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by nayuki 3y ago
> Dividends allow you to obtain money from the business without giving up control. Nonsense. The business can choose to issue new shares whenever it pleases. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Follow-on_offering
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by nayuki 3y ago
Dividends are tax-inefficient in Canada too.
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by nayuki 3y ago
https://www.nayuki.io/ - programming and math
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by nayuki 3y ago
This page is a great piece of work overall. I want to nitpick on two things: > I did all the animations in canvas with 2x subsampling (for retina support) so it should hold up well to zooming I think a better fit is to do your animations
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by nayuki 3y ago
Specifically, the author wrote "bezier" in lowercase and without the accent.
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by nayuki 3y ago
Personal income is just a claim on other people's goods and services. How would higher income fix problems like car crashes, gun violence, and drug overdoses? I'd argue that people are spending time and effort on the wrong and dea
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by nayuki 3y ago
> land use policy is implicated in a decent chunk of this. America’s fatalities per kilometer driven are very average, but we drive a lot more than anyone else, including residents of Canada and Australia Nice call-out there!
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by nayuki 3y ago
Wow, it's true. https://www.zdnet.com/article/intels-tiny-curie-chip-powers-...
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by nayuki 3y ago
And that naming is obsolete since macOS 10.12 (year 2016). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS_Sierra
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by nayuki 3y ago
In the past decade I saw a lot of overcorrection where it-possessive is mistakenly written as "it's" instead of "its".
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by nayuki 3y ago
https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/18/us/legislation-protects-drive... , https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/22/us/oklahoma-law-drivers-prote...
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by nayuki 3y ago
I think this is the reason: When you negate a number in two's complement, you take (a single) two to the power of the bit width and then subtract the number. For example, negating 0011b (4 bits) means taking 10000b and subtracting 0011
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by nayuki 3y ago
> So, is it now perfect? Well, sort of. We now have introduced a certain asymmetry into our number system I think some systems use the INT_MIN bit pattern as a sort of not-a-number integer trap?
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by nayuki 3y ago
Two's complement is a special case of p-adic numbers. A recent introductory video comes to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRaq4aYPzCc Veritasium - "A totally different way to do math" (33m05s, 2023-06-
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by nayuki 3y ago
Somewhat related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_video_game_burial
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by nayuki 3y ago
I would like to add, "Common mistakes when using the metric system": https://www.nayuki.io/page/common-mistakes-when-using-the-me...
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by nayuki 3y ago
Btw by definition, speed = distance / time. I first learned about half a year ago the concept of adding work time to driving time in "Ivan's Car": https://www.deautovanivan.nl/eng.html > How fast is y
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by nayuki 3y ago
Sadly, it's now a matter of time before Twitter itself goes down. (Due to running out of money, staff getting fired, mismanagement, etc.)
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by nayuki 3y ago
Yeah. There was someone a few years ago who said something like, "If your website doesn't have a status page, it does have one on Twitter". Wish I could find the quote source.
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by nayuki 3y ago
> Regulators have long-since become a bunch of career busybodies [...] I want it to stop. [...] I support "hands-free"/anti distraction traffic laws. Zero cost That's a regulation, and it costs police resources to enf
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by nayuki 3y ago
Why do different branches of the government infight like this?
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by nayuki 3y ago
It's like you never heard of wholesalers vs. retailers. You're acting like your family has to buy milk by the tankerful or flour by the palletful. More examples from daily life: The electricity market, board lots vs. odd lots in s
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by nayuki 3y ago
No, it is due to population density. If your country has 2× or 4× the amount of road area per capita but not correspondingly more taxes per capita, the infrastructure is going to suffer. Strong Towns ( https://www.strongtowns.org
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by nayuki 3y ago
Having seen this years ago, my favorite part is still the comic that says "do I out things of Look! can order." in section 15.1.1 "Why Hardware Misordering?".
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by nayuki 3y ago
This is satire, in case anyone is wondering. I got suspicious at this line: > Secure by default (mTLS on all function calls) I thought to myself, what does HTTPS/TLS have to do with writing an emulator, normally a local-only piece o
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by nayuki 3y ago
Enum, namespace, type-oriented programming (e.g. https://type-level-typescript.com/ ), easy de-sugaring down to earlier versions of ECMAScript (e.g. converting async-await to switch statements). Plus, whatever you can find
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by nayuki 3y ago
This is a classic read: http://datagenetics.com/blog/november12013/index.html
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by nayuki 3y ago
In particular, UTF-16 surrogates use 2048 code points in the basic multilingual plane (BMP), but surrogates allow another 2^20 code points to be encodable in addition to the non-surrogate 65536−2048 code points of the BMP.
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by nayuki 3y ago
In ASCII, the concept of a character is overloaded with many properties. Unicode breaks "character" out to separate concepts like code unit, code point, grapheme cluster, etc. Because of this, some of your statements are invalid.
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by nayuki 3y ago
Other things you can tweak in a QR Code symbol without changing the decoded content: Error correction level, empty segments, segment encoding, deliberate addition of fully correctable errors, messing with padding bits/bytes after the t

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