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The magical fantasy land of Linux kernel testing [video](youtube.com)
1 points by ajdlinux 7y ago|0 comments
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
> By 2025 at the latest, there will effectively be no such thing as privacy anymore. All personal data belonging to everyone will have been exfiltrated and will be available for sale. Does your 2025 prediction apply to black market sale
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The sorry state of Australian election software [video](youtube.com)
1 points by ajdlinux 7y ago|0 comments
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
I've never heard anyone use "knighthood" to colloquially describe lesser Commonwealth honours. (Here in Australia, certainly, we've gone back and forth on whether we have knighthoods, and when the Abbott Government brief
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
> My property manager quoted me $90/hr to change a lightbulb. My jaw almost hit the floor. Bear in mind that the tradie who does the job is most likely not getting paid $90/hr. There's overheads and profit margins involved
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
The author raises the point that his account could have been marked due to fake information submitted via their law enforcement request form. It occurs to me that companies don't run bug bounties and authorised pentesting programs for
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Drop Your Tools – Does Expertise Have a Dark Side? [video](youtube.com)
2 points by ajdlinux 7y ago|0 comments
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
They're not the only option, you can still order at the counter, but the store design strongly favours using the kiosk now
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
> I don't understand "back burning" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_burn
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
It's weird - the old taxi companies had their localised oligopolies by law, Uber and Lyft and so on have their global oligopoly through a few other means, not the least of which is their ability to spend billions of Saudi petrobucks on
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
Locals are probably the majority of riders, but a majority by how much? Taxis are a high volume, low margin business, and losing purely the foreign business traveller market alone to Uber has got to sting.
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
As someone who doesn't live in your city, if I were to visit, I'd rather not install another app, create another account, and sort out payment (including capturing receipts for corporate expense claims). Uber has the advantage of
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Volkswagen fined AU$125M for misleading Australian customers on emissions(abc.net.au)
1 points by ajdlinux 7y ago|0 comments
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
When I was there last year, many vendors outright refused cash. Perhaps it would have been different if I were looking actually serious about buying in quantity.
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
I would assume because they consider Canadians generally lower risk, have good relations with Canadian authorities, and really don't want to slow down the line at border crossings.
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
Most people on HN are programmers, not EEs.
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
I'd suggest that "Europe" in this context is really referring to Western/Central Europe, which is the "Europe" that non-European Anglophones tend to think about.
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
I don't know about German train schedules specifically, but in life in general while avoiding tight transfers is generally a good idea sometimes you just have no say in the matter.
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
> The long-distance ones only arrive within 5 minutes 75% of the time The author is an Australian, and is therefore almost certainly most impressed by the fact that long-distance trains exist in any meaningful way at all. Our long distan
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Australian Government unveils 'world-leading' regulation of tech giants(smh.com.au)
2 points by ajdlinux 7y ago|3 comments
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
FWIW, the Singaporean government actively tries to encourage "Good English" rather than Singlish, much to the dismay of many. The Malaysian government doesn't do quite the same type of attempts at social engineering as the Si
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
I cannot reconcile the number of Australian frequent flyers who love to talk about how MEL is so much better than SYD with the ceilings of MEL T1. Yes, yes, I know, it's all about how you don't need to catch a bus to get from T1 t
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
When I go into an airport terminal with lower ceilings (e.g. parts of Melbourne Airport) I feel _noticeably_ more cramped and claustrophobic. It really does make the experience feel worse for me. I'm not entirely sure why it makes me f
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
As others have mentioned, English is an official language in Singapore and South Africa. As for Malaysia, English is not an "official language" however it is an official language in one state, and it is still an important language
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
I'm more concerned with having a word like "felon" to categorise _people_ into "small criminals" and "big criminals", rather than saying what it is they were actually convicted of. Other common law jurisdi
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
The US is a bit special in how it restricts the rights of ex-felons though - it's the only major common law jurisdiction I can think of off the top of my head where some states restrict the voting rights of ex -prisoners.
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
> The title is misleading -- someone convicted of a felony is still a felon after being released from prison. Perhaps it's time for the US to follow the lead of most of its common law brethren in the Commonwealth and get rid of the
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
I can't imagine Beijing even trying to purge a sympathetic HK official lest the public reaction render the city completely ungovernable.
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
You can pay for almost anything online with a debit card if you get a Visa/Mastercard debit card, which is included with practically every bank account over here in Australia. Obviously Visa/MC charge merchants more to accept thei
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
Visa/Mastercard debit cards are a thing.

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