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It was increasingly a problem for US competitiveness. The US was bleeding a lot of successful companies to other countries for tax purposes, and it was getting worse (Pfizer tried to flee to Ireland).

The average national rate in Europe is around 18%, and 21% for the EU.

France is competing with this:

Austria 25%, Spain 25%, Netherlands 25%, Italy 24%, Norway 23%, Denmark 22%, Sweden 22%, Portugal 21%, Slovakia 21%, Estonia 20%, Finland 20%, Iceland 20%, Russia 20%, Poland 19%, UK 19%, Czech 19%, Switzerland 18%, Ireland 12.5%

Armenia 20%, Belarus 18%, Ukraine 18%, Romania 16%, Lithuania 15%, Albania 15%, Moldova 12%, Bulgaria 10%, Hungary 9%

Staying up in the 30s would put France at a severe disadvantage vs the rest of the EU and Europe. Germany will also be forced to lower its rate eventually.

The world average was near 40% ~35 year ago. The rate in the US came close to matching with the world average in the late 1980s. After that, the world average began declining consistently while the US remained high. When the world average is 22% and you're at 35%, you have a problem.
Where are you getting n^6 from?

A hierarchical level-of-detail scheme (e.g. the one used in Sauerbraten) is still only n^3 in the worst case. If you store one full-resolution copy of your world, and then a copy with 1/2 the resolution, then 1/4 the resolution and so on, you get a geometric series that converted to only a constant-factor overhead.
I've heard this sort of thinking more and more. Emotions are essential for a happy life, and you are not supposed to be a logical robot.
His post ended with "Give me a clap and follow me on Twitter"... is that the Medium version of "Like this video and hit subscribe!"?
The advocates of open offices are always non coding managers.
I think Rackspace is now entirely on top of AWS, whereas before they used to be a competitor in the cloud space.
Kidnapping is kidnapping no matter how nice the the kidnappers are.
They literally are inconsistent though. How do you have a small government that militarily intervenes across the world?

I don't disagree that it's a balancing act, but the platforms are utterly built around single issue zingers. Pro this, anti that, that's it.
I'm seeing a lot of arguments in this thread against starting a business in France, so my question is this: outside of the US where would you start something?
What happened to that australian company that had millions in funding for voxel tech? They seems quite skiddish and didn't want to show all their information in their demos. Did anything come of it?

Euclideon - 7 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00gAbgBu8R4
May 17: "18 USC §§2340 & 2340A make it a federal crime for a person acting under color of law to commit torture overseas."

...That doesn't seem to fit the general "frivolous law" theme...
You're right, technically, but the way tzs thinks about it can still be correct if one thinks about it this way: the if statement in your first loop is mathematically true, but it is never executed because [] is of course empty. It's not about whether the inner if ...: break statement's conditional can evaluate to true.

A lazy way to think about it is that way, but as long as you remember that it's what occurs when there is no break it's fine.
> Unions are not necessary at all in any country that has decent and enforced labor laws.

I suppose no political organizations are necessary in places where there are decent and enforced laws, not even political parties, but that's not how humans work. Decent laws aren't the result of generosity from those in power - decent labor law isn't a result of corporate altruism - but of political struggles between different elements of society. Democracy doesn't work magically; it works by the people who have a seat at the table competing and negotiating. Those without a seat are ignored - their obvious needs, their priorities (you can always identify those without a seat: the others say about their needs: 'they're exaggerating; it's not that big a deal'), and needs that only they have the experience to know or anticipate. Individual factory workers don't have a seat, but their union does.

The rest of the parent is just hyperbole.
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Plain -n isn't used anywhere in English that I know of for a plural; the consonant cluster childrn would be improbable.
a Medicare-for-all proposal never had a chance of making it through congress because it needed GOP votes to pass.

