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by yason 8y ago
It can be tricky with yes and no logic and how the issues are presented. I've read several proposals that were voted in my local city council, and without having excellent reading skills into the council jargon it would be really easy
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by yason 8y ago
And a very relevant one, in this case: trim runaway with pilots not understanding it's a runaway. The visiting pilot does recognise the situation and restores expected flight dynamics. What went wrong, why did not two pilots realise
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by yason 8y ago
They should really have type certification diffs. If 90% of the airplane is the same as the previous version, the manufacturer should expect a type certification procedure that costs about 10% of a fully new design and pilots should gain th
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by yason 8y ago
They also can't force you to type truthful numbers into TurboTax, paper forms, or whatnot. Hence the audit in the first place. There's no reason you'd have to file your own taxes with or without TurboTax. The IRS just asking
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by yason 8y ago
But this was a book, not arsenic being sold to cure a disease. Telling whatever bogus claims in a book doesn't do any harm per se: surely harm can only happen if someone is stupid enough to actually believe the claims. And the people w
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by yason 8y ago
There should also be a portion of the land tax that comes from the relevant part of the city-owned road network which needs maintenance. Buying a lot in the suburbs which necessitates massive highways and arterials built and maintained shou
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by yason 8y ago
Hence you keep the number of pieces small to avoid the exponential interactions. You only ever implement what is really needed instead of letting feature creep and excess convenience work their way into your plane. It's not like N time
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by yason 8y ago
The thing that worries me most is that, based on mere amateur observations in the media, the number of incidents involving user interfaces, repeated changes to procedures, and software fixes to "unexpected" corner-cases seems to h
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by yason 8y ago
You're not supposed to be able to verify votes after the fact because that would enable buying votes.
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by yason 8y ago
The countries with fastest growth and highest employment, healthiest companies tend to have lower tax rates (China, USA). Another yardstick for comparing countries is how they treat and take care of the poor ones. High-tax countries often
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by yason 8y ago
Worst thing is coupling UI redesign with changing the set of features. First, you lose a familiar interface and you don't know where to find even the existing features. Then you realise that the feature you're looking for is no lo
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by yason 8y ago
This fork aims to replace the C parts with Rust. I didn't read they intend to redesign Emacs itself. Emacs is a programming environment so changing such fundamentals would make it a different editor. There are existing apps and librari
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by yason 8y ago
The march to make the world a safe, sanitised place has so many bumps and slippery slopes on the road that it's hard to gauge whether we're making progress or not. Internet is hard to tame and so is human nature, both in good and
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by yason 8y ago
If that was true then it wouldn't matter what buildings look like at all.
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by yason 8y ago
If only you could figure out where the front is. To a pedestrian, it's mostly hundreds and hundreds of meters of desolate concrete wall to walk around the building.
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by yason 8y ago
Oodi is quite hideous from the outside: I haven't generally felt the appeal to walk towards the area. See for yourself: https://ibb.co/jkJ4h1B But Oodi is also not so much of a library than an indoor public space. That
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by yason 8y ago
Turing machines don't have displays or keyboards or network adapters. Nor do processors these days. To the cpu, keyboards, networks, and displays are just electronic signals and the cpu drives a logic to interpret and control those s
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by yason 8y ago
Unions certainly should work for the benefit of employees, while employer's associations certainly should cater to the interest of the industry. Unions are a required counter-balance to the forces of business who employ people. If eith
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by yason 8y ago
At least with European carriers (with flight to/from USA) each time I've been offered to take a later flight it has been at the check-in or bag drop, I've been informed that should I accept I'd get a boarding pass and sh
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by yason 8y ago
I don't really object to ads per se. I'm used to ads in television and in newspapers, magazines. I even remember reading ads very carefully in a couple of computer mags when I was a teenager. Good ads can be entertaining and info
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by yason 8y ago
The experiment was probably staked with an agenda to show that UBI doesn't work, given the parties in the government and the massive bias in selecting the participants. The sample of 2000 people were chosen from a group of unemployed
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by yason 8y ago
And, of course, one must always ask what is the least number of bits required to explain Kolmogorov complexity.
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by yason 8y ago
This would be the case if businesses were scattered around like in the auto-centric USA. There's no way any transport can be more efficient than me walking a couple of blocks and checking out maybe 100 doors to different businesses t
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by yason 8y ago
Ideally, I'd just walk and use no vehicles at all to be most effective. This assumes lots of services, jobs, and housing all within decent walking distances which is quite common in older (European) cities. Merely walking doesn't
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by yason 8y ago
I mostly follow the 0, 1, N rule myself. The second time the code is needed I start looking into making the snippet a function and there's no doubt of doing that on the third account. The reason I do it is having several small function
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by yason 8y ago
Nope but because they're subjected to an environment that only operates in terms of poverty. Living in poverty is likely to develop a mindset, in order to survive, that won't scale pulling you back out of poverty. That is, where y
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by yason 8y ago
The inequality of assets and income is an unfixable problem, but that is not the problem. There are people who are really good at starting and growing businesses, investing, taking risks, and thus accumulating wealth. Then there are people,
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by yason 8y ago
The government didn't act like that, they followed their rules. From what I gather, they wanted independent evidence and McDonalds gave them brochures and data printed in-house. If "everyone knows McDonalds sells Big Macs" is
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by yason 8y ago
They might have wanted to build the demo on some game that has more realistic geometry and textures to showcase the benefits of raytracing. Quake 2 still looks 90's mostly. I can spot the "hard" features in the demo myself to
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by yason 8y ago
it will need a battery I guess. Which is yet another thing you need to charge. It can charge the battery by generating electricity off the forces exerted by the wearer's movement. Why can't the shoe adapt to the swelling of you

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