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nybble41
5y ago
>> I take it multidimensional arrays aren't common data structures in Haskell? > Nope. They're not a core type in the language, and while I did see some packages on a quick search, they unfortunately seem pretty limited.
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5y ago
> No head of state is in control of the military. In the U.S. the office of the President unifies the roles of head of state, head of government, and Commander in Chief of the military. This is not merely a ceremonial role. As the saying
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5y ago
The 2017.1 release notes[0] also say: > Implemented support for Windows, MacOS, Linux, Android, and iOS editor and runtime builds Perhaps the documentation stating that Windows is required is merely out of date? [0] https://o3
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5y ago
> There is actually no real point of rate limiting the creation of new blocks… To avoid fracturing the network and wasting significant amounts of work, the time between blocks needs to be much longer than the time it takes to propagate n
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5y ago
No matter which chat service you use, any recipient could potentially upload the unencrypted data to a cloud backup service. If you don't trust the intended recipients with the data then you shouldn't share it with them in the fir
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5y ago
Lobbying consists of influencing either elected officials or bureaucrats to take actions on the lobbyists' behalf which no actor in a free market would be permitted to take . What needs to be limited here is not corporate speech but r
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5y ago
> information about topics of interest that you can edit Which is literally just data. > a forum through you can interact with other people Which is just a means of exchanging data. What is missing in both cases is any transportation
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nybble41
5y ago
There is a difference between social consequences (e.g. ostracism) and legal consequences (e.g. fines, imprisonment, corporal punishment).
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5y ago
> This is not about “data” moving over borders. This is about services being provided from one country to another. Services which involve nothing but data, and thus still fall under the category of "data moving over borders". A
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5y ago
> This includes rules that govern what can and can’t be sold in a business transaction. This is a principle as old as government itself. If we're talking about a "business transaction" as in an exchange of physical goods a
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5y ago
> You’re trying to do business in another country with different rules. You are not doing business in another country. First, there may not be any "business" involved at all. More importantly, however, you are not in the oth
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nybble41
5y ago
> Why is it unjust when literally the entire U.K. population is in support of this position? Obviously not "literally the entire U.K. population" if someone in the U.K. isn't following the rule. This is a complex subject a
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5y ago
Unusual , no. Unjust , yes, and impractical besides. If (unlike me) you accept the legal fiction that a country's government "owns" everything within its self-proclaimed official borders, with all the corresponding rights o
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5y ago
> your house, your rules You're not in their "house". You're just communicating with someone who is. If some foreign government has a problem with that communication they should take it up with the party who is phys
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That is correct. If you have the IPFS Companion[0] browser extension installed then it can automatically recognize URLs of this form and rewrite them to use your local IPFS node instead of the public ipfs.io gateway. The advantage of using
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5y ago
You can have web pages that dynamically fetch data without XMLHttpRequest. For example, one technique is to dynamically inject a <script> tag referencing the URL of a server-side CGI script which collects the data and sends it back en
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5y ago
That still sounds like a subset of medical testing to me, where you're using the patient as your test equipment and ignoring anything the patient cannot sense directly (or fails to report). Perhaps you don't call the results of me
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5y ago
> absent symptoms A positive blood test is a symptom. One which you'll miss if you don't do the blood test regularly. And looking for symptoms (other than a blood test) is a form of testing... one with much worse accuracy (bo
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5y ago
Unless they wanted to delist an entire country for some reason it's the TLD servers they would need to go after, not the root servers. And yes, they could attempt to go after the TLD itself and not just the ISP's caching recursive
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> The government requires you to do so by law, because they don't want landlords doing it themselves. Exactly. The issue is not merely that the government is no longer carrying out evictions for landlords. Leaving landlords to hire
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That obviously depends on what the change was. If the business of the company in question was predicated on selling services to the government and the law changes such that they no longer require the company's services, then no, that i
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5y ago
> including the risk that you may not able to boot your tenet if they stop paying I agree that this is a risk landlords must consider, but there is a big difference between ordinary investment risk (mispredicting future supply/deman
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5y ago
> if it truly is novel, no one will be able to replicate it. Novel and non-obvious . Many novel concepts are easily replicated from first principles given sufficient incentive. Only in rare cases is the solution non-obvious. Patents are
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> I'm not an astronomer, but I am a photographer. Your experience with photography under ordinary lighting conditions is mostly irrelevant here. There are good reasons why serious astrophotography involves carefully calibrated track
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> The problem with Wikipedia is that Google copies so much content and moreover Wikipedia is a non-profit trying to cover their huge bandwidth budget. Wikipedia doesn't run ads on their pages, so Google showing content from Wikipedi
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5y ago
No need for a trailer, since a typical EV already has more capacity than most home battery solutions. Example: A 2021 Tesla Model 3 Long Range AWD stores 82 kWh[0], while a PowerWall 2 only stores 13.5 kWh[1]. So a single Model 3 is the equ
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> The country can be inferred reasonably accurately from the IP. That would be a guess at best. A VPN or caching service (or merely inaccurate geo-IP data) could cause the site to infer the wrong location. The law linked by Vespasian doe
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5y ago
How does that work when the amount of the tax depends on the location? Do your visitors need to enter their billing & shipping information before they can browse your site?
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> How is that worse when that's how you are currently taxed? It's worse from the point of view of the LVT proponents' argument that the tax is based on the "intrinsic value" of the land and not improvements contr
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5y ago
> Firstly, the tax will be nowhere near 10% p.a.. The rate was, of course, fictitious. Feel free to use a different estimate. > Unimproved land will be less, of course. Unimproved land would be more since a higher tax rate is needed
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