland and New York.
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by krona 9y ago
I don't know which void this is supposed to fill The void is the hole in France's pocket. See: France's historical relationship with Nato.
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by krona 9y ago
Margaret Thatcher's decision to go to war in 1982, with the government on the brink of collapse, and the economy a complete basket case, changed everything, and undoubtedly for the better. An actual crisis tends to focus the mind.
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by krona 9y ago
My view is CUDA has already won, and everyone else needs to get over it. Even clang supports PTX now, which is a reasonably device agnostic representation, albeit controlled mostly by Nvidia. Perhaps intel will introduce their own extension
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by krona 9y ago
Your analogy of a chimera is a poor one because Facebook doesn't produce content, it is a vehicle for it. If I read the article correctly, I could make a manifestly unlawful comment in this textbox by saying something libelous about
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by krona 9y ago
You are implying that people who use Facebook are not free agents who can decide for themselves what their impact on society should be.
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by krona 9y ago
I believe the author is lamenting the absence of RFC 2000 (const generics.) That is, users cannot define their own types which are generic over constant values. Just because language X can wrap a LAPACK/BLAS library doesn't auto
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by krona 9y ago
The issue is as much a cultural one. I used to work with an editor of one of the worlds most prestigious chemistry journals, and she oft remarked how Chinese scientists didn't think accusations of plagiarism were sufficient grounds for
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by krona 9y ago
Why can't we just have compute networks that can be used for anything, from computational linear algebra to deep learning? You mean, like Tensorflow?

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