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by microcolonel 6y ago
Upon reading the story again, I realize they literally tell you he paid over four million dollars despite only owing about 1500 bucks. I don't know why people are so upset when he literally paid 2000x more tax than he owed.
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by microcolonel 6y ago
> Quite a different thing though if you are head of government which is supposed to collect taxes from people like you, and you see no need to change that. His predecessors/competitors talk a big game, but they were in office for
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by microcolonel 6y ago
I honestly don't understand why “tax avoidance” is meant to sound so naughty. Almost everyone avoids taxes, almost every time they might be subject to a tax; some people are just better at it. When you fail to collect taxes from somebo
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by microcolonel 6y ago
I mean, it's reasonable if it is true defamation. I'm not sure how Thailand's legal system is structured, I think in a lot of places it would be unusual for a defamation case to result in arrest except for contempt of court.
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by microcolonel 6y ago
> ...there is only one primary metric that matters to me: loyal readers. I don't publish for the occasional visitor. Okay, good luck with that. I don't know how somebody becomes a “loyal reader” if they can't even read y
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by microcolonel 6y ago
> Does it produce a library? It is a library.
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by microcolonel 6y ago
I think you'll find that cutting out 16 registers wins you less area than it costs you in code ROM; and at a given execution speed target, you'll be costing yourself in power and area to make up for it. There may be some kinds of
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by microcolonel 6y ago
Mix of luna and Ludacris?
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by microcolonel 6y ago
"concurrency needs of the average app" is different from what Go does well with green threads; this seems like something Swift does notably worse, but well enough that it doesn't annoy you in your use case . I feel like th
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by microcolonel 6y ago
Basically the default configuration on each is different, and some have different features. On macOS there is little or no hinting, the result is less contrast and, at smaller text sizes on standard-resolution displays, eye strain; the upsh
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by microcolonel 6y ago
I hope the President chooses Allison Jones Rushing or Barbara Lagoa, because Amy Coney Barrett has cited Jacobson favourably.
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by microcolonel 6y ago
Jacobson v MA also formed the basis for Korematsu, the case that justified the suspension of Japanese Americans' human rights on the basis of their ethnicity. Jacobson and its descendant Buck, then Korematsu, are among the most shamefu
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by microcolonel 6y ago
Does it really matter if your death sentence is read over a video call or a phone call or in a room?
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by microcolonel 6y ago
Not sure how it came out as totally sarcastic. I genuinely believe that they didn't have to do that, and that it is laudable. The sarcasm was more for the corporate greasiness of the carefully-considered branded phrases, not for the ac
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by microcolonel 6y ago
> Late night comedians don't worry about not having Rush Limbaugh listeners in their demographic and vice versa. I mean, the lefty late-nights may not be hitting that market right now, but that doesn't mean that a competent o
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by microcolonel 6y ago
After scrolling to the bottom and back up, Brave blocked 69 (nice) “ads and other creepy things”, on the phone. I honestly barely go to sites like this anymore. Big media is just gross. The quality is dirt-poor, the business models are abus
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by microcolonel 6y ago
Whoopse, didn't mean this as a global comment.
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by microcolonel 6y ago
LoL, just go build some software dude. In the last two years I wrote a compiler, a brand new log store, heaps of other things, and I did them while doing my job. If you actually care about your craft and can say no from time to time, the
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by microcolonel 6y ago
Okay, even if you could hear frequencies in that range in an actual released musical recording, and not just at near-pain-threshold levels in isolation, 48kHz has become more popular since it's a more convenient "computery" n
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by microcolonel 6y ago
Only one of these points is a thing. Even if you could find some situation where the dynamic range of a CD was inadequate, shaped dither or even complete garbage uniform dither would render that moot. No producer or technician has any basis
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by microcolonel 6y ago
You can also just use an ADC in the sound chipset, since your average consumer electronics Class D amplifier is going to be adequate at any digital level, provided the circuit is not designed by a lower primate.
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by microcolonel 6y ago
As a person who has to file with FinCEN most years, I beg you all not to jump to the conclusion that you should make foreign bank accounts more onerous than they already are. I think the reporting is about as good as you could hope. My U.S.
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by microcolonel 6y ago
In Canada the equivalent is CASL and both CAN-SPAM and CASL predate the GDPR by at least a decade or two.
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by microcolonel 6y ago
This is silly. Just because you can build bigger chips doesn't mean you have anything similar to Moore's law, which was more about the economics of semiconductor manufacturing.
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by microcolonel 6y ago
> I imagine supporting RTOS semantics to be an order of magnitude harder? You can still do mixed scheduling on an RTOS, but it gives you the tools to avoid underruns or underprovisioning the static tasks (copying and transmitting video
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by microcolonel 6y ago
> I find the idea that you can label a group as "black" and imagine it to be both descriptive and homegenous enough... No, the whole distinction of black is dark skin colour , which is a proxy for skin melanin , which is
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by microcolonel 6y ago
I don't really get why IP cameras don't run RTOSes on the application processor. It seems like the schedules are basically fixed anyway. Could be an area of exploration. Maybe when the Pine64 Cube is out, I'll take a crack at
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by microcolonel 6y ago
> WSL can run `notepad.exe foo` from bash. Isn't that just a binary loader, like you can do with wine/qemu on any Linux? Surely it's mostly just proxying the pipes, replicating the working directory, and maybe keeping so
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by microcolonel 6y ago
> I suppose it could be that if it is something damaging, he can release the information and use it politically, and if not he'll try and keep it secret. This is in a British court, and the President is not empowered to gag the co
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by microcolonel 6y ago
It actually seems like the most politically-neutral offer he can reasonably make. Many principled people want to see Assange released from his political prosecution, but the Russia narrative, though basically dead at this point, can still b

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