markalexander

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by markalexander 6y ago
People in general or people in tech? Well what’s the typical mortgage multiple, 6 or 7 times salary? So for the latter, it seems pretty attainable to get an apartment at the lower end of the market to start out on. Correct me if I’m wrong,
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by markalexander 6y ago
Sort of. Often a big chunk of your CoL is going into a massively appreciating asset. People always seem to ignore this when talking about the top n most expensive cities in the world. You can literally sell your apartment and go live in
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by markalexander 6y ago
There are two distinct things: an operator ID and a flyer ID. The first is basically just a register of ownership. No test or competency, unlike the latter, which does require you to show you know a little about the rules. For sub 250g dr
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by markalexander 6y ago
Well, member states are free to go beyond the EU rules and add their own local ones, so it might be true in those countries. I don’t believe you need insurance for hobby activities in the UK, though I’m not an expert and open to being corr
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by markalexander 6y ago
I believe it’s because a UAV is only called a ‘drone’ in these regulations if it’s at least 250g. I agree the rules are annoyingly confusing and the information is spread piecemeal over multiple documents. They should fix that.
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by markalexander 6y ago
The camera means it needs registered, but it’s not very onerous and there are no competency requirements. The new rules actually give you more freedom in terms of where you can fly, so it’s a good deal IMO. You only need insurance for comm
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by markalexander 6y ago
I have one and I’m in London. My understanding is these new rules actually free things up significantly for drones in that weight class. Previously, you couldn’t fly over ‘congested’ areas, near people, buildings, etc. So it was very diff
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by markalexander 6y ago
Sure, I've spent some time in Norway, I get it. It's definitely very different to societies like the UK or US. I'm not fundamentally against open tax records like this, but even in Norway there are bad actors and if we are g
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by markalexander 6y ago
I’m not sure how delayed records would stop you working out disability status or any other sensitive status that affects tax paid. The tax regime for any given year is presumably public info. People are notified but that’s hardly going to
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by markalexander 6y ago
Ethical is a bit of a wide term but I’m sure it’s easy to construct situations that are problematic. E.g. an abusive ex partner can check whether you’re likely to have switched job, even from the most basic info. If tax paid is revealed th
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by markalexander 6y ago
Computing is getting closer and closer to the edge. One example, as you said, is putting it at the CDN PoPs, but even beyond that you can put your compute into the CSP locations. E.g. https://aws.amazon.com/wavelength/
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by markalexander 6y ago
Having spent a lot of time making a similar tool this is pretty difficult. Two issues: (1) highlighting and annotating across (partial) XML with rendered output is very hard without some understanding of the rendering, you can't reall
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by markalexander 6y ago
The particular sentence in the article is only slightly uncommon in terms of difficulty, so I don't really see how I've implied that my English is 'great'. Passable, maybe. We might have different standards. Nice high-
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by markalexander 6y ago
Hardly. We don't often use Chinese words in English regardless of the context, presumably because English speakers find the terms difficult to remember or hard to pronounce. Chinese does exactly the same thing. I mean, is 盲文 [1] &#x2
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by markalexander 6y ago
I'm convinced; the author is clearly a racist because the people in this thread have a poor grasp of the English language. When is his execution?
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by markalexander 6y ago
I think you're misparsing the sentence. It just means that this is when it first became known to "western science".
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by markalexander 6y ago
An educated guess: reCAPTCHA has become (partly) passive, using whatever tracking data Google has about your behaviour. So, if your browser blocks the tracking, it causes issues. I assume that's what the DDG browser is about.