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by hydrox24 8y ago
Courts will always base their decisions on case law, and I suspect that you can reasonably expect a certain kind of GDPR case law to arise, given what the standing case law is already.
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by hydrox24 8y ago
I would be interested in using Pollen[0], or Racket, to construct an online eBook in the vein of Matthew Butterick's work[1]. Does that sound like something you would like to see? [0]: http://docs.racket-lang.org/pollen&
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by hydrox24 8y ago
The other thing that needs to be considered in political office is the long-term effect of shaping an institution. In Australia, P.M. John Howard (1996–2007) slowly centralised a great deal of policy making power by moving it from departmen
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by hydrox24 8y ago
What are the risks to using a system like this? Is it possible that the feedback loops they have built the system into could actually degrade the data being collected?
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by hydrox24 8y ago
I would love to know what the legal situation is like in Estonia—are they required to maintain it to a certain level or keep it in it's original condition? Also, I'm visiting really soon and I would love to see the inside of one o
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by hydrox24 8y ago
> They are really taking internet very serious and taking the lead in many related areas. Indeed they are. I stumbled across this link because I'm travelling to Estonia in a few months (found from Wikipedia's image of the day,
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by hydrox24 8y ago
Are you going to stop people from buying $2000 of ad space in their local newspaper and using it to personally endorse a candidate? Or endorse a candidates' stance on a range of issues? Or push hard for the same side of an issue that a
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by hydrox24 8y ago
> voting with dollars may effect the change that voting with ballots may not This does not mean 'real' change is only created by consumption. I think spac means that consumption may well affect what political institutions do no
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by hydrox24 8y ago
They used a lot of different measures. I'll try and summarise the key ones here: Academic achievement was measured using the Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Educational Battery Revised, a "commonly used measure of cognitive ability and ac
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by hydrox24 8y ago
You need a statement because a question is not falsifiable. Asking students to come up with a statement rather than a question is one step closer to coming up with a falsifiable proposition. Your high school self stumbled onto a serious deb
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by hydrox24 8y ago
The provincial government or federal government appoints judges. [0] But if it is anything like here in Australia (we are both Westminster systems) then this does not mean the government is held accountable. Judge appointments are assumed t
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by hydrox24 9y ago
The best thing about this approach is that replacment computers can use related but distinct versions of their ancestor's names. For instance, my old server was called TheQ (i.e. 'Q' from James Bond) and the new one is named
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by hydrox24 9y ago
It depends on when you were in Australia. EFTPOS fees for small amounts were essentially outlawed a year or so ago. That has made a big difference to pushing the final hold-out businesses into cashless in the last few months.
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by hydrox24 9y ago
In Australia, we intentionally collapsed most of our vocational schools into our public universities a couple of decades ago. I guess that was fairly unique because it was such a conscious decision. Universities in the modern world _are_ in
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by hydrox24 9y ago
I don't think they offer hope beyond their own borders. India may rise to be a liberal world power with a free people and parliamentary government, but that doesn't really give me hope that the many other nations in the region wil
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by hydrox24 9y ago
You continue holding the same position, having not been convinced to change it. Though I think it is even better to weigh how much of the argument rests on the fallacious premise (or step) and then evaluate the argument sans fallacy.
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by hydrox24 9y ago
> Which is ultimately better for the economy? Only asking this question will naturally lead you to hypotheticals where dictatorships give better results. There are absolutely some systemic disadvantages to democratic systems, but I don&#
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by hydrox24 9y ago
WaterDeeply is just one 'single-topic platform' that NewsDeeply[0] creates. I follow their Syria deeply platform and find that incredibly helpful when I see a bit of mainstream news coverage, but it doesn't provide enough con
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by hydrox24 9y ago
The old—even ancient—cities of Europe avoided the mistake of suburban building and have a naturally high-density shape from having been built before the automobile.
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by hydrox24 9y ago
> conceited effort I think you probably meant concerted effort. e.g. That there has been a combined community effort where everyone works together. Conceited effort means an extremely self-interested effort, which is a plausible meaning,
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by hydrox24 9y ago
> star trek style utopia Utopia and dystopia may be a fine line, but I like the theory that Star Trek is a dystopic, culturally desolate future. [0] [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1Kju_-1sYM
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by hydrox24 9y ago
> "I don't think the Pence rule is necessary or helpful" It isn't necessary for most people in most industries, but it is a rule that some men may need more than others. That is a matter of personal judgement. It is a
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by hydrox24 9y ago
> prepackaged crap has been the norm for so long > if you're poor, it's difficult to eat this way, though. And it is difficult for some poor people to eat this way because their cultural poverty exacerbates or even causes th
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by hydrox24 9y ago
They can only wipe out your funds if they copy they wipe is the only copy. But this is extremely poor practice, and backups are very common practice to protect against precisely this sort of thing.
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by hydrox24 9y ago
I was asked a CAPTCHA every couple of weeks during heavy bursts of search, but this was only when I used the https://encrypted.google.com along with similar privacy measures to you. I was also on a VPN sometimes.
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by hydrox24 9y ago
https://medium.com/@matt_11659/matt-barrie-australias-econom... This is a link to this story, but with the original references and links.
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by hydrox24 9y ago
> In Australia, the average person in the street might think that the way that you get into the Prime Minister’s office is by being elected by the people. Since 1966, this has only been true about 40% of the time. Well not only are they
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by hydrox24 9y ago
You're right that there are a couple of odd, basic inaccuracies. > As if the Australian economy needed further headwinds, the developer-enamoured evangelical right have crucified NSW’s night time economy. Reactionary puritans and op
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by hydrox24 9y ago
As with most things, you'll only find mediocre products if you don't look very hard. Most people would scoff at a keyboard that cost more than $50, and so almost every store stocks keyboards that cost less than $50 and are as medi

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