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Because most ministers truly stand for what they believe in to a certain limited extent.

Unfortunately, this is what old, rich, often religious men believe, which is a terrible representation of the actual country.

This is said generally, as I have no specific experience of the situation in Australia
I believe that jbmorgado is making a more specific comparison than that, Lennart Poettering having in the past expressed similar sentiments to Mark Shuttleworth's here.
Not only that, but OLED screens have perceptible low response times and burn-in (my old S3 screen has the Candy Crush UI burned in, and is also yellowish because blue LEDs burn in faster than green/red ones).

That said I suppose newer OLED screens do not have as many problems, but for a long time OLED screens were inferior to LCD screens, and were used only because they were capable of higher contrast ratios which made them much more appealing to the eye.
Interesting write-up. Looks like a genuine IoT non-horror story so far!

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Some non-free software folk are as well. In fact, I've heard that some non-software people are too!
Re: your 2nd example, that's generally not true. Sick animals are usually given treatment including antibiotics. If the treatment disqualifies them from organic status they're moved into a different food stream. This is done for economic reasons, not care for the animal's welfare. Despite the image of a quaint family farm, most organic food is still a product of large industrial operations; someone like Tyson foods prices chicken similar to airline seats
People get paid to develop Mir. They're a limited resource in open source - paid developers are the ones who can drive projects, fix tricky bugs and take on big features. They also wind up being gatekeepers to contributions.

At the time Mir was announced what I heard and what a lot of others heard was "Ubuntu's paid developer resources with relevant expertise are being diverted from Wayland".

Replacing X is sorely needed in the Linux desktop space, and it's a huge project. So big that unless it's frightfully mismanaged then it's extremely dubious what a split in development effort is going to accomplish. And what did it accomplish? I have absolutely no idea what Mir actually shipped that was usable. I have no idea what they were doing substantially differently and why that was good (something about convergence by using bionic so it ran on Android too I think?) And I do remember Canonical at the time arguing they would beat Wayland to something usable... But here we are, I'm still using X, my video payback still tears, and I can't for the life of me think how the Linux desktop has benefited.

I suppose Cinnamon got created and I now run that on top of others vanilla Ubuntu?
It is only for calculating tax when selling to consumers.
Who says it was the standard?

Wayland it not even finished YET so really who can say it?

Wanting standards defined after some competition exist and we know the best approach could be positive, but not before based on dogma on what should be better on paper but on reality.

A reason to be suspicious? Personally I am suspicious of standards by committee in which anybody at a table have to be happy with unrealistic expectations.

This is "software as politics". Most people don't even know what the best approach is until a least they code sever tests on the real world and work some time on the problem.

Software has also some part of exploration on it. To have small focused teams exploring those ideas makes total sense.

For example the original software for the Iphone was done with a small team of 10-20 people. And it took them some iterations(years of work) to really know what people wanted or needed.

To same something is the standard because we say so is highly presumptuous.
FYI: The React version - is jQuery free

http://react.semantic-ui.com/introduction
What is the biologic incentive for a homo sapien to give up 100% of all animal based foods based upon the pain and suffering of some animals used for food?
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Your comparison to Tesla doesn't get better just by repeating it a few times. If your Tesla breaks down you wont have any problem to get a comparable replacement car. Much luck to get a replacement for your tractor during harvest season.
So only CAs check this, not browsers?

Surely the problem this sort of thing is meant to address is rogue CAs who are already behaving badly.
No bookkeeping numbers are being sent at all? Unless you count a pair of countries and a post code (without any amounts or anything!!) as bookkeeping.
You can opt out on the credit card offers.

https://www.optoutprescreen.com
This seems to work ok for companies working on green field stuff, though you'd still probably struggle to entice people to leave their jobs for you. For other companies though, where technical debt and poor management is everywhere you look it doesn't. It gives employees a chance to see what they're really dealing with and to look for work two months later.
Your concern for animal welfare will never be enough for the animal rights people (just read the other comments here).
Local. It doesn't matter how many people are on a dating site, all anyone cares about is how many are in their local pool.

The way to do this is study how nightclubs are built. This approach does take money though.
Watch out for melatonin, it might cause/increase depression (or depressive thoughts).

Source: Safety instructions on a box of melatonin pills.
> I don't know how it is possible within the current system to back down en-masse in the way you suggest.

The system will change. It's already changing. The question is whether we design and follow the change or nature does it for us. The demise of the world's largest living structure is just the latest in decades of evidence. How much more do we need?

