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by zajio1am 5y ago
> We want to have carbon taxes because they address the problem of economic externality in combusting fossil fuels. I think unified carbon tax with rebates (to be revenue neutral) is what we need to fight climate change. OTOH, specific t
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> There are no non-gateway routers in classic BGP There are. Unless you have flat network topology, you can use IBGP to feed external routes to internal (non-gateway) routers.
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> But every member has a veto. No, most EU legislation is decided on by ordinary legislative procedure, using qualified majority voting rules in council of EU ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_in_the_Council_of_
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by zajio1am 5y ago
There is no real bit-endianity on the same level as byte-endianity, as there is no real bit-order. You could easily imagine bits to be perpendicular to byte memory cells. There is one place in computers where there is real bit-order, and th
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> Although GPON is shared, it is not half duplex! Seems like you are right! Although most are asymmetric (2488 / 1244 Mbps). I guess that even for ones with symmetric bitrates, effective upstream transfer rate would be lower than do
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by zajio1am 5y ago
GPON
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by zajio1am 5y ago
SESTA / FOSTA laws in US?
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by zajio1am 5y ago
I hoped that with the fiber, which is naturally full-duplex medium, symmetrical speed would be obvious choice. But with advent of GPON, which is essentially half-dupex shared fiber medium, asymmetrical speeds make sense again. Here, a provi
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> Traditional vaccines have also been "unreasonably effective" AFAIK not really. I know just about Sinovac and that was significantly worse efficacy than other vaccines. Note that adonovirusvector based vaccines like AstraZenec
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> ASCII is not a universal character set and treating it as such is nothing short of cultural imperialism: "If it's good enough for us, it's good enough for everyone". SI units like meters and kilograms are also cultu
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by zajio1am 5y ago
Agreed. I like the behavior of traditional unix talk, which worked like that.
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> Lisp only needs parentheses because its operators have variable arity, that’s about as deep as the “type system” goes. List needs parentheses because its parser does not depend on knowledge of operator's arity, it just parses gene
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by zajio1am 5y ago
From what i heard, they usually destroy every green on you garden first and only after that turn to slugs.
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> that’s a complete ordering with unforced preferences, not a partial ordering. Yes, it is weak ordering, not partial ordering. > Equal preference and absence of preference are different. Well, it may be understood as absence of prefe
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> OTOH, with ordinal methods you are forced to distinguish between candidates that you think are equally good. That is not true, ordinal systems (including IRV) may allow weak ordering.
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> All this makes the sort of modelling attempted here a vain pursuit. You just can't model strategy this naively. Exactly. Voting systems that have strong advantages to vote strategically should be analyzed in game theory framework
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> I don't like how IRV forces me to rank candidates I may know little to nothing about That is an implementation issue. IRV can be implemented as either requiring complete ordering or allow partial ordering (you have n candidates, y
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> Approval voting has the best balance between simplicity, fairness, and certainty. Approval voting is completely inappropriate for common situations in Europe, where you have center-right, center-left, far-right and far-left candidate (
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> Socialism isn't really a dirty word in Europe Depends on which part of Europe. In former communist countries 'socialism' is associated with economic system of their communist past, while center-left politics is called &#
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> Both correct, but the latter should be labelled as an instance of the former. No, it should be labelled as an subclass of the former. Instance would be a specific piece of borane.
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by zajio1am 5y ago
Not really sure why 4-day workweek is as popular compared to alternatives. If i could choose between 4-day 7.5h workweek and 5 day 6h workweek, i would definitely chosen the later. I wonder how many computer programmers can really work for
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by zajio1am 5y ago
I agree that private natural monopolies are bad and publicly-owned utilities are better. But i disagree that ISPs are natural monopolies. There are not really comparable to water or electricity - you can easily have multiple overlapping dis
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by zajio1am 5y ago
A local co-op is a fully private entity that has no power over non-members, while a municipality is a governmental structure with powers of local ordinances and taxation. On a more practical level, a local co-op ISP is a single-goal entity,
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by zajio1am 5y ago
The main question is why US ISP market is often described as private monopoly, while in other countries there is significant market competition. Start and run small wISP is easy, these can naturally grow to bigger ones, especially when ther
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by zajio1am 5y ago
It is not that state-run enterprises are always less efficient, but they usually are especially in the long run, and often have unfair advantages that block market competition (direct subsidies or advantages from connection to political pow
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by zajio1am 5y ago
There is one thing that is often neglected in text vs binary protocols debate and that is self-terminating vs prior-length. Although it is not strictly connected, text protocols are usually self-terminating (e.g. closing tags), while binary
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by zajio1am 5y ago
There is status=progress dd option.
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by zajio1am 5y ago
Without artificial lighting, the short sleeping gene is not that useful.
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by zajio1am 5y ago
Because it is not possible to forbid procreation to ones who cannot provide enough starting capital to their children. But one can still consider that irresponsible. It is false dilemma 'start at zero' vs 'few mil in the bank
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by zajio1am 5y ago
As a person with non-ASCII characters in name, i much prefer this approach than letting such characters pass but somehow fail on them later (which is not uncommon e.g. in airplane tickets or hotel reservations). Unless a system is vetted to

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