RobAley

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by RobAley 14y ago
I think one of the main problems with PayPal is that their procedures are opaque and when your funds get frozen there is no information as to why. It sounds like his intention is the opposite of that.
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by RobAley 14y ago
If we create a program that has all of that, then yes. Note that my criteria (individual items are of course up for discussion, but the point is a broad range of human/animal like criteria) go way beyond pain. Emotion, empathy, maybe other
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by RobAley 14y ago
Perhaps we are talking at cross purposes. I'm not saying "every little helps", more like "ALL little helps". Saving 5% of my ketchup doesn't help me save 5% of my carbon emissions. Saving 5% of the ketchup, 3% of the mayonnaise, 10% of the
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by RobAley 14y ago
Actually, when considering things like climate change, these small contributions are important, because they don't sit on their own. Most plans for significant carbon emission reductions that don't significantly change our standard of livin
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Apple must pay $368m after a court ruled FaceTime video calls infringed patents(theregister.co.uk)
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by RobAley 14y ago
We are animals. We are not robots or vegetables. If a robot becomes sufficiently sentient, possesses emotions and needs, has empathy and reproductive capacity, and other such animal traits, then I see no reason not to extend similar rights
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by RobAley 14y ago
"we are animals" && "I don't see why any animal ... deserves more rights than any other" I think that's his point. We are not too different from dolphins.
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by RobAley 14y ago
You still require honesty from the advertiser. Whats to stop the advertiser omitting the script on every nth completion page to reduce their outgoings? Maybe omitting it for high value orders as test orders are likely to be low value, white
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by RobAley 14y ago
Legal Tender only means what you have to accept in settlement of a debt. You can choose to accept small denomination coins in any volume, or anything else for that matter. But if you have agreed a transaction with someone, or otherwise
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by RobAley 14y ago
Don't fall into the same trap as the recording industries did, which is to assume that your market model will stay the same for ever. It won't, and developers don't tend to have the same lobbying power to get new laws to try and cling onto
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by RobAley 14y ago
I appreciate that you don't have all of the info on whats happening, and that those who do are a tad busy right now. However, as I understand from your profile you are a coder on Kiln[1]. Are you really telling us you don't know whether the
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by RobAley 14y ago
Apologies, the link was copied from an unrelated post elsewhere and I didn't really look at the URL, no slight of hand was expected by them. I think your guess is probably wrong though, in a status post 2 days ago they listed[1] the precaut
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by RobAley 14y ago
When FogBugz on Demand launched, Joel touted 2 data centers[1] , in NY and LA, "for the once-in-a-lifetime case of an entire data center blowing up". What happened to the second data center? [1] http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search
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by RobAley 14y ago
> "we are confident that all of our services will remain available" When you get this statement from an outfit with the pedigree and experience of Fog Creek, its as close to a guarantee as you're going to find. No misreading necessary.
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by RobAley 14y ago
There isn't much beyond what they did, assuming you don't have another datacenter to preemptively switch load to. But what you don't do is tell your customers it will be all good. You tell them what you've done and warn them they may be dow
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by RobAley 14y ago
I'm sorry, but these chaps have been around the block a few times, they're not new start-ups. They know that there is no way on earth you can guarantee (or even reasonably be sure that) a single datacenter won't fail, even under non-emergen
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by RobAley 14y ago
"Given the preparation work that's gone into this, we are confident that all of our services will remain available to our customers throughout the weather." - yesterdays update. Try not to let your fingers type cheques your datacenters can'
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by RobAley 14y ago
I likewise use different browsers often during development, mainly for testing and exploring browser specific options, but use Firefox for my main browser and bookmarking etc. When I want to access a bookmark in, say, Chrome, if the page i
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by RobAley 14y ago
Do you have any links to the bugs? We use 5.4 in production and haven't had any issues with APC, so I'm curious if we're missing anything relevant to our use case.
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by RobAley 14y ago
> I would want to be prosecuted in the UK. The proper place to be prosecuted is the one in which the wider interests of justice and society are served. To that end the location of the victim and/or the perpetrator are both irrelevant. I
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by RobAley 14y ago
> You're never going to get an entirely impartial speaker given that this is someone who ran as a political candidate for one party I think thats the main problem. He/she acts as a moderator, and I struggle to think of any other forum w
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by RobAley 14y ago
Yeah, I was being sarcastic and generalising for effect. That said, I was pretty harsh to the one that sold me a mortgage, her incompetence at completing the paperwork and delays nearly cost me the chance to buy my house. In general most of
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by RobAley 14y ago
His "victim" was in the US and he knew that, so I don't think its so simple. The problem I, and I think most people, have is twofold : 1 - There was and is no clear legal framework for intro-jurisdictional crimes like this. The law should b
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by RobAley 14y ago
It doesn't actually affect the decisions too much in these particular cases. The cases for and against extradition are invariably fought over issues of human rights, and the law is quite clear that British and EU statutes apply equally to e
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by RobAley 14y ago
> There are over 600 MPs, that's always going to be an issue. I think their complaint isn't that they were struggling due to shear numbers, but due to the partisan speaker and deference to party leaders.
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by RobAley 14y ago
Apologies, I was being slightly sarcastic, they were indeed only alleged criminals . The bankers were proven bankers, which isn't usually a crime (though at times perhaps should be), and also hadn't been found guilty in a court of law. Edit
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by RobAley 14y ago
If you talk to some backbench MPs (usually opposition and/or minority parties) you will find that they (claim to) struggle to get the (partisan) speaker to allot time for them to speak, particularly in high-profile debates and sessions.
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by RobAley 14y ago
I had to move the Daily Mail off a seat on the bus the other week and it literally made my skin crawl. A childish and visceral reaction perhaps, but not an unusual one for anyone with an ounce of empathy for others I think. Edit: Yes, that
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by RobAley 14y ago
I'm not. They had to make sure they could get some terrorists and bankers extradited before they could cave on this and change the rules.
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by RobAley 14y ago
Aside from both cases being extremely political, the reasons that both were/are fighting extradition are quite different (mental illness vs. political machinations). Extradition to EU countries is also often viewed differently to the US by

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