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Around the same time the University of Western Australia's computer club had an internet connected coke machine: https://www.ucc.asn.au/services/drink.ucc
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Highways and streets without sidewalks or suitable verges.
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I feel that 350k+ is an exaggeration or perhaps the top 10% of Netflix engineers. Netflix is well known for paying large salaries almost entirely in cash (though I've heard that it's at the expense of an equity package or more ful
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I don't think arrest to conviction conversion rate is very meaningful by itself since in many jurisdictions the prosecutors get to choose which arrested persons to prosecute and how vigorously.
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Off topic but Ramez's novels are excellent, have a look at Nexus!
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Two movies, Sneakers and Hackers led me to my career. They're still two of my favorite movies, each for different reasons.
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While shenanigans do go on at Defcon and Blackhat most of these "no computers, no cell phone" precautions are overreactions.
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In my experience with running bug bounties it will be cheaper in terms of time (and probably in terms of money) and more effective to hire an application security consultant to look at the projects first. Bug bounties require a lot of time
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This isn't what most people think of when they hear data breach. There was a breach of DoD security standards when data was transferred to an inappropriate environment but no evidence that the data has been leaked beyond that transfer.
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Turns out the JOBS Act specifically exempts employee stock plan recipients from the 500 (or 2000) shareholder count.
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Thanks!
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Would the average AirBNB host be an accredited investor? Also, I hadn't heard that employee grants are not considered towards the investor limit, is it just that holding options doesn't make you an investor or is it more than that
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Riot Games was largely funded by venture capital. In 2008 they raised 7 million in VC funding from Benchmark Capital and FirstMark Capital. Here's the press release: http://www.riotgames.com/sites/default/file
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Instant eSports is about video games even if they don't themselves make video games.
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Job postings that are aiming to satisfy visa requirements are generally easy to identify. Here are some indicators: * They're usually listed in a Sunday newspaper rather than online. * They will not be posted to the company's web
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I'd say that they have different security problems rather than more.
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As a fellow Australian I would love voting machines to encourage below the line senate voting and to allow even faster tabulation of results. I'd argue that we're stretching the limits of paper ballots with the current senate situ
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They're looking at how many hours worked at minimum wage that it would take to afford an average priced 2 bedroom apartment, if you only spend 30% of your income of housing.
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As a Perthian living in LA I think it's interesting to note that Perth has about the same area as Greater LA (minus San Bernardino and Riverside counties) yet Perth has 1/9th of the population (2 million vs 18 million). Commuting
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If this article interested you, keep an eye out for an upcoming book "A History of the Great Empires of Eve Online" http://evehistory.com/
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Jackson Pollock's Alchemy has been subjected to a variety of 3D scans and xrays to try and capture its texture and height. The Guggenheim museum in Venice has a 3d printed monochrome reproduction of it that's pretty impressive. He
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My first level 60 (in classic) took me about 20 days played (call it 500 hours). Other people were reporting that 16-17 days was typical and 12 days was about how long a concerted leveling effort would take. If he really took a year off to
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Software/Security/Systems/Network Engineering * Los Angeles, CA * Saint Louis, MO * Dublin, Ireland On-site only, visas available Riot Games - http://www.riotgames.com/careers --- We make League of Legends (a
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When Google measures itself against other search engines it is primarily interested in measuring search quality and not market share. Google has put a lot of effort into creating test query suites and other systems that can be used to evalu
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The security flaws found by that independent review aren't particularly worrying. Clearly there are improvements that could be made but almost all of the problems that they found were procedural and the ones that were technical amounte
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The same way we make sure that non-online votes aren't tampered with. Audits (of the procedures, devices and people involved in the votes as well as the results) as well as impartial (or mutually hostile) observers as well as a legal f
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It's been working ok in Estonia for a decade: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voting_in_Estonia Sure there are risks to online voting but it's significantly less risky than many of the other pieces of
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I don't know if they're offering equity at the moment but they were offering it to engineers 18 months ago.
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It's not about whether there is any astroturfing going on, it's preemptively calling it out, implying that everyone who disagrees is astroturfing. It's similar to people who say things like "I know I'm going to get
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Your comment would be stronger if you omitted the final sentence. Fortifying your opinion by preemptively calling other people contributing to the discussion "astroturfers and apologists" is poor form.

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