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by njs12345 11y ago
A land value tax ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax ) is an economically interesting alternative to rent controls that doesn't seem to suffer from the same perverse incentives that rent controls someti
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London, New York, Paris and Tokyo can't be replicated anywhere else then?
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by njs12345 11y ago
I think the problem with processed food is that it allows combinations of nutrients which don't occur in nature, which our bodies are not well adapted to. It's not so much processed foods - obviously you can have processed foods w
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by njs12345 11y ago
The Greek economy has shrunk by a quarter over the course of the crisis. Not quite a smoking crater, but not exactly a trifle either, and not incomparable to the impact of a war, I'd say..
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by njs12345 11y ago
Even if hedging the risk directly is banned, you may be able to create a reasonable approximation by hedging shares of a near competitor. Apparently people in finance who get paid partly in options do this kind of thing all the time. Also,
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by njs12345 11y ago
'per calendar month' - in the UK there's a bit of a tradition of quoting rental prices (and footballers' wages) per week, so it's best to specify which you mean.
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by njs12345 11y ago
Haskell threads are pretty lightweight - 1000 would certainly be no problem: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1900165/how-long-does-it-...
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by njs12345 11y ago
Or, as a middle ground, JetBrains have a nice SQL IDE: https://www.jetbrains.com/dbe/
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by njs12345 12y ago
The previous RPi did actually have hardware FP, see http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/545/does-the-... . I think the arch support is probably the big issue - any standard Linux distro with an armhf por
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by njs12345 12y ago
And ARMv7 is a big deal, as the article points out..
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by njs12345 12y ago
Greece having PR is a big reason why Syriza has been able to do so well - http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Greece
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by njs12345 12y ago
Here's the Trac page of the proposal: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/wiki/TypeDirected... Also a bit disappointed that it didn't make the cut - it seemed like a good pragmatic solution!
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by njs12345 12y ago
It's a little complicated - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_(computing)#Unix-style_lo... Essentially, if (Load average / number of CPUs) > 1 (for CPU bound work) then your system is overloaded.
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by njs12345 12y ago
or people who live in cities where you can cycle straight for half a mile without making a turn or running in to a stoplight I think Amsterdam here is the exception rather than the rule - most other places I've cycled have bikes on t
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by njs12345 12y ago
Nice article - this kind of retrospective is always really interesting. One little thing that caught my eye - It turns out that postgres has an ‘auto vacuum’ setting that when it is enabled will cause the database to go on some introspecti
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by njs12345 12y ago
If you looked at volume of commits it might tell a different story - I'd imagine commits by contributor would follow a power law, so you might well have a project where 5% of the contributors made more than 50% of the commits, for exam
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by njs12345 12y ago
The email serves at the cover letter, in my experience
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by njs12345 12y ago
I just use my domain registrar's mail server and forward my vanity email to a standard gmail address - then you can set your default From: to be your vanity address in your gmail and enjoy the benefits of having a completely standard g
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by njs12345 12y ago
IDEA has some pretty slick database features, including some of the things you mentioned: https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/database_tools.html Only in the Ultimate edition though, so quite pricey..
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by njs12345 12y ago
Typesafe have something similar, HOCON: https://github.com/typesafehub/config/blob/master/HOCON.md
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by njs12345 12y ago
4) and 7) were certainly factors in Korea becoming a developed nation too - lots of detail about this style of development in 'Bad Samaritans' by Ha-Joon Chang: http://www.amazon.com/Bad-Samaritans-Secret-History-
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by njs12345 12y ago
I don't know about the Openreach comparison being completely invalid - Openreach was only created in 2006, 12 years after BT was fully privatised. Is there a reason why the FCC couldn't provide a similiar regulatory climate in the
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by njs12345 12y ago
Well, when I looked (in E1, close to Central London) it wasn't available yet, and only about half the people in my office can get it. Hopefully things have changed in the meantime :)
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by njs12345 12y ago
> I would love to see a world where the companies that own last-mile infrastructure are required to lease the lines to any ISP the end consumer wants; this would create a competitive market and mostly eliminate the problem. [2] This is
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by njs12345 12y ago
Is there any way to revert a single hunk interactively in the client (like git checkout -p)? I too use it for light code review, but often find spurious whitespace/brace placement changes that I want to revert to make my eventual PR a
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by njs12345 12y ago
Not always. If you use maps, for instance, then calling getMap on a map fragment when Play Services isn't installed will give you back a null reference.
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Some countries have experimented with state supply of heroin to addicts - it's actually a really cheap policy and seems to work well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin-assisted_treatment Obviously, the taxpayer
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by njs12345 13y ago
There is a system you can't turn off, although you're unlikely to run into it from day to day usage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleanfeed_(content_blocking_sys...
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by njs12345 13y ago
Citymapper (London, UK) - Help build the world's best transport app! (Python, iOS/Android, JavaScript, etc) We're looking for great people first and foremost, but here are some of the things we make: * Client experiences that
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by njs12345 13y ago
It's different in the US: 'The taxable income of the donor is reduced by 300 USD. If the donor's income was in the 35% income tax bracket both before and after the deduction, the donor's tax liability (amount of taxes ow

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