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by laumars 4y ago
That’s an interesting idea. I might try this myself
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by laumars 4y ago
There have been exceptions to that reform though. For example the “stamp duty holiday” incentive ~two years ago removed marginal bands for the lower thresholds during its run. Which created a great deal of chaos for the housing market.
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by laumars 4y ago
No. Income tax you only pay the percentage of the bracket you’re in. So (made up numbers here) if you earn 100k and the bracket changes every 40k then the first 40k will be taxed at the first bracket. The second 40k at the second bracket, a
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by laumars 4y ago
The US isn’t in the EU though ;) I can’t speak for all member states but I do know some have a threshold and from that point you have to pay a percentage of the total amount. So some investment firms will game your portfolio to bring you in
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by laumars 4y ago
There are other taxes that don’t function that way though. Like capital gains and stamp duty. Those taxes do frequently get gamed.
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by laumars 4y ago
> Just take "Eddie Murphy Raw is a 1987" - which is near the same time frame. Just compare the talent. Mr Bean quietly sticks crackers in his nose - Eddie Murphy on the other hand ... You do realise that the comedy scene in Bri
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by laumars 4y ago
He’s one of the all time best comics for verbal delivery in my opinion. He’s second to none in the way he accentuates syllables to make even mundane words have a striking impact.
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by laumars 4y ago
I answered that question. In short, “it’s nuanced”. There needs to be a line drawn somewhere and the company suspending that individual while that review her case to see which side of the line she falls seems like an entirely reasonable rea
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by laumars 4y ago
It doesn’t matter if their main method of communication was crop dusting entire neighbourhoods with thousands of tattooed teddy bears. What matters is the content of that speech. If you’re publicly slagging off a company that you’re contrac
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by laumars 4y ago
Depends on the details. For a lower level position I might give a written warning, on the provision they take down the offending post(s). But since she’s named a client, that could harm business relations. So in that instance the severity o
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by laumars 4y ago
A better response would be: “let’s use the tech we have now while we design a more aesthetically pleasing solution” Aesthetics can be important but pragmatically they’re far less important than the health of our planet.
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by laumars 4y ago
I don’t agree with the firing, but let’s be clear about what she was fired for because it wasn’t going to the kitchen. It was for posting negative content about her employer on social media. This could get you fired from practically any job
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by laumars 4y ago
Why is that insane?
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by laumars 4y ago
This is an easy problem to solve. You just have the paint mechanism at the back of the vehicle so it paints after the wheels have moved over the track. Kind of like the reverse of the plough at the front of the train that some networks (not
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by laumars 4y ago
Yeah trains haven’t clack clack clack for a long time now. Possibly as much as 20 years for the lines I’m on.
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by laumars 4y ago
You're literally now just saying the same thing I was! It was a different frequency on the same signal. I never said it was chopped between frames! That's some weird conclusion you came to all by yourself. Hence why I said you&#x2
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by laumars 4y ago
Yeah the parsing for some of the BASICs was weird at times. Some auto-capitalised terms whereas others would list that as a syntax error or some other error. Some even allowed you to abbreviate terms. Locomotive BASIC allowed you to use som
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by laumars 4y ago
> All of the many widely read and reviewed books on Gates' career tell the same story Is it really that surprising that books specifically documenting Gates would cover his version of events? This is a very definition of selection
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by laumars 4y ago
> IBM purchased BASIC and DOS from Microsoft in the same transaction. BASIC was the only "OS" installed by default in the first PCs and PC-DOS was an optional extra at launch. Yes, I'm already aware of that. You're
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by laumars 4y ago
BBC BASIC is based on Atom BASIC. Atom BASIC was pretty fast (like BBC BASIC and Apple BASIC, it vastly out performed Microsoft BASIC). Atom BASIC also allowed you to do some really cool stuff too like in-line assembly. Also the BBC Micro w
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by laumars 4y ago
Their context wasn’t about IBM buying BASIC, it was about IBM buying DOS from Microsoft. Plus given IBM was a global brand it seems a bit self-congratulatory to argue that only US-developed BASICs count anyway. However even taking your comm
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by laumars 4y ago
He wasn’t unwilling. The story I heard was that it’s the usual tail of time constraints. It was quicker to license Microsoft BASIC than it was to add floating points to Integer BASIC.
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by laumars 4y ago
There has been several published accounts from different people involved, all of which differ. The story the GP published is one such version (I’ve read that account elsewhere, published as first hand). AFAIK there isn’t even a popular opin
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by laumars 4y ago
> Microsoft wasn't necessarily a "small company with nothing to lose", either. They had the best BASIC interpreter in the business[0] and everyone licensed from them already. Nope and nope. The “best” is subjective but BBC
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by laumars 4y ago
This is one part of the story that most people agree on. I think I’ve even seen an interview with Bill Gates where he recalls this.
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by laumars 4y ago
You’re thinking digitally. PAL and NTSC are analogue formats. In fact that link you cited even says that’s VHS stores the PAL or NTSC signal verbatim and what I described is exactly how PAL and NTSC store audio. To quote: > Each of the d
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by laumars 4y ago
I doubt it. You'd probably end up spending more time training the AI than you would using it. To be clear, people do this stuff as a passion project so nothing stopping someone from investing the time in training a ML model to assist h
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by laumars 4y ago
It's not BSD: https://www.openldap.org/software/release/license.html
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by laumars 4y ago
People reverse engineer back end servers for online games all the time. You don't need AI. Just a really dedicated following and a lot of free time. It's not piracy doing this though. Technically you might still be in breach of so
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by laumars 4y ago
There are other skin tones but you're right it's mostly white people. However it's worth baring in mind that this is an old site. Wayback machine has it at 2012. I'm sure I've read an explanation that said each imag

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