randalluk

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by randalluk 3y ago
Or notepad inserted a UTF8 BOM.
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by randalluk 4y ago
> Me; it's far superior to anything outside of a mouse. I used to love the track point - it felt so efficient to have my pointing device right on the home row of the keyboard. Eventually I realised it was the cause of some pretty ba
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by randalluk 5y ago
> There is if we add on a tax for the negative externalities, we need to consider both positive and negative externalities to get the tax right. There are few positive externalities directly associated with the act of burning oil, except
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by randalluk 5y ago
>That is the informal definition of an externality right there. You pay a grocer who pays a farmer who pays a fertiliser manufacturer who buys some natural gas. You wanting to eat has a reasonably direct impact on demand for fossil fuels
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by randalluk 5y ago
There surely are positive externalities, but the very useful things we burn fossil fuels for are reflected in the price - cheap or no. Those primary reasons for burning fuel will have all sorts of externalities, positive and negative. And
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by randalluk 5y ago
As the article says >Libertarianism's attraction is based on ignoring externalities, and cryptocurrencies are no exception. The economy as currently regulated doesn't correctly price in externalities such as the ongoing cost of
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by randalluk 5y ago
>we keep having articles saying that bitcoin transactions are a waste of energy, and everyone ignoring that the block reward halves every few years until it drops to zero, so it not built with the incentives to use this much energy forev
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by randalluk 5y ago
The browser is the user-agent, ie. an agent acting on behalf of the user. The browser chose to fetch the font, based on the orinal response. It could be configured not to.
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by randalluk 5y ago
Doesn't this attitude overlook the "agency" of the "User-Agent"?
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by randalluk 5y ago
Are you content that full ownership of the device is a "premium feature"?
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by randalluk 5y ago
> AD: The fact that Paul is taking on all the risk, in effect Paul has made a self-endorsement via proxy... Is funding your own stake via a third party explicitly allowed, or is it abuse that's too hard to police and therefore you t
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by randalluk 5y ago
I never have this issue. Is it a difference between iOS and Android keyboards, or did I add it to my dictionary long ago and forget all about it?
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by randalluk 5y ago
If you're a driver, at some point you'll probably need to write bytes into a device register, mapped to a raw address in physical memory. That's a fundamentally unsafe thing to do: it relies on you as a programmer setting up
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by randalluk 5y ago
Every Ethereum smart contact is validated (run) on every node in the Ethereum network, in order to achieve distributed consensus. It should be possible to be thousands of times more efficient than that (which suggests they could achieve muc
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by randalluk 5y ago
Nobody in this discussion has said they're against inherited wealth. Just that its existence is one reason to favour "one person, one vote" over "one dollar, one vote"
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by randalluk 5y ago
There's an unstated premise here that the market doesn't force some people's choices on other people. I doubt that that's true - especially when competition is limited. There are limited alternatives currently, and this
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by randalluk 6y ago
RNA is genetic material, but it encodes instructions to make proteins, which form the physical shell of the virus crucial to its function. As a very rough analogy, the RNA is source code and the proteins are the compiled program. It's
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by randalluk 6y ago
I don't think it's ridiculous, no. (But I think wincing at some of your examples would be.) Really I'm not the best person to judge though. I'm happy to be guided by people who experience racism and groups tackling the l
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by randalluk 6y ago
I don't think anyone is arguing that it's always a bad metaphor, just that it's an unnecessarily violent one.
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by randalluk 6y ago
> If you can directly identify any of these fallacies while arguing on the internet your stance on the subject instantly becomes correct and the opposing view wrong. Elsewhere, this line of reasoning is called the "fallacy fallacy&q