markvdb

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by markvdb 12y ago
It's 2014. Latvia is part of SEPA, EU, and euro zone. This implies decent regulatory oversight. The severe economic depression that hit Latvia in 2008/2009 forced the worst problems in the banking sector to the surface. In that wa
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by markvdb 12y ago
Some serious attempts at rehabilitation in Norway: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/feb/25/norwegian-pri...
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by markvdb 12y ago
I should have added some historical context to this request for those unaware of it. It's hard not to see the user name Waffle_SS as an unnecessarily hurtful trivialisation of the Waffen-SS, the Nazi paramilitary force. See https:&#x2
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by markvdb 12y ago
Waffle_ss , change your user name.
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by markvdb 12y ago
Standard notation can help build a mental representation of how the music sounds. With some training, one can process the standardised fingering annotations into physical movement really fast too. Tabs are physical movement instructions. Wi
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by markvdb 12y ago
Guitar professional here. It's good to keep the limitations of tabs in mind. The're really useful, but they don't represent music nearly half as much as conventional music notation. They represent finger movements instead.
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by markvdb 12y ago
I think we tend to overrate _perceived_ inconveniences that affect us personally and underrate _perceived_ inconveniences that affect everyone else. Perceived because... A place that caters to slow walkers and cyclists, if minimally well de
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by markvdb 12y ago
The most important figure to monitor though is not mortality/car-distance, but traffic mortality/population. Let me rephrase that in plain English. Care about creating a safer car driving environment, but care even much more about
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by markvdb 12y ago
Ramp metering has nothing to do with high speed versus low speed. It has everything to do with saturating a road to optimum capacity.
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by markvdb 12y ago
In Japan, and soon in Belgium too, "energy islands" are built in the sea to store wind energy. http://rt.com/news/belgium-battery-island-renewable-319/ (P.S. I couldn't immediately find any more rep
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by markvdb 12y ago
It's definitely not as simple as that. To get an idea of some complexities, just read the double taxation avoidance treaties between the two EU countries involved to start, and have a look at the EU posted workers directive http:&#x2F
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by markvdb 12y ago
You will have to be very very careful about making Estonia the real physical center of the commercial activities deployed by your company. If you don't - let's say you're Dutch, living in Holland and consulting mostly for Dut
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by markvdb 12y ago
An important part of the Rothschild family fortune was apparently made in a similar way around Napoleon's Waterloo defeat, using an optical precursor of the telegraph networks. http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2007/1
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by markvdb 12y ago
Cuba announced sending 165 health professionals two weeks ago. http://www.granma.cu/idiomas/ingles/cuba-i/15sept-Cuba%20app... http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/statements/201
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by markvdb 12y ago
Man has created big surfaces of water in hot dry areas. A significant portion evaporates before it can be used...
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by markvdb 12y ago
Quote from the article: "The driver had a nice sense of humour and at the first three police stops he was like: - What's this? - That's for our guys on the South-East." ...
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by markvdb 12y ago
I wonder why they use MD5 hashes and not something more collision attack resistant.
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by markvdb 12y ago
Plausible deniability. You are only the low ranking front. You don't know the passphrase needed to hand over.
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by markvdb 12y ago
Yes, I am seriously trying to privilege check. Mostly myself, but feel free to join if you want. No, this was not about infantilising anyone.
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by markvdb 12y ago
For quite a few of these "micropreneurs", the "disproportionate power" over them comes is about at least two things: * The "micropreneur" jobs outcompete traditional services with their lower labour cost. Becau
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by markvdb 12y ago
Did you notice the word "biometric" in the article? I'd rather have the future look like this: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28055678 .
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by markvdb 12y ago
He's in Bulgaria. I wonder how that fact and the rule of law go together...
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by markvdb 12y ago
Why not get him an office? Either at the workplace for mentally disabled, or somewhere else. He might also be able to combine Mechanical Turk with physical work at the same place... Researching what someone with Down syndrome did 50 or 100
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by markvdb 12y ago
Why not design internationalisation and localisation into it, and have contributors translate the ui? Shouldn't be too much of a problem. That might be an excellent way to demonstrate the power of FOSS to a small but growing community
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by markvdb 13y ago
Clueless newbie here. I see this thing does OpenCL on a completely different architecture. Recent tesseract ocr versions supports opencl. Will I be able to run tesseract on this thing? Would I even want to?
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by markvdb 13y ago
It's also a self reinforcing loop. In other words, even if Musk would _try_ to give credit to the team, much of that would be ignored in the reporting about Tesla/SpaceX/...
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by markvdb 13y ago
http://www.software.coop MJ Ray of Debian fame is part of this. He's also very much involved in promoting the cooperative as a concept.
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by markvdb 13y ago
<quote>I think that worry about corrupt businesses is misplaced when a corrupt government is 10x worse.</quote> Worrying about private sector corruption misplaced? One shouldn't have to tolerate _any_ kind of corruptio
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by markvdb 13y ago
There's quite a pile of information on CIA rendition flights. They seem to have used EU member states air space [1][2]. The Washington Post suggests there was at least some journalistic field work plane spotting in the US [3]. [1] htt
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by markvdb 13y ago
Could you please elaborate a bit about the 1910's generation simplicity? It's the first time I've seen that mentioned.

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