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by mcherm 8y ago
Yes, I am fairly sure. > Circumventing an electronic protection > Unauthorised access The company providing the protection cannot by definition circumvent it or be unauthorized. If a third party decides to deliver a payload to your
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by mcherm 8y ago
To be fair, Fred Wilson is not saying that these grants of new stock are appropriate everywhere -- he specifically said he has never seen it happen when a founder-CEO owned 25% or more of the company and that the cutoff is somewhere aroun
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by mcherm 8y ago
> being required to do an act or thing in a foreign jurisdiction that would contravene the laws of that jurisdiction is a defense for non-compliance There is no law in the US prohibiting me from creating an alternate login screen for one
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by mcherm 8y ago
Back in 2014 I was using g Firefox, for precisely this reason. I am still using it today, for the same reason. Please stop creating web applications that only work with Chrome (or Chrome and Safari).
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by mcherm 8y ago
That is simply not true in the US. By default, in all but one US State, employees can be fired with no notice for no reason (or for any reason other than a handful of specific exceptions like "because of your race"). The legal dep
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by mcherm 8y ago
Why do I keep encountering people who apparently think that Twitter is an appropriate medium for conveying thoughtful, considered information?
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Because it is bought at a significant discount. Selling the debt for 30% or 10% of the value would not be that unusual, from what I hear.
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> I would assume that to be due to a smaller selection pool. Have you ever considered how you would test to develop evidence of whether or not that assumption is accurate?
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> the current UX experience of seeing the price at the end of each ride has been off putting That's peculiar. My experience is seeing the price before the ride begins.
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by mcherm 8y ago
So, $10/ride for rides costing $0 to $15 if bought in bulk on a monthly subscription plan. It's not the kind of deal I would take -- I am far too likely to use fewer than 30 rides per month or many rides that are less than $10 in
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by mcherm 8y ago
There is no need to stay away from MongoDB (well, not for licensing reasons anyhow). There is only a need to stay away from MongoDB(TM). Because of its previous license, the code base can be forked as of immediately before the license chang
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by mcherm 8y ago
I'm not an architect (well, technically my job title is "Architect", but I'm not that kind of architect). But I'd be curious to see a list like this for some other professions, just because it tickles my curiosity
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by mcherm 8y ago
TLDR: If you use regular push notifications (even for legitimate purposes like keeping up-to-date info in the app) then you can tell when someone uninstalls your app. If you wanted, you could then market to that person. True, but this doesn
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by mcherm 8y ago
There is no janitor anywhere who is in a position to negotiate a 50%-of-salary payment as a condition of signing a noncompete. Historically, we (governments) have tended to write laws that constrain what employers can require, especially of
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by mcherm 8y ago
I'm not sure what reaction you are expecting. I also don't have any idea what you mean by "a member of an un-protected class so-to-speak".
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Why not? Seriously: let us take as given that the AI models are biased. Will you also admit that the existing processes are biased? If so, then what we need to ask is which is MORE biased. It might be complaining that we shouldn't rele
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by mcherm 8y ago
Well that sucks. I mean she is WELCOME to keep her contributions to private repos shared only among trusted friends if that's how she wants to work. But it's not for me. I want the work that I do to be shared as widely as possible
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by mcherm 8y ago
Suppose that were to select one number at random from the set of integers in the range from [-1..8]. There is a 1 in 10 chance of selecting -1. Now suppose you select from the range [-1..98]. There is a 1 in 100 chance of getting the single
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by mcherm 8y ago
So what is your point here? That there is no such thing as a "missing person"?
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I think it depends entirely on the purpose of the CLA. Different licenses say different things. Some merely assert that the signer is contributing under the license under which the project is distributed. (Although you may consider it obvio
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by mcherm 8y ago
> An example can make this concrete. Indeed it can. Why, if there were really effects as large as you claim -- where several hundred thousands of dollars of value are lost in a single incident -- then society would recognize that fact. W
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by mcherm 8y ago
You listed a few examples of individuals who effected great change and were civil. (Mostly civil. Gandhi, King, and Mandela were each accused by their detractors of being insufficiently civil.) I could easily list examples of individuals wh
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by mcherm 8y ago
I'm not particularly good at identifying satire, but this is a joke, right? I mean, the ONE BEST THING about CSS is its ability to promote consistent styling across a site by creating REUSABLE, NAMED styles that are SEMANTIC and applyi
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by mcherm 8y ago
Presumably because, regardless of whether they are employees or independent contractors, they signed a contract agreeing to use arbitration.
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by mcherm 8y ago
> a good reminder that 1) having dev and staging the same is really important Actually, I think it proves that having staging and PROD the same is particularly important.
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They use Equifax because the government has actual privacy policies and requires an individual's permission to release information. The government may also not have offered this exact service (they offer a service to release your entir
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But to a disturbing extent, arguments for and against particular claims in string theory are often made on the grounds of beauty.
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Causing a crash is an excellent vector for a denial-of-service attack.
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> There's always a different resource that you can substitute if you look widely enough at the big picture. What is the different resource that can be used for studying low temperature physics?
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In this case, the evidence for "doesn't work" would be a REDUCTION in the number of successful companies, not a complete absence of successful companies. And there are so many confounding variables that it is impossible to te

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