Incorrect. For awhile, Democrats controlled the Presidency and the House, and the Senate Democrat caucus had a cloture-capable 60 vote supermajority. They didn't need a single GOP vote for anything. For ACA, no GOP amendments were even given the dignity of a simple up/down floor vote.
Problem definition and prioritisation involve people other than the PM:

"We go to great lengths to apply science to this heavy upfront process. We use our:

Customer Support team (who tag every single conversation they have with customers for our PMs to review. We naturally use Intercom to do this btw)

Sales team and Marketing team (who build a product/market matrix based on inputs from the field)

Research team (who we invested heavily in since the very start)

Analytics team (who we are investing very heavily in now)"
Made a colour conversion and gradient generation tool, Can you please review it?
I'm sure the article is a nice read, but I think you summarized it quite well. Gotta take the initiative on things.
What was/is holding voxel back? the new programming model? computation density?

I guess minecraft is an example of a voxel game (supposed a voxel game written in block style according to a random post on the internet[0]) that became really popular -- so I guess the answer could be "nothing", but it sure seems like voxels are still niche (and don't want to be).

[0]: https://forum.unity.com/threads/voxel-games-vs-block-games.2...
Perhaps the engineers already working on something else, for which the problem definition and prioritisation has already been completed? Just because you spend more time on definition and prioritisation, it doesn't mean your backlog shrinks to zero.
https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Order-Economics-Everyday-Life/...

I agree that the book upthread presents weak arguments. I didn't like it even though I sympathize with much "libertarian nonsense".
Where have you been hiding.
What is the source of this information? In Estonia corporate income tax is essentially 0% - all re-invested income is tax-free, you only pay taxes when you eventually decide to pay out dividends (or salary). Which can be years, decades or never.
“We suffer more often in imagination that in reality.” — Seneca
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The independence of India was mostly gained thru non violent protests. So yes, it can be done.
It'd be interesting to add relativity to a popular rendering engine such as Blender. Wouldn't be trivial though. Would be fun to have objects with mass and see them bending the light paths and local time.
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Iddqd, idkfa
"Then" implies that the associated code will always run after the for loop completes, which isn't true either. Maybe "complete" is a decent choice. I'm sure language keywords are an issue here, too.
Civil redress aside, IANAL but as I seem to recall, wage theft is a criminal offense. If only we had a Department of Labor currently willing to enforce this.

I've been a pretty regular Chipotle customer, over the years. But this is it, for me; one customer less.

I regret this for the cumulative effect it could have on Chipotle employees (the same ones already screwed); nonetheless, I encourage others to join me. It seems to be the only way Chipotle will -- maybe -- get the message.

By the way, I did Chipotle a small favor, a few years ago, when I could have reported them to my state for a health code violation I observed but instead worked with their corporate office to get it addressed without my identifying the specific employee. (Another policy that was being followed kept essentially kept the problem from getting to the food. I wanted better training and supervision, not a one-off punishment of an otherwise nice fellow and apparent good, long-term employee.)

It's time Chipotle corporate showed a little genuine good will of its own. Pay your employees for their work -- all of it.

I see plenty of Chipotle employees who go the extra mile to engage your customers and keep them coming back. Corporate could take a clue from them.
There is poor evidence to support your points. And what about Switzerland that has very low union membership, have pretty much 40 hours weeks, no child labor, and the highest compensation across Europe despite having no minimum wage? It does not add up if we follow your narrative.
That's because in the Arabic script, from which the modern Persian script is derived, doesn't differentiate between vowels sounds like oo/oh and their related semivowels.

In Arabic, oo and v are both bilabial sounds (produced using both lips). In Persian, v is pronounced more labio-dentally (bottom lip, top teeth), which is perhaps what causes the confusion.

But the lack of written distinction for these sounds is common in many scripts including Indian, Greek, and older Latin.
The problem is the theory implies that people with brain damage should experience psychological effects similar to those induced by psychedelic drugs, and we don't see anything like that.
Well, glad I never registered, then.

(One more reason to resist the "register" nagging UI.)
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In this case, any linear model (with reasonable, minimizable loss, which could be, say convex) will learn the correct thing.

