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by mjn 13y ago
It should be on the seller/landlord to describe the transaction properly, though, not only the buyer/renter. If someone offers to "sell" me a house but actually they are only renting it to me, that would be... misleading
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by mjn 13y ago
In particular, what Denmark considers really barbaric are long sentences: 10, 20, 30+ years are quite unusual. Most sentences are less than 2 years, with a handful of severe sentences in the high single-digit range.
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by mjn 13y ago
There are sometimes legitimate concerns, but I think they tend to be overblown in the case of computer crime. Along the lines of the insane worries that Kevin Mitnick couldn't be granted access to a phone because he might hack teh US
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by mjn 13y ago
It's a procedure that exists, but it's nowhere near standard procedure in Denmark, as far as I know. The 4-week solitary remand is usually used for terrorism suspects, situations more like this one: http://www.upi.com
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by mjn 13y ago
Yeah, I use it purely for discovery, not for bibliographic management. I usually just type in BibTeX data myself rather than importing it from anywhere. Often PDFs have the needed info (authors/title/venue/pages/year) in
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by mjn 13y ago
> terrible search interfaces I'm not too unhappy with Google Scholar lately. It seems to have nearly complete coverage of anything that can be found in an online paper archive (both institutional archives and journals' own arch
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by mjn 13y ago
One nice thing about even having the waiver process, even if it's granted to anyone who requests, is that it adds a slight bureaucratic roadblock that causes some authors to rethink a publication choice they might not have thought much
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by mjn 13y ago
They're becoming more common. The entire University of California system already has a similar policy, of institutional open-access archival by default, but with a waiver process for a handful of cases where the author thinks it's
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by mjn 13y ago
> Ravenwood Fair is a Facebook game that Romero did a couple of years ago (so that's what he's been up to recently) More recently, he's working for the University of California, Santa Cruz, teaching in & co-directing a
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by mjn 13y ago
> sibling commenter's observation of income, not wealth, is astute In the U.S., at least, income and wealth are highly correlated, so there isn't a huge distinction to be made. There are indeed some wealthy people with low inco
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by mjn 13y ago
The State monad is what really sold me on the concept. Right before encountering a tutorial that mentioned it, I had just spent some time writing some code in Common Lisp, where I was trying to find a nice abstraction to avoid threading a s
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by mjn 13y ago
I looked into this a bit for the University of California system, and that did indeed seem to be the issue in that case. Tuition has gone up, but less than state funding has gone down. In other words, the university is getting cheaper to
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by mjn 13y ago
Yeah, it's roughly equivalent to a printer discussing in amazement how much people are willing to pay to have just a few mL of ink inserted into a magazine.
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by mjn 13y ago
> Does anybody know why JIT isn't done in classically AOT compilers? One (admittedly incomplete) answer is that AOT compilers try to replicate many of the wins that JIT compilers get from runtime specialization by including a profil
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by mjn 13y ago
Google's microoptimizer actually has "try inserting random NOOPs" as one of its optimization passes: http://code.google.com/p/mao/
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by mjn 13y ago
That sounds vaguely like what I know as "light mayonnaise", essentially mayo cut with more oil & water and some emulsifiers, and less egg. Is it a matter of degree, e.g. some proportion is "light mayo" and another pr
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by mjn 13y ago
some do very well and some do very badly, but this is exactly what you would expect from a large number of market participants pursuing different rational strategies This suggests a possible scam (probably not an original suggestion). Set
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by mjn 13y ago
Mobile games seem to be getting close to ubiquitous. Angry Birds has more active players than a typical Hollywood blockbuster gets viewers.
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by mjn 13y ago
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6379272
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by mjn 13y ago
Just new enough that you can usually safely dig without too many delays, though. A problem with tunnel construction in very old cities, in places like Italy and Greece, is that you have a high probability of running into an interesting ar
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by mjn 13y ago
The main takeaway here is that Haskell's stream fusion library is very nice. You can write code in the "naive" modular style that generates intermediate lists, and they get automagically fused away. There's a little work
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by mjn 13y ago
Don't most countries have significant folk heroes who are anti-heros? The U.S. used to have the western outlaw, and more recently, has the "gangsta".
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by mjn 13y ago
Copenhagen Suborbitals is my favorite recent successful European tech endeavor, but it's organized as a nonprofit rather than a startup. Kind of interesting to think about when to use that model versus the startup model; I don't h
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by mjn 13y ago
The paper wasn't published in any kind of academic venue, or peer-reviewed at all. It was just a PDF they posted on the internet.
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by mjn 13y ago
Wikipedia has a somewhat more detailed summary for those interested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(shopping)#Violenc... Although, the site linked here does do a more rhetorically effective job.
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by mjn 13y ago
None of the Portuguese I know have that view, and they come from a fairly broad spectrum of contemporary Portuguese politics. Salazar's regime was virulently anti-education and pro-feudalism, in favor of keeping all but a small educate
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by mjn 13y ago
Denmark has something that sort of works like this, but imo it works okay and is usually not exploitative, partly because of several differences: 1. It's not completely free to businesses or completely unpaid: the person continues to
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by mjn 13y ago
It's similar here in Denmark. Most people are members of a union, because it's cheap, and the union has experts in labor law and contracts, while most workers are not experts in those things. We give similar advice to startup foun
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Decoding radio-controlled bus stop displays(windytan.com)
24 points by mjn 13y ago|3 comments
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Marvin Minsky - The Society of Mind (1988)(aurellem.org)
3 points by mjn 13y ago|0 comments

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