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Retro ThinkPad Survey 4: Miscellaneous(blog.lenovo.com)
3 points by ppereira 11y ago|0 comments
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by ppereira 11y ago
It looks like this is not a "saturation" site for testing the basic income theory. All participants appear to start with the same income, but the basic income group receives their income with no strings attached. This can create
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by ppereira 11y ago
How does liberica taste in comparison to arabica and robusta? Arabica is much sweeter and less acidic than robusta, which is why this more fragile plant is so popular.
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by ppereira 12y ago
As with bacteria, human living conditions will get quite ugly near our population's stationary phase.[1] Exponential growth does not last forever. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacterial_growth
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by ppereira 12y ago
It is great to see a review of how multiple factors kill bees, but I hope it does not deflect attention from the use of neonicotinoids. There seems to be a bit of a language war taking place. The Science abstract suggests "reducing pe
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by ppereira 12y ago
"Secure Boot" is a farcical misnomer when it prevents you from replacing Windows with OpenBSD.
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by ppereira 12y ago
I have no problem with a cryptographically verified boot process, so long as I control the key or verification step. Unfortunately, Intel stripped this freedom from CPU owners by allowing OEMs to lock down the boot process in a manner that
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Coreboot Blocked from Recent Thinkpads by Intel Boot Guard(patrick.georgi-clan.de)
152 points by ppereira 12y ago|60 comments
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by ppereira 12y ago
Bt corn is specifically engineered to produce its own insecticide. You cannot wash it off. Its effect on Monarch butterflies and other insects is becoming known. The scientific consensus you mention has also drawn attention due to confli
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by ppereira 12y ago
Warning, more highly simplified economics. Another possibility is that the redistribution acts as a true Keynesian stimulus, giving money directly to those who will immediately spend it (rather than banks), increasing demand and bringing us
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by ppereira 12y ago
You can ration funds like welfare programs already do for at-risk groups. For example, instead of paying $1500/month, you could do a direct deposit of $375/week or $50/day. Furthermore, a basic income is not designed to compl
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by ppereira 12y ago
That is a great technical argument, however, the reason this has attracted so much attention is because this product is about email. Email plays such an important role in our modern lives that any announcement hinting that Google is moving
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by ppereira 12y ago
From the linked post: > UPDATE: After additional conversations with the open source community and the Gnome Foundation, we have decided to abandon our pending trademark applications for “Gnome.” We will choose a new name for our product
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by ppereira 12y ago
I am not sure if I agree with your rationale. An agent of a government acts on behalf of his or her government. According to your reasoning, a nation cannot breach a system or wage war because it is an agent that does the hacking or a soldi
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by ppereira 12y ago
Analects of Confucius, Book II, Chapter XVII. https://archive.org/stream/analectsofconfuc00confrich#page/1...
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by ppereira 12y ago
The hierarchy could be inverted with a very small change to the laws governing engineers, just as it has been done for lawyers. The details vary by jurisdiction, but generally lawyers must practice in some form of partnership where non-lawy
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by ppereira 12y ago
I'd love to see a development of the law that aligns with Blackstone's Commentaries on trespass and ravenous beasts of prey: it is justifiable to enter another's servers in order to hunt and kill worms because destroying suc
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by ppereira 12y ago
They already do examine margins. Its called "transfer pricing". Information sharing is a key part of the proposals.
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by ppereira 12y ago
I love literate programming, however my main issue with most tools like this one is that they do not properly support compiler/debugger error messages. This is a huge, often unstated caveat. It is very important to be able to read erro
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by ppereira 12y ago
I don't see your email address in your profile. I did the calculation about 3 years ago for Canada, so it may or may not be useful. It is not so far fetched when you consider that we already provide some welfare support and a progressi
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by ppereira 12y ago
A basic income, like welfare, would likely increase less than linearly with family size. For example, a household might receive an amount in proportion to the square-root of family size to account for the cost-savings of living together.
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by ppereira 12y ago
I once calculated the tax implications of a basic income where everyone received a lump sum paid for by a flat income tax. A basic income at the current welfare rate seemed to be easily achievable. I seem to recall that a 20k basic income w
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by ppereira 12y ago
There are significant differences between Canada's anti-spam law, CASL, and the U.S. CAN-SPAM. Key differences include: 1. CASL is opt-in, while CAN-SPAM is opt out; 2. Canada has an opt-in exception for existing business relationships
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by ppereira 12y ago
In geometry, this would be an affine transformation.
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by ppereira 12y ago
This interview with Paul Krugman discusses why the United States is becoming an oligarchy with increased inherited wealth. He reviews the book "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" by Thomas Piketty. A few years ago, Piketty publi
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by ppereira 13y ago
I purchased one of these machines running Trisquel. With an SSD it is quite snappy and the IBM keyboard is fantastic. It was a pleasure to purchase from Gluglug, although at the time I was restricted to paying via Paypal.
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by ppereira 13y ago
What is the relative cost in cpu/memory of encrypting with 8192 bit vs. 2048 bit RSA?
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by ppereira 13y ago
There are many students who have a choice between a state school and a private school, or an Ivy League school and a top school near their home, or an engineering degree and an arts degree. I think a detailed study of career outcomes and co
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10 ways you give up data without knowing it(cnn.com)
3 points by ppereira 13y ago|0 comments
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by ppereira 13y ago
This seems like a well thought out measure for development that considers life expectancy, education, and income. It adjusts each of these factors for inequality by the geometric mean of the factor across the population. [1] This is similar

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