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Canada police chiefs push for law forcing people to hand over passwords(thestar.com)
4 points by grownseed 10y ago|0 comments
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by grownseed 10y ago
That's a fair question and, not being hugely familiar with the legal system, I'm not sure what that would fall under. I'm thinking something along the lines of intentional deceit or unfair/manipulative representation of
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by grownseed 10y ago
It’s always about events that happened and not about things that didn’t happen. This conversation and the above quote in particular remind me of this article posted here a while back: "Why the world is not falling apart" (
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by grownseed 10y ago
As others have said, the salaries aren't particularly enticing and this is being felt strongly in a place as expensive as Vancouver. Interestingly, I think this might drive a boost in immigration - the reason I can stay in Vancouver is
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by grownseed 10y ago
This is very nice! A while back, I attempted to interact with Bluetooth/BLE on Windows 10 with Node.js, which didn't go particularly well... I switched to ChakraCore (pretty rough at the time but required for node-uwp support) whi
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by grownseed 10y ago
This is really interesting. Looking at the references in the paper, the first one is about racial bias. A question I've often asked myself is (in various other forms): rather than having the bias be put forward by the researchers in th
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by grownseed 10y ago
Just wanted to say thanks to everybody for the great feedback! I'm really glad I turned to HN for this. Some people mentioned OpenMedia, who happen to be based in Vancouver where I am, so I'm planning on giving them a shout soon.
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Ask HN: Addressing Canadian Telco Abuse of Power
35 points by grownseed 10y ago|17 comments
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by grownseed 10y ago
A random, cursory look didn't yield anything particularly interesting: lots of fairly shallow emails, google groups conversations, disgruntled citizens writing in all caps and a fair bit of spam. Granted, I'm also relying on Googl
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Time reversal and holography with spacetime transformations(nature.com)
2 points by grownseed 10y ago|0 comments
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by grownseed 10y ago
This is great, thank you so much for sharing. My significant other is an early childhood educator and always laments that the people who build and design computer software/hardware don't understand how children think and interact
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by grownseed 10y ago
IFLScience is nice to expose people to a scientific idea on a social network or something, but I'm not sure they have their place here. In any case, if you're looking for something a bit meatier, I highly recommend reading this ar
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by grownseed 10y ago
I have a particularly strong attachment to Scotland, and as most Scottish people have, I would have voted to remain in the EU, however messy it is, though I suppose my opinion on the matter has little relevance since I can't vote. More
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Medical Assistance in Dying – Bill C-14 [pdf](justice.gc.ca)
1 points by grownseed 10y ago|0 comments
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by grownseed 10y ago
Worth a shot, I know there are some people around here who don't know what to do with their money, who might be considering financing the next chat/social/... app, but I implore you to consider supporting Gavan full-time (sho
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by grownseed 10y ago
The announcement starts by patronizing the reader ("most of us imagine container ships ..."), then proceeds to use a "for the children"-type argument ("small business"), directly followed by "for freedom!&
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by grownseed 10y ago
If you ever feel like being dehumanized in the most senseless fashion, immigration is definitely the way to go. Currently an immigrant in Canada, I recently went through a bit of an ordeal. I've been a Temporary Foreign Worker for a fe
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by grownseed 10y ago
How these agencies have manage to thrive for so long, and continue to do so, remains utterly baffling to me. In the US, the FBI, the NSA and the CIA (and I'm sure others) have been caught red-handed on so many occasions and ... nothing
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Whitehall’s missing millions(independent.co.uk)
1 points by grownseed 10y ago|0 comments
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by grownseed 10y ago
Thank you for your comment, you bring up some very valid points. I think I might not have expressed myself clearly enough on some of mine so I apologize for that. set the income tax to a flat 20% The 20% I mentioned was a completely
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by grownseed 10y ago
This is probably where my ignorance of socio-economics will shine, so please bear with me. In all the articles I've come across regarding universal basic income, I've never seen the idea of a flat tax rate mentioned (e.g. everybod
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by grownseed 10y ago
From the Liberation article [0] (which has a strong French bias): - France has stopped further negotiations with the US regarding TTIP as the US do not seem to be willing to give enough in return - TISA has now been leaked, although discuss
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by grownseed 10y ago
What a gong show... Falciani aside, we have big banks fully implicated in high street robbery while suffering next to no damage (insignificant fines/settlements, no arrests) on one side, and on the other side we have government actors
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by grownseed 10y ago
> a remote control that uses your Mi smartphone as its viewfinder This seems like a strange limitation, unless of course this is just trying to push Xiaomi's other products, which wouldn't be so surprising considering this arti
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by grownseed 10y ago
Thanks! One of the points for me is also to be able to customize the software, so that looks like an excellent start. The hardware is still a problem, I've tried to find microphones like the one on the Echo, but the few that seem to me
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by grownseed 10y ago
The page linked here is basically an ad with no content (yet it manages to have a scrollbar no matter the window size...). Tried to look for actual specs but couldn't find anything, does anybody have anything more substantial? On anoth
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by grownseed 10y ago
I'm afraid I don't have any specific textbooks to recommend, I've learnt mostly through osmosis (having no real bio background originally), and I've also found the Coursera materials [1] to be really good and accessible.
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by grownseed 10y ago
The hype around epigenetics, or anything-genetics in general, has been going for a while [1], and it has some very annoying consequences. A lot of the friends I talk to about the subject barely have an inkling of how even basic genetics wor
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High-throughput plant phenotyping is ready for a close-up (2015) [pdf](sciencedirect.com)
1 points by grownseed 10y ago|0 comments
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by grownseed 10y ago
The advice in the article talks specifically about the US, but I've seen the exact same issues come up in a lot of other countries (and to an extent other jobs too). Good teachers need to be paid more, and for that to happen, normalize

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