matt4077

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by matt4077 12y ago
Excellent! It seem to heavily rely on the community & moderation – something we're exploring with as well. Kinda like (rap)genius.
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by matt4077 12y ago
I had some sort of violent dopamine release just reading the headline. I'm working on a project to make (EU-) law more accessible. So if anybody here knows good methods to visualise/summarise long legal texts (30-300 pages) you co
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by matt4077 12y ago
Mobac works great, although you have to do a bit of editing of configuration files to get it to work with non-free sources like google maps. I've used it create maps for long bicycle trips in SE Europe. A highest-detail map of the balk
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by matt4077 12y ago
The western coast of Nigeria is where the equator and the prime meridian meet.
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by matt4077 12y ago
"A choice", i. e. free will, and something that can be changed via medication aren't mutually exclusive. I'd think most people would agree that getting up early is somewhat in your control, but it gets a lot easier if yo
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by matt4077 12y ago
All those decisions are made by the European Central Bank.
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by matt4077 12y ago
There are no obligations, just necessities. Without the bailout, Greece would have defaulted and (it was feared) the French/German/Spanish banks that had financed the Greek debt would have fallen as well.
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by matt4077 12y ago
Because they're better at math than that.
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by matt4077 12y ago
That's actually very common. Large organisations need a way to track how departments consume various shared resources, so they start some sort of internal billing/cost assignment system. It also allows support departments to measu
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by matt4077 12y ago
These exist. Here in Germany, the major (actually, only) rights-management agency is the GEMA, which is wholly controlled by "the artists". It's a nightmare, though. It is ruled by the bureaucrats running it, in conjunction w
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Two very different metrocard machine workflows – and the reasoning for it(flowingdata.com)
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by matt4077 12y ago
I have mixed feelings about the gifs.
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by matt4077 12y ago
This was the British GCHQ. They were spying on non-Europeans using their roaming networks, including US citizens. If you think there's some sort of restraint with regards to citizens of other 'five eyes' nations, I wonder how
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by matt4077 12y ago
Belgacom was also targeted because its networks are a hub for non-Europeans roaming on the continent – including US citizens. Since this is the British intelligence service, US citizens aren't protected. Remember as well that one of th
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by matt4077 12y ago
Well, Toyota probably has the better PR team (and more of an interest in getting it's message out). It appears as if neither theory has ever been proven. The slides argue that the standard of evidence in civil proceedings is simply &qu
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by matt4077 12y ago
It's called a "wire" transfer for a reason. In the EU, they take a day and are free.
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by matt4077 12y ago
A nice and steep tax on capital gains would do fine. As technology progresses and machines contribute more and more value the income they generate returns to those that financed them.
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by matt4077 12y ago
Education isn't just about "transferrable skills", at least not in the sense that you can attach a $ value for it. Society is advanced by two broad categories: science & technology, and arts & culture. To deny the ben
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by matt4077 12y ago
These are meta-analyses and as such don't require lab work by definition. My impression was that somebody has created some useful tools or amassed enough experience to do this kind of work efficiently.
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GB & Germany are getting closer to a balanced budget (Germany will probably get there next year). It's not impossible to pay off all debt, especially if inflation returns to healthy 3%.
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by matt4077 12y ago
This isn't about their API ToS, it's about copyright. The fonts are distributed under free licenses and therefore fair game.
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by matt4077 12y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but unless the publisher agree, you're probably not fine. IIRC, Instapaper and readability run on the client. They don't reproduce the complete article on the server. I'd also argue that you're in