This community is so enthusiastic about going to Mars, universal basic income, and other challenges to current systems. Why so resistant to this change? So enthusiastic about entrepreneurship solving problems except this fundamental belief that economies must grow. Are we so tied to bacon, big houses, and regular trips to Paris? Humans lived for hundreds of thousands of years with cities of millions of people without planes, cars, and so on. We don't need them for happiness. Nor do we need to get rid of them. We can live a modern life with modern medicine, modern toys, the internet and so on, we just have to curb it a bit. Well, more than a bit.

> I am often quite sceptical of the "science will save us" approach, but actually it seems more credible than the "change one person at a time" approach.

Hence my point that changing my behavior improved my life and that I'm not special. Simplifying and reducing consumption from our culture's wastefulness isn't sacrifice. You don't have to keep believing it is.

Simplifying and reducing consumption can materially improve your life. Even if it didn't, why not take responsibility for how your actions affect others like you wish past generations did instead of killing the Great Barrier Reef? Why not decouple your happiness from burning fossil fuels and owning more stuff? You don't have to keep waiting for everyone else.
As someone in the car repair industry I can assure you that Teslas hostility regarding non-authorised-repair is a big issue and will only blow up when Teslas become more common. At least here in Europe, this won't fly.
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I'm afraid he does indeed talk about PWM.
Sadly, lots of LED fixtures and displays (especially in laptops) still have atrociously low PWM frequencies...
> amazing that I'd never even considered what would happen if a lift ran backwards!

Until you work a chairlift they are all fun and games.. after.. well, they are serious pieces of heavy machinery.

On my first day running one I hit the stop button and then watched the chair continue for ~5 feet, which snapped a young ladies Femur clean in two about 3 feet from my face. Safe to say that was not pretty.

I've also seen countless people knocked out by them, seen full derailments (scary) but happily never seen fingers or hands go into places they shouldn't.

Also had guests fall off the chair and die.

so yeah, very serious.

> I wonder if the "up and down" lifts that go down and up a valley suffer from the same problem

My gut says yes, because when all is said and done they are moving a lot of mass from down to up, and all that mass is still only on one side.
Speaking of, what's the status of LuaJIT?
Why is bootstrap 4 taking so long to get to a final version? All that waiting is pushing me towards other libraries. But me, being primarily backend engineer, want a library that has a large community because I am not so skilled with frontend UI and want the possibility to find the help easily.
Sorry, this was a typo. I meant business information, not bookkeeping information.

> Unless you count a pair of countries and a post code

It is more than that. You also have the source IP address, which you can map not only to countries, but to relatively small regions and sometimes to individual companies.

If this service was meant to be "datensparsam", it would provide an updated table or dataset, and not require a single request for every small bit of information.
Please stop spreading misinformation. The place of supply rules for digital sales changed at the start of 2015, and you very much are required to charge VAT, at the appropriate rate, on cross border digital sales within the EU. The API we're discussing is presumably intended to make it easier to figure out what the appropriate rate is for any given sale, because the administrative overhead with the new scheme is significant.
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Yes - you can change the windshield wipers, replace the fluid, change the tires. You may not be able to replace the battery or any of the high voltage electrical system yet. Although if you are experienced in high-voltage maintenance, you may be able too. See this[1] description of one fix that your "software" would prevent.

[1] http://imgur.com/gallery/j8Bcp
Does it scale is a very valid question for Cayley. Running sparql.uniprot.org I know virtuoso scales easily to 27 billion triples. Best benchmark I have seen for Cayley is 21 million RDF triples.

RDF and relational are similar but free form RDF is hard to put into a pure relational schema, as schema is derived from the data in RDF. There are ways to recover relational schema's from RDF but these are not yet in production state.
> * almost bankrupted the project by funding SJW bullshit [2]

The funding didn't cause this. It's the foundation handling money for organizations and them not paying on time. This caused a cashflow problem. Cashflow isn't the same as being profitable, though it is a problem.

Phoronix is NOT a reliable news source!
that's only a transpiled version of it:

The Javascript version of the Closure-Compiler is
transpiled by GWT from the Java source. For more details
on the differences in behavior see the super sourced
files in the main repo.
"work 2 days a week"

Startlingly accurate but rather than everyone living that way, we have a small and shrinking fraction of the population working full time or more, and longer "education" and earlier retirement/ageism than ever. As an economy that's about what we do, we're just not egalitarian about it.
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As an European who've tried the American way. I have to say that it is clearly worse.

