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by olliej 3y ago
The UK is the country that also said "you can't publish the bitcoin white paper because despite it being MIT licensed, this dude claims to have written it, and despite his track record of harassing anyone he gets the identity of w
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by olliej 3y ago
There was an entire lawsuit about the presence or absence of an Oxford comma in some law, possibly even in Oregon? [edit: boo it was Maine! Happily "Oxford comma lawsuit" is sufficient search term: https://www.npr.org&#
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by olliej 3y ago
Yeah the “by state” comparisons are not helpful for many many things, especially as the states get geographically larger so the difference between in a city in the state vs the most remote you can be in the state also changes. I remember wh
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by olliej 3y ago
It’s amazing how much the Central Valley and such pull down the median in CA. I’d be interested in seeing some kind of map of downpayment vs population density to see how the down payment sizes in populous cities in otherwise sparsely popul
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by olliej 3y ago
Ok so four charges: 1) Conspiring to money launder 2) Money laundering (so I guess the conspiracy succeeded?) 3 & 4) Failing to register a money transfer service So the important steps are a) demonstrating the defendant (Sterlingov) is
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by olliej 3y ago
The law has a variety of "know your customer" rules, but in addition has a bunch of laws the constrain your behavior if you can reasonably know that you are handling criminal proceeds. Anyone operating a crypto mixer knows that pe
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by olliej 3y ago
I do wonder if there needs to be a way to have related articles grouped on HN. This is a good example, because there’s the announcement of the benchmark, and each vendor’s post about it and the associated technical details. I think all of t
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by olliej 3y ago
What is the latency being referred to here? I don’t see noticeable lag on pressing/tapping buttons or other ui components in day to day browsing, even on my quite old iPhone. There are obviously ways to make delays in web content anywa
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by olliej 3y ago
The classic law enforcement “we know this person did it so any amount of fraud and crime to get them in jail is worth it” … “oh what do you mean the actual criminal has been free for decades while our victim was in prison?”
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by olliej 3y ago
Yup. I have never had an Airbnb that was not clearly an illegal hotel.
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by olliej 3y ago
This sounds like it’s doing something similar to system integrity protection on mac+iOS where the security model is “root cannot write to kernel memory”. Because otherwise all you have to do is get root access to control a system, which is
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by olliej 3y ago
Their suppliers wouldn’t be able to subject them to surge pricing either. That said all the articles about restaurants considering surge prices have been nationwide chains, so not exactly the group that lacks pricing control.
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by olliej 3y ago
I feel the solution here is to say all price increases (for any service) must be announced at least 2 weeks in advance, and you cannot increases prices more than once a week. So you don’t say “you can’t surge prices in these markets, or the
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by olliej 3y ago
> not an incident that should meet with curious blameless fact finding The NTSB "fact finding" is intentionally and necessarily blameless, because if it becomes a prosecutorial investigation then you lose cooperation of everyon
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by olliej 3y ago
It's a fairly common problem. There's a model adopted by many open source projects that you don't have to maintain ABI (or even API)[1] compatibility across major versions, which is fundamentally incompatible with platforms w
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by olliej 3y ago
Sometimes I do wonder why downvotes happen. I almost feel like downvoting should have a mandatory text field that needs some kind of (original commenter visible) text in it so the downvoting isn't just a trivial instant I-don't-li
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by olliej 3y ago
"Existing" doesn't mean surviving in any meaningful sense, and if that is the argument you are taking, then the existence of apple in the EU definitionally did not impact that world either. That's the later point I made:
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by olliej 3y ago
If I ever need bear arms I know I can go to the Castro, and if I want, I can probably get bear feet there as well :D :D Good to [figuratively] see you again :D
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by olliej 3y ago
I had a minor argument with someone a few days ago (week?) in HN comments on the kitchenmaid mixer thread on this topic. If you're not a major name brand you cannot charge significantly more than junk/throwaway equipment, regardle
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by olliej 3y ago
"Americans are losing interest in cardio equipment" Alternatively: Americans started buying exercise equipment when working from home freed up hours and hours of time every week, allowing them to have free time outside of work. No
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by olliej 3y ago
Sorry, in the case of a treaty signed with colonizers, not a general treaty between two independent countries. My upbringing means when thinking of treaties in different languages it's in that context. [edit]Additional sorry, I re-read
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by olliej 3y ago
Yeah being appointed to such a body should come with a mandatory “you must completely divest from the industry you will be regulating, include and aggregate fund or similar”, alongside “any compensation, hiring, or rehiring contracts and ag
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by olliej 3y ago
No. If we don’t take our shoes off, how will we maintain our freedom?!?!
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by olliej 3y ago
The examples you gave were all 80s systems, even in back waters like NZ :D By the end of the 80s even the big non-MS players were largely irrelevant, and the entirety of the second half the 1980-2000 was MS. If you're talking about hob
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by olliej 3y ago
You mean the period of MS only? That’s your dream point?
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by olliej 3y ago
Can’t speak for common law but as I understand it international law has settled on “the version of a treaty written in the native tongue is the definitive text”, so that might be equivalent?
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by olliej 3y ago
> > would you knowingly hire the same maintenance engineer who installed a door that failed > Yes. Assuming that it wasn’t an intentional act of sabotage, my answer is yes. We don’t get good results by assuming that nobody makes mi
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by olliej 3y ago
So a few points: 1. Pilots, even those responsible for accidents, talk to the NTSB, and unless grossly negligent continue to be pilots. The people who do get blackballed are the ones that actually report unsafe behavior before accidents occ
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by olliej 3y ago
The question is not "which team is responsible for installing or removing the plug?" it is explicitly "which specific people did this specific job?". Boeing is meant to have the answer to the second part documented - bec
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by olliej 3y ago
There are plenty of adblockers for safari that work fine?

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