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by zajio1am 4y ago
By issuing deposits, each bank creates essentially its own money which is valid as long as it is inside the bank (used in transactions with other clients that use the same bank), but when clients send money to other banks, the bank has to u
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by zajio1am 4y ago
It is a general problem with regulations that they create bias for no-action. So in complex society with many regulations there is so much friction that vetocracy just wins.
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There is no need to look for heterodox explanations. There are clear economic and political factors explaining why there is a housing shortage and why such shortage causes raise of prices. Vetocracy and NIMBYism is something that is deeply
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by zajio1am 4y ago
When i was a witness of such conversations, pretty much everybody tries hard to show that they were right.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
It definitely has much better image search than Google.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
> Unfortunately, the proposal came from a Google employee Not really. People hate opt-out telemetry regardless of who runs it.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
Here, owning the condo flat means being first-class property owner, registered in public real estate cadastre, like any other real estate, while a homeowner association manages common/external parts of the building, it does not own the
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by zajio1am 4y ago
Here in europe eggs are sold refrigerated. Some people keep them refrigerated, some people do not.
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It is just discrimination of circadian-challenged persons.
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It is - to make it easier to understand it for others, who are confused by the choice of words.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
> Morally, hurting people is categorically worse than stealing money. I Would rather be a victim of violence whose effects disappears after week (i.e. no long-term effects) than victim of theft of money equal to my yearly income.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
That is a false dilemma between 'a life in jail' and 'merely inconvenience'. For non-violent but severe crimes, single-digit years in jail seems to me as adequate punishment. Severe enough to blow away rational calculati
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by zajio1am 4y ago
Aren't defaults of these tools defined by POSIX? Doesn't changing them break shell scripts?
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by zajio1am 4y ago
> The Debian installs that used `ntpd` used to default to a pool of Debian NTP servers. I think they are not technically Debian NTP servers, they are from a general public pool of NTP servers. But when such pool is used by vendors, there
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by zajio1am 4y ago
I agree that in some cases there is a grayscale because what is an important behavior for some users may be unnecessary for others. For example, i could accept that incremental search using Google when text is entered to address bar in a br
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by zajio1am 4y ago
I do not think that privacy is restricted to PII. For me, computer privacy is as simple as 'any information about what i do with computer that need not leak outside should not leak outside'. PII leakages are just considered more s
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by zajio1am 4y ago
I do not know. I just say that if one demeans their opponents in such way, then it makes those statements less trustworthy (it increases estimation of being a strawman). That is obviously a heuristic - in principle one can make demeaning bu
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by zajio1am 4y ago
The problem with Sabine Hossenfelder's dismissing way of reporting is that it makes an impression that she does not faithfully represent the position of the other side.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
Next step: Just compile our telemetry also to the generated code, we obviously need to know its real performance characteristics. /s
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by zajio1am 4y ago
Unless all your contributors signed copyright assignment to you (or you have no external contributors), you cannot just restrict license this way for copyleft licenses.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
Here in Czechia, TV screens are in cm, but computer monitors are in inches.
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but between cells that have the same genome.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
> Must be nice being wealthy. Most people can barely go a single month without a paycheck. Not necessary wealthy. For people with median pay, it is more about financial responsibility. According to EU-SILC data more than half EU populati
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by zajio1am 4y ago
I do not think so. Transaction costs for employee are small - several months of lost pay (before finding new employer), which would be mostly covered by severance pay or unemployment insurance anyway. Transaction costs for employer depends,
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by zajio1am 4y ago
As someone who grew up in country with such policies it is easy - it creates bad incentives for school cafeterias. They can push quality of food down, because they have monopoly for government food money. So the food is barely eatable, you
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by zajio1am 4y ago
> when are they going to understand that the same solution can be applied to housing and other problems? Housing problem is not an economic problem, it is an effect of vetocracy of city councils and activist groups.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
> it's reasonable to expect systems will exist with > 256TB of memory in a single machine. Note that this is a limit for address space, not for physical memory. You can need that address space e.g. for mmaping of large files. And
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by zajio1am 4y ago
It is controllable in real C compilers too (i.e. -fwrapv, -ftrapv GCC options), so you can make them silently ignored or cause trap. Real problem with integer overflows is that they are logic errors that are hard to check in compile-time, a
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by zajio1am 4y ago
The difference is that you can just use any kind of valid constrains or invariants to prove safety in C (but unfortunately these are just in mind or documentation and not verified by compiler), while you have to fit to specific model of con
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by zajio1am 4y ago
> or to making sure a large C program never overflows an addition Does Rust help with integer overflows? AFAIK it is as unsafe as C w.r.t. that.

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