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by wjnc 7y ago
Isn't one of the points of separation of power that the government (executive branche) should not have priority access to the judicial branche? Fining individuals, even loony ones, while not even attempting to fight the big battles (FA
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by wjnc 7y ago
.. But is it a parthenogenetic worm? I recently read the Shockwave Rider [1] in which the word 'worm' was first coined, thanks to the discussion on HN [2] on Stand on Zanzibar. Can recommend both books for those into SciFi and wou
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by wjnc 7y ago
After also reading the discussion in '17. How come this is trivially easy to make, very cheap and still we have a massive stolen car problem in Europe? Some cars in my country have >1% chance of getting stolen in a given year. The i
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by wjnc 7y ago
So they actually get quite limited bang for buck. Or are pretty low CO2 intensive compared to a regular economy with people in it. Or manage to spend a lot on contractors that are not adequately accounted for, or ... A global carbon tax acc
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by wjnc 7y ago
Anti lock braking and wheel surface contact will make big differences between cars in braking behavior. Those AMG not only have better brakes, with possibly better software controlling ABS, but also wider tires. With formulas [1] [1] https
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by wjnc 7y ago
GPL is legal to park in garages through most of the EU. Belgium and France have some limitations (local regulations apply / need to have safety valve).
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by wjnc 7y ago
This even works on mobile - wow. GAMs are great tools. However in my understanding they can be quite unstable when working with (subsets of) medium sized data. In other words: it's easy to formulate quite complex models that seem to wo
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by wjnc 7y ago
I feel for the Kaskaesk nightmare, but isn't this what courts are for? A judge should be able to adjudicate this conflict especially if you give convincing evidence of your communications with both Amazon and the Bank. My venue of lega
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by wjnc 7y ago
On a side note: Should he have been able to see whose results he was looking at? It's surely unethical in my book. Even when, or perhaps even more when, working with data from relatives the burden of ethical behavior lies with the rese
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by wjnc 7y ago
I like to remind myself how many firms are financial engineering firms first and customer facing firms second. Banks, insurers, (at one time) Porsche, Tesla (imho for this one).
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by wjnc 7y ago
Has the whole world subscribed to FAA oversight or would other regulators be able to pick their own fight with Boeing?
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by wjnc 7y ago
Can you give my boss the 101? He has me methodically checking invoices against tenders. I would actually argue the other way. As our consultants rely on our return business, they would quickly solve any problem with the invoice even if not
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by wjnc 7y ago
The '94 book "The beak of the finch" [1] documents something similar. Natural selection in finches can respond to environmental changes that quickly that the researchers could see differentiation in action. [1] https:/&
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by wjnc 7y ago
Well the OP kind of did worse. It's just a repost of the exact same text in earlier incidents.
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by wjnc 7y ago
Please, before I rush to judgement, in what way does taking a suitcase even by a single individual not create a few seconds lost for those further down the line? I saw the footage and my first thought was exactly that of the OP. Tens of sui
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by wjnc 7y ago
Thanks for this insight. Never thought about this. I'm still on old-fashioned gas so in my case the only difference is one of gas being cheaper per joule even after the (in-)efficiency of burning than electricity. But indeed in the hea
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by wjnc 7y ago
In the Netherlands (my country) this is interpreted as that you have a right to a functional product for the usual lifespan of a product. After the two years guarantee you're supposed to share the repair costs proportionally. The boxes
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by wjnc 7y ago
In Europe you can. I've always saved receipts and boxes of lamps (both for inventory and waranty purposes). It's been trivial to return lamps and get free replacements even after the 2 yr default warranty by claiming it broke to s
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by wjnc 7y ago
It's a coming of age story whether you understand cycling or not. A young man makes a mistake and harms another young man and it haunts them for many years. Growing up they reflect on the moment many times with different mindsets and u
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by wjnc 7y ago
It's somewhat more stronger than that even. For US investors and parties servicing (like Dow Jones) those Not owning stocks in your own firm is a red flag. So even though post crisis bonusses, stocks and options are to different measur
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by wjnc 7y ago
If you're a junior one of the first things to learn in office is to talk, professionally and a whole lot more than you were used to in previous lives. You are pretty much free to vent each and every of these thoughts to the person conc
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by wjnc 7y ago
Since you put in all the work! It's the binomial distribution [1]. What you've done is to simulate the distribution of a sum of binomial distributions. Your point of there being more than two types of rare cancer and that any sele
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by wjnc 7y ago
Four one in a million events in 15k inhabitants. Yes in any ranked list of stochastic outcomes there must be a highest scorer and a lowest scorer, but in case of Wayland GA it's still off the charts. With these diseases for any given t
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by wjnc 8y ago
I would agree on this with one caveat - you should be able to run this battle on a back burner or don't go there. If it would consume you ... Don't. Your time and positive energy are too important. But if you can (it's what&#
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by wjnc 8y ago
Can someone explain to me how you can understand the culture in a team of programmers that leads to this being acceptable? Just a few small guidelines could help alleviate things like this, right? Modularization and a tiny sprinkle of code
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by wjnc 8y ago
In the way we use cars there seems no time for graceful handover. You're about the same time interval away from the next car as the time to gain situational awareness, probably less. A plane is usually quite some minutes away from the
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by wjnc 8y ago
Aren't there two seperate discussions? 1. Paying something for the contribution of others that offer their product for free (OSS) and 2. Paying for and using proprietary software according to the licenses as offered by the licensee. Ma
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by wjnc 8y ago
I know. There's quite the lack of computing power on the RPi though for professional use. And thus no use in investing the time in learning Mathematica. (The BOFHs would fall over laughing if you tried to bring a RPi for BYOD.) My poin
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by wjnc 8y ago
For the greater good of the world he shouldn't OSS it, but make it free! I'm mostly a R/Python statistics type, but a multi-day course in Mathematica left me in awe. It is great software. The way you could make models dynamic
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by wjnc 8y ago
There is a clear difference between becoming fit and staying fit, no? Overweight depressed and no prior sports history to fit can easily take a year of hard work. Maintaining basic fitness (not big gym bill or 21k in 90 min fit, but regula

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