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by mjn 13y ago
"The fifth line" on the Soviet passport which listed the bearer's "nationality" (what we would usually call ethnicity in English) was only removed from Russian passports in 1997. Bit of an aside, but this used to
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GCC Function Multiversioning(gcc.gnu.org)
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> I think the author would be well-served to delete the whole piece. The author died in 2011, so I guess that won't happen (though the site might disappear entirely at some point): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J
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by mjn 13y ago
> It is always the way with military projects. Well, not quite always. There were a few generations of military projects that, while very expensive and subject to many of the same distributed-construction politics, did seem to turn out w
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by mjn 13y ago
Side issue, but this bit in the article is not quite right: There are technical terms for this kind of disintegration. Austal USA, Independence‘s Alabama-based builder, calls it “galvanic corrosion.” Civilian scientists know it as “electro
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Right angle brackets: shifting semantics(gustedt.wordpress.com)
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But they're selling things that aren't actually valid diagnostics as if they were diagnostic tests. In what sense is prohibiting that too stringent a regulation? It's not DNA-specific; if you set up a random lab that claimed
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by mjn 13y ago
Fwiw, it's also possible for any third party to check if you've complied with that particular formality, since the U.S. Copyright Office provides a directory of all companies that have registered a DMCA agent: http://ww
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by mjn 13y ago
In enterprise (and academic) settings a traditional approach has been to let the client run the license server. That's how Matlab works, for example: a network-licensed copy won't start up unless it can "phone home", but
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Steam Removes Game 'Order Of War: Challenge' From User Libraries(forbes.com)
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Nah, just social democracy. The "Law of Jante" is a parody of conservative small-town Denmark of ~1900 (a rough American analogue is Main Street by Sinclair Lewis), while social democracy is roughly the opposite, managing the ra
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by mjn 13y ago
> With rates like 75% one hardly can argue they didn't go far enough. In Scandinavia, we tried top marginal rates ~100% for a decade or two. :) Actually didn't work too badly, but the political mood changed, and rates were grad
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If they work for a French soccer team, that just makes them cross-border commuters, which typically means you're responsible for taxes in both countries (unless a tax treaty between the countries harmonizes them). A Monaco resident w
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by mjn 13y ago
This is a personal tax on individual wealthy people. It should have little to no impact on the economics of where to locate a factory, which is driven by things like environmental regulations, cost of inputs, labor costs, location of suppli
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by mjn 13y ago
Palo Also is comparatively good for its area, but bicycling's modal share among commute options even there is quite low, hovering around 10%. Partly that's because many people who live in Palo Alto work elsewhere, and vice versa.
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Do you guess that's also the driver behind startups gravitating more lately towards walk/transit-oriented SF and Oakland, and away from the car-centric Valley? Or is something else at work there?
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Lamdu - towards the next generation IDE(peaker.github.io)
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Lars Bak is still in Aarhus I believe, along with the core of the Google V8 team. Unity also still has most of its tech team in Copenhagen, but many people think it moved to SF, because it moved its marketing & headquarters to SF (bigge
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by mjn 13y ago
Some of that kind of data (account age, karma-per-day, newer vs. older users in the top-100, etc.) can be found by digging around here: http://hn-karma-tracker.herokuapp.com/ That's the site I used to grab the top-100
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by mjn 13y ago
I did include you as one of the UK people, fwiw.
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Of the people who link a real identity (~70), I think none, though I was mostly just scanning for locations past the top-20, so I might've missed someone. It's possible women are more likely to stay pseudonymous than men, and al
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by mjn 13y ago
I thought about listing usernames with the bios, but I thought it might be unwelcome for some people. Of course they're all people who are public in a sense anyway, but not all of them are trivially linked in the realname->username
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Somewhat related: http://blog.jgc.org/2011/11/why-im-not-supporting-campaign-f...
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Who posts on Hacker News?(kmjn.org)
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They don't even seem that strange as an American. It's just (a parody of) typical conservative Protestant small-town mentality. Much of Scandinavia at the time was made up of religious, Protestant small towns, with most of the pop
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It could just be because I tend to find American customers really over-bearing and unreasonable (the "customer is always right" thing makes some people feel entitled to be jerks towards staff), but to me the Danish non-service fee
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In the US, when I go to a restaurant, I am being 'served', but after the waiter gets off work he's a full and equal neighbor of mine under both law and custom. That's definitely true. An interesting cultural difference
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Stanford Roman World Route Planner(orbis.stanford.edu)
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A Crypto Challenge For The Telegram Developers(thoughtcrime.org)
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Here (Copenhagen) trains have a pretty big share of the market up to about 5 hours. Copenhagen–Hamburg (4.5 hr), Copenhagen–Stockholm (5 hr), and Copenhagen–Aalborg (5 hr) are all popular routes.

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