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by ppereira 3y ago
Artificial lemon flavours that you find in candy and cough syrup taste much more like “sweet lemon” than the typical lemon found in North America. It is sweet when eaten within the first minute or so and bland afterwards. It does not taste
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by ppereira 5y ago
Many tools used in chip design are controlled with Tcl. It provides a stable repl for these heavy, multi-threaded, efficient, C++ programs.
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by ppereira 6y ago
See quantile regression and hinge loss functions.
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by ppereira 7y ago
Qualcomm | Engineers | San Diego | ONSITE, VISA | Full Time https://www.qualcomm.com/company/careers Qualcomm invents breakthrough technologies that transform how the world connects, computes and communicates The CAD t
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by ppereira 8y ago
You may wish to check out the MIT Pantheon project which ranks people not just by page views, but also by the log of birth year and number of languages that their biography has been translated into. With that metric, knowing Aristotle would
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UN report on extreme poverty and human rights in the USA(undocs.org)
2 points by ppereira 8y ago|0 comments
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by ppereira 8y ago
The distincion between creating value and hacking the economic system is interesting. “Think of Alan Turing, whose genius provided the mathematics underlying the modern computer. Or of Einstein. Or of the discoverers of the laser (in which
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Lenovo Thinkpad 25 (Retro) Pictures(notebookcheck.net)
2 points by ppereira 9y ago|0 comments
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by ppereira 9y ago
Yes, but they will link you to a mobile number and then require that you confirm your number on grounds that they cannot identify you from your login. Gmail did not have my number confirmed until I moved and they locked me out of my email,
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by ppereira 9y ago
OpenBSD is very good at suspend/resume, particularly for non-bleeding edge laptops that developers have had a chance to use. I've had better luck with suspend/resume on OpenBSD than on Linux. I recommend Thinkpad X/T ser
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by ppereira 9y ago
You have framed this question in terms of your freedom to contract in order to restrict distribution. Although many think contractual freedom is paramount, that is not necessarily so. It may be bounded by other more basic legal principles.
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by ppereira 9y ago
Why don't you just read the readme? The additional features are at the top, and examples in the body.
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by ppereira 10y ago
It should be noted that these predictions are not based on the lawyers' pleadings, but on the facts and law sections from the judges' decisions.[1] There is definitely a possibility of bias in the characterization of the facts. Th
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by ppereira 10y ago
The mobility between quintiles is not particularly interesting; it is far too coarse a measure. The changes in inequality that we see in the US, Canada, and the UK affect the relative earning capacity of the bottom 90% vs. the top 10%, with
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by ppereira 10y ago
Just like public utilities don't have a monopoly on the provision of power, because, hey, every home-owner can buy a diesel generator. With the level of substitution you are describing, you've made the word monopoly meaningless. T
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by ppereira 10y ago
To increase supply, increase height limits, reduce setbacks, and get rid of zoning regulations that have nothing to do with health and safety.
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by ppereira 10y ago
This is NIMBYism at its finest. Those who immigrated to Toronto first own prime real estate near commercial centres. New working families have to move out and commute long distances so that retired folk living in Toronto houses can enjoy th
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by ppereira 10y ago
Lack of construction is certainly a problem in Toronto, which has a default 10 meter height limit for new residential construction. All new buildings taller than a house require municipal buy-in. Between 2001 and 2011, the number dwellings
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by ppereira 10y ago
Please don't cherry pick an (unmentioned) directive in a one-line rebuttal; try to challenge the comment's core arguments.
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by ppereira 10y ago
There is quite a bit of anger and little fact in this comment. GiveDirectly has been running UBI programs in East Africa for years now. They have an all-star cast of economists examining their performance. Their pilot programs were very suc
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Adobe has figured out a way to track people as they switch between devices(finance.yahoo.com)
1 points by ppereira 10y ago|0 comments
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AsiaBSDCon OpenBSD papers(undeadly.org)
1 points by ppereira 11y ago|0 comments
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Microsoft opens cloud services to select Canadian clients with new data centres(theglobeandmail.com)
30 points by ppereira 11y ago|2 comments
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by ppereira 11y ago
I think you meant to say "In Europe civil law dominates".
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by ppereira 11y ago
I did a similar simulation of income/wealth distributions using US income tax rates over the past century. It was a gloriously hackish combination of a Lisp tax-rate parser, auto-generated C actor model, and R. I sure hope more economi
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by ppereira 11y ago
Wow, this thread reminded me of the "best HN comeback of all time": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
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by ppereira 11y ago
This is an interesting generalization of my use of progressive/regressive. However, I would not go so far as to say that my definition is a "popular corruption". My restricted definition is frequently applied in the tax law
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by ppereira 11y ago
Incorrect. "Regressive" does not just mean "bad" according to some arbitrary definition of bad. If the poor pay more of a tax than the rich as a percentage of their income or wealth, then the tax is regressive. Otherw
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Project Gutenberg inaccessible through VPNs, TOR, or anonymizers
4 points by ppereira 11y ago|0 comments
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by ppereira 11y ago
It looks like this software breaks compiler error messages. One of the great features of Knuth and Levy's CWEB is that errors are reported in terms of locations in the literate source. This feature, which works by way of line pragmas,

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