In the EU country I was, when i get a job/flat/whatever, I give a copy of my national ID and tax statement, and that's alright.

In the USA/UK, when I get a job/flat/whatever, noone trusts me or the government. I have to give plenty of documents and 5 years of history to a 3rd party shady check agency, that's gonna resell the data and spam me.

You can be sure that after a few years of your life, everything about you have been resold by these agencies and is available to the world: all your addresses, jobs, income, family situation, etc...

You American guys have hundreds of private big brothers incentivized against you, all because you wanted to avoid trusting a government. That didn't go well.
This is The Register's style of long standing, note.
Both the NY Times and the Guardian seem to hate Russia and all things Russian. I constantly read things in those publications that are ludicrously biased or simply wrong. They don't count as credible sources to me anymore.

And as was already pointed out, you stated that "Russia sponsors" but even the first article states that the alleged project is the work of one guy who apparently has money to burn - not the government.
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The problem with rating systems for traditional taxi-services is that they are most often without effect. There is no penalty or change if a driver is rated badly.
Given that it's specifically for VAT MOSS, presumably it's specifically intended for B2C sales of digital products/services where the MOSS-related place of supply rules apply?
It's only for digital goods/services.
Thats what they said about systemd but careful application of product tying strategies rammed that thru.
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> I would love to see Carlsen playing against the top computer chess program now. He is the "New Hope".

I don't understand; he would get destroyed. Do you mean just to see what it would look like?
Any clue as to what would work?
Oh come on, how is that sensitive. Use a proxy if you're really worried about this.
> So you'd rather destroy a promising program just because you weren't asked about your opinion?

Canonical made blunt claims about deficiencies in Wayland which did not exist, they even made claims that others like KDE would happily adopt Mir but those did not know about their luck and did not plan to do this. Oh and add some CLA requirement for contributions to the mix. This understandably provoked a very harsh response from the affected projects.

> What company or individual would want to publish anything new in this kind of environment?

Those who don't insult other people and their work I would say. Then everybody will either be happy about your contribution or at least don't care if your contribution is practically unusable because it's incompatible with everything.
Sorry but, I don't think Carlsen can even beat a decent chess engine on a smartphone nowadays. Humans beating computers is an impossibility for many years now.

He may only win if computer starts with a serious handicap.
There's open source work being done on these lights in the (totally awesome) home assistant community https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/61zuao/ikea_... and preliminary support is at https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6263
The lights use ZLL, https://www.letscontrolit.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=219...
Isn't it also the case that after 3 days of taking it that your body will produce it less? Or is that not true?
That's a nice change of history. Canonical was behind Wayland. They secretly (for 6-9 months) started working on Mir. This while they said they'd do various amount of work on Wayland. Up to that point they publicly said Wayland is the next thing.

After 6-9 they revealed what they worked upon and made loads of incorrect statements about Wayland. Obviously this resulted in pretty harsh response.

Wayland is quite usable in Fedora as well as various other distributions, so your "never go beyond talk": eh? This while Canonical delayed Wayland by not announcing they wouldn't help out with Wayland anymore.
People use math, but they use it with Latex not MathML, MathML is too verbose, so even if browsers implemented it people would need libraries like MathJax.
Chatbots are really just a way to push and pull messages on messaging channels, nothing more, nothing less. How much automation you put behind it is really up to you. And yes, many early examples forgot about their users. Yes, it is cool to write a bot that can do something cool for a fraction of use cases, but as always, solving a real problem trumps being cool.

Now chatbots can be used as a content distribution channel (see publishers’ bots), app replacement (Swell is a great example, and they are in the next YC batch, congrats to them), but I’d like to point out how makers miss the point on arguably the largest use case for messaging in the business world today, customer service. Yes, most bots that address this domain can’t live up to the expectation either. And really, just think Job to be Done, the customer wants a quick, accurate and preferably personal reply to their question or issue, it is that simple.

So what we (Bicycle AI) did to make our clients better at this Job is we are fusing human and AI for a faster, affordable and scalable solution for SMEs. I hear you say, wait, isn’t this like Digital Genius, well, nope, we integrate with Intercom for example and we have a team of AI supervisors who approve the answers suggested by our AI.

This means our clients can provide blazing fast customer service for their customers 24/7 and according to their volumes. Simple as that. We use past conversation history and product docs to generate our suggested answers. We can go live pretty fast and can take care of around 60-70% of incoming conversations, escalating the complex cases after engagement.

