talaketu

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by talaketu 6y ago
> Second, taxes don't disappear into nothingness - they pay for civilization. Modern monetary theory disputes this commonly held idea that governments need to collect tax before they can spend it on public works. On the contrary,
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by talaketu 6y ago
Would this be prevented if the fiscal flow followed the dependency graph? On the other hand, in market capitalism, economy of scale is a powerful force for conglomeration that sometimes results in an anti-competitive reduction in consumer c
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by talaketu 6y ago
> In EdgeQL every value is a set This is trouble for the example for calculating the average number of reviews across movies: SELECT math::mean( Movie { description, number_of_reviews := count(.reviews)
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by talaketu 6y ago
Maybe there are more reliable ways to achieve the benefit for a greater number of people. Science offers an approach to discovering this, and the "why" - the theory - is what drives science.
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by talaketu 6y ago
Reminds me of the President's rhetorical "What do you have to lose?", that he apparently hadn't thought through.
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by talaketu 6y ago
more basic: Assets = Net Equities In other words, "all the assets are claimed". Owners equity is the the balance of the assets once other claims are discharged.
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by talaketu 6y ago
> So Twitter likely has nothing to hold against the photographer. Nothing in the article suggests any agreement between the photographer and Twitter.
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by talaketu 6y ago
I'd say the count of believable English tweets would be many orders of magnitude greater the count of 16 byte hashes, so in general we can't just find a believable tweet and declare that we found the plaintext. There would be ma
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by talaketu 6y ago
That's an amazing stack of assertions you have there.
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by talaketu 6y ago
I know this behavior.
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by talaketu 6y ago
You would know that landlords often seek to increase rent, without adding value to the home, while the fittings in the home age, as the amenity and wealth of the surrounding community increase.
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by talaketu 6y ago
Well I don't - maybe you do. I think more along the lines of "ingenuity" as described here: https://interestingengineering.com/the-origin-of-the-word-en...
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by talaketu 6y ago
With apologies to Geoff Mack, here's a performance by Lucky Starr: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpRvAnhHfmc
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by talaketu 6y ago
Your argument is invalid.
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by talaketu 6y ago
So? I haven't read any of this studies either, but I'd expect seralogical studies to likewise indicate that positive flu test results are a small fraction of the total number of cases, and likely the most severe subset.
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by talaketu 7y ago
If your SQL query tells you the most popular name is "nmn" or that that a whole lot of people died before they were born (DOD = 1111-11-11) then yes, I think there has been a loss of integrity.
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by talaketu 7y ago
Yes absolutely a data schema question. And yes, you can set whatever arbitrary policy you want. eg "nmn" for no-middle-name. Or require that a horse's birthday is recorded as 1st August. But SQL and the relational mo
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by talaketu 7y ago
Should there be an empty date, as a corollary to empty string, for representing dates that are "collected but empty" eg date of death?
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by talaketu 7y ago
I do recognize (1) there is a logical difference between "missing because absent" and "missing because unknown", (2) empty string is not an element from the domain of personal names. In a sense, empty string is available
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by talaketu 7y ago
I'm sceptical. Do you have examples? Take the middle name example: "What was U.S President Theodore Roosevelt’s middle name?" when you know he didn't have a middle name. Are you suggesting that a blank is the correct ch
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by talaketu 7y ago
> something you want to do in the future.. don't put it as a code comment. File it in a bugtracker... Comment in situ has advantages: - preserves context without duplicating it into an external system - promotes awareness of the iss
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by talaketu 7y ago
I have completely the opposite opinion! Any bug in the bug tracker hanging around "in a few years" should* be closed. Comments should* persist while the source code issue to which they refer remains remarkable. *it's fun
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by talaketu 7y ago
Community consultation is the right thing to do! I wonder if modelling might have predicted better service times for the majority gender with non-gendered bathrooms, and that might have swung the survey result.
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by talaketu 7y ago
> The flaw isn't the null termination but the lack of encapsulation. > Null-terminated strings are actually a very good choice of string representation that is to be directly manipulated by programs, instead of just through opaqu
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by talaketu 7y ago
No support for that in Sloane's. https://oeis.org/A000027
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by talaketu 7y ago
Heck, even a turing machine could solve most of these problems.
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by talaketu 7y ago
Twitter has put some effort into the "customer service" use case. https://www.forbes.com/sites/shephyken/2016/04/30/how-to-use... At a basic level, you could think of it as providing the
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by talaketu 7y ago
Oh yeah I agree - the forward reference to attributes before the source is stated does feel backwards when writing the expression. Compare scala's for-comprehension that feels more natural: `for (x <- xs) yield x + 1;` Perhaps the
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by talaketu 7y ago
The foundation theory is the relational model of data, and the use of operators from relational algebra. So, we use relations to represent the data in the application domain, and use the operators of relational algebra to take relational
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by talaketu 7y ago
I love the teleological formulation "Proof emerges".

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