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by neffy 9y ago
Yes, I was trying to give Russia at least a little bit of wiggle room there... but honestly, they've done far more damage to themselves than anybody has done to them, pretty much throughout their history.
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by neffy 9y ago
Start with really simplifying the tax code, and then do a complete rewrite. Or wait until the whole mess collapses, and start with really simplifying...
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by neffy 9y ago
It's really kind of hard to harm Russia more than it manages to harm itself. Yes, Hitler did manage to kill more Russians than Stalin did, but you could also lay the blame for at least some of that at Stalin's door, through the pu
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by neffy 9y ago
Exactly. What real time advertising network markets have done, is effectively incentivized Facebook, and anybody else selling internet ad space to create a Big Brother database in order to maximise revenue from any source that's prepar
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by neffy 9y ago
I (and I'm sure many others) did this for my Ph.D. project (group robotics) because it was the only way to get anything close to an acceptable frame rate on real time video using the ARM boards available. Colour processing is a big ove
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by neffy 9y ago
No, it's not that. The BBC is tied up in the same licensing mess as everybody else in the media industry. Everything is licensed... scripts, individual rights, director rights, ownership is transferred, tracked, ends up with third part
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by neffy 9y ago
A lot of programming, especially in industry, is horribly boring unfortunately (it shouldn't be) - but computers and what can be done with them, is anything but. It's just a question of somehow keeping your imagination from gettin
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by neffy 9y ago
If you spend enough time looking for it, a problem will find you.
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by neffy 9y ago
Strictly it only applies to residents of the EU, how much attention companies will pay to that, is another matter. But given the risks associated with not deleting data, I suspect most companies will err on the side of safety.
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by neffy 9y ago
They are forced to comply at that point - they've had 2 years to get ready. It's going to be very interesting to see what happens. Actual compliance I strongly suspect is going to depend on whether they enforce it - and actually
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by neffy 9y ago
Deprecated with extreme prejudice, perhaps?
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by neffy 9y ago
While it may come to pass that we do those things, so far all we've managed to replicate is the first 6 or so levels of the visual processing field. Methinks there is far further to go than we realise - especially with the current air
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by neffy 9y ago
because we invented cars. And a few other things.
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by neffy 9y ago
Sure, fine. But this is the world as it is. Badly designed roads everywhere - very, very occasionally with enough accidents one gets fixed. (Keep an eye on local news for that one). People crossing where they "shouldn't" - al
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by neffy 9y ago
Yes, because oncoming traffic at night is just so hard to see with those bright headlights and all.
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by neffy 9y ago
Plenty of us are interested in ethics - and actively practicing them - hence an unparalleled sharing of knowledge and tools ranging from linux, gcc through to github. We're also quite happy consumers of the humanities in our spare time
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by neffy 9y ago
I think a lot of us are of the opinion that it wasn´t as dark as the camera makes it look. But let´s say it was... a human driver under those conditions would have full beam headlights on, and I´ve never personally experienced any issues sp
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by neffy 9y ago
Consider who and how benefits. The incentive in for-profit medicine in the US is to spend as much time and treatment as possible per patient. If each Doctor has to order the same tests as the patient is passed around - that is efficient fro
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by neffy 9y ago
Exactly and London working class slang for tea is cha, which I always assumed must have originated at the docks.
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by neffy 9y ago
s/programmer/doctor/ Discuss...
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by neffy 9y ago
I rather suspect if it was possible to arbitrage the crypto´s, then we wouldn´t be seeing these kinds of fluctuations.
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by neffy 9y ago
Interestingly, this is exactly how the Japanese tend to do things.
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by neffy 9y ago
Introducing new forms of exchange isn´t an economic paradigm shift - it´s something that keeps coming around, viz.: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2338493?seq=1#page_scan_tab_cont... Now the Star Trek replicator.. that wo
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by neffy 9y ago
The article is also assuming exchange rates stay the same over that period. Unlikely.
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by neffy 9y ago
Given the age of the myths a better hypothesis is that they go back to the sea level rises that accompanied the end of the last ice age.
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by neffy 9y ago
The standard fractional reserve/money multiplier story is provably wrong, in several different ways. With a pen and paper for example, work through what happens when loans are repaid with that cascade of banks. They missed a note that
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by neffy 9y ago
It is there, you just have to know what to look for, it helps to get out to the country. Down in deepest, darkest Devon - one of my Uncles married into a family who have a) been in Devon for centuries (as had his side of the family), and b)
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by neffy 9y ago
I wouldn't just blame the Fed. There are multiple feedback loops currently concentrating funds in the financial sector. The US monetary system is one of the fairly stable ones - it has a remarkably constant monetary expansion rate at a
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by neffy 9y ago
It's not strictly deflation in terms of a shrinking money supply which is the nasty case. In principle a bitcoin currency would provide a constant supply of "money" - which since it is something that has never really existed,
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by neffy 9y ago
All part and parcel of the same thing. Literally. Container shipping comes as a result of technological development that comes as a result of increasing point to point communication speed and information transfer. It's an underlying a

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