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by phab 9y ago
The point is that the article's title is another "unexploded pun", the principle of which is a central theme to the article; it is referring to Booth's analysis of one of the sources of the Bard's greatness: Sha
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by phab 9y ago
The author's (eponymous) series on Graphical Linear Algebra is well worth reading, and has some interesting parallelisms to boolean functions & their manipulation.
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Microsoft Windows 8, 10 update breaks DHCP client, thousands offline(theregister.co.uk)
4 points by phab 10y ago|0 comments
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by phab 10y ago
I think it's pretty astounding that a customer complaint thread has run to 17 pages, direct contact on twitter, a HN story and customers going to such extreme lengths as editing their binary... ... and not one engagement from Spotify t
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by phab 10y ago
> Ethernet has no flow control. Except it does: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_flow_control Whether people use it or not is another matter!
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by phab 10y ago
> Ireland did NOT set a different tax rate for Apple It allowed Apple to pay an effective rate of tax much lower than that typically required of companies in the sector. De jure, no, they did not set a different tax rate. De facto, yes,
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by phab 10y ago
> "Fairness for everyone" is the same as "forcing bad outcomes on the individual". I contest this unsupported assertion; you provide no argument to back it up. Ensuring a fair marketplace cannot cause "bad outcom
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by phab 10y ago
In-reply-to: ZigZigZag: Once again, it comes down to a question of fairness; you describe Apple's tax deal as if it is a conventional part of fiscal policy where clearly it cannot be treated as such (indeed, if it were, and such tax de
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by phab 10y ago
You have missed the point - this is about different companies within one state being charged different rates of corporation tax, not different states across the EU charging different rates of tax. > if the EU successfully forces countri