skywal_l

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by skywal_l 5y ago
I personally found a lot from Lucretius Carus's "De Rerum Natura"[0]. It was important to popularize the philosophy of Epicurus. It describes three types of needs: 1. Necessary and natural needs: Sleep, eat, the other thing.
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by skywal_l 5y ago
They are damages so, indeed, it is unfair to compare them to fines, as all damages are tax deductible. I stand corrected. I am not trying to claim that the situation is illegal, merely that it is immoral (thus the human part). Putting asi
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Yes it is absurd because destroying the environment should not be considered a business expense. When a cab is fined for speeding, he cannot claim it as a business expense. He put lives at risk and that is not a reasonable business decision
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by skywal_l 5y ago
His point is that fines are tax deductible. It's logical from an accountant point of view, but indeed absurd from a human point of view.
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by skywal_l 5y ago
> Bells's monopoly was instituted by the government What actions the US government took to "institute" Bell's monopoly?
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by skywal_l 5y ago
AT&T: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_the_Bell_System
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by skywal_l 5y ago
I think that was the parent's point ("which ones?"). There is no EU monopoly in the US. At least, I don't see one.
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by skywal_l 5y ago
> The US can only take measures in the US on EU companies that are breaking US law and/or regulations And they do: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-28099694
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Probably because the older languages did not bring enough to the table versus C. I've notice that the trend of new compiled language is fairly recent with Nim (2006)/Go (2009)/Rust (2010). The previous trend was more oriented
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Absolutely. Piketty showed that wealth inequality peaked right before WWI and was very low in the 60/70s. The amount of wealth between these two periods does not even compare.
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by skywal_l 5y ago
> From the perspective and of copyright specifically, it’s also a mistake to assume that all business can move at the pace of electronically distributed software I think you are confusing copyrights with patents or trademarks. Copyright
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by skywal_l 5y ago
It took 7 months for the Sonny Bono Act (of Sonny and Cher and at the time congressman) to extends the copyright from 50 to 70 years. I would call it pretty fast when you think it took several years for congress to vote the last "infra
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by skywal_l 5y ago
So, according to this [0] although China is recognized as a developing country by the WTO it does not benefit from all the advantages that it would entail. [0] https://theconversation.com/myth-busted-chinas-status-as-a-d...
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by skywal_l 5y ago
By officially supporting wine?
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by skywal_l 5y ago
I don't know about that. "in the course of employement" is used for various things. For example, if you get injured "in the course of employement", would that include if you fall from your bike on a sunday ride? I d
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Two lines above: > Father Drouin’s proposed interior redesign of Notre Dame will be submitted to France’s national cultural heritage commission on 9 December and the culture minister, Roselyne Bachelot, may have the final say on matters
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by skywal_l 5y ago
There is a possibility that we will see a reversion of mass tourism that clogged big cities and monuments in the decades coming. This move looks like trying to fight the previous war. Anyway, as the article states, the catholic church does
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by skywal_l 5y ago
> We could instead do a simple ratio for this correction factor; a ratio of 9/16 is technically 0.5625. However, when I was testing this, no matter how I measured the size of the tarp (in GIMP, using various DBSCAN hyperparams, etc.
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Web browsers are not part of the OS I believe. It's an application that can be ported to your OS. Note though that at the same event, a few days earlier, a hobby OS was presented which ship with its own ex-nihilo web browser implementa
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Out of curiosity, what problem were you trying to solve by doing this? All the use cases I can think are pretty niche.
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Pascal said it. "All of men's problem stem from one thing, not to be able to site quietly in a room".
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by skywal_l 5y ago
You are right, it's not what he was asking. Yet, herd immunity absolutely come into play. The peak of death rates were during hospital overrun.
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Maybe because, even if you are not vaccinated, you have less chance of catching covid if everyone around you is.
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Yes, that's what they mean by "clean room" implementation. The implementer should not be "polluted" by the previous implementation. This is what Microsoft did when they revert engineered CPM and created DOS.
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by skywal_l 5y ago
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/11/25/3665455... They are not sure as there are various hypotheses apparently: > He says vulture stomach acid is 10 to 100 times stronger than human
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by skywal_l 5y ago
It's going to be a problem hard to resolved. It can be seen as a perk for a company to offer the possibility of remote work like bonuses or free coffee. The thing is, some people actually hate telework and would rather impose everyone
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by skywal_l 5y ago
They work following a standard deviation so 99% of the population have an IQ lower than 135, 99.6% lower than 140, etc. So maybe, among the billions of people who ever lived on the planet or will live in the future, someone will have an IQ
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Well it helps to be a tax haven I'm sure. Look at Luxembourg, Jersey, Cayman Islands. When you are a small country able to suck in other countries taxes, it makes everything easier. If you remove that from the equation, what makes SG,
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by skywal_l 5y ago
My little contribution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi7spj04HBU A french movie soundtrack by Philippe Sarde played by Chet Baker with Cobham on the drums.
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Nice, clean, fast. No need of a sign in. A little buggy though. Can't Delete or Rename a page (at least on Firefox).

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