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by ajdlinux 9y ago
And so should "open-source code is utility software". Stallman was right when he said that the Open Source movement would eventually abandon any conceptions of software freedom - it seems to me that we now have a whole generation
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
How much time do we now need to spend trying to choose a boilerplate?
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
Well, poor them. Regulatory risk is just one of the risks of investing. Yes, it sucks that some of them are going to be the retirees of the world, but again, that applies generally to all investing. When you're making public policy, yo
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
No idea about the situation in the US, where there are constitutional rules about this stuff, but here in my jurisdiction in Australia, they fairly recently passed laws making it illegal to resist arrest even if it turns out the arrest was
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
A further alternative - require that certain businesses that reach this level of monopolistic influence transition into some kind of Public Benefit Corporation. I don't quite know what this would look like, but I'm thinking of som
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
Nobody's forcing in the sense of directly threatening you if you don't use Google or Facebook, that is true. But: (a) particularly with regards to social networking, the social pressure to use walled-garden sites like Facebook can
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
I don't know about the US, but in Australia, our foreign bribery laws explicitly exempt "facilitation payments", i.e. bribes that are customarily paid to grease the wheels of bureaucracy and get routine government actions don
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
Uber already has a points deal going with Starwood Hotels - SPG points are a fairly common currency among the "professional" points collectors, as they're super-exchangeable for just about any airline, but probably not the ki
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
A shower in the lounge after your long-haul trip when you're waiting for your domestic connection can also be absolutely fantastic.
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
Australian constitutional conspiracy theorists are my favourite kind of conspiracy theorists!
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
Can confirm that I still have the ability to request certificates on demand just by filling out a form in the online account manager. (As an Australian, the idea that stock certificates are still something that exists at all for publicly-li
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
(I need to do a bit more research when I get home and have access to my account details... this is, of course, the understanding of one, individual, non-American investor.) No - in my case, Computershare is the transfer agent , not a nom
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
Cede & Co isn't the nominal registered owner of all stock on the US markets - not all US shares are street name. My IBM shares, for example, are held directly with Computershare as transfer agent/share registry. Of course, g
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
So, how generous are programmers as a profession?
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
Yeah, I didn't check before I made up that number - I've seen that site before, and apparently I'm already in the top 0.4%. Maybe add another zero in there...
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
I'm a junior developer in a megacorp, where I sometimes think about how I'm not getting the salary I could be getting if I moved to SF, negotiated a bit harder, pushed for quicker promotions... But I'm not the lowest paid per
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
In Australia I have seen "platinum" debit cards with 3. 2 definitely makes sense. 1 probably varies by jurisdiction, of course.
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
Are you an employee or a contractor? From among my circle of friends working for foreign companies the possible arrangements I've seen are: (a) employee of Australian subsidiary of foreign company (my situation) (b) employee, under a c
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
The kernel lists get plenty of trolls regardless.
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
What's the difference in consumer protection between a credit card and a Visa/MC debit card?
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
I'm a 24 year old Australian and I certainly knew swipe cards when I got my first bank account...
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
I just keep my mailbox keys on the same keyring as my house keys, so I check the mailbox before I go inside...
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
My large megacorp has an explicit policy forbidding employees from using work addresses for personal parcels - allegedly, they're concerned that shipments from overseas could lead to customs import paperwork being sent to them and bein
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
IDK, the vast majority of my international purchases have been delivered by AusPost - it's actually domestic PC parts shops and eBay sellers that I have the most problems with as a lot of them choose to use companies like Fastway and
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
My two specific problems: I have an unresolved bug report open with them regarding failing to clear notifications, and the Linux client is the only of the 3 desktop clients that doesn't allow you to switch off the notifications dot, wh
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
> I know this makes me sound old, but I really wish popular open source projects would just stick to IRC as it just works I agree that Slack is pretty painful - the Linux client may as well be unsupported. But it's still a hell of a
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
Netflix and YouTube have strong IPv6 support and chew through a lot of bandwidth, perhaps?
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
Intuitively, I'd expect that a day care provider has a higher ratio of children to staff than families have of children to primary caregivers, and that the difference is such that subsidising day care can increase GDP just by freeing u
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
As a non-American, it surprises me greatly that a restaurant that doesn't take credit cards would happily accept a cheque of all things.
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
I'm a 20-something Australian who is possibly the only 20-something Australian I know who at one point had a chequebook. The only time I've found cheques useful outside of paying for my rental bond (for which you need a bank chequ

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