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by rtb 13y ago
The scam is that they are skilled at not paying out when you need them.
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by rtb 13y ago
(Sorry, that Labour aside does seem like a bit of a derail. I didn't intend it as such.)
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by rtb 13y ago
(The one before New Labour!)
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by rtb 13y ago
(As a brit) I don't understand this: "Molly was employed at the small NPO Knowbility as the Open Web Evangelist. Knowbility was able to put her on Family and Medical Leave which allowed Molly to retain her health insurance coverag
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by rtb 13y ago
I don't think that's the case. It appears to be LGPL + BSD. That should be fine for pretty much any use. "Postmodern" has it from the linked twitter thread: "they [are] probably confusing LGPL with GPL/AGPL, or
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by rtb 13y ago
This sounds very interesting, I'd love to know more. Specifically: have you made a plant yet? If not, how far off are you? There seem to me to be a lot more designs for revolutionary new nuclear plants than ever get built. Can you shar
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by rtb 13y ago
I like the sound of this, but there's nothing much on that site yet. Where can I subscribe for updates?
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by rtb 13y ago
What's the difference between this effort and the countless Graphical Programming efforts that have come before (many with large teams as well as many other single-author efforts)?
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by rtb 13y ago
That's not how computers (currently) work. Every act of reading involves copying, so it's unrealistic to expect anything on the internet to be easily deletable. See e.g. http://archive.org/web/web.php
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by rtb 13y ago
Exactly - it's a scam and if it gets enough traction hopefully it will be explicitly illegal soon (v.s. just arguably illegal via general anti fraud statutes). See the <a href=" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?
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by rtb 13y ago
Exactly. I don't understand this article. The author doesn't really explain what Amazon is doing wrong other than an oblique mention of "Amazon’s discounting policies". How can Amazon sell a book against the publisher&#x
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by rtb 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error People generally make the choices that their circumstances dictate. If many people are falling into obesity because it is easy to do so, writing them off as &q
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by rtb 13y ago
I don't see the errors there. "If you can't be assed to do X" seems standard English to me, if informal. What would you say is wrong with that? "Language and written communication is unimportant" seems arguably
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by rtb 13y ago
+1. This article is rubbish. Singular "they" is fine.
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by rtb 13y ago
