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by ajdlinux 7y ago
At least in NSW/ACT, generally speaking, outside of police attendance at an actual crash where someone has been injured, a roadside positive breath test will be followed by an evidentiary breath test (typically taken at a police statio
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
In Australia, it's referred to as drink driving rather than drunk driving. Because it's about impairment of driving ability (as approximated through more objective measures like BAC), not "drunkenness".
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
Malaysia, where Malay is the official language but much of the legal system still runs in English, passed a law that was in fact entitled the "Anti-Fake News Act 2018" and very much uses "fake news" as a legal term. htt
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
Interesting! Whereas here (Australia), at least in my region/social class/etc if I heard someone say "the eye doctor" I'd assume they're going to an ophthalmologist for surgery. Optometrists are their own categ
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
Right, they have a "doctoral" degree, which is a bit bizarre (compared to the BOptom or similar undergrad degree that you'd do in the Commonwealth). But what I'm more interested in - is it common to _call_ an optometrist
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
Is it normal in the US to refer to optometrists as "doctors"?
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
> The bigger criticism I heard about the TPP was extending America's Intellectual Property laws even further across the globe. The IP issues were the big criticism within the tech community, because we care a lot about IP laws, but
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
Take a look at https://www.udacity.com/course/high-performance-computer-arc...
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
I haven't touched FP languages in years, but my first year undergraduate intro programming course was taught in Haskell... FP principles aren't so difficult that the average programmer can't learn them to at least a basic lev
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
You're over 20 years too late to propose this.
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
This analogy is completely broken, obviously. But off-topic: I wonder what computers would look like if there _were_ arbitrary restrictions like that. What directions would we have pursued in microarchitecture, distributed systems, etc etc
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
The term you're looking for is "ocean liner". There is only one ship in the world currently officially classed as an ocean liner, the RMS Queen Mary 2. AFAICT, it's basically a cruise ship, just slightly faster with slig
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
It's also the isolation from regular life, the particular atmosphere of only being around other holidaymakers, stopping at various islands along the way for day trips. Not my idea of an ideal holiday, and the workers' rights + env
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
No - the GDPR regulates transfers of EU citizen data outside of the EU, but it by no means prohibits it. To summarise - the organisation involved follows the rules by transferring data only to other countries that have equivalently strong l
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
It would also enhance gridlock within various EU bodies and structures that require unanimous approval of all member states. (One of the issues they've had to manage with the several Brexit extensions is how to make sure the UK doesn&#
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
I don't think it's that, at all. Right now, there's a _lot_ of anti-China rhetoric from the government and in the press, and insofar as China is attempting influence operations here they're targetting both sides - the op
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
> Armed services salaries are tax-free In Australia, only reservists get tax-free pay, and only when they're not on full-time duty. I think some of the additional military allowances are tax free for full-timers, but not base salary
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
Given the number of central banks worldwide that are interested in phasing out higher value notes completely...
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
Any US lawyers know whether the attempted-appellant has a cause of action against his lawyers for professional negligence here?
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
That is also not a solvable problem. Someone's got to do the interpreting, and if your perfect legal system is so perfect as to not permit the occasional reinterpretation as circumstances and opinions change, it'll just collapse i
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
> If you and a cohort were the last survivors of a dying tribe, with your own special language that no one understood, and you criminally conspired with them via written word, the government could not compel you to translate your message
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
As someone who works for a server manufacturer I very much know how dominant both AMD64 and Linux are. But there's literally billions of Android phones out there.
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
Not disagreeing - I didn't say a verbal agreement isn't binding. What I'm saying is that a verbal agreement is binding if there's an intention to create binding relations, and not binding if there is not that intention.
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
Not a lawyer, but I thought that one element of a binding contract (at least in the common law Anglosphere) is that the parties must intend to create a legally binding relationship - i.e. if two friends agree to each do a favour for each ot
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
IBM has traditionally been a big-endian shop - mainframes are BE, AIX and IBM i on Power are BE. The Motorola 68K, which Apple was using before switching to PowerPC, was also BE. LE support was in the original PowerPC chips from the 90s, an
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
Linux gained support for little endian on IBM Power server CPUs in late 2013, in the lead-up to the release of the POWER8, where LE became the officially recommended option for running Linux. As you say, it's selectable at build time.
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
And generally more expensive luxury private hire services rather than cheaper-than-taxi hire services, as UberX typically is.
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
Thanks to Android, there's probably an order of magnitude more ARM Linux kernels running out there than AMD64 Linux kernels.
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
(disclosure: I'm a PowerPC kernel developer at IBM) The PPC64LE Linux ecosystem is doing quite well, due in large part to the amount of effort that distributions (Red Hat, Ubuntu, Debian, SuSE) as well as IBM and its partners have been
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
Minor correction: Nvidia GPUs on POWER9 are connected using NVLink, which shares its physical layer with OpenCAPI, and like OpenCAPI is cache-coherent, etc, but uses a different data link and transport layer protocol. (I'm one of the O

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