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by taejo 8y ago
There are a handful of still-running for-profit businesses that were founded before 1000, which I consider to good enough: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies There are, of course, religious institut
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by taejo 8y ago
> It's impossible to run an organization at zero capital buffer perpetually (see: even Wikimedia likes to have a capital reserve). That's a great way to end up bankrupt. What you're suggesting is well beyond absurd. And ye
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by taejo 8y ago
Indeed. Turns out the US in the 21st century is quite far from the top of the list of best places to make the American Dream a reality.
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by taejo 8y ago
> 0: Company is apparently called "Absa". FYI, Absa is one of South Africa's largest banks, formed in 1991 by the merger of several large, long-established banks, and by now owns all of Barclays' African operations. I
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by taejo 8y ago
Statelessness absolutely does happen. On 13 November 2018, Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said there are about 12 million stateless people in the world.
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by taejo 8y ago
"a guardian to help you spend money" is different from "institutionalized", which is what the parent and grandparent wrote. And sleeping on the streets is a real alternative to institutionalization that people can and so
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by taejo 8y ago
If you ask two people the colour of a certain object (under the standardised lighting conditions) you usually get the same answer (or variations on the same answer: "turquoise" vs. "blue", for example, but there's
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by taejo 8y ago
The list is the most smellable things by detection threshold , which is quite different from perceived intensity (many compounds have quite a low threshold above which they don't smell any stronger). It wasn't clear to me wheth
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by taejo 8y ago
Are you suggesting the US go to war with the EU to force them to repeal the GDPR, so that Slack can do business in the EU? I know HN typically takes a pro-business angle politically, but that seems beyond even the most rabid line that I usu
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by taejo 8y ago
GDPR has the force of law in its area of jurisdiction. If Slack can't comply with it, then they'd better not do business in that jurisdiction. That's how the law works; there isn't some hierarchy of one country's la
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by taejo 8y ago
I'm not sure which treaty you're thinking of, but I'm pretty certain it's a purely domestic matter. Note that we're talking about 100 miles inland from the border, not something like 100 miles out to sea.
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by taejo 8y ago
It doesn't depend on the type at all. Objects are never copied when passed (or assigned to names). The only thing that might give you the opposite impression is that some objects are immutable, so you wouldn't be able to notice
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by taejo 8y ago
The 100 miles have nothing to do with international treaty, but only American courts' interpretation of the fourth amendment.
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by taejo 8y ago
The 2007 ICFP-PC was similar (in that you got a big opaque data file and the spec of a VM for it) and also very enjoyable. I was on the team that came second and I think we understand only about half of what was in there during the competit
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by taejo 8y ago
Why wouldn't the creditor offer to accept 11 oz of gold rather than waiting for the debtor to come to them with 10 oz that they have to accept?
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by taejo 8y ago
> The debtor explanation seems like it would be fine to me because it seems like lenders would not be likely to want to renogotiate their loans every time the money is debased, The paper doesn't explain this in the clearest way, but
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by taejo 8y ago
"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise wh
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by taejo 8y ago
In C and C++, 0 is an allowed definition of NULL. Before C++11, 0 was the only allowed definition of NULL.
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by taejo 8y ago
> a pointer (which (void* )0 is) In C: the macro NULL is an implementation-defined null pointer constant, which may be > an integer constant expression with the value 0 > an integer constant expression with the value 0 cast to th
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by taejo 8y ago
As long as those T&Cs have a "no" button which still lets me drive the car (which most interpretations of the GDPR not made by surveillance companies themselves seem to require) I'm happy.
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by taejo 8y ago
ASM is arguably not obsolete technology, while tractor feed pretty clearly is.
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by taejo 8y ago
"Telling people to become unstoppable helps them succeed in starting businesses," on the other hand, is a testable hypothesis, as is "people who believe they are unstoppable are more likely to start a successful business&quot
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by taejo 8y ago
BTW, his name is not Bohem but Boehm.
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by taejo 8y ago
Double blinding is supposed to prevent this. Nobody who sees the patient should know which patients are taking the placebo (person A puts either placebos or treatments in bottle X, person B gives patient X the bottle).
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by taejo 8y ago
A corporation is not simply a group of people. It's a group of people with a mission and roles, and that makes all the difference, because people will suppress or just not talk about things that are not related to that mission or to
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by taejo 8y ago
The problem is not the inflation index: it's quoting approximate numbers with inherently wide error margins with too many digits of precision.
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by taejo 8y ago
"GOTO considered harmful" doesn't mean you should program in assembler without JMP (and without CALL, for that matter, since the ability to CALL into the middle of a function is equally problematic). All flow control is reall
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by taejo 8y ago
I've had Buddenbrooks on my Kindle for ages and I was just starting to think my German had improved enough to give it another attempt, but I struggle with that kind of thing even in my native language.
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by taejo 8y ago
U+0000 is a unicode character, which is encoded as 0x00 in UTF-8
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by taejo 8y ago
Yes, it means exactly that.

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