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by repolfx 8y ago
How was this lazy or the EU's ruling in any way sane or sensible at all? Do the people who work at EUIPO ever walk down a city street? Do they live in the real world at all? Why did they even ask McDonald to submit ANY proof that the
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by repolfx 8y ago
This is dissembling. How can you be "more conscientious" about using a word like family other than not using it? There isn't any other word to refer to a man, a woman and their children as a group, as far as I'm aware. S
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by repolfx 8y ago
I think the fact that you've spent so much time in the FAANG companies may explain why you can't see government waste. The Valley tech firms are frequently lauded as many positive things, but I've never seen anyone with a clu
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by repolfx 8y ago
You should check out JavaFX. It has a full set of cross platform widgets, can be styled with CSS, is hardware accelerated with Direct3D on Windows and OpenGL on Linux/Mac. You can do arbitrary 3D transforms of any part of the scene gra
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by repolfx 8y ago
You can do hot reload for a long time with Java already. Go download TornadoFX and experiment with its hot reload functionality to see what you can do. This is definitely not a feature invented by Dart. From what I recall when I last looked
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by repolfx 8y ago
You could also look at JavaFX. It's very modern but also has the sorts of controls you may need for complex apps.
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by repolfx 8y ago
I don't understand their claim it was inauthentic either. Their writeup says the pages claimed to be independent, but were actually linked to employees of Sputnik News. OK, but all the screenshots they showed (in the first batch) had t
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by repolfx 8y ago
It's not a pretty vision of the future but maybe there are ways to escape it. The reason apps all went cross platform is that desktop operating systems stopped innovating. Which is the desktop platform with the most new native apps, wh
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by repolfx 8y ago
Why would that be crazy? Isn't that a circular definition of crazyness? Inflation is whatever statisticians say it is - if inflation stats were very different to how they are now, why would that would be crazy? Maybe it's crazy th
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by repolfx 8y ago
Why is "decentralisation" even the moral choice to begin with. A lot of projects claim to be decentralised, but when you ask "ok, who has the power in this project" it turns out that a small cabal of developers has most
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by repolfx 8y ago
No it wasn't. Vast reams of content were hosted exclusively on GeoCities. In fact almost all "home pages" were on GeoCities or AOL back then. There has never really been a time in the history of the internet when a few small
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by repolfx 8y ago
You're right but also wrong - people generalise about "the government" even though it's a large collection of entities because on average their performance is characterisable as worse than "the market" would
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by repolfx 8y ago
But 2% annual growth is normal for developed economies. The USA with 4% under Trump is really kicking it and that looks unsustainable. Also I thought economists believed 5% unemployment was something of a lower bound, that there's alwa
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by repolfx 8y ago
Well you have to be careful with the data. Firstly, inflation stats don't track every price. In particular they don't track house prices (directly) or the prices of financial instruments like debt, stocks, etc. So money printing t
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by repolfx 8y ago
I do work in both. What sort of "benefit" does the EU's own civil service try to take away? There is no technical reason why euro clearing must happen physically inside the eurozone. And why do you think the Commission tried
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by repolfx 8y ago
I did have a big reply typed out yesterday but couldn't post it. Today I'll just observe that - again - what actual member state and Brussels officials are saying is that this is "the best and only deal that could have been a
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by repolfx 8y ago
So I'm guilty of "arrogant ignorance" and thus deserving of downvotes, but you describe the entire UK as a "deranged husband in a divorce" and then describe foreign ministers of member states as unciteable in a di
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by repolfx 8y ago
I think a more interesting question is what would Facebook do about the European countries where various aspects of Islam are already illegal. France has banned the veil. Switzerland banned the construction of minarets (not mosques) via pop
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by repolfx 8y ago
I agree that looking for ideological consistency is a dead end in any large group of people, including for those who campaigned to remain. Some supported the EU project for ideological reasons (it's an ideological, utopian project afte
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by repolfx 8y ago
It was the original proposal. Rewind the clock to the start of 2016 and there were leave campaigners and prominent remainer politicians both suggesting that. The UK is not actually attempting to terminate all economic and cultural collabo
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by repolfx 8y ago
Do you actually work in the City or in the financial industry? There are many cities in the EU. If London has no advantages other than being in the EU then why is so much financial work done there? By the way, unlike what many in this threa
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by repolfx 8y ago
It's more likely to be the other way around. People will still try to migrate from the EU to the UK - as they are already doing in huge numbers and are still doing years after the Brexit vote. If there was going to be a major drop in i
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by repolfx 8y ago
I have to say, the short description of arithmetic circuits in elliptic curve finite fields in this blog post is probably one of the clearest and most concise I've seen. Bravo! As for the problem of user-agent sniffing, well, it is don
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by repolfx 8y ago
I would be fascinated to know the IQ scores of all the US presidents, but I assume no such dataset exists. Being the president would seem to be a good example of a form of success in which IQ would not be that important relative to other pe
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by repolfx 8y ago
Greater male variability isn't a hypothesis, is it? It's clear in the data from longitudinal IQ studies, or so I thought. It's more a fact than a hypothesis.
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by repolfx 8y ago
Does anyone use it like that though? Isn't he arguing with a straw man? Who is using IQ to allocate funding to pop singers? IQ scores aren't used that much and only ever for predicting success of jobs where success is easily measu
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by repolfx 8y ago
That's not really addressing the point, is it. IQ correlates well with measures of performance. Taleb's point, if we are to generously interpret his screed, is that some classes of valuable mental performance are very hard to gene
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by repolfx 8y ago
I'm afraid I genuinely don't see the difference between the two sentences Dan, it's not an attempt to be awkward. I'm sure if you fed them into a mechanical parser/semantic analyzer they'd reduce to the same pr
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by repolfx 8y ago
There is no broadcast on platforms like Facebook. Users always have the features to control what they see. As for "deplatforming", that means censorship and the history of it shows that it doesn't work in the long run. Those
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by repolfx 8y ago
That fact about natural gas was one of the most surprising things to me. I realise the Netherlands is right next to some huge oil and gas fields, but surely burning gas to heat greenhouses filled with tomatoes in a cold climate, can't

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