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by mapleoin 10y ago
This is the best bit I think: > The problem is fundamentally a protocol problem: booleans (and other types) are often used to encode program semantics. > Therefore, in a sense, a boolean is a serialization protocol for communicating i
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by mapleoin 10y ago
The problem I see with this is: how do they know someone is who they claim to be on Facebook? There's no indication in the article that they collaborated with Facebook and an ISP to link a user's post with their (possibly dynamic)
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by mapleoin 10y ago
London, UK | Osper | ONSITE Osper ( https://osper.com ) is mobile banking for young people aged 8-18. We give children the power to manage their money, and parents the confidence to let them. We've already helped tens of thou
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by mapleoin 10y ago
How does one get to be a former Russian?
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by mapleoin 10y ago
This is a really bad title. There is nothing wrong with either Ubuntu's or Debian's repositories. The problem is with Docker's repositories of Ubuntu/Debian packages.
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by mapleoin 10y ago
> But you argued that a stock dividend is also equivalent to a cash dividend. They are not equivalent, no. That's what I was trying to emphasize with the difference in choice available to the investor. > They never do stock spl
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by mapleoin 10y ago
It is, yes, if you mean "stock dividend" rather than "cash dividend". Although I'm not sure about the tax implications.
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by mapleoin 10y ago
I agree.
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by mapleoin 10y ago
You're missing one important event. In the moment that the dividends are issued (regardless of whether they are stock or cash) a part of the company's value transfers into those dividends. Your example cannot work because a compan
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by mapleoin 10y ago
They are paying a dividend, a stock dividend in this case. Stock dividends are deemed to be more favourable to the investor because they have now been given the choice of when they want that part of the company to be transformed into cash
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by mapleoin 10y ago
Would be great to have a "half of fame" for this to see what startups people are expecting to die.
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by mapleoin 10y ago
I feel one of the worst API tooling right now are the ones that come with AWS. Everything from the AWS Console's UX and accessibility to Dynamo's APIs are just a nightmare to understand and deal with day to day.
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by mapleoin 10y ago
> Dickensque The word you're looking for is https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Dickensian
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by mapleoin 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NP-complete
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by mapleoin 10y ago
I can't tell if these will be just for Wordpress blogs or will be allowed to be bought by anyone and used for anything.
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Picking technologies for a desktop app in 2016(fman.io)
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by mapleoin 10y ago
This is what I got from this article: Researchers looked at MRI scans of people listening to a Podcast on their daily commute. The researchers don't know what any of it means.
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by mapleoin 10y ago
This sounds like a solution in search of a problem, just with the budget and resources of an entire government. It sounds like someone made a contract for some new surveillance devices and are now looking for ways to deploy them. Yet the g
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by mapleoin 10y ago
> a lot more tourists are littering, so if this helps prevent it, I'm all for it. This sounds like a great beginning to a dystopian novel. We who gave up our privacy and control over our life to the All Seeing All Knowing State to
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by mapleoin 10y ago
This is presented as revolutionary somehow, but it's just a stripped-down (early version?) of what the other configuration management tools do: e.g. Chef, puppet, ansible.
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by mapleoin 10y ago
This is no fun to talk about without permalinks to uploaded images/results.
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by mapleoin 10y ago
I would draw it facing left and I think that's because of the way I learned to mount a bike: the bike-stand is on the left side so you need to have your last foot on the ground on the left side in order to pull it up.
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by mapleoin 11y ago
> they were #1 in Coca Cola's water consumption world wide. This sounds like they're the biggest consumer, but the rest of your comment sounds more like they're the most efficient consumer?
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by mapleoin 11y ago
Yes and that's how Amnesty references it, as an enabler of other human rights: Encryption is therefore also an enabler of the rights to freedom of expression, information and opinion, and also has an impact on the rights to free
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by mapleoin 11y ago
Love the "Self-driving Mom" title for one of the people in the ad.
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by mapleoin 11y ago
The exception list now contains only four websites that offer a very good experience to their users with ads on. They say that now, but what about a year from now? Look at the scandal around the original Adblock extension. Everyone wants
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by mapleoin 11y ago
http://whatthecommit.com/
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by mapleoin 11y ago
What are the licensing implications for this kind of work? I assume the authors used GNU coreutils as more than just inspiration. They probably read all the original code and reused some of the solutions (obviously ported to Rust). Shouldn&
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by mapleoin 11y ago
It gets scarier, they compare it to the Concorde based on price: Unlike Concorde, flying Boom is affordable—the same price as business class. Ok, so the Concorde had some critical engineering faults, making it cheaper definitely sounds mo
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by mapleoin 11y ago
I don't understand this argument that people feel safer storing cash than keeping it in a bank. The cash is just as ephemeral as bank credit. With the exception that it's controlled by your central bank instead of the commercial b

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