Aaand, we are in alfa stage with emails.

So when it comes to harnessing automation in customer service, we believe that customers should not be the ones dealing with the rough edges.
Lack of sleep indeed.
There are variable rates almost everywhere, but this API is specifically about digital sales (where the MOSS system applies) so it will typically be that headline rate that you need anyway.

Of course, there's no guarantee that that will always be the case, and to know for sure you need to understand the tax systems of 28 different EU member states. This is (one of many reasons) why the new EU VAT rules have been so controversial: the burden for reliable, full compliance is ridiculous.
I'm going to eat bacon. Why? Because it's tasty and I enjoy it. Om Nom Nom. I'm aware that an animal died for my tasty bacon sandwich. I'm ok with that, because I rank the animal's life as less important than my morning.

I'm not going to torture an animal because I derive no pleasure from it. Given the choice, therefore, I would rather the pig lived a happy enough life in a field with little pig huts to live in before it was slaughtered. I'm willing to pay more for that to be the case, because I think it's the decent thing to do.

I don't love animals in general, heck I barely love any humans...
If every human on the planet died the planet would largely continue on, if every insect died then the planet would go through a large catastrophic change. "Animals" aren't irrelevant, and the human brain isn't everything.
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It's rare to find a business that only sells to consumers.

You really should make the limitations and the targeted audience for the service absolutely clear or you're going to create a world of hurt for the people that use your service thinking you are solving a problem for them.

Essentially you are giving tax advice, that's not an arena you should walk into without professional guidance to make sure you get this 100% right, both from a liability perspective as well as from the perspective of your customers who will come to rely on it (and who won't be able to point at you if you get something wrong).

Things you need (at a minimum):

- the date of the transaction (in case a transaction is processed for a date in the past or the future rather than at the moment of the API call when the rates were different than they are today)

- a means to update VAT rates exactly when they are changed in real life (typically: a system that remembers the VAT rates historically)

- a way to identify the nature of the customers (business / private individuals)

- a way to identify the nature of the product sold (goods, services, a combination of both, and what kind of goods)

- a data privacy statement (you're dealing with consumer data if the API is called from within a webpage running on the consumers browser)

And whatever else I've forgotten but which your local VAT/tax consultant should be able to answer.

You are taking care of one very simple case which the VATMOSS portal in a way already handles without clearly delineating what that case is and which cases you explicitly don't handle.

The easiest improvement to the site would be to include a large font line at the top stating this limitation.

"This tool is only to calculate VAT when selling services or digital goods to consumers"

Also, I think part of what throws people off about what the intended use case is is that you ask for the zip of consumer and country of origin of seller, which does not matter for VATMOSS, it is the country the consumer is in that determines the rate so you don't actually need the country of origin for services/digital goods as far as I know.
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That is a completely disingenuous argument unless you truly believe that plants are as sentient as animals.
Off topic: are gameboy games getting expensive where you are?
I do not believe Libor was audited or under the supervision of any of the risk and internal audit functions before 2007. And you are right, the controls were insufficient, and have been considerably strengthened since. But this wasn't deemed to be a sensitive activity. And outside of a few swap traders who were sitting on massive libor future positions, the little rounding up or down that the money market desks were doing before the crisis wouldn't really matter to anyone else.
https://www.ted.com/talks/stefano_mancuso_the_roots_of_plant...
Oh, you added it? Fantastic, I love all the great work you do on PlatformIO.
""the most successful bird on the planet" is an interesting line considering that they are all killed and eaten."

Moral questions aside, from the perspective of evolution theory breeding and passing of genes is pretty much equal to "success". So yes, in that regard, chickens are indeed successful.
That's correct. Browsers offer other mechanisms like HPKP to mitigate attacks through rogue CAs.

Active CAA checks by browsers would either be soft-fail like OCSP (i.e. useless in the face of an active adversary who could block the request or spoof the response) or cause a lot of unnecessary warnings because of failed requests. You'd also have to force every site on earth to create a CAA record if you want it to be hard-fail. That's going to be impossible.
Yes, but the customer isn't always a consumer, so in that case you get a lot of extra burden: pull in the VAT number of the consumer, verify it and if it is correct make the sale without VAT, otherwise make the sale with VAT.

If you don't do that properly you're either leaving money on the table or you could be later charged with the difference. Note that under VATMOSS any of the tax adminstrators in the EU has the right to audit you so it really pays off to do this well.

And it's the 'place of consumption' rather than the 'place of supply'.