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by wott 9y ago
> For example, if there is a homework assignment on the board, rather than wait for everybody to copy it down, kids are told to take a picture of the board. Bad choice: this is losing one opportunity to get them to write something. As
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by wott 9y ago
I should start a business selling thin air. Thin air from France, thin air from Japan, thin air from Mexico, and so on, you can collect them all, it is super fun. Then I could introduce cold captured thin air, warm captured thin air, etc. W
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by wott 9y ago
> People have never managed software where if you lost your "password", your money was gone forever. They never had to keep a 12-24 word recovery phrase. They've never sent money to addresses that look like hash strings.
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by wott 9y ago
> If you're going to be writing C you already need to understand lifetimes deeply, Deeply? Unlike complicated languages like for example GC-languages, C only has 2 lifetimes: block scope for stack variables, forever (until explici
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by wott 9y ago
Yes, when you don't expect it, I reckon it can be a shocker, considering that it can be quite high depending on which town you live in. As I said, it is not exactly a tax on rent (it is not a percentage of the rent price and even if yo
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by wott 9y ago
Thanks to the 3 people who answered. So, roughly, we can consider that the price of the rent is complete, no extra to add in general. Considering how high your rents are, that's lucky :-) In France there is no VAT on rent; however ther
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by wott 9y ago
2 questions: Is there some VAT (or sales tax, as I think you call it) applied to rents in the USA? If so, is it included in the figures of the article or when people comment here and quote rent figures?
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by wott 9y ago
On Thomson computers also, it was "BASIC MICROSOFT 1.0" as standard 'OS', provided as cartridge on TO7 and included as ROM on MO5 (and later, on TO8), if I am not mistaken.
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by wott 9y ago
Agreeing with the rest but not the end. > We're still seeing Moore's law for drive space, Not really. 2Tb became a standard a long time ago, and it didn't change afterwards. Speed did not improve much either, especially la
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by wott 9y ago
> most problems in the real world are about local communications of cells in a 3 dimensional lattice. Uh?
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by wott 9y ago
> I have no idea what he means by Wikipedia data. I imagine it is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count
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by wott 9y ago
> a 80 acre micro farm Not sure how you can call that 'micro'... That is more than the median surface area of farms in my country, and that was the average surface area 20 years ago before some capitalistic movement to build bi
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by wott 9y ago
> It is highly relevant though because it shows people are willing to buy electric at comparable price to ICE cars, even in a country with a spread out population and harsh climate. But because of the harsh climate, Fenno-Scandinavians
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by wott 9y ago
> Coding: I hate to generalize, but it's very likely you'll learn so much over your career that you will become an ineffective developer. You will know how to do things well and will have a difficult time doing things just to
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by wott 9y ago
Quite a bit of nonsense in what you tell. Of course it is cheaper for you to hire in Serbia than in France, it is a poorer country with lower cost of life. That's about it. What does "harder to hire" in France even mean? You
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by wott 9y ago
He does not want to fill his bank account and be homeless. He wants a house. To be bought with the same money. That does not go into the bank account but into the new house.
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by wott 9y ago
> In addition I might add that we are sourrounded by countries that we don't trust to be able to feed their citizes reliably. I beg your pardon?
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by wott 9y ago
> When I was younger, I was told by a veteran sysadmin that only 5 persons in the world knew how to configure Sendmail directly, everyone else was relying on preprocessing scripts written by the aforementioned wizards). Ha! When I jump
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by wott 9y ago
It is not uncommon, but at a mid-sized company it is a bit problematic: when the receptionist has to handle private parcels for a couple of individuals, that is OK; but when there are 100-200 employees and they regularly order non-work rela
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by wott 9y ago
DHL is mostly subcontracted to local companies. Yes, drivers do that when they have a residential address, because they cannot pull the same trick with companies at factory/office hours, they hope it goes unnoticed with individuals. Bu
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by wott 9y ago
Whom? The cops?
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by wott 9y ago
I always wonder, when I see this kind of character, what happens each evening when they go back home and sit in their sofa, what goes through their mind?
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by wott 9y ago
Double the effect if you smoke outside in Britain.
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by wott 9y ago
So, can we assume that if the production has to be multiplied by 10, the cash flow used for operating activities should also be multiplied by almost 10, giving expenses of way more than $1.4bn?
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by wott 9y ago
> A room full of 30 year olds can be kind of boring. Stick some young’ins in there with them and watch them play. The simple fact that you oppose "30 years olds" to "young" is telling enough... 30 years old are supp
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by wott 9y ago
> Developed countries are actually experiencing a population decline. Japan left aside, all developed countries populations are growing. It has been 20 years that half of those countries are supposed to experience a population decline an
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by wott 9y ago
Millenials express a level of hate towards the previous generations that I never witnessed before (apart from the usual teenage rebellion times). Some of the stuff I read or hear honestly scares the shit out of me, some of them would throw
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by wott 9y ago
> we have refuted the null hypothesis that people see what they're looking at. I remember a police officer pulling over my parents car, asking for the vehicle papers, checking them for 2 good minutes, and saying everything was fine,
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by wott 9y ago
How wouldn't they know? They go 99% of the time in groups of 2 or more. (And part of the reason for this is precisely to avoid that 1 of them goes rogue when working alone). Your co-worker didn't wank off to child porn at work wit
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by wott 9y ago
The right metric would be per hectare, indeed :-)

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