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by taejo 8y ago
States learning from each other is good, but there's no reason to restrict that learning to other states within the same Union (which for cultural and numerical reasons are more homogenous than the total population of all states). If t
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by taejo 8y ago
Sure, results need to be published. The problem is that the cart is put before the horse: we decide to publish the results, and where to publish, before we have an inkling of what the results will be.
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by taejo 8y ago
8-9% of the income tax. Since income tax is substantially less than 100%, the church tax is substantially less than 8% of income.
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by taejo 8y ago
With SGX you don't have to trust the cloud provider, but you still have to trust Intel. Of course, you're probably trusting Intel anyway, so this is perhaps just a theoretical concern.
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by taejo 8y ago
I guess the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and Sweden are just dreams. I suspected something might be up with Belgium, but I had no inkling about the others.
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by taejo 8y ago
Ah, you're right. I missed the one mention of Asparagacae and was mislead by the (now clearly irrelevant) discussion of monocots.
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by taejo 8y ago
Google Translate covers the case that previously would have gone untranslated: e.g. I'm interested in reading this article, but it's in Italian, oh well, I guess I can't. If you're actually publishing something, you need
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by taejo 8y ago
The monocots are a huge clade, making up 23% of all angiosperm (flowering plant) species. Asparagus and agave are related to each other just as much as they are to grasses and bananas. It's like saying snakes and humans are related t
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by taejo 8y ago
Also Ursula le Guin: I tend to re-read The Left Hand of Darkness every couple years (always in winter).
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by taejo 8y ago
It's not a crazy rule of thumb at all, but you're more likely to buy jewellery with a credit card than a secured loan.
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by taejo 8y ago
> Maybe they don't care about European readers. I'm European but they are from Los Angeles so I don't complain. Would I comply with a US law if all my customers were in the EU? But they say, "We are engaged on the iss
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by taejo 8y ago
Securedness is a property of the loan, not of the thing you used the loan to buy.
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by taejo 8y ago
These are not the two options available in Germany: y4ml was comparing the German situation to the common-law one. They are saying that in Germany, the options are: accept both the assets and liabilities, or reject both.
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by taejo 8y ago
To be pedantic, he was a Thai Navy Seal (the unit in questions is nicknamed after an animal: it's not an acronym).
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by taejo 8y ago
They actually went much deeper into the cave than they intended, trying to escape the flood waters (which had already blocked their way out).
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by taejo 8y ago
"Leaving here in case it may be useful in the future." I hope they make him pick up his litter, too.
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by taejo 8y ago
Or rather, the owner worries about recovering the fee from the last driver. This works fine for dockless car rentals; the only reason I can see that it wouldn't work for bikes is that the margins are too small to actually cover admin
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by taejo 8y ago
By the pigeonhole principle, any such iteration must either enter a cycle, or the translations must be unbounded in length. If you experiment, you will find that Google Translate usually lands in the first category; transpilers usually land
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by taejo 8y ago
Sanskrit and most European languages do share a common ancestor. But Sanskrit is not that common ancestor, and the influence of Sanskrit itself on European languages is trivial, mostly limited to words relating to Indian religions, yoga
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by taejo 8y ago
Exactly! Gerrymandering is often seen as one party stealing votes from the other, but really the more important problem is that elected officials are stealing power from the electorate. In some cases officials of the two parties are even ha
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by taejo 8y ago
> Honestly, for most startups a simple multi-armed bandit approach is probably the way to go. Doesn't this mean maintaining all the variants forever?
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by taejo 8y ago
> what if they did so while a suspect was actually on a plane? Nothing would happen. Just like nothing happens to the thousands of people who forget to switch their phones to airplane mode every day.
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by taejo 8y ago
Presumably if someone wants to go from A to B, or take goods from A to B, they derive some social or economic benefit from that (as do the people at B).
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by taejo 8y ago
To me it's the German drogerien ("drugstores") are weird :) They focus on health and hygiene related products, but don't have a pharmacy counter.
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by taejo 8y ago
Sounds like a legal urban legend.
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by taejo 8y ago
"I was banned from the club and wanted to go in anyway [so I broke in through a window], not sure what to do in that case."
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by taejo 8y ago
> Can a state override any federal law? No, by the "Supremacy clause" of the Constitution. > Could federal-level law enforcement theoretically charge someone in a cannabis-legal state for drug offenses? Yes. Because people i
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by taejo 8y ago
> I have thought of a scheme where the first couple of years of IP are free and after that heavily progressively taxed over time ( e.g 1000 usd on third year and doubling each year after that. Once the ip holder does not pay the tax, IP
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by taejo 8y ago
> People-first language ... is a type of linguistic prescription to avoid marginalization or dehumanization ... when discussing people with a health issue or disability. The argument for "autistic person" or even "autist&q
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by taejo 8y ago
If you can prove that simulating a quantum circuit cannot be done in P, that's a breakthrough you should publish. I'm 80% sure that even if you prove it's not in PH, you'll be the first.

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