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It is worth noting that they are an educational charity, not a for-profit organisation. I think it is great that they have released this - and I think that Broadcom also deserves credit for allowing them to release a schematic giving away t
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by A1kmm 15y ago
The biggest injustice is that innocent private parties are forced to carry the costs of something that (allegedly) will benefit the public. Investigations of crimes benefit the public, and so the public (taxpayer) should pay the costs of th
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by A1kmm 15y ago
The common law principle of privity of contract (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privity_of_contract ) means that contracts can only be enforced by the parties to that contract (although some jurisdictions have changed this with legislati
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by A1kmm 15y ago
Code to ignore voting rings would be very interesting - I would imagine the way to do it might be to occasionally do some kind of maximum flow analysis on the graph between users (with arcs between u_i and u_j representing the proportion of
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How I won the victory over myself and learned to love The Timer(blog.lanthaps.com)
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Claiming that anyone discussing inequality is implying economics is a zero-sum game is making a strawman argument. There is a continuum between two extremes - at one extreme, you have a zero sum relationship, where the total output (as meas
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by A1kmm 15y ago
Hopefully once the large copyright industries start to realise that the current system will lack efficacy going forward, we can all unite for something better to replace the current intellectual property laws (note: I'm excluding trademarks
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by A1kmm 15y ago
Unless you have a very short term project, you shouldn't hire developers based on their knowledge of a particular language - it is far better to hire them based on their demonstrated skills that transcend particular programming languages or
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by A1kmm 15y ago
And reversed on appeal: "To recover for copyright infringement based on breach of a license agreement, (1) the copying must exceed the scope of the defendant’s license and (2) the copyright owner’s complaint must be grounded in an exclusive
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by A1kmm 15y ago
If you put a coil up to a HVAC line and draw current from that coil, that is going to increase the impedance of the line and reduce the amount of power that can be delivered at the other end. Yes, the energy loss would probably be tiny in p
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by A1kmm 15y ago
People making emotional decisions don't ask for more information when they are uncertain, and therefore can't rationally analyse what further information / support is needed and use technology to gain that information. Therefore, even if em
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Yes - I've done that to produce more portable Linux binary installers where static binaries would have caused other problems - I tested it for backwards compatibility, but hopefully it will also improve forward compatibility. One problem th
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Undoubtedly Apple has many employees in its legal department who would have demanded that the attribution be added if they knew the full story. But it is easy to imagine that no one in the team of people who carried out the technical work t
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by A1kmm 15y ago
Disclaimer: IANAL, this is not legal advice. The article mentions it is in the UK. Relevant fraud statute appears to be this: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/35/section/2 It looks like all the criteria for it to be fraud are met
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Anonymous isn't a group, it is a meme, and so it doesn't make sense to say that someone could be impersonating anonymous. I agree that non-credible claims under the Anonymous meme should be hidden here if they don't have a significant enoug
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by A1kmm 15y ago
It is a place of business if it meets the definition, and there can be more than one. The definition is somewhat ambiguous, but it is likely that if there is an actual physical place (even if it is just a server) used to offer goods or serv
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by A1kmm 15y ago
One thing no one has mentioned is the tax implications of the different choices for startups - something which can be as important as the technical side of things. The OECD model tax convention, which has been adopted by many pairs of count
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by A1kmm 15y ago
It is an extradition proceeding, not charges under New Zealand law (according to http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/6288082/NZ-... ). For the request to go ahead, the alleged offence need to be an extradition offence ( http:/
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by A1kmm 15y ago
Vint doesn't say what he means by 'Internet', and I think that his argument fails on a sufficiently broad definition of Internet. The Internet is 'just a technology' if you define it as a network of nodes which communicate using Internet Pr
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Not in advance of the dispute arising anyway. Example of a law that makes arbitration clauses unenforceable against consumers in New Zealand unless they agree otherwise after the dispute arises: http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/19
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by A1kmm 15y ago
> Requiring cause to fire someone is business-hostile at best Generally, in countries which require reasons for dismissal, there is a distinction between a redundancy and a dismissal. A redundancy means that the position someone is work
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by A1kmm 15y ago
Company directors generally have a fiduciary duty to creditors to ensure that a company is solvent. Paying a dividend knowing that it would result in the company being unable to pay its liabilities is therefore a breach of that fiduciary du
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by A1kmm 15y ago
I'm working on a productivity software startup which is currently working on the flagship product. In the interests of starting small, I'm targeting the platforms I have easy access to: x86 Linux, AMD64 Linux, and Win32. My dev machine allo
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by A1kmm 15y ago
> Also, don't overlook the possibility of pointing a > telescope at an illuminated LED being powered from the > motherboard. It will vary in brightness just as (or even > more) accurately as the supply voltage from a USB
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by A1kmm 15y ago
After a long rant, the chapter of that book comes to the core thesis that consumption will increase, and that consumptive increase will increase demand for labour. The economy finds a way to efficiently use resources until constraints are h
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by A1kmm 15y ago
The problem with your argument is that you are conflating the artificial scarcity aspect of this type of regime with the public interest regulation side of things. It is possible to regulate for safety (with criminal penalties for breach of
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by A1kmm 15y ago
Worrying about keeping the information private is inconsistent with posting it publicly.
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Voting yes or no without discussing why doesn't lead to good policy outcomes. Consensus works far better for policy; 90% of people might read something and think it sounds good, while 10% of people might spot a terrible flaw. Simply voting
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> Since Japanese has more syllables than any other tested language The article claims less information is encoded in each syllable, not more (as would be expected if more syllables were available). The Japanese syllabaric alphabets (hir
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by A1kmm 15y ago
If you write music, it will always be your music, even after the copyright has expired. Copyright is about the government stopping other people from using a work without permission of the copyright holder, not about identifying whose work s

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