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by mjevans 3y ago
Reporting the income paid to the IRS would lead to an easy to review disclosure stream for courts and other enforcement agencies. Normal workers and bankers have their income reported, so this money / value changing hands should be re
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by mjevans 3y ago
There is no cloud. Just someone else's computer.
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by mjevans 3y ago
I would like to counter with first hand observed real world evidence. Raising the minimum wage near where I live (Seattle area) has raised the prices of everything. Rent seeking land owners raise their rents, which passes through to everyt
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by mjevans 3y ago
81% of *new* capacity planned for *this year* Trends are often easier to understand from a rolling average or derivative. Electricity might also seem fungible but even near optimal conditions a rule of thumb of 1% power lost per 100 miles (
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by mjevans 3y ago
Already discussed yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39378235
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by mjevans 3y ago
Forget them all. If it isn't on the open web it's a private club.
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by mjevans 3y ago
Most webservers have a way of adding a header# Content-disposition "attachment; filename=$1"; that forces downloads. Nginx at least guesses based on file extension / mime type. # https://stackoverflow.com/que
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by mjevans 3y ago
IMO every operation should have a maximum time to execute, and rejecting an update / response for failure to process fast enough SHOULD be valid, even for a an otherwise well formed packet. A protocol must be resilient to valid commun
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by mjevans 3y ago
This is the competition I was thinking of. I must have read it in a dead-image PDF version some other time on HN. This paper isn't the one I recall but the solution is exactly the sort I vaguely recalled. I'm trying to copy-in t
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by mjevans 3y ago
I can't seem to find it in a google search, maybe I'm just recalling entirely the wrong terms. In the early computing era there was a competition. Something like take some input and produce an output. One programmer made a large
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by mjevans 3y ago
IRL it'd be more like what monks used to do, copy books by hand. Only today we have machines that copy books by idiot savant automation at speeds our ancestors would call magic. Further, none of the physical resources 'of the own
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by mjevans 3y ago
I'm not sure which is more practical. Diverting enough material to replicate earth's natural magnetic core system on mars into the planet, or building an artificial system. The knowledge gained from attempting either is likely v
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by mjevans 3y ago
Not the same thing at all. The digital equivalent to trespass is unauthorized access to secured locations / resources like servers.
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by mjevans 3y ago
It wouldn't be a lost sale, but that would be trespassing, and possibly deprive someone who legitimately rented that seat.
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by mjevans 3y ago
Presently, in practical terms, 'lifetime' may as well be 100 years. Though I'd still prefer to see it as 'lifetime*' ... '*lifetime is 100 years'.
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by mjevans 3y ago
End (key) > Learn > About Us https://www.login.gov/about-us/ """ Login.gov was a General Services Administration 18F innovation project in partnership with the United States Digital Services (USDS)
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by mjevans 3y ago
IMO Optimizations like that should be at least a __warning__ and ideally lead to refactored and more correct code as a result. Also IMO, the default should always be unsigned (modulus) integers, not signed. That would promote more correct
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by mjevans 3y ago
They only need to use https://www.login.gov/help/verify-your-identity/how-to-verif... As well as track and list the IP / location and time of when previous accesses occurred. Sign in and see someone not on t
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by mjevans 3y ago
I'd prefer a _ban_ on plastic bags rather than the 10 cent ding for a dime routine. Require the stores to offer a free paper bag, and allow them to offer an upsell to a handled paper bag.
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by mjevans 3y ago
Drivers are supposed to keep right (outside/slower lanes) except to pass. That's the law in WA state and probably in most parts of the country. As far as I know it's also the law in other countries too; offhand on the Autob
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by mjevans 3y ago
USPS is an example. It's sort of a public utility that has some strange requirements, like it _must_ __offer__ service to everyone. In some places this is less profitable, and private postal / shipping firms might not even offer
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by mjevans 3y ago
The government should not be prohibited (in some places they are! Muni broadband as an example) from offering competing services. Proper competition would limit market malfunction.
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by mjevans 3y ago
Pseudo-golang with generics func yield[G AnyGenericEvenInterface](promise G) G {...} I'd have preferred the language expand yield() to take an argument which yields until the ((promise)d) variable is resolved to a value. This makes it
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by mjevans 3y ago
I emailed that very screenshot to a sibling after connecting to their network the hard way.
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by mjevans 3y ago
It would be nice if... Maybe some regulatory body could declare this an obvious 'monopoly' and at least force the 'language spoken' to be free for anyone to implement without patent worries?
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by mjevans 3y ago
They also need to just sell a 'license for a "personal private viewing copy"' of a work and provide non-DRM files that users can self archive and maintain. No, DRM is not necessary, it's already proven that someone,
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by mjevans 3y ago
.local wasn't a TLD and was too long to be likely to be assigned as a new country / .com like thing. It was in _wide_ use before mDNS and even vanity TLDs existed.
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by mjevans 3y ago
Upgrade this to any medically adjacent data. ALL of the DNA data should be covered under HIPPA or something similar.
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by mjevans 3y ago
.lan. Please also reserve 'lan' since so many of us running from .local which Apple decided to takeover screwed over. Just reserve that it's for site specific / local / 'internal' use and that no other br
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by mjevans 3y ago
Kind of, but not really in laptops :( they're doing great on handhelds though.

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