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by rbehrends 8y ago
He has been charged with fraud (Betrug) and causing false entries to be made in public records (mittelbare Falschbeurkundung) [1]. This is not surprising, because a hard requirement for pretrial detention [1] is that it is highly likely tha
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by rbehrends 8y ago
Ugh, I hadn't even realized that EFF was linking to a two year old version. Little wonder that they got so many things wrong. For a better overview on upcoming EU legislation, I recommend the legislative train schedule [1]. While the c
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by rbehrends 8y ago
Because it's not "the same people". This is legislation in a huge bicameral legislature with a multitude of interested parties, including 28 member states and eight political groups. That's before we even consider lobbyi
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by rbehrends 8y ago
The current proposal is here: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CONS... [1]; the text you have seems to be an older version. I'll add that there is indeed a lot of wrong stuff
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by rbehrends 8y ago
FATCA, for example. It forces all foreign banks with US customers to report their customers and their assets to the US treasury or suffer a 30% withholding tax on all US sourced payments [1]. Needless to say, non-compliance is not a real op
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by rbehrends 9y ago
> But Haskell’s execution model has no underlying support for continuations, and yet there are perfectly efficient implementations. What you need is a way to capture and manipulate stack frames at a very basic level. Haskell cannot magic
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by rbehrends 9y ago
Depends on what you mean precisely by "extend to", but generally this is mostly a question of whether the underlying execution model supports them. "Code as values" is not exactly a particularly complicated thing (though
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by rbehrends 9y ago
> As long as the languages operate on the same virtual computer (same IO capacities), you can create the same semantics on any language. At the worst case, you can write an interpreter for any language on any other language. This is fair
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by rbehrends 9y ago
> Every difference between Turing complete languages is a "syntax only thing". I'm pretty sure you can't ignore language semantics here. > You can certainly reimplement it on most functional languages with a syntax
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by rbehrends 9y ago
This is a syntax thing only. You can do the same in Smalltalk with an array of blocks (which are closures). { [ user := url fetchUser ]. [ address := user fetchAddress ]. } and pass that array as an argument to whatever eva
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by rbehrends 9y ago
I can't help but think that the article/paper are overstating a statistical effect here by attempting to reduce a multicausal phenomenon to a monocausal one. If you look just at rich western countries, most of them occupy a fairly
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by rbehrends 9y ago
> People in Europe tend to be more civil in such matters. I would be careful to generalize here. It's often not the people that are reluctant to demand retribution, but criminal justice systems that are insulated against populism. F
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by rbehrends 9y ago
Subtyping can be closed, too (see Scala's sealed classes, for example) and algebraic data types can be open (see OCaml's extensible variants [1] or polymorphic variants [2]). This is simply a distinction between closed and open su
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by rbehrends 9y ago
Also, this looks like a case of Zipf's Law, which tends to crop up a lot if you express statistical distributions as rankings [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law#Statistical_expla...
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by rbehrends 9y ago
> What if we replaced the word "hostility" with "frustration?" I specifically meant hostility, not frustration; no need to beat about the bush. Frustration expresses itself differently. It's not about standing up
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by rbehrends 9y ago
> I'm unclear if anybody is entertaining the notion that a debate among dozens cannot happen because one person wanders in who's distressed by it, or what? The problem is not with having a debate; the problem is the sheer level
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by rbehrends 9y ago
> I thought violating anti-competitive laws required one party to cross-subsidize, use advantages in one field/area to drive out competition in another No. See Article 102 TFEU [1]. Abuse of a dominant market position in order to di
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by rbehrends 9y ago
Well, this is just a roundabout way of stating that the symmetric group S_n is generated by (1, 2) and (1, 2, ..., n) for all n. :)
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by rbehrends 9y ago
> Good news - unlike the cookie thing, GDPR mandates that you be able to say no. The ePrivacy Directive (aka the cookie directive) also required you to be able to opt out. It was pretty explicit, too: "Member States shall ensure tha
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by rbehrends 9y ago
I still use Bazaar for personal projects and sometimes as a frontend for Git repositories. Things that Bazaar got right that I find missing from most other DVCSes: - Branches (including remote branches) are first-class citizens. I can add a
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by rbehrends 9y ago
The problem here is that "hate speech" is an anglosphere term and doesn't have an exact correspondence in German law. What is commonly called "hate speech" in the English-language media is §130 (1) of the penal code
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by rbehrends 9y ago
> The law applies only to a narrowly defined class of hate speech. The thing is that (despite the reporting in the English-language media), it's not actually a hate speech law [1]. The problem is that social media companies are bein
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by rbehrends 9y ago
This is why there are marketplaces where you have to compete against other insurers. And companies in particular will evaluate their group plans critically.
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by rbehrends 9y ago
The ACA requires the somewhat perversely called Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) to be at least 80% (and 85% for large group plans). The MLR is the percentage of revenues from insurance premiums that are being used on actual healthcare benefits (an
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by rbehrends 9y ago
Note that I was specifically talking about the sequential case, not multi-threaded languages. OCaml has had one since the 1990s [1]; it's a fairly standard generational, compacting collector with incremental collection for the old gene
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by rbehrends 9y ago
Eh, incremental garbage collection is technology that has been around since the 1980s/1990s. For purely sequential systems (which is what we're talking about here), it is pretty easy to make GC soft real-time [1]. We are talking a
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by rbehrends 9y ago
Oh, it appears I misunderstood you. Yes, the federal government was willing to review the regulatory requirements, at least in principle. I was focusing on the last subclause of your sentence.
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by rbehrends 9y ago
> As result, there's many services like uber — but uber themselves is banned, because while the German government was willing to ignore the commercial drivers license requirement, they couldn't ignore the insurance requirements
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by rbehrends 9y ago
It is largely a matter of standing. The Unfair Commercial Practices Directives leaves most of the details up to member states, but has a hard requirement that competitors have standing to bring legal action against unfair commercial practic
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by rbehrends 9y ago
It isn't. If you look at the EU's information about it [1], you must be able to refuse processing of information that's not necessary for the functioning of the site. Virtually no site outside the EU's own ones does th

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