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by orra 3y ago
Plausible, but I would have thought if it's gradual, there would be a recovery. But maybe Satoshi has substantial other Bitcoin, not associated with the pseudonym, so they don't want to take any chances?
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by orra 3y ago
The thing I don't understand: if Satoshi is still alive, surely they'd have spent some of that money. They're filthy rich, so why not enjoy it? I get that you can't cash out 5% of any market in one go, without tanking pr
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by orra 3y ago
Here is an example test which checks specifically for virus induced antibodies: < https://monitormyhealth.org.uk/covid19-antibody-test/ >. Non-profit Testing for All also used to sell similar tests, but they have s
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by orra 3y ago
Some blood antibody tests can distinguish between viral induced antibodies versus infection induced antibodies. However, antibodies decrease with time. (We have memory T-cells etc for long term immunity). Whilst I am not an expert, I woul
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by orra 3y ago
You've been downvoted but you're right. Banning drugs doesn't stop consumption. However, drugs bans can shift people from safer drugs to borderline-legal but unsafer drugs. It also prevents people getting purer drugs, leading
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by orra 3y ago
> these people are spoiling it for the rest. These people aren't spoiling it for the rest. The government was always going to ban it because: (a) the government and the opposition always favour authoritarian drugs laws; and (b) they
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by orra 3y ago
Yes, coax (and DOCSIS) is far better than a telephone wire (and DSL).
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by orra 3y ago
True, this affected citizens abroad more than normally. But otherwise, I reject the notion that citizenship is more important than residency. If you want a say in the UK, live there. The fact that countries (including the UK) disenfranchise
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by orra 3y ago
I don't see why UK citizens abroad should get a vote; they should vote abroad. You're right that 16 year olds deserve a vote. It's their future, and 16 year olds are smart and politically engaged. Also there were huge other l
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by orra 3y ago
Unbridled nonsense. From the FAQ: > Why did it take you so long to negotiate? > The conditions for associating the UK were not opportune, in view of the overall EU-UK relationship. The agreement on the Windsor Framework allowed associ
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by orra 3y ago
It's the Xlinks project. This is where I got the 16bn figure: < https://www.investmentmonitor.ai/sectors/energy/uk-morocco-s... >. This source says £20 billion, but half is for the cable, and the other ha
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by orra 3y ago
Well, it will also cost an estimated £16 billion, to build two high capacity electricity transmission lines from Morocco to the UK. You can build a lot of capacity locally for that price.
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by orra 3y ago
More directly, property is a social construct. A useful one, yes, and one we consider a right. But that doesn't make tax unfair. Good luck enforcing your property rights without a society, and preferably without violence. The real worl
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by orra 3y ago
Their "Magestic" app, which sounds like it provides key functionality, is closed source.
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by orra 3y ago
We were specifically talking about comp sci, not software engineering [sic]. Yes, software engineering is way less rigorous. It is hardly is maths—or comp sci for that matter.
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by orra 3y ago
No? Applied maths is maths, so applying maths does not stop maths from being maths. Of course, computing is closer to pure math than applied maths. Computing is applied pure maths, perhaps.
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by orra 3y ago
Quite right. I remember Ben Goldacre's book Bad Science documenting a few examples. I hope these are the same examples raised in the letter, because otherwise a lot of miscarriage of justice has happened in the UK. What I remember fr
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by orra 3y ago
Precisely 12 months later. Cutting it fine!
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by orra 3y ago
That sounds shockingly non-PCI compliant.
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by orra 3y ago
> Even standing in person at hotel the person at the desk cant even match the online price. Not empowered to. True, but not uncommon! Captive market.
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by orra 3y ago
Despite labels $a$, $b$, $c$, I don't see how it's fully general. At best you could say it works for similar triangles, if you have that concept. But I don't see how it proves anything if $a$ were say doubled, and $b$ kept th
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by orra 3y ago
> It becomes a theorem when you prove (i.e. explain why) this relationship always holds, based on more evident things. [...] whereas the Greeks definitely did (we don't know whether Pythagoras himself did it Wait, really? I thought
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by orra 3y ago
Why would you assume that? A, nobody wants to murder eight cats. B, it'd probably be illegal. > The larynges were harvested from animals that had to be euthanised due to terminal disease unrelated to the respiratory tract in veterin
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by orra 3y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if it's just an excuse to fire people for not complying. Which then isn't baffling, just cynical and cruel.
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by orra 3y ago
You're completely underestimating the effort involved in maintaining a web browser. These forks are deliberately friendly.
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by orra 3y ago
... which are soft forks of which browser? Firefox.
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by orra 3y ago
100% this. Folks used to lament Firefox for being slow. And for me it would freeze for seconds sometimes, because of synchronous extensions APIs. Removing XPCOM, switching to multiprocess, and switching to asynchronous Web Extensions was ab
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by orra 3y ago
Yeah, the paraphrasing here is misleading. Ironically the topic is intellectual honesty.
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by orra 3y ago
Making changes for the sake of it doesn't stop plagiarism being plagiarism. More charitably, “substantially different” is not a high enough bar when you literally just read the other author's patch. Besides, even if your method is
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by orra 3y ago
> It seems like they’re only interested in OSS when a) they get credit That's incredibly reasonable. Not crediting them is plagiarism. Moreover, even most permissive open source licenses require attribution.

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