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by nstj 9y ago
When there wasn't a Duane Reade or Citibank on every corner! :)
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Spectacular find!
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So this is moreso codifying the current rules and regulations of our existing government - and the whole point is to show the loopholes and issues with current laws. To start with you could just codify the Constitution and work out from
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People have been talking about it for a while, though there hasn't been much take up from big 4 banks with use cases from what I can see. End of day batch processing isn't "that" bad so it will be interesting to see if
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NICE
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It definitely seems to be close to what I was thinking of. The validation and verification aspect of it seems well suited to applying pre-defined laws (such as a constitution, laws of Congress etc).
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This seems like a particularly well suited solution. A quick Google turned up "A System Dynamics Approach for Complex Government Policies Design. Application in ICT Diffusion"[0] which seems like a great place to start. [0]: htt
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this is exactly the kind of thing I'm going for - effectively modelling the legal relationship between different areas of government and how they achieve intended goals / the permitted ways to achieve outcomes. I'll check ou
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by nstj 9y ago
this is great - and I am actually a customer of Telstra and experienced the outage they describe in the article!
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1) was definitely the one I was going for - essentially in a bid to show how certain outcomes can / can't occur given the current state and laws of a government. ie: if you want to pass a tax cut, you need to do x, y and z, though
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by nstj 9y ago
Great call, and I'm checking out Democracy now. At its heart, I'm attempting to reason about modelling a set of defined laws in some kind of programmatic model (ie: if it was the US, it would be 'a bill needs 217 votes in th
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Ask HN: How best to model a government programmatically?
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Cayley is cool! A 20% project from Google iirc
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Tavakoli[0] has been surprisingly quiet on Taleb recently. [0]: Nassim "Black Swan" Taleb Busted For Exaggerating Returns, http://www.businessinsider.com/wait-before-you-invest-in-nas...
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by nstj 9y ago
Sure, it's a fair bit of money but what does that have to do with being 'rich'?
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'rich' people?
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I'd never heard of Circa (circa.com, the publisher of the story) before, so did a little digging. Apparently it's owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group [0]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Broadcast_G
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by nstj 9y ago
They're not even really that complex - people just try and make them difficult :) If you import more 'stuff' than you export then you have to balance that difference with something (ie: stocks, bonds, hard currency, land). An
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by nstj 9y ago
Tell him what you really think! I'd hope that anyone putting themselves out there in a manner such as the OP did and in a forum of some of their most respected peers would be treated with grace.
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by nstj 9y ago
The fund doing the 'shorting' seems to have $96m under management [0] (in terms familiar to readers that's 0.125% of the net worth of Bezos or the same amount of cash that Uber burns in a fortnight). It's an interesting
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by nstj 10y ago
> the real reason that companies want programmers in the office pretty broad statement to make, though I can see it having some merit in certain instances
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by nstj 10y ago
Researcher: "I have no solid idea where this problem could be coming from. As a last resort I'll examine whether the ritualistic consumption of decomposing human brains may have something to do with it" > Lindenbaum had
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by nstj 10y ago
You could probably charge higher - this is at the mid range of many client side programmer daily rates in AU and systems skills like this are so much more critical.
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China would have been thrown into chaos in that case.
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Hilarious - I'd never seen that before! Another interesting tidbit[0]: > Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think a story is spam or off-topic, flag it by clicking
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by nstj 10y ago
Unrelated but I heard that after a fair bit of therapy he was able to get rid of his childhood lisp too?
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by nstj 10y ago
Downvotes? Looks like there's some kind of scheme against this thread.
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by nstj 10y ago
He's definitely the kind of judge who is able to avoid all kinds of procedural problems which are typically an issue in this type of justice system.
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by nstj 10y ago
Really need to change the title to reflect that the increase in size is not present in App Store binary. Side note: filing a Radar is the new top of the customer acquisition funnel. Go Realm! :)
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> Here's the code running now: it's from 2345 days ago, which is < 7 years and I'm guessing it had a reasonable lifetime after that anyway - how come you're thinking that it's > 7 years old? And my point wa

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