jamesk_au

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by jamesk_au 12y ago
The members of a company are generally its owners or shareholders, and the company exists to carry out its objects - if the objects of the company are commercial, that usually means providing a return to shareholders. But the point made by
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by jamesk_au 12y ago
(I'm also in NSW)-- The list of "support requests" on the customers page suggests that the tools are used only in accordance with duly-issued warrants. Access would need to be removed once the purpose of the warrant had been
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by jamesk_au 12y ago
The notion of "walling off" information apparently also extends to court testimony and the prosecution brief: "However, when the mention of Hemisphere data in official documentation or court testimony is unavoidable ... Hemi
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by jamesk_au 13y ago
An essential part of the real life bargaining experience is that you're stuck with the attempts you make and, short of finding a new vendor, you can't try again with a clean slate. How do you propose to deal with users who (eg) op
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by jamesk_au 13y ago
> In Bitcoin, though the system itself is "trustless", participants trust that they are all treated equally according to the protocol & open source code. But Bitcoin participants do not have to act on " trust &quot
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by jamesk_au 13y ago
For those interested in reading about this, there were some good comments in the previous HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7066079
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by jamesk_au 13y ago
Still no need for cursing, or for ad hominem remarks. HN is at its best when this does not occur.
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Note that the "industry leaders" who "stand by this statement" have published slightly different variations of it. See, for example, Circle's statement[1], which styles itself as a joint statement regarding "th
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by jamesk_au 13y ago
"With MusicBox you'll get bundles of kick-ass songs from new artists delivered straight to your inbox twice per month." Kudos for making a fresh attempt to solve the music discovery problem, which is often a source of frust
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by jamesk_au 13y ago
One of the principal issues raised here - and not squarely addressed in the post or the article to which it links - is the extent to which average subjective ratings of courses and professors should be permitted to dominate the decision-mak
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by jamesk_au 13y ago
Yes, I agree - I think the name of the suspect should form part of the key required to decipher the solution file, so that you cannot see the solution unless your suspect is the perpetrator. The frustration for me was gur haerfbyirq vapbafv
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by jamesk_au 13y ago
The author postulates that infinite content scrolling in mobile apps causes "dissatisfaction" and "intellectual bloat" for the user, and concludes that developers should limit content. An alternative explanation might fo
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by jamesk_au 13y ago
The published paper, which includes images, is available here: http://prx.aps.org/pdf/PRX/v3/i4/e041011
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by jamesk_au 13y ago
> In other words, anyone with two brain cells can see that, if there has in fact been a 215 order by the time the next report rolls around, then deliberately removing the warrant canary language is tantamount to revealing the order&#x27
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by jamesk_au 13y ago
> Its our code let's see what we paid for. That is a different petition to the one that has been posted, which states that the reason for open sourcing the code is "so we may help fix any found issues". The "let&#x2
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by jamesk_au 13y ago
It may be right that open sourcing the code behind healthcare.gov and crowd sourcing improvements to it could potentially result in desirable outcomes, but it is very unclear whether that is an available option in legal and practical terms.
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by jamesk_au 13y ago
The problem, in your own words, is your present psychological state. Irrespective of whether you give the speech, you should see a psychologist or a psychiatrist as soon as possible. There is no substitute for having an experienced, ration
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by jamesk_au 13y ago
I have done all of those things and I maintain the view that there is no reasonable justification for deliberate deception in commerce. A fortiori amongst startup entrepreneurs, who should be doing their best to foster collegial relationsh
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by jamesk_au 13y ago
"He didn't actually charge people before the product was finished and they were able to opt-out after they knew what happened. Would have been a whole different story if the cards had actually been charged." He does note that
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by jamesk_au 13y ago
There is a player roaming the multiplayer arena named "Indefeatable" (sic) who appears to be able to cast the heal spell without any delay. Perhaps an unintended consequence of allowing everyone to compile their own version of a m
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by jamesk_au 13y ago
This game resembles 'Runic Rumble',[1] which uses the same concept but requires the user to draw different shapes rather than connect elements in a fixed shape. The first thing I did after seeing this thread and looking at the rep
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by jamesk_au 13y ago
I also find it fascinating to read the algebraic solutions of others. This algorithm seems to rely on an open source integer problem solver called "CBC" [1]. But is it necessary for a general 'searching solver' of that
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Apples are becoming bland and mushy due to climate change(nature.com)
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by jamesk_au 13y ago
The article includes the following quotation: "The sun's north pole has already changed sign, while the south pole is racing to catch up," says Scherrer. Does that not suggest that the sun is currently a magnetic monopole? O