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by ramshorns 6y ago
> I wouldn't even know where to start Right.
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by ramshorns 6y ago
A court ruling isn't a new law, it's an interpretation of an existing one. But okay, I hadn't heard about AB5 which is from last year. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Assembly_Bill_5_(...
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by ramshorns 6y ago
Haven't they been misclassifying employees the whole time?
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by ramshorns 6y ago
> tax funded public housing developments have been shrinking almost everywhere This is the main reason for the housing crisis. Toronto has one of the lowest property tax rates in Canada; by bringing it closer to that of other cities we c
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by ramshorns 6y ago
Well, company towns are probably a bad idea too, if for different reasons. But there's probably room for smart cities created by the public sector where no personal data is collected and the goal is livability rather than profit.
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by ramshorns 6y ago
The term "dependent contractor" is sometimes used for this idea of a third category. Whether it actually provides workers with the benefits and protections that employees with similar working arrangements are entitled to remains t
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by ramshorns 6y ago
Whitespace or indentation is one, what else?
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by ramshorns 6y ago
Well, reading a book doesn't violate copyright even if you do it inside a bookstore.
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by ramshorns 6y ago
I think there's a thought experiment here to demonstrate why the national emergency library was fine. Imagine if, the day they closed their doors for the pandemic, all the libraries figured that access to knowledge is still essential a
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by ramshorns 6y ago
> Wealth redistribution does the opposite, take from those that are providing value and give it to those that aren’t. Yeah, that's capitalism. The goal of UBI is to return some of that extracted wealth to the working class.
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by ramshorns 6y ago
Yup. This happened to me and after around three months I started working hard on some interesting things. A month and a half later I haven't made money from it yet but it's been better than the somewhat repetitive job I had before
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by ramshorns 6y ago
Forever? Surely sooner or later as we run out of resources (and destroy the planet enough) we have to move away from the idea of growth and toward sustainability. These are mutually exclusive goals.
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by ramshorns 6y ago
If wealth redistribution is wrong, why are you encouraging us to give our money to the richest person in the world? Wealth is redistributed all the time, and because of an economic system that rewards already being wealthy, most of the redi
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by ramshorns 6y ago
That's fine, Google rehosts them all on AMP anyway and often people don't even click through past the search results page.
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by ramshorns 6y ago
Is the importance of having complete control over the software an argument against using free software? Surely the best way to have control over it is to be able to read what it does and make it do what you want.
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by ramshorns 6y ago
Cool. I like the step-by-step process that's not usually shown alongside code golf and obfuscated C programs.
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by ramshorns 6y ago
It's amazing that the 17 instructions at the end to tidy up all the carries, which looks like it has to be done serially, is still faster. But I guess each register's carry bits are independent from the ones that get carries added
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by ramshorns 6y ago
It's strange that the weak force violates parity symmetry, and it's also strange that charge–parity symmetry, taken together, is much closer to being conserved but is still violated a little bit.
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by ramshorns 6y ago
Yeah, it'd be interesting to see what the last graph (Figure B4) looks like if you start with mostly evil molecules rather than a racemic mixture. Maybe the bias still flips it to all live molecules after some time, but maybe it takes
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by ramshorns 6y ago
Probably 6^3 compared to the original 4^3, by introducing two new nucleic acids beyond A,C,G,T, and keeping the codon size fixed at 3.
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by ramshorns 6y ago
Cool stuff. Did you test the isolation? Say, by powering it from 5VDC that's riding on 120VAC or something.
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by ramshorns 6y ago
It shows nearby quests on the map, and you can select types of quests in the settings if you want to turn off the harder or less interesting ones. I guess there is still a bit of a barrier to entry, but once you get used to it it's a f
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by ramshorns 6y ago
Yes, though it depends on your goal. Alphabet's goal was probably not to actually make the city better to live in, but to find more ways to collect personal information for their own profit. Anyway, Cory Doctorow wrote recently that ci
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by ramshorns 6y ago
> that's now going to be portioned off to more giant, glass condo buildings I hope it's something a bit different. Looks like Waterfront Toronto will turn back to the community for new ideas for Quayside. https://wat
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by ramshorns 6y ago
The inflexibility of trains can be a feature in some cases. People like to live near subway and commuter rail stations partly because they know the route and service level are much less likely to abruptly change on them than a bus route wou
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by ramshorns 6y ago
Nothing I can find about William McElligott says whether he worked south of his home. He drove throughout the workday, and the explanation seems to be that his left side was exposed to the window. But surely the commuting direction would ha
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by ramshorns 6y ago
Sure. It's maybe a bit unsettling to see a global corporate monopoly telling countries what they're allowed to do, but in this case it's the right thing.
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by ramshorns 6y ago
This probably isn't the advice you're after, but you can install CRAN packages from the Ubuntu archive. apt install r-cran-<whatever>. I haven't actually used R much, but this might be less error prone than downloading
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by ramshorns 6y ago
Yeah, microcode updates are proprietary software too. The weird result is that if you want a system with no proprietary software, you end up having to use the original microcode which is burned onto the chip and counts as hardware. It'
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by ramshorns 6y ago
This is a bit like something you can do in C, almost by accident as a bonus language feature. x = y = z = 4; But I think this is assignment expressions which were controversial in Python or something.

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