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by ajdlinux 7y ago
Uber didn't exist 10 years ago, and taxis are still around so clearly Uber hasn't _completely_ wiped them out in that period. I'm mostly an Uber user now, but even I still end up in a taxi on (very rare) occasions at home and
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
There's only one state in Australia that has mandatory registration of engineers. There are several more states that are currently starting up mandatory registration schemes, and of course the national professional bodies operate volun
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
This is one thing the Linux kernel does comparatively well compared to most open source projects.
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
No - read the linked page, specifically question 12. Opt-out and objection are separate. You can only object if you do not opt-out.
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
Right, but I'm interested in what happens if you _object_ rather than _opt out_. I wonder what the court's process for considering those objections is.
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
The old Australian online tax filing system, through to the early 2010s, was an extremely 90s-looking Delphi application, Windows only for most of that time until they released an OS X port towards the end. Linux support consisted of a note
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
I file my taxes in Australia using a government-run web application. It's not perfect (like all big government systems it has outages, etc etc) but I can't really complain about it, it's more than adequate to get the job done
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
I wonder what actually happens if you send them an objection (per section 11 of the linked page).
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
Yeah, that's a fair point - for high volume/low margin industries 1% of revenue is quite a bit of profit. I'm much more impressed by a pledge to give 1% of revenue than, e.g., https://pledge1percent.org/profit
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
Relevantly - if their Cherokee delegate is a non-voting delegate, then while they may have two representatives on the floor of the house speaking for their interests, they only have one who can be involved in the formal exercise of said Hou
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
I certainly applaud business leaders who are willing to make commitments like this - though is it just me, or is it kind of sad that in the current business environment, a 1% pledge is considered ambitious?
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
The important part is that someone has to mirror it.
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
As an Australian I was very confused the first time I flew British Airways while I was on my way back home from the Netherlands to find that they proudly advertise their buy-on-board menu as the "Marks & Spencer on-board menu"
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
Applies across a bunch of companies (I use my IBM email but I know quite a few kernel devs here who prefer to keep their open source contributions under their personal email).
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
But relevantly, the EEC laid the foundations for the customs union well before it transitioned to becoming the EU, which is what GP is interested in. The EU customs union is separate from the borderless arrangements of the Schengen Area - t
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
> It’s also not part of the European Union, but is within the EU Customs zone. As opposed to the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar, which is within the European Union, but outside the EU Customs area (until Brexit, at which point i
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
You can see the government's version of the US Code at https://uscode.house.gov/ . The Cornell version is more browsable. The Office of the Law Revision Counsel is responsible for taking each individual Act of Congress
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
Putting aside the question of what they do and don't teach in law school - over in my part of the world, where, as is normal in the British Commonwealth, law is normally studied at an undergraduate level, it's fairly standard for
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
And if you read the Background section, you'll see that this list is the result of a process where the USTR asked for exclusion requests, and companies had to provide the codes of the specific products they want excluded. "Under t
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
As an Australian who travels to NZ reasonably regularly the lack of touch payments, and even credit card acceptance (vs NZ EFTPOS acceptance) is noticeable. Australia has now launched real time payments though, so I hope NZ catches up befor
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
> In practice: I only work in smaller teams Are you using git in an open source project, or is this proprietary software within a single company?
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
It has to stop taking 3 times as long to load Slack, or crashing/freezing when I'm using WebEx. Yes, the applications bear a lot of blame here, but they are the applications I am stuck with for business use.
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Microwatt – A Tiny Open Power ISA Softcore Written in VHDL 2008(github.com)
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
A similar article by Vicky Xiuzhong Xu, a journalist in Australia: https://www.smh.com.au/national/blinkered-chinese-nationalis...
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
The toy soft-core VHDL model that is referred to there will be available at https://github.com/antonblanchard/microwatt at some point in the next couple of days.
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
Cases in point: https://sthbrx.github.io/blog/2018/08/15/improving-performan...
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
I seem to recall reading an article on HN a few weeks ago about how banks are pulling out of the safety deposit business now that their new branches don't really need vaults for cash, and it's not clear that any replacement for th
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
On the street in several cities in Australia so far.
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
I read that differently in light of the section heading "These Days Are Gone".
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
Over here in the ACT, we have an official policy of "salt and peppering", i.e. spreading public housing out evenly across the city including in wealthy areas. Of course, whether the policy matches the reality... https:/&#x2F

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