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by sjy 7y ago
I'm only one year into using Anki and to be honest mathematics hasn't been a huge focus for me, so I'm not a great person to ask. Have you read this article by Michael Nielsen? http://cognitivemedium.com/srs-m
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by sjy 7y ago
Some of the Australian jurisdictions in which mobile drug testing has been implemented don't see this as a problem: as well as driving while impaired, there is a separate offence for having illicit drugs in your system which is designe
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by sjy 7y ago
This Jakob Nielsen article is 5+ years old now, but it tends to suggest that someone who could complete that task is actually one standard deviation above average, rather than below: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/com
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by sjy 7y ago
Google wasn't a dominant search engine at the time of the Microsoft litigation, and different people were in charge of the Justice Department by the time that it became one. Not every potential crime is or can be prosecuted – especiall
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by sjy 7y ago
Is that right? Shouldn't the reinvestment involve a significant amount of capital expenditure which is not immediately deductible?
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by sjy 7y ago
My conclusion was based on the fact that this is how it works in the common law world, and the letter of the law in the EU is pretty much the same. It might be incorrect. I was hoping someone from the EU would provide more information if so
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by sjy 7y ago
PDFs don't solve link rot. But in HTML, it's conventional to rely on links for stylesheets and sometimes even content (images, asynchronous DOM elements), so link rot is a bigger problem.
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by sjy 7y ago
A subset of HTML + CSS (+ ECMAScript?) could replace PDF for this purpose. However, is there a standard subset and familiar, understandable tools for working with it? In general, using the 'save as' function in a web browser won
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by sjy 7y ago
According to the European e-Justice Portal [1], the right to legal aid is contained in art 6(3)(c) of the ECHR and art 47 of the CFR. However, the first right only applies in criminal cases and the second right is limited 'in so far as
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by sjy 7y ago
I've also found Anki a good remedy to the "I feel bad that I don't remember this from undergrad" problem. I'm still nowhere near as fast at actually doing maths as when I was taking or teaching it. But now when some
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by sjy 7y ago
It's not a judgment call of the investigators, it's a crime that you can plead not guilty to. I think the burden is on you to provide an example of someone who was actually convicted of this crime despite not having "knowingl
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by sjy 7y ago
If the user has to download the whole webassembly binary at the beginning of every session, it seems unlikely that Adobe would save money on CDNs.
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by sjy 7y ago
Lost functionality in Office 2016 has been driving me crazy, too. It seems that most of the problems are derived from the 2016 apps implementing app sandboxing (which Apple requires for distribution through the Mac App Store). The 2011 apps
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by sjy 7y ago
I did not realise you were assuming that the taxpayer already held the CAD for some period of time before the coffee purchase. So US tax law provides no exception for trivial capital gains on personal use assets? Clearly it makes sense to b
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by sjy 7y ago
Using a tap-to-pay card would probably change your perspective. They were specifically designed to eliminate that usability nightmare. I find them easier to use than Apple Pay (because Touch ID only works about 90% of the time for me), and
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by sjy 7y ago
Historically, it was not possible for the IRS to figure it out without an investigation that costs more than most people pay in taxes. Computers exist now, but changing the status quo would be politically challenging, and may still involve
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by sjy 7y ago
It's not just a matter of the paperwork being too burdensome; free coffees at church are simply not income. Neither is $20 in a birthday card from your grandma. Of course, there are grey areas where it's much harder to draw the li
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Surely this is not true? It doesn't seem consistent with the IRS's guidance [1], anyway. You would simply value the expense in USD at the time of the transaction. There is no capital gain or loss. [1]: https://www.irs.g
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by sjy 7y ago
Lies have to be knowing and wilful [1]. It shouldn't be easy to knowingly and wilfully lie about something when you don't understand all the facts, implications and details. Did you have a example in mind of someone who had been w
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by sjy 7y ago
The human brain is about as far from functional programming as you can get. Everything is global, referentially opaque, and full of side effects.
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Most enterprises depend critically on being able to view and edit Word and Excel documents. If there was some urgent need to get rid of Microsoft, they could get by with non-Microsoft applications that support the same file formats. It&#x27
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by sjy 7y ago
Rejecting that 'definition' does not imply the truth of any slippery slope argument. I think it's easy to distinguish between communist leaning YouTube channels, and communist leaning YouTube channels that contain explicit ca
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by sjy 7y ago
Different people might have different views about whether "racism is worse than hacking," but that doesn't mean we just throw our hands up and concede that everyone is entitled to their own views. Explicitly racist policy sti
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by sjy 7y ago
I work in a non-technical business that depends critically on MS Office, but it's not a very pernicious form of lock-in. Honestly, we could probably get by with LibreOffice or Google Docs, and with VMs or terminal servers as a backup,
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by sjy 7y ago
I assure you that many developers are being paid to produce shit.
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Developers are expensive though. If dynamic languages let you write buggy code in half the time that it would take to write perfect code in a static language, that would be an acceptable trade-off in many contexts.
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The ambiguity is resolved by the explicit definition provided in the section: 'a technological measure "effectively controls access to a work" if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, requires the application
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The article is Joan Robinson, 'Economics is a serious subject: the apologia of an economist to the mathematician, the scientist and the plain man' (1932). It's footnote 1 in Coase's 'The nature of the firm,' wh
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I did mean pre-Chomsky. I was using him as a rough reference point for when linguistics started to get serious as a scientific discipline. Because people have been informally studying linguistics for all of human history (by trying to learn
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DRM caused this problem, and if you want to convince me that the solution is more advanced DRM that somehow fails open when the company that built it goes out of business, you'll need a stronger argument than "it's probably n

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