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by mjul 6y ago
The article lacks some details. If you read the Danish text detailing this from the Ministry of Commerce you will see that: Regarding buy-backs and dividends, companies receiving more than 60 million DKK in subsidy for fixed costs have to p
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Coronavirus: I'm using my pizza oven to toss masks for nurses(bbc.co.uk)
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by mjul 7y ago
The RNA extraction can also be done without reagents by using a heat reaction on the sample similar to boiling an egg. It is a 5-minute process. According to an older scientist, Anders Fomsgaard at the Danish Serum Institute, this is how th
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by mjul 7y ago
The Danish Serum Institute runs a “sentinel” testing programme for the common flu, and they note in their report about covid-19 last week (available in Danish) that the common flu has mostly been eliminated since the social distancing and l
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Alt. molecular detection of SARS-CoV-2 – escape from NA extraction kit-shortage(medrxiv.org)
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by mjul 7y ago
Using primitive types “too much” is a frequent anti-pattern. It has a name: Primitive Obsession ( https://wiki.c2.com/?PrimitiveObsession ) I think people do it because it is quite some work to implement proper value types in
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by mjul 7y ago
Meneghini and Gram Pedersen of University of Padova just extended the standard “SIR” epidemiology model with quarantine and it has the nice property of being able to estimate the infections from the observables. Preprint on Researchgate: “
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by mjul 7y ago
Here is a fresh preprint from University of Padova showing that weak quarantines have no significant effect: Quantifying undetected COVID-19 cases and effects of containment measures in Italy https://www.researchgate.net/pub
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Quantifying undetected Covid-19 cases and effects of containment measures Italy(researchgate.net)
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by mjul 7y ago
In some countries the tax regime has different levels of tax for dividends and capital gains, so in some countries buybacks are better for the shareholders than dividends.
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by mjul 7y ago
Congratulations on launching. It is a very fascinating tech space. Could you elaborate how the system as a whole is compliant with GDPR and other European privacy laws? I ask because I explored and eventually decided not launch a computer v
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by mjul 7y ago
It is called “fraflytteraktieavanceskat”. It is a capital gains tax for equities that can be paid at once as if you had sold the shares, or you can delay it by filling out a form every year to the Danish tax authorities after moving abroad.
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Coronavirus – Springer Nature – For Researchers(springernature.com)
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Avast pulls plug on Jumpshot after data privacy scandal(reuters.com)
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If you look in the Haskell 2010 report the Goals section states that Haskell was designed for teaching and research and applications (in that order) and that the design committee intended that Haskell would serve as a basis for future resea
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SpaceIL – Landing the First Israeli Spacecraft on the Moon(visit.spaceil.com)
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by mjul 8y ago
This is about a Norwegian government policy to not procure the products of deforestation. Some countries limit the actual deforestation directly: for example, Article 5 of the Bhutanese constitution from 2008 provides broad environmental p
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by mjul 8y ago
I can recommend trying out Empear’s CodeScene tool - it takes source control analysis to a whole new level and highlights many issues. For example it will help you figure out relationships like when I add another widget here I should remem
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by mjul 8y ago
If you want to invest a bit in the learning curve, have a look at the free JetBrains MPS (meta programming system): it is a proper language workbench for exactly that. Itemis, the company behind xtext, is now using MPS. It supports composab
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by mjul 8y ago
Jetbrains’ Rider IDE is now so mature that I use it as a better Visual Studio even on Windows. It also runs on Mac and Linux. Great code manipulation, navigation and refactoring tools, and great support for adjacent technologies like build
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by mjul 8y ago
The underlying assumption with requirements is often not stated explicitly: that people _can know_ everything in detail, in advance. If that is the case, surely we can find better ways to uncover the requirements, and better tooling will he
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by mjul 8y ago
Whether it is a "bug" or not, people do experience it, and there is probably nothing we can do to change the way things are. However, accepting that it is a possible and common experience we can have it is more fruitful to examine
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Sinclair Spectrum Designer Rick Dickinson Has Died(bbc.com)
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by mjul 10y ago
The extraterritorial EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) sets fines of up to 4% of global annual revenue for companies not sufficiently protecting the personal data of EU citizens from May 2018 and onwards (with a cap of 20 million