Here's a quick gist[0] doing it using least-squares, and learning it exactly (also, for B in the third row you may have intended 35 instead of 45?).

This simple regression model learns exactly the weights (-1, 1)—equivalently, it learns -A + B = C.

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[0] https://gist.github.com/guillean/6f3ff05fa99b2b377fcf309bdc4...
I had my first legitimate use of for else last week after knowing about it for years and it (the keyword) never making much sense.

I had to call an API for it to load data into a cache, but sometimes this wouldn't work so I made it try up to 3 times, otherwise it would show an error. So something like:

for i in range(3):
if load_cache():
log("success")
break
else:
log("failure")

Else made total sense here.
I've tried a few, and I've found the ones with the three motion sensors haven't been giving me so many false positives in the wind. They supposedly wake up when something triggers a side sensor, and then snap the picture if it then triggers the middle one.
The point was hardly that every law on the federal books is bad. If you read the first 100 tweets on that account, my opinion is maybe 90 are bullshit that shouldn't be on the books. Nobody is going through all of those and removing the trash. Every little thing doesn't need a law, everything shouldn't be a federal crime.

eg

"18 USC §1465 makes it a federal crime to produce an obscene, lewd, lascivious, or "filthy book" for sale in interstate commerce."

"10 USC §2674(c) & 32 CFR §234.11(a) make it a federal crime to drink alcohol at the Pentagon without written authorization."

"40 USC §6307 & 36 CFR §520.4(h) make it a federal crime to play a ball game at the National Zoo, except in an officially-designated ball game area."

"21 USC §§331, 333, 343(g) & 21 CFR §139.150(b) make it a federal crime to sell "egg noodles" that aren't ribbon-shaped."

"18 USC §46(b) makes it a federal crime to knowingly barter for out-of-state water chestnuts."

"16 U.S.C. §§707(a), 718g & 50 C.F.R. §91.14 make it a federal crime to submit an entry in the Federal Duck Stamp contest that you copied from a picture on the internet."
That's not quite true. Both Akka and Flink use Java serialization in many key aspects.
“Self-criticism ... can lead to ruminative thoughts that interfere with our productivity, and it can impact our bodies by stimulating inflammatory mechanisms that lead to chronic illness and accelerate aging”

This assertion may sit outside conventional medical science and mainstream accepted wisdom, but it aligns with my own experience.

After trying unsuccessfully for years to overcome depression/anxiety, chronic fatigue and other mysterious illnesses (asthma, skin problems, headaches, back tension/pain) using conventional/material remedies (antidepressants, exercise, diets), I added emotion-based treatments to my regimen about 6 years ago, and have had much greater success.

In particular, I've undertaken practices that identify negative beliefs, traumas and sabotaging behavioural patterns that are held in the subconscious, then allow these issues to be understood and resolved. Self-criticism has been big part of what I've been able to work through.

It's been no quick fix (it seems I've had a lot of baggage to work through), but bit by bit, as my emotional health has improved, my physiological health has steadily improved, as have all the outer-world indicators like relationships, productivity and career.

I'm now comfortable suggesting that this approach is overlooked by mainstream medicine to the great detriment of many people suffering chronic illness, and given the link with inflammation that has been suggested in this article and elsewhere, and that I seem to have experienced myself, far more progress could be made in addressing inflammatory and autoimmune illnesses if this approach were to be taken seriously.
What an excellent book, great story and reads like it was written yesterday. If you're trying to understand India this is the book.
> Unions are not necessary at all in any country that has decent and enforced labor laws.

You clealy have no idea about what you're saying. For your comment to make any sense you need to believe that any worker acting exclusively by himself has the resources to enforce those laws agains any company and suffer no repercussion during the process. This idea is utterly absurd.

Meanwhile, unions do offer specialized legal services and do pressure managers to not overreach or overstep their authority, and do so as a proxy to any employee and even while preserving his anonymity if needed.

In fact, if anything you've said made any sense then unpaid overtime or unpaid weekend work would be unthinkable, but instead it's the norm in some abusive companies without any union.
After googling, yes I believe so. I'm not a scholar (on this anyway) these are just tidbits I've remembered throughout the years.
>The truth is it is much much cheaper than in the US, and probably unmatched in Western Europe. Now, all this preexisted Macron.

Not only Europe, but much of China as well. Besides the basic "no tax for a new company below $N annual revenue for 5 years," there are megatons of all kinds of obscure, but very generous state grants.

If stars align well for the company, it can effectively live off grants while having 0 revenue. This was most extreme during "The Solar Bubble" when companies were collecting from $3m to $6m for just having word "solar" in company name.

The oversight has since improved a little little bit, and you are less likely to get money with 0 revenue company.
Minecraft itself throws a chunk at a time (a horizontal 16x16 section of the world) at it's rendered, which then spits out an OpenGL model for the rendering. (iirc).
This is the, or one of the, reason(s) why clipping through one block gives the ability to see through all those in the middle, instead of 'just' seeing the next block adjacent to the one you are clipping into. The ray tracing is just that only faces of voxels that touch air or another non-solid block (fencepost,liquid,torch,etc) are included into the OpenGL model, along with their texture. The raytracing is done by the GPU, and handled via the depth buffer.
I feel that somehow this also changed how adults process pain and happiness. Now I have a million other questions - are adults seeking psychedelic as a result of fatigue or emotional boredom, as a method to revive imagination?
Even older than that, Comanche: Maximum Overkill (1992) was voxel based. Amazing at the time, but I remember it'd fall apart pretty quickly as you got close to objects.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comanche_(video_game_series)
> What was/is holding voxel back?

The fact that the domains they might be used in are also the domains people are guaranteed to have spent a lot of money on specialized polygon-pushing processors. Voxel techniques seemed to peak at about the time of the last hurrah of CPU-based rendering.
Can someone with historical experience starting a company with both a friend and a nonfriend comment about this?

We get a lot of advice (e.g. pg) to start a company with friends, but we also get a lot of comments one way or the other, but without personal experience in both.

Can someone who have been on both sides talk about it? I certainly have not been on both sides.
This is kind of a scatterbrained article, it doesn't tie in mainframes in a meaningful way. The CDC 6600 and IBM 7030 Strech would have been a better starting point for supers. The S/360 mainframe was primarily a business line of computers, although the 360/91 was a capable super.

So to expand on mainframes in particular, which are less well documented/understood by my generation:

The IBM mainframe continued being primarily a business computer but they often had enhanced capability models like the 3090 with optional vector facilities that put them in competition with dedicated supercomputers.

Few people that came into computing in the 1990s and thereafter realize that a lot of what we might assume to be "modern" capabilities existed since the 1970s, via these machines. The machines gave companies inter-office memos (email), document preparation (word) and document/image storage (like modern dropbox, gdrive etc), OLTP (like later RDBMS oracle etc), OLAP (like modern hadoop, terradata etc), custom applications and hardware for all kinds of line of business activities like automated logistics via bar code systems, point of sales cash registers and bar code scanners, ATMs, complex billing generators printers that could customize/cut/collate bills and notices, bill processors with check printers/OCR scanners, phone switchboard integration for call routing and auto-attendant etc.

VTAM and SNA allowed the machines to communicate, and intercommunicate with machines of other companies across the globe. Time sharing services were offered for smaller companies in a way not dissimilar to modern "cloud computing". International networks existed to interchange data between different computer types like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tymnet.

The machines were also critical to the design and engineering of large construction, manufacturing, PLM, and simulation. Aircraft, ship building, power plant design, space exploration, automotive, circuit board and VLSI chip design/layout/EDA.. all that was primarily done on these machines up until the early '90s when UNIX workstations took over. CADAM, CATIA etc lots of good history covered on http://mbinfo.mbdesign.net/CAD-History.htm.

It's actually kind of astounding how much these did and how quickly it was washed out of common knowledge. If you had a white collar job in the '70s-early '90s you probably directly and indirectly spent a lot of time on these machines. 3270 terminals and later PCs with 3270 emulation.

Today, the mainframe is still integral to the running of Western civilization, although they are almost exclusively back office transaction processing and batch reporting systems.
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You are right, its been quite a while since i have dealt with the cube-engine.
The Level of detail mechanism just adds a constant to the formula- basically speeding up the n^3 voxel growth as the player explores the world in detail and distance at the same time in the worst case.

Looking at a ants-mandibles-mikro-biota, while observing a planet near the horizon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsjeiLklThY
I'm thinking about building a panel that'd would gather core activity of a couple machines and map that onto one or more 8x32 LED matrices. The core activity would be gathered from a client running on the machines themselves and sent to the machine running the panel.

On my tests running ffmpeg, however, the results would be disappointing: all LEDs light up at the same time...
I wonder what would evolve more in a given space of time...

A creature that has tens of thousands of offspring every year?

Or, a creature that has -- at most -- a few dozen offspring over a lifespan of several decades?

The answer is as obvious as it is unacceptable.
I find it hard to argue it’s (the else block) any more useful than just using the `else` block’s logic in the try block.

try:
import uvloop
asyncio.set_event_loop_policy(uvloop.EventLoopPolicy)
except ImportError:
pass

Does the handler for if the try succeeds need to be in an else, separated from the success logic?
I built a macOS App last year for managing Screen Shots.

I run a development agency and love taking snapshots from various blogs & websites. They were getting difficult to manage.

So I created a small utility to manage screenshots on macOS.

https://shots.mobilefirst.in

Send me your feedback on this.
I was working on this topic a few years ago and one of the things I noticed was that a lot of software patterns that work on the source code level can also be applied at the library or project level. What you're describing is basically Dependency Injection and the super-project is a Container.

It seemed like such a good idea, but I quit working on large software projects about the time I thought of it, so I never got a chance to actually try it outside of toy projects. I'm glad to hear that somebody else independently discovered and pursued the idea. If anyone has written about how adopting this approach has worked out for them, I'd love to read it.
Else is a bit of a confusing name for the keyword IMO.

How about "ifcompleted"
Is the substantive contribution here establishing a chain of custody from a single signature, rather than a chain of signatures? I only skimmed the paper, but I don't see how it would help us investigate breaches (wouldn't the attacker just remove the signature before publishing the database?) or authenticate based on SSNs (if I wanted to sign SSNs, why wouldn't I use a more conventional approach?).
There is a dangerous form https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/serializati...

> Binary serialization can be dangerous. Never deserialize data from an untrusted source and never round-trip serialized data to systems not under your control.

The killed it in .NET Core 1.x; but brought it back in .NET Core 2.x due to back compat and interop complaints
That would also kill RMI (at least JRMP), and that too would be a good thing, RMI doesn't even pass through a router (unless you do RMI-IIOP - and that is very different from regular RMI - JRMP)

For java backwards compatibility used to be very important, so this is big news for the platform.

I think this remoting the bytecode with serialisation madness was once upon a time very important part of RMI/serialisation - back in the thin client java days this was supposed to be the way to distribute code across a network link, security was not the very first priority in the nineties (beats me why they made JRMP non routable)
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Oh! That suddenly makes the Spanish "naranja" seem way more connected!
Generally speaking, things that use break can be cleaned up by using python's `any` or `all` constructs over a slightly reworded loop. This isn't always true, but handles most of the common cases.

I don't think that I've yet come across a use of break/continue that can't be pretty cleanly refactored into a helper method like

def my_filter(items):
for x in items:
if cond(x):
yield x

for x in my_filter(base_list):
process(x)

This ends up being pretty clean and describes exactly what/why you're filtering things, plus as the conditions change you can test things individually.