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by jamesk_au 11y ago
I'm afraid that doesn't make much sense to me. If requiring a one-time paid upgrade after X days is prohibited, why would requiring multiple paid upgrades after X days be allowed? If you happen to know of any sources for that pol
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by jamesk_au 11y ago
Some iOS developers are using in-app purchases to provide support for trial periods. For example, a fitness app named "Sweat with Kayla"[1] (apparently a renowned female personal trainer) is currently featured prominently at the t
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by jamesk_au 11y ago
Those behind the study appear to be of the view that it can't be done: "This study could not be designed in a double-blind fashion due to the nature of meditation training and placebo conditioning. Specifically, placebo cream coul
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by jamesk_au 11y ago
You can read the full paper here: http://jn.sfn.org/press/November-18-2015-Issue/zns0461501530... Fascinating results.
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by jamesk_au 11y ago
Significant improvement. Please don't bail.
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by jamesk_au 11y ago
Amy's post is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5633063
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by jamesk_au 11y ago
Yes. Capture the nostalgia for old players while revitalising the concept for new players. Sierra just released a new King's Quest game. Anything is possible.
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Dentons and IBM join to fuel legal tech startups(dentons.com)
2 points by jamesk_au 11y ago|0 comments
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by jamesk_au 11y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9752487
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Why we kept our startup (BugHerd) in Australia(macropod.com)
1 points by jamesk_au 11y ago|1 comments
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by jamesk_au 11y ago
It could be either depending on the person and how they came into possession of the information. Government officials likely have statutory duties prohibiting the disclosure of confidential information learned during the course of their du
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by jamesk_au 11y ago
There are many reasons favouring disclosure of this information, but is offering to buy the information really the best approach here? The public officials who possess the information are likely bound by legal duties not to disclose it to t
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Experimental Australian scheme to eradicate long-term homelessness(theguardian.com)
80 points by jamesk_au 11y ago|16 comments
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by jamesk_au 12y ago
For anyone else interested, here are some examples[1] of the ways in which the experimenter strayed from the script: "In listening to the original recordings of the experiments, it's clear that Milgram's experimenter John Wi
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by jamesk_au 12y ago
Given the closing line was " You guys are clearly great hackers and we’d be happy to hear from you again in the future ," my impression was that YC's answer was not so much 'no' as 'not yet'. The OP says i
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by jamesk_au 12y ago
There is actually a whole board game based on autocomplete results[1] which is like a cross between Balderdash and Cards Against Humanity. Players create their own autocomplete results and then try to guess the real one. This review is pr
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by jamesk_au 12y ago
At least for fries, this is apparently about to be rolled out across Australia by a company unrelated to McDonald's: "You put your money in and it goes from frozen to the fryer and in your cup within two minutes and 20 seconds,&
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by jamesk_au 12y ago
I understand the concern, and I agree that real problems arise - relatively often - when people don't take the time to read and understand contracts before they sign them. I don't have any data for the following assertion, but I
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by jamesk_au 12y ago
In Australia, we have some beneficial consumer laws (eg prohibiting misleading conduct in trade or commerce), and I have heard of some people deliberately not reading contracts so that they can rely on favourable oral representations made t
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by jamesk_au 12y ago
The proposition that it is impractical to read and understand every contract we enter into does not present a need for a law invalidating or avoiding every contract where insufficient time to read and understand it is not given. I think th
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by jamesk_au 12y ago
There's no need for such a law.[1] If you haven't read it, or if you don't understand it, don't sign it. Problem solved. If you don't have the confidence to ask for time to consider or seek advice about a contract
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Australian researchers create world's first 3D-printed jet engine(abc.net.au)
1 points by jamesk_au 12y ago|0 comments
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by jamesk_au 12y ago
The main reason I have (at least some) confidence in my friends' ratings being more useful than those of the general population is that the system approximates what my friends and I currently tend to do, which is go to restaurants reco
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by jamesk_au 12y ago
But a five star rating system that aggregates the opinions of my friends and colleagues (i.e. people whose tastes tend to be positively correlated with my own) is much more useful to me than a system that aggregates ratings from some genera
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by jamesk_au 12y ago
Incredible. It even evolves a walker resembling a variant of a kangaroo (at [01:57]). With a target speed of 1.0 m/s, the legs alternate in taking small steps, but at 2.0 m/s, both legs are used to jump.
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by jamesk_au 12y ago
Could you elaborate on the "summary of my year and what is coming next" please? How do you make it relevant and interesting to clients, eg if your contracts tend to involve disparate kinds of work? Or is this possible because yo
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by jamesk_au 12y ago
Re the pot bust, it seems the constitutional backdrop may have forced both sides into a tacit understanding that pot is fine so long as it stays at home: Dave Schofield is the chief of police in Whittier. He is also the only officer who li
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by jamesk_au 12y ago
It does seem a bit exaggerated: "In its current iteration, a Gimbal beacon requires a third-party app to trigger advertisements, and requires those apps to receive 'opt-in' permission from users in order to collect data and
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by jamesk_au 12y ago
I love some of the descriptions from the Apogee catalog: Crystal Caves - "Stunning cinematic sequences" Spear of Destiny - "Breathtaking soundtrack ... for AdLib, Sound Blaster or compatible" Commander Keen 6 - &quo
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by jamesk_au 12y ago
The fact that Apple could in the future modify their system to permit them to read iMessages (e.g. by interposing themselves between sender and receiver using fake public keys) is not really a fair basis for alleging that Tim Cook or anyone

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