mutatio

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by mutatio 5y ago
I guess for the Van Gogh, the argument could be made that it could generate revenue by selling access to see it.
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by mutatio 5y ago
Couldn't you wrap errors for that case, accumulate error values or even your own specialised error type?
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by mutatio 5y ago
No he's right, it has been used historically to distinguish it from Brittany. What on earth are you talking about regarding imperial legacy? It might be used in a sense to project national potency, but the naming never derived from any
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by mutatio 5y ago
Why would I stop using it, it merely describes the group of islands. Geographic ignorance or a chip on your shoulder aren't great motivators for me to stop. Sums up the state of affairs when a perma-offended post like this is the top c
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by mutatio 5y ago
I think you're missing the main reason, competing empires on Britain's doorstep. The British Empire didn't exist in a vacuum. Much like American Imperialism vs. Soviet Russia.
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by mutatio 5y ago
I find your last sentence troubling, all the cost is on the individual. I agree with the sentiment of the first sentence, if we simply say the blast radius is the the product(s) level you're working on.
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by mutatio 5y ago
Internal reviews / disclosure mechanisms sound a bit dark to me, the power balance is unhinged. Imagine having a novel idea outside of work, putting some effort in at the weekends, only for your employer to absorb the idea because you
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by mutatio 5y ago
Where do you draw the line, is the context as generic as "AI" or "ML", implying that anything AI related, even if not directly comparable to your employers product is owned by the employer?
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by mutatio 5y ago
"If I work on machine learning at my day job, it should be fine to ask for patent rights on any ML related work I do outside of it, but asking for copyright ownership of a video game I make on the side is absurd." – James Liu I do
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by mutatio 5y ago
Yeah, I'm just posing what could be done if the law regarding low value theft is immutable, if it can't be changed, something else has to give (I haven't got a clue what).
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by mutatio 5y ago
So you're saying the onus is on the buyer? Is it a special case for commercial outfits, or could it effect eBay buyers?
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by mutatio 5y ago
Setup a second hand shop, selling "near-new" items, that'll give you 60-80% of RRP, problem solved.
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by mutatio 5y ago
I'm British so I'm not fully equipped to understand in terms of the state law or effects on the ground, but isn't there plausible deniability for the aggregators that sell goods from individual shop lifters? If the retributio
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by mutatio 5y ago
Urea based fertilizers could be harmful to insect life (e.g. it's the active ingredient in "SB Plant Invigorator"). It's also worth noting that the fertilization for mono-crops is detrimental to diverse plant ecologies -
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by mutatio 5y ago
In the UK, if you're a contractor caught by IR35 and earn £600 per day, your effective tax rate is 40% if the client allows you to engage using your Ltd. company. If you use an umbrella you'll be even worse off. Net income from th
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by mutatio 5y ago
You could use a serial int and just hex-encode when interacting with the CLI? You could then use range queries to match short hashes by zeroing out the remaining bytes and using >=
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by mutatio 5y ago
"and admit their horrific acts" - I don't think any person from the UK/US has engaged in any of this (both educational systems teach about the wrongs of the Empire and American expansionism at the cost of natives AFAIK
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by mutatio 5y ago
So you're of the belief the son pays for the debt of the father - which country has paid off this debt? The US, Germany, France (ad infinitum)? Seems a bit unhinged to me.
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by mutatio 5y ago
The generic slice functions would certainly reduce boiler plate, but what I miss in comparison to Rust is the concept of iterators. In Rust if you were to iterate over words in a string you'd get borrowed words, so in practice lots of
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by mutatio 5y ago
I think the argument is that even capitalism is UBI because everyone has the opportunity to become the next Bezos... or something.
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by mutatio 6y ago
Yeah you're right, this is the characteristic rock: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gritstone
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by mutatio 6y ago
It is the case everywhere in the UK. Old mill towns in the North, especially the Peak District, have housing made from granite, a lot of these were built during the height of the industrial revolution, they're absolute tanks compared t
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by mutatio 6y ago
Nice, similar to: https://encycolorpedia.com/html but probably more intuitive. Are you using CIE* colorspace to match?
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by mutatio 6y ago
It seems the parameters for healthy ocean ecosystems is much tighter than on land and much more sensitive to change. The UK has similar issues ( https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/04/catastro
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by mutatio 6y ago
I'm pretty sure "renting" a domain does exist - or at least it did years ago.
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by mutatio 6y ago
I can sympathize with the tone. I recently attempted to move to the latest `tokio-postgres` as the old synchronous version is no longer supported (the new synchronous version uses Tokio under the hood which plays havoc if you use with actix
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by mutatio 6y ago
Evolutionists like Dawkins pose that most organisms are in fiercest competition with members of their own species. You and I compete for identical resources: mates, jobs etc.
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by mutatio 6y ago
I could see the opposite of that possibly arising, e.g. doing something irrational like creating a training event every 2 decades, due to belief - but the inverse makes no sense to me, what's the advantage to a society to renewing skil
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by mutatio 6y ago
The link provided shows that it is due to the religious belief of rebirth, the tradesmen themselves practice their skills continually, so the theory still doesn't map for me. Moreso if we apply Occam's razor: there's no evide
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by mutatio 6y ago
Do you have a source for that? Everything I can find on Japanese 20-year re-building cadence is due to religion. I'm struggling to see any sense in the 20-year cadence cliff-edge for typical knowledge transfer.

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