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by zoul 12y ago
I’m Czech, 33, have lived here all my life. The quality of life certainly isn’t far behind nearby countries. It’s comparable – better in some regards, worse in others. The differences between regions are much bigger than the differences bet
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by zoul 12y ago
You can’t simply pick a syntax. You have to choose something that plays well with older CSS parsers.
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by zoul 13y ago
It’s practically dead: http://lists.parrot.org/pipermail/parrot-dev/2013-February/0...
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by zoul 13y ago
The sequence is a shortcut accepted by the vast majority of regular calculators for most of operations. It simply takes the second operand to be the same as the first and repeated pressing of the = key repeats the operation ad infinitum. Ie
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by zoul 13y ago
Isn’t it obvious why a director would be pissed off by his script getting public before the movie is released? Now why act like a jerk and help spreading the script? This doesn’t have to be a philosophical debate, it’s just common courtesy.
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by zoul 13y ago
Exactly. It’s a long time since I have seen Solaris, but I remember it as a film about human deficiencies, and especially the feeling of guilt, greatly amplified by the encounter with some “superior consciousness”. For me that’s a very inte
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by zoul 13y ago
It’s a highly cryptic way to find the maximum of the two. The first part creates an array (=> is just a syntactic sugar for a comma here) and the second part takes the 0th or 1st item from this array, <= being just regular numeric com
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by zoul 13y ago
It’s a bummer to find my e-mail between the leaked Adobe accounts. Especially after the ordeal I had to go through to have my Adobe account “deleted” months ago: You have requested that we deactivate your Adobe account. We have sent a requ
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by zoul 13y ago
Please don’t generalize my arguments to scientific method as such, I am just talking about economy. A real-world economy is a wildly nonlinear system, a bit like the weather. And there’s always something important you may fail to take into
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by zoul 13y ago
As I understand it, the recent economic turmoils in various parts of the world seem to have shed a new light on the mathematical modelling of real economies. While the models might be a good discussion tool, forcing the parties to explicitl
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by zoul 13y ago
Agreed. But would those “five hours of work” be enough for the whole economy to stay afloat and pay the basic income?
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by zoul 13y ago
I think the whole discussion boils down to this: An additional cost is the incentive or disincentive for engaging in productive work created by the Basic Income. On the one hand, the BI creates disincentives for recipients to engage in pro
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by zoul 13y ago
Core Data + iCloud seems to be a huge pain, google “Core Data iCloud” for details.
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by zoul 13y ago
While this is true, the problem is that the sweet spot for Core Data is quite small. Given the framework description, it’s quite easy to go with Core Data when some of its many drawbacks mean you really shouldn’t.
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by zoul 13y ago
I think that Objective-C would qualify as a reasonably high-level language and offers a choice between manual and automatic, but very predictable memory management.
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by zoul 13y ago
Why is this better than setting up an alarm?
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by zoul 13y ago
That guy just argues that people should eat less junk food. The basic point is the same: if you want to be thin, excercise and eat properly.
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by zoul 13y ago
You mean you need a scientific study to confirm that people who eat too much get fat?
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by zoul 13y ago
That canary thing is an interesting trick, previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=702247 . (Four years ago!)
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by zoul 13y ago
Not that it’s his case, but $12k/year is quite a reasonable amount of money in a lot of parts of the world. As an example, here in the Czech Republic you can live a decent life for that amount with all the usual comforts.
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by zoul 13y ago
A bug in the implementation could affect the consensus about the largest chain, just as happened with the official client recently. That’s a security risk.
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by zoul 13y ago
> I just want to know one thing: did or didn't they leak the credit cards? Does it really matter? If your card was used with Linode, it should have been blocked by now anyway.
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by zoul 14y ago
Laws are usually a compromise. I would say that preventing some suicides at the expense of forcing you to spend ten minutes to buy a year’s worth of painkillers is a very decent compromise.
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by zoul 14y ago
I think it’s a shame that the organic farming is being reduced to the quality of the results. For me, a big part of the deal is producing stuff in a sensible way, preferably without loads of chemicals and without torture. Not everything tha
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by zoul 14y ago
They are supposed to say that they would never ever store the CC numbers this way . Otherwise their customers (like me) have really no better option than to block their cards, which is quite an inconvenience. This is exactly the trouble I
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by zoul 14y ago
Exactly. I live in the Czech Republic and give a part of my income to a non-profit of my choice. The organization’s well known, they promise to give at least 90 percent of the money directly to those in need, and they have a regular audit t
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by zoul 14y ago
But isn’t this scenario impractical for reasons shown by the current problems in Europe? On Cyprus, the banks were considered “too big to fail”, meaning that they would take the whole economy with them if they went down.
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by zoul 14y ago
Is $5 per month too expensive?
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by zoul 14y ago
He’s willing to pay for the support. Just as most people in similar positions. Doesn’t that change the feasibility?
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by zoul 14y ago
http://mojolicio.us would be one such reason.

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