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by wjnc 9y ago
Any thoughts on the old adagium dat breakfast like a king, ...? Skipping breakfast - no dips in the morning?
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by wjnc 9y ago
Agree with the strange profession. However, to accountants defense: the rules are pretty open and in any industry, most professional insiders easily know most of the loopholes. It's the layman / politician / civil servant tha
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by wjnc 9y ago
'The west' being US, I imagine? The Nordics and western Europe have a more equal society with a much larger part of society getting by comfortably than the US. Perusing HN I am often amazed at the implicit cultural differences wit
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by wjnc 9y ago
Ok, read the Galactic energy scale-post. Does an analysis like that scare you? Not me. Holding energy growth constant is a fun exercise, but not realistic. My take-aways: all energies except nuclear are finite in about 200 years barring unr
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by wjnc 9y ago
I find it hard to have an open discussion if you're mainly dropping links without much added substance in the content (quotes like "business as usual", "keep bullshitting" don't help). The links are really long
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by wjnc 9y ago
Don't conflate being critical of the CoR of not being afraid for our environment. Mostly I am saying that the global market has shown to be more robust to changes in population and that supply and demand has been able to accomodate mor
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by wjnc 9y ago
Say I agree (at least I get your point ;) - I'm curious how does one test (in the empirical science sense) a systems perspective with regards to predictions / scenario's? Because at least in popular opinion the Club of Rome i
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by wjnc 9y ago
Are you not asking of me a much higher degree of rigour than the Club of Rome demonstrated? The simplest: No exhaustible has been depleted yet. See table 4. Add the years in columns 3 or 4 or 5 to 1972. Gold, mercury, silver were predicted
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by wjnc 9y ago
With all respect to the authors, the thinking at that point in time and the impact it made on the world and you: Much of their predictions haven't stood the test of time. -No exhaustible has been depleted yet and the price mechanism co
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by wjnc 9y ago
This is both pretty impressive and pretty scary. Impressive to detect new malware with such a low N. This massively changes the economics of creating malware. Scary now that pretty much any file that flags as suspicious locally can be sent
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by wjnc 9y ago
J.o.k.e.?
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Tim Krabbés Chess Curiosities(timkr.home.xs4all.nl)
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by wjnc 9y ago
Full disclosure: last time another user called me out to a blatant mistake regarding Dutch law. So this time, I come well-sourced. My favorite blogging lawyer Arnoud Engelfriet: [1][2][3]. And some more [4] - A man who had to return wages a
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by wjnc 9y ago
In the Netherlands there is something akin to a 'fair use' provision for private usage of employer devices (email, iPad, mobile phone). General thought (example) is that if you keep private emails on corporate adresses nicely sepa
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by wjnc 9y ago
I've found that repeating a little mantra of what to expect of myself exactly at that moment of switching helps. For me that moment is getting out of the car, hungry and with a full head, after a long commute. Diving head first into fa
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by wjnc 9y ago
-Rotten - both in use for fish and tests -Blown the lid - Herring comes in caskets -Gutted - obviously fish-related Pretty smart writing!
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by wjnc 9y ago
Totally agree. Even my favorite subscription (The Economist) had a time where I as a subscriber felt too much content was given away for free online. They luckily turned that back and kept the ecosphere going.
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by wjnc 9y ago
The 'just replace' kind of makes no sense. Replacing senior staff has all kinds of ripple effects throughout a corporation. I would propose that hardly any illegal or immoral act of big corp starts with the CEO. It's a cabal
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by wjnc 9y ago
Apologies. The 'near absolute' was wrong. And the part about who pays the wages by implication as well. At least we got a good explanation, but not thanks to me.
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Do you have any data on the supply of housing for the corresponding time periods and perhaps the mix of rental v ownership?
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by wjnc 9y ago
As someone more at home in statistics than ML/CS, it's funny that I find this easier to understand than the more 'true' cookbook style postings. The real 'grok' for me would be this kind of mathematical intuiti
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by wjnc 9y ago
Are there creditors that have preference above unpaid wage claims in the US (like banks)? In my little country in Europe (NL), wage has near absolute preference so there is little chance of unpaid wages not being paid. Almost any company ha
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by wjnc 9y ago
I upvoted. I guess it's the first few words that suggest a racist / popularist post, but it's ontopic IMHO. You point to an influx of people in the age range that usually rents an apartment. Such local equilibria are quite in
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by wjnc 9y ago
Minix is BSD-licensed. Don't blame the creator for the actions of the licensee. Intels ME is Just that: Intels. Tanenbaum did a one-up on Linus and intentionally left out politics. Not every outing should be politics.
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For those not into (macro-)economics but willing to dabble some more, a few more sources included at the bottom. Enough to last you a scientific lifetime. If your neural net gives meaningful predictions of how institutions, inequality and
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If in Europe: please contact your local consumers organisation or legal assistance insurance and go get your rights! We need case law to go all the way up, even on the smaller losses usually involved in consument product conflicts. Irregard
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by wjnc 9y ago
Apple could certainly do that. Prostitution is legal in many jurisdication. They can go for any market they want. But in the Peter Drucker-line of the argument, that is a false flag. This is a nice example of philosophy of law. Usually mora
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by wjnc 9y ago
The second one: Taxes are not moral for a corporation, they are a cost and a compliance concern. A world where even tax seeking corporations do not hold tax offices to the letter of the law and the deals they make is a lot more messy than o
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by wjnc 9y ago
Dear Jacques (i'll stop with the game now ;) - I really emphatise with the social responsibility part of the story. The game Apple is playing with stored cash abroad is abject. Nobody is profiting from that. But we can agree that it&#x
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by wjnc 9y ago
Darn, I mixed them up. Fixed it. Local news in the Netherlands is that our tax office gave Proctor and Gamble a few hundred million dollar tax windfall, by error. I don't look angrily upon P&G. They asked for a deal and got a super

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