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The federal government also indirectly regulates driver's licenses, cf. the Real ID act ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_ID_Act ).
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I think you may be missing some historical perspective. Microsoft have quite the history of being extremely unpleasant toward free and open source software. There's also this list of more recent issues with their software: https:&#
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8y ago
There's definitely a distance correlation for biking in the USA, where e-biking hasn't seen the explosive growth yet that is happening in Europe. That said - the car is not necessarily faster than biking, especially in the city. A
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8y ago
That makes sense. It's also how I look at hiring. People who have made good contributions to our codebase (arvados.org) are first in line. Being able to look past the resume and pick up good people who don't fit a traditional patt
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8y ago
Different company. You're talking about National Grid, this is Columbia Gas of Massachusetts.
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> Edit: But I don't believe this story is about National Grid. That is correct - the company that owns the infrastructure where things went horribly wrong is Columbia Gas of Massachusetts, which is owned by NISource (NYSE:NI), which
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8y ago
Or why some people say never talk to the police: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mvkgnp/law-professor-poli...
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8y ago
I'm going to guess that that will require accredited investor status ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accredited_investor ).
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8y ago
Or if it is pulverized into dust and becomes airborne, like when you open/close an old painted window, or door.
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8y ago
A little more information: http://www.marcsandersfoundation.org/about/the-founder/
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8y ago
Yes, it's called 'defensive publishing'.
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8y ago
The "vested interests" have the sole purpose of making money for their shareholders. They are corporations, and that is the definition of capitalism. The purpose of environmental groups is to protect the environment. Who would be
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9y ago
Why was the car speeding? Doing 38 mph in a 35 mph zone. Are these things programmed to systematically speed?
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9y ago
From the FAQ: What is my retirements purchasing power today? Inflation is inevitable. If that word is new to you, it simply determines how much purchasing power your dollar has. Historically, inflation has always increased with time. In or
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9y ago
Comcast advertises on broadcast TV all over the bay area "gigabit now available in your area". So I'd think penetration is pretty high now. I wouldn't read too much into that. Here in Boston, the Verizon vans have spor
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9y ago
Ah, Fravia... Yes, his site was indeed a goldmine and I have fond memories of the many things I learned there in the 90's. Curiously enough, the wikipedia page does not mention that part of the mystery of Fravia's site was that he
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9y ago
None of the four freedoms are available in this context, Minix as part of the Intel ME. cf. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html
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9y ago
This article is not FUD and crap. The source of the numbers quoted is here: https://schd.ws/hosted_files/osseu17/84/Replace%20UEFI%20wit... I know Ron Minnich. He is one of the founders of the coreboot projec
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9y ago
Ah, the startup is a photo sharing site. Of course. That explains the "very complex tech stack" that requires a 3 month unpaid stint before you can even get hired.
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9y ago
> Also as trivia, BYTE was the last magazine I ever paid a subscription to (circle 1998?) because I felt cheated after paying up for a full year and after 1 issue, they shut down the operation. I got a form letter saying they would subst
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9y ago
I think you mean mean ETH is turing complete :) Awesome typo.
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9y ago
There are a lot of ways to handle golang for Debian. Here's a quick command to build a golang-1.8.3 package with fpm (download and extract go1.8.3.linux-amd64.tar.gz first; get fpm from https://github.com/jordansissel&
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10y ago
Happy to see more attention to this problem. The FSF called it out back in 2014, as well: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/active-management-techno...
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10y ago
This article has an incorrect premise. The author should learn about SNI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication
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10y ago
Anything written by djb ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_J._Bernstein ): qmail, djbdns, ucspi-tcp, daemontools, etc.
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10y ago
you mean teeth?
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10y ago
The title of this post "The FSF Allows No Derivatives, and That's a Mistake" is misleading. I would suggest something more like "The FSF publishes a book for which no derivative works are permitted".
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10y ago
Owwww, the E70! I loved that phone. Still have mine.
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10y ago
Not exactly; like I said that can happen once or twice. But if it happens 3 times or more in a row, something else is likely going on. And that's a red flag for me when hiring; I don't want to invest in a person only to have them
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10y ago
When I look at resumes, I don't like to see a series of short (less than 18 months, say) stints. It can happen once or twice, no problem - sometimes things just don't work out. If the resume shows three or more short stints, espec
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