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by scatters 5y ago
Unfortunately, DNT is not a clear declaration of intent, because privacy evangelists view it as their moral duty to make that decision for everyone. It's an inconvenient fact that - perhaps a decade ago - we had DNT, and advertisers
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by scatters 5y ago
What does "volatile" have to do with concurrency? It's for hardware access and benchmarking, not for multithreading.
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by scatters 5y ago
Yes, Idris. Dependent types in an effect system allow you to prove that deadlock cannot occur, such that a potential deadlock in user code is a compile time error. Edwin Brady has been working on this for decades[1], and Idris 2[2] has fina
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by scatters 5y ago
Well yes, Facebook has users in Vietnam. Stacked diacritics are a features, not a bug.
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by scatters 5y ago
Another place it's meaningful to use `volatile` is in benchmarking and testing: to either ensure that a block of code is run despite not having any side effects, or to ensure that a block of code that should not be run is still compi
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by scatters 5y ago
And of course there will be ways to move to the top of the waiting list... if you have money, and know the right people.
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by scatters 5y ago
Aside from the services provided by your municipality (which may or may not be paid for out of property taxes) there's the aspect of imputed rent; the notional benefit that you as a tenant receive from yourself as a landlord. Some plac
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by scatters 5y ago
Yes, in their advertising.
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by scatters 5y ago
And Google Pay, apparently.
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by scatters 5y ago
Apple explicitly barred Facebook from rewarding its users for opting in. Obviously this is done with the color of protecting its users (from, say, Facebook gating the entire functionality of its app behind the permission check) but it&#x2
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by scatters 5y ago
People are opting out because Apple have explicitly barred Facebook from offering them anything as a reward for opting in (other than better targeted adverts, which most don't see as a positive). Obviously if they didn't do this
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by scatters 5y ago
That's how you end up with a single megacorp that does everything.
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by scatters 5y ago
The externality is in removing the carbon from the geosphere and introducing it into the biosphere, since it'll end up in the atmosphere eventually. So yes, the responsibility for the externality is attributable to the extracting compa
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by scatters 5y ago
Actually, maybe not. https://web.stanford.edu/~goulder/Papers/Published%20Papers/... "We find that a carbon tax is inherently progressive, narrowing the income gap between rich and poor households. Beyon
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by scatters 5y ago
Absorbing the negative externalities of a process is the same as subsidizing it. The subsidy value here is bounded above by the net present value of the negative externalities in question.
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by scatters 5y ago
The highest point in the entire archipelago is Ben Nevis in Scotland, at 1345m. The highest point in England is less than 1000m. (Scafell Pike, 978m).
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by scatters 5y ago
And what if it's greater than 100%? Should it then be decreased; what do your ethics say in that case?
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by scatters 5y ago
> hike taxes on vacant stores 1000% That's how you get high streets lined with charity shops. Not that I have anything against charity shops, but is that really what you want to see?
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by scatters 5y ago
Which determines that he is qualified to speak about Black Cube, not that he works for Black Cube. There's a difference.
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by scatters 5y ago
Huh, you're right - guess that comes from growing up during the '80s, when "multinational corporation" was practically synonymous with "transnational corporation". My bad and thanks for the correction.
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by scatters 5y ago
Yes, of course multinationals are Western - they're creatures of the Western system of bilateral investor-rights treaties and the largely Anglo-American corporate legal system. Chinese and Russian companies may operate outside their ow
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by scatters 5y ago
Are you saying that an environmental activist being murdered is only newsworthy if you can find a way to pin the blame on a Western corporation? That seems a fairly callous attitude to take.
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by scatters 5y ago
It's not even superficial. A chroot is a limiting case of a container that only rebinds the filesystem; or, equally, a container is a chroot that also rebinds the user namespace, process namespace, networking, etc.
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by scatters 5y ago
It won't even start to decay until space expands enough that it's warmer than the cosmological background, not that that's more than a rounding error to your calculation.
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by scatters 5y ago
It has a resonance mode at 2Hz, now successfully damped. Bridge designers know to look out for resonances at those frequencies, because pedestrians tend to identify and accentuate them by walking, especially in large numbers immediately aft
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by scatters 5y ago
I'm sure I read the Morse code one in a '90s science fiction story, although I think that was described as pure haptics; not sure if that would count as prior art for your patent.
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by scatters 5y ago
Driving uses fossil fuels, unless you're in an electric car - and even then, depending on electricity mix.
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by scatters 5y ago
The minimum mass for a black hole is the Planck mass, approximately 21 micrograms. Such a black hole is a Planck length in radius, has a Hawking temperature of the Planck temperature, and will decay in Planck time, releasing Planck energy o
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by scatters 5y ago
What's "far too often"? If it's a pleasant 5 minute walk, why wouldn't you want to go out for groceries every day?
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by scatters 5y ago
Nearly perfect protection for you, maybe. Catching it when vaccinated is still unpleasant for many, can wreck social plans if you have to isolate, and puts you at risk of passing it on to someone more vulnerable.

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