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by vesinisa 10y ago
That's more like UK's own decision. Both EU and UK benefit from UK in the single market, and I am sure if UK so desires they can leave the EU but stay part of the single market (Norwegian model). That just makes the whole point of
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by vesinisa 10y ago
http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/company-tax/ha... EU has held for almost two decades that "an effective level of taxation which is significantly lower than the general level of taxation in
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by vesinisa 10y ago
Are you serious? This is the original purpose of BitTorrent. It was not invented as a "warez technology", but as a way for service providers to save on bandwidth costs when serving huge files. Back when BitTorrent spec was written
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by vesinisa 10y ago
Pretty sure most of the time people only read the first few and last words and e.g. don't concern if the words in the middle are in correct order. Not sure about the size of that dictionary, but it would seem to greatly diminish the en
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by vesinisa 10y ago
> violence has been made acceptable via Hollywood Pretty sure Hollywood films are just as popular in all the countries mentioned in the article.
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by vesinisa 10y ago
Meh, hardware vendors routinely ignore GPL, and for the money it takes to sue them in court you could in most cases reverse engineer their drivers and write them for scratch.
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by vesinisa 10y ago
The "custom runtimes" link is broken at https://askmacgyver.com/algorithm-developers
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by vesinisa 10y ago
He still seems like a sociopath. Taking money to poison communities does not glorify it.
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by vesinisa 10y ago
What does this mean in practice? That I can compute an arbitrary algorithm with Java generics? How?
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by vesinisa 10y ago
What were they indeed thinking when they decided to turn Android down? I fully agree with your points about Nokia's strengths. My understanding is that they decided to go with Microsoft because going aboard Google would be entering a &
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by vesinisa 10y ago
ZFS is actually one of those features that are officially supported on Ubuntu but not on Debian. As far as I know, Ubuntu 16.04 is the first popular Linux OS to support ZFS out of the box.[1] As the article notes, ZFS on Linux has been prod
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by vesinisa 10y ago
Either way, how was the unit worth $7.2 billion in 2013 to anyone? Why did Microsoft pay such ridiculous money for a loss-making business, only to essentially burn it down over the next two years? From April 2014, when the deal was finalize
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Microsoft kills what's left of the old Nokia(engadget.com)
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by vesinisa 10y ago
What are your thoughts on WebAssembly? Do you see Doppio suppporting it as a target in the future?
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by vesinisa 10y ago
As I understand the Doppio paper, they just simulate JVM threads in synchronous JavaScript. So there does not seem to be added performance benefit at least. It's still a very neat hack, though! https://plasma-umass.github.io
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by vesinisa 10y ago
This service only stores the hash of the document in the blockchain, so it only increases the size of the DB marginally. The tendency for the blockchain DB to grow is in part limited by that storing anything in the blockchain requires a tra
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by vesinisa 10y ago
Thank you. I took a introductory course on elliptic curve crypto two years ago at university and this was almost entirely comprehensible.
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by vesinisa 11y ago
For me the largest put off with Bitcoin is the community. They seem to be very intolerant of criticism, to the appearance of a cult or ideology.[1] The problem lies in that unlike most open source projects, a sizeable portion of the communi
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by vesinisa 11y ago
Thanks, looks very interesting.
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by vesinisa 11y ago
NoScript is not about disabling JavaScript but allowing only white-listed domains to execute JavaScript. Generally, I trust the domains I visit frequently, and have them white-listed. I explicitly block domains of "analytics" and
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by vesinisa 11y ago
Just use NoScript if you are concerned. JavaScript allows a large number of other ways to identify you as well. Direct ways of course include cookies / local storage / Web SQL, but other indirect ways include localization preferen
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by vesinisa 11y ago
No problem, it still works. It just internally calls tc. It's a language that makes it easier to write tc classes and matching rules. The documentation is here: http://linux-ip.net/gl/tcng/ The QoS userspace
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by vesinisa 11y ago
I am personally using tcng, which is a configuration language that already makes tc much more usable. tcng on $ourceForge: http://tcng.sourceforge.net/ Source code mirror by Debian (if wary of downloading from $ourceForge):
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by vesinisa 11y ago
You can actually access the public tax information for anyone if you visit the tax office or call their free customer service. Newspapers publicise only the top earners, but nothing stops you from finding out how much your neighbour earned
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by vesinisa 11y ago
They seem to be funded by Microsoft among others, so certainly evil beyond imagination.</s>
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by vesinisa 11y ago
Yeah, hiding a conflict of interest might be illegal, but "tax planning" is by definition legal.
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by vesinisa 11y ago
I believe they are withholding details regarding any British connections until the BBC Panorama show which airs tomorrow. As before, this leak is coordinated across different media organisations and the whole news cache is released iterativ
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by vesinisa 11y ago
Indeed. Now only the very top management have the privilege of private offices. I've worked on a +400,000 sqft campus where only a handful of top managers had private offices. Generally, you have a private office only if you are import
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by vesinisa 11y ago
The Finnish social security agency (Kela) is currently implementing a study on basic income. You can read about their experiment here: http://www.kela.fi/web/en/experimental-study-on-a-universal-...
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by vesinisa 11y ago
US is a huge territory, and differences in suicide rates vary quite much across both Europe and the US by region. Finland has only marginally higher suicide rate than US (14.8 vs 12.1) if you consider that Alaska and many states in the West

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