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by zmb_ 9y ago
> Only you don't get to decide what's a "fundamental human right" for others If you accept the concept of "fundamental human rights", then it seems to me that they are rights that are derived from the simple
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by zmb_ 9y ago
I am not sure I understand the outrage. We are, I assume, talking about peer reviewed research papers here? Regardless of who has funded the research and for what motives, the work has passed the community's filter for quality, signifi
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by zmb_ 9y ago
> the ability to speak half decent French After having lived and worked in multiple EU countries, I'm convinced that language is the single biggest barrier to true freedom of movement of workers in the EU. In Germany, for example, y
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by zmb_ 9y ago
> There is no law in Germany preventing you from voicing your opinion against immigration. Could you please read my second paragraph. I'm aware the is no law against voicing my opinion on immigration (I'm not against immigratio
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by zmb_ 9y ago
The migrant crisis is the biggest one going on at the moment. The public discussion is seriously skewed and lacking the moderate against side. At both extremes there are very vocal advocates, and the official moderate positions are firmly t
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by zmb_ 9y ago
In principle yes, in practice Facebook does not follow the EU laws. For example, they are required to provide you with all the data they hold about you. I requested this data (shadow profile) from them multiple times, they never responded.
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by zmb_ 9y ago
Millimetre wave Wi-Fi (60 GHz) does not penetrate walls and in practice needs line of sight and beam-forming antennas. The scenarios it is good for are things like docking stations, or connecting mostly stationary devices within line-of-sig
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by zmb_ 9y ago
For starters the fact that wealth is mostly illiquid. What happens when you slap a big tax bill on wealth is that either it cannot be paid and the owner needs to liquidate, and/or the wealth will move outside the country.
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by zmb_ 10y ago
> 200k dudes with guns Conscript military doesn't mean that you just teach everyone to dig a hole and sit in it with a rifle. You train conscripts into every role you need in a 200k strong modern military. Including operators and ma
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by zmb_ 10y ago
>'if this isn't for you then you can go home' I did compulsory military service, including in a leadership role. "If you don't do what you're told, you don't get go home next weekend." Worked very
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by zmb_ 10y ago
It makes sense to separate the problem into multiple different protocols, because that gives you re-usability and greatly reduces the complexity of implementation. Can you imagine the amount of effort if every application protocol defined i
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by zmb_ 10y ago
They were four people shipping multiple games a year. They couldn't afford to prototype or build proofs of concept. They had to ship.
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by zmb_ 10y ago
> what strategic goal the new White House administration intends to achieve by disintegrating the EU Together the EU is a formidable negotiation partner (GDP equal to the US), while alone each EU state is in a much weaker position, thus
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by zmb_ 10y ago
>If you are going to claim that people have drowned by following his methods, you should link to it. http://www.parool.nl/binnenland/-iceman-oefening-eist-opnieu... I did not say, nor do I think, that Wim Hof is sca
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by zmb_ 10y ago
A word of caution about him: I spent some time recently researching into his method, and there were too many red flags coming up. These included not summiting and having to be evacuated in poor condition from mountains that he was claimed t
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by zmb_ 10y ago
> President proposed by the Council and voted on by the Parliament Since the previous election, the Council does not pick the candidate itself. Rather it automatically proposes the Presidential candidate of the party that won the Europea
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by zmb_ 10y ago
That is, by definition, breaking backwards compatibility. I.e., the code that I wrote against version X will not run against version X + n. They just give a warning about it in version X + (n - 1). Backwards compatibility means that my code
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by zmb_ 10y ago
I took a lot of notes on pen and paper during my studies, but after a decade of moving around (including different countries) I have none of them left. On the other hand, I still have the diary I typed on a Mac as kid in the early 90s. Toda
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by zmb_ 10y ago
The study was done in Finland. There are estimated to be 2-3 million saunas for a population of 5.4 million. Majority of the population has access to a sauna at home. It is not a luxury.
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by zmb_ 10y ago
My experience is the opposite. And I'm definitely not blind to the Gell-Mann Amnesia, I notice it on Wikipedia all the time. I've noticed that in The Economist the articles about my field of technology, work, and my small home cou
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by zmb_ 10y ago
It is bad reporting. The systems in question were used as a part of launching a DDoS attack, they were not the target of the attack. The high load then caused the systems to crash repeatedly.
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by zmb_ 10y ago
It's not like the various Christian churches invented those frameworks from scratch either. They are assimilated and developed from existing practices. The church has no monopoly over these practices. The secular community can take --
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by zmb_ 10y ago
In this case those personal opinions are widely publicised, and reflect -- rightly or wrongly -- on Y Combinator. At that point it does become a matter of business, as the backlash may end up hurting Y Combinator's business (negative
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by zmb_ 10y ago
Are you a researcher and following those principles? Because it is very easy to demand other people pay the price for what you believe are the right principles. The reality of the way research funding and academia is set up (at least in
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by zmb_ 10y ago
15-20€/month gets you 1-3GB of traffic from a cheaper operator like 1&1. "Premium" operators like Vodafone start at around 30€/month for 1GB. Whether you find that reasonable depends on what you compare it to (I&#x27
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by zmb_ 10y ago
> Bringing up user experience when talking about branch predictors is meaningless. If working on branch predictors does not impact the user experience, then arguably that work is meaningless in the context of building real products -- it
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by zmb_ 10y ago
I think an open system along these lines would result in too poor signal to noise ratio. There are far more people willing to engage in bikeshedding than people with the expertise, interest, time and funding to make valuable contributions.
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by zmb_ 10y ago
I would argue that the consistent principle is to protect the right to freely express ideas, arguments and points of view, no matter how stupid or poorly supported they may be. _That_ is what should be protected; not the literal interpretat
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by zmb_ 10y ago
I just went through this discussion in an EU funded project, and the consensus was that complying is up to the individual partners. In our case all academic partners decided to comply by posting preprints on their websites (contentwise iden
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by zmb_ 11y ago
I don't think that's a winning argument. Your tax dollars pay for space rockets and fighter planes too, but you don't get to ride them. There are many such things that you pay for, and that you get some indirect benefits from

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