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This study (paywalled) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811910... shows learning increasing with an increase in applied current, at least — 'This relationship between current strength and learning as measured by chang
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by njs12345 15y ago
I think it depends whether it's done commercially or not. See http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/part/I/chapter/V...
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Unity 3D is free on Android and iOS until April 8th(store.unity3d.com)
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Maybe they've switched to using a C++ compiler and C linkage specifications..
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How do you explain the low costs and relative success internationally of the NHS (in the UK)? I've no problem with a free market approach to healthcare when it works. But it seems hypocritical to criticise our approach for involving too muc
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There's probably still a net increase in welfare, although of course that's quite hard to measure.
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There's no necessity or moral right behind it, but I fail to see how an action which does not harm others but benefits yourself is immoral --- much piracy has this form; here's a study which says that only 20% of album sales displace sales:
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If I download a small artist's music illegally but then spend the money on going to see them live, how is this any different to buying their music except that I've got something for nothing? What about artists who have become big because of
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Let's assume you keep spending the thousands you do spend per year on buying the same games, movies and music, but that you also pirate things where you feel the value does not justify the price. Who's lost out? You've got something for not
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Indeed, I've seen a talk from Bjarne recently where he said that by considering what is required to make RAII work in the presence of exceptions you can basically derive the entirety of C++..
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This is an excellent tl;dr for what it does. I had some truly excellent Minecraft sessions, for instance..
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Emacs M-x artist-mode :)
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Don't worry: even with rational actors as an assumption fundamentalist libertarianism still has plenty of holes.
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It's important to keep in mind that economists consider things cetibus paribus - that is, as they are at the time, in isolation and in the real world. Whilst I have no particular problem with market based solutions (e.g. publicly funded vou
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Surely as argued above, contagious disease prevention would qualify as a public good — it is certainly something that is non-rivalrous and non-excludable. Why do you agree with government provision in this case but not in the case of, say,
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Off the top of my head, one thing you might need to worry about is privacy/data protection - the EU laws on this seem to be a bit more stringent than in the US: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Directive
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GHC has a feature very similar to LINQ: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.2.1/html/users_guide/synta...
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Presumably, your great-grandfather also jaywalked at some point in his life. I think it's valid to argue that we have a moral obligation to obey the law, but I'm not convinced most people act as though we do if the crime may be victimless a
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Sadly, I don't know if this is true - all cars in England are manuals pretty much and we still have plenty of traffic and drink driving. Manuals are more fun though :)
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Please read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
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If the pirate derives benefit from it but less benefit than the price and thus does not consume, then there is a deadweight loss. In this case, piracy provides a net benefit to society. (Studies have shown that the sales-displacing effect o
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Mashup artists, for example, would be able to use a much greater variety of samples if IP laws were less restrictive.
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What's the difference? In both cases the pirate is deriving an economic benefit without directly causing an economic cost.
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'Otherwise, you're a loose canon and should probably just go write Android apps until you finish puberty.' I don't really see what this kind of comment adds to the article..
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I think it's somewhat unfortunate. IANAL, but I think he can be extradited because the judge thinks an offense has occurred even though the CPS has decided not to prosecute (it's what he seems to be saying here: 'Parliament has made conduct
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I'd agree that the US's claim to a stake in the NatWest Three case is probably more legitimate. Of course, TVShack had a lot of commercial activity with US advertisers, but doesn't seem like it would be difficult to establish this in a UK c
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This case is a bit unusual; if you read the judge's findings ( http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/Resources/JCO/Documents/Judgment... ) extradition depends on the fact that the judge is satisfied that his conduct is also an offense under UK law. I
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TVShack student to face US trial(uk.news.yahoo.com)
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Actually, it's been around for a while. The tool is kinda unpolished, but quite useful..
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No one uses Haskell, or no one uses those optimisations? Haskell has plenty of industrial users and quite a few very large programs as well. Those libraries hardly look mature - I know that many of the container libraries on Haskell make ex

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