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by lucozade 8y ago
Having tried, it's a little more difficult than applying a bit more thinking. Specifically, the criteria that you can't trace a voter to a vote but you need to ensure a voter only has one vote (or at most one if voting isn't
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by lucozade 8y ago
> A central authority(government) can control issuance of new keys and maintain the association between keys and personal information One of the key features of a secret ballot voting system is that there's no practical way to tie a
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by lucozade 8y ago
So, to paraphrase, you believe it's entirely reasonable to hire based on stereotypes. It's not clear from this whether it's just your stereotypes that are acceptable or can anyone join in? As an aside, I happen to find your g
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by lucozade 8y ago
Yeah, no blinding, no placebo, in the field, small sample size and at a drug related event. At best, this falls into the "quite interesting should probably do a proper follow up" pile. One interesting line from the study. It says
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by lucozade 8y ago
Sure, but that doesn't mean, and is unlikely to mean, that they can't log. They won't be able to pass historic data as they, presumably, don't have it. But if they are formally requested to give information, at least for
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by lucozade 8y ago
> Do you expect or want companies NOT to obey law? Whose law? US law in this space says a lot about the rights of US citizens but a lot less about the rights of non-US citizens. So, yes it's reasonable to expect that a US company sh
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by lucozade 8y ago
It depends to some extent on the arrangement but some benefits include: + rapid on boarding - if the service provider has a bench then it can be much quicker than hiring a significant number of people + flexibility - the client can ramp up
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by lucozade 8y ago
It's just a footnote. I don't think that GNU are making a big deal about it. In fact, the wording of the Code of Conduct actually contradicts RMS's linked article in the footnote. The article specifically states that RMS won&
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> What if they are doing it wrong and I notice? Then offer to help. Even if this study was anything like statistically significant, all it would show is that you'd get less gratitude than if they asked for help. It doesn't look
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> so I guess the answer is really.... they dont care That's not a reasonable characterisation of what drstewart wrote. It would be fairer to say that they don't care as much as you . That's not the same as not caring at a
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by lucozade 8y ago
> Why did Linus make such fanfare about his departure I'm not sure he did. AFAICT he wrote an email on the Linux mailing explaining that he was taking some time off and why. He also did an interview or two, presumably because he was
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> I don't see how scientists or staticians would be unable to understand a basic knowledge like zero-based indexing Of course they can. In fact, they tend to have a complex relationship with indexing which is why Julia supports such
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> This is too often the attitude of Julia people And it's a good attitude for the Julia people to have. Their target audience is not just (or even mainly) full time developers. They're targeting scientists, statisticians etc. A
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by lucozade 8y ago
Entirely anecdotal but my one experience of Finnish "flirting" consisted of telling fairly rude stories over a large bottle of vodka at the kitchen table (at the house we were both lodging in). When I felt it was time for bed, we
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by lucozade 8y ago
Thanks for this Martin. Thought provoking as always. A couple of observations wrt Order Cancellation. I'm not sure I get your point regarding bundles and scopes. In both the 'with' case and the RAII case, you're explicit
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by lucozade 8y ago
> The president is not picked based on the people’s vote Yes, the US President is. It's not a straight referendum but that doesn't mean it's not based on people's votes. > The US is a republic, not a democracy It&#
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by lucozade 8y ago
TL;DR Boo billionaires, yay kindergarten teachers. Well, one sentence was yay kindergarten teachers anyway. On the plus side, it's currently winning "vapid article of the week". So that's something.
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1. Because they can depreciate capex over a multi-year period. This can help manage the P&L better. 2. Likely because the bigger company has a much more complex balance sheet so applies more complex accounting to manage it. 3. It's
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by lucozade 8y ago
The FDA doesn't seem to agree completely with the shouty people [0]. [0] https://www.fda.gov/newsevents/publichealthfocus/ucm584952.h...
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by lucozade 8y ago
Assuming you're not intentionally being disingenuous, can I suggest that you put the bit where you say you don't really know much about central banking and money supply nearer the top? As a piece where you're writing down wha
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by lucozade 8y ago
> the separation of church and state as a fundamental tenet of Western society I think you may be confusing Western society with the US. It's not a tenet, fundamental or otherwise, of many Western societies. But otherwise, I would t
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by lucozade 8y ago
> Is physics "hate speech" If it's somehow an incitement to an immediate illegal action then it may be. Otherwise it's not. In the US, hate speech isn't like being offended, it's not in the eye of the behold
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by lucozade 8y ago
Of the successful founders that I'm acquainted with, and this may not be representative, I'd say that an incredibly competitive nature is pretty common. Oh, and definitely not patience. If anything, they've been some of the l
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by lucozade 8y ago
> If helmets are in fact necessary They're not necessary, they're just a very good idea. So good, in fact, that a lot of states make them compulsory when riding a motorbike. But sometimes states decide that, even if they are a
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by lucozade 8y ago
This isn't how policy making works though. An excellent example is Brexit. The Brexit referendum existed solely because of UKIP and UKIP have only ever won 2 parliamentary seats. And those were both for sitting MPs that had defected. H
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This is the only possible explanation. Other than the other, much more plausible, one.
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Having had the pleasure of being served by many waiters in Paris, I assumed that the 1907 strike hadn't ended yet.
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by lucozade 8y ago
> that our police do not go around shooting and handcuffing people all the time As a lifelong UK citizen (well nearly lifelong), I think our police can be somewhat heavy-handed. The first graphic in this piece [0] gives me some cause for
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by lucozade 8y ago
There are 2 broad areas. On the fast path, you need to make the decision to trade, check compliance, credit etc and execute the trade. Not just quickly but quicker than everyone else. This translates into a low latency problem, as others ha
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by lucozade 8y ago
As a well educated, highly paid remaincuck (seriously, are you 12?), maybe I can enlighten you. Something like 40% of our trade is with the EU. Having an open trading environment, especially for the things we do really, really well, is what

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