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by lepton 9y ago
Most countries have an official concept of annual income. It's used to assess income tax.
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by lepton 10y ago
I think "--[star]" could do well: the "[star]" emphasizes the "pop" in the lolly. Touch it once, and it's gone. EDIT: Having trouble typesetting the asterisk!
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by lepton 10y ago
The industry could converge on standards which allow certain classes of "repeated but different" code (drivers?) to collapse. By collapse, I mean they could share a generic version of code, thus reducing the overall line count. Or
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Everything you did not want to know about Unicode in Python 3 (2014)(lucumr.pocoo.org)
1 points by lepton 11y ago|0 comments
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by lepton 11y ago
If they are in a feature war, then it follow that the open protocols do not provide the features they want.
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by lepton 11y ago
Unless you have access to your own data. Perhaps the insurance companies could be forced to share it upon user request, for example. Then the new company knows everything the old one did.
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by lepton 11y ago
Jack and Jill are two arbitrary names here. With 100% reserves, a bank cannot lend Jill's deposits to Jack. Note the dropped 's' in Varoufakis's comment.
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by lepton 12y ago
No. Viruses require a live host in order to replicate. That sounds tautological, but I'm not sure how else to say it briefly.
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by lepton 12y ago
Right, it's important then to supply an accompanying paper, such as an industrial white paper or a published research paper.
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Lowe's Newest Sales Associate – OSHbot, the Robot(adage.com)
5 points by lepton 12y ago|0 comments
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by lepton 12y ago
Reading this link, it seems that accidents and fatalities were substantially reduced for some time after the switch, due to extra caution being exercised by all drivers. The lesson: Switch the standard every couple of years or so.
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by lepton 12y ago
It's more a texture than a taste.
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by lepton 12y ago
Esc is also C-[, and if you've mapped Control to the home row (eg, swapped with CapsLock) then it's not so bad either.
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Core Wars: King of the Hill(koth.org)
1 points by lepton 13y ago|0 comments
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by lepton 13y ago
I'm really surprised at this attitude. What is fundamentally wrong with email, that I should do what I can to stop using it? I prefer written communication since I find it more deliberate, and therefore more productive ultimately (more
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by lepton 14y ago
But not a quality regulation.
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by lepton 14y ago
The other way around. From Wikipedia: As applied to English, it refers to the use of a verb (in its -ing form) as a noun (for example, the verb "learning" in the sentence "Learning is an easy process for some").
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by lepton 14y ago
If "heat" is from a low-energy source, like an infrared lamp, then no it won't work. You need the individual photons to have enough energy.
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by lepton 14y ago
The reflection is not perfect; the mirrors absorb some light (and warm up...).
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by lepton 15y ago
I didn't downvote, but nathnb's comment isn't adding anything to the discussion. It's a personal aside about some confusion he is having; his last question especially emphasizes that aspect. But I see that several other comments at that lev
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by lepton 15y ago
Good. That's a really geometric understanding, which is helpful. I saw it as somewhat analogous to the back-substitution after lower-triangulation; using y=mx + b and starting with y_0 = b, then y_1 = m + y_0.
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by lepton 15y ago
OK, these were interesting. Are we ready to share thoughts on them? For 1.2.10, I got a single equation involving the three unknowns--does that sound right?
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by lepton 15y ago
Would you have known if she was wrong?
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by lepton 15y ago
Perhaps you were thinking of the series of articles on the "Gervais Principle", in particular #2, http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/11/11/the-gervais-principle-i...
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by lepton 15y ago
We should really link to http://www.purl.org/stefan_ram/pub/doc_kay_oop_en which is still valid and may outlast fu-berlin.de.
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by lepton 15y ago
Why do you shred junk mail? Does it contain any information that isn't already public?
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by lepton 16y ago
"Wedding Day Diamonds gives away pop and cookies."
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by lepton 16y ago
Open-source code is still copyrighted.
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by lepton 16y ago
Lying doesn't seem like the best way to start a new professional relationship. Perhaps you could share your salary expectations instead.
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by lepton 16y ago
The keys 'Z' and 'Y' are transposed as well.

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