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by ajdlinux 10y ago
To many people "corporation" == "for-profit corporation", even though that's definitely not true with the standard legal definitions of "corporation".
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
Heh. Here in .au Amex acceptance is pretty limited in most smaller businesses, but it's universally accepted at supermarkets and department stores, upmarket restaurants, etc. Smaller businesses, as well as hotels, tend to charge surcha
843.
by ajdlinux 10y ago
So it's not a common thing in the US to have additional surcharges for Amex and Diners?
844.
by ajdlinux 10y ago
If I recall correctly, the US has much weaker regulation on credit card merchant fees than the EU and other Western countries?
845.
by ajdlinux 10y ago
23, Australian, have written maybe a dozen personal cheques and a couple of bank cheques, and received maybe 3 or 4. Last time was depositing $20 from my grandmother as a birthday present a couple of months ago...
846.
by ajdlinux 10y ago
I don't know about the legal effect of this, and I don't know about the situation in the US, but here in Australia the requirement that you must use a cheque form supplied by the bank is generally listed in the account's term
847.
by ajdlinux 10y ago
Anyone else having DNS issues?
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
If my memory serves me correctly, a lot of the public outrage at the time was about poor drivers for some time after release?
849.
by ajdlinux 10y ago
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/content/how-participate-linux... is a reasonable overview of the development process, as is the canonical SubmittingPatches ( https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation&
850.
by ajdlinux 10y ago
When I send a patch email, it's just a matter of running "git send-email -1 --to=linuxppc". :) (I'm not saying that we can't do better than patch emails, but after configuring my git client with an SMTP server, it
851.
by ajdlinux 10y ago
Just this afternoon, I went over to the cafe across the road from the office for a couple of hours to get some code review done. This cafe doesn't have WiFi - which is part of the attraction for a less-distracting environment, really.
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
As a developer on the Linux kernel - the project for which Git was initially designed - I recommend people take a good look at the kernel workflow to appreciate where Git came from, and it's a good example of a project where the D in D
853.
by ajdlinux 10y ago
"I would suggest re-naming "rmbdd()". I _assume_ that "dd" stands for "data dependent", but quite frankly, "rmbdd" looks like the standard IBM "we lost every vowel ever invented" kind
854.
by ajdlinux 10y ago
As an IBM PowerPC hacker I'm disappointed that https://twitter.com/ppcinstructions seems to have stopped publishing...
855.
by ajdlinux 10y ago
In many common law jurisdictions (not including my part of Australia any more, but still in many other parts of the Commonwealth), murder is a crime defined by the common law - these days, statutes set what the maximum sentence of a murde
856.
by ajdlinux 10y ago
See also http://www.forbes.com/sites/moorinsights/2016/05/23/a-cache-...
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Cache Coherent Interconnect for Accelerators (CCIX) Consortium(ccixconsortium.com)
2 points by ajdlinux 10y ago|1 comments
858.
by ajdlinux 10y ago
> Would this work when there are different laws for different jurisdictions and there is no way to tell for sure where the user acutally is located? I thought the reason behind the obviousness was to cover everything. This is an obvious
859.
by ajdlinux 10y ago
Last time I was in China (late 2014) I had to provide a photocopy of my Australian passport to obtain a China Mobile SIM. Maybe it's changed since then, but I certainly can't imagine them being any more liberal than Australia, whe
860.
by ajdlinux 10y ago
cf Fred Brooks, "No Silver Bullet - Essence and Accident of Software Engineering", 1986
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
In my experience Chinese airports are pretty horrendous. Here in Australia, airport security is quite reasonable and unless there's major disruption lines are always fairly short.
862.
by ajdlinux 10y ago
Many enterprise environments mandate AV on Linux platforms including workstations.
863.
by ajdlinux 10y ago
A good summary of interesting new things in this release can be found at http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_4.6
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
In countries that aren't the US, things tend to be somewhat closer to this situation... Here in Australia, for example we've basically completely abolished stock certificates for publicly traded companies, and we don't have a
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SpaceX: “Landing confirmed”(twitter.com)
398 points by ajdlinux 10y ago|1 comments
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
Most ordinary Americans in 2016 don't have the same level of power and influence - which many people value in and of itself - as Rockefeller did in 1916.
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
...because after {an exciting day of seeing all the wonderful attractions that there are to see in $COUNTRY, an exhausting day full of business meetings that you don't really want to go to but come with the territory of working for $ME
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
For those who aren't familiar, the Productivity Commission is a major Australian Government advisory body/think tank that conducts public inquiries into matters of economic policy. The Government requested a broad report into the
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Australian Govt Productivity Commission: Draft Report on Intellectual Property(pc.gov.au)
3 points by ajdlinux 10y ago|2 comments
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
For those of us who aren't in the know, apparently FOUT stands for "Flash of Unstyled Text": https://css-tricks.com/fout-foit-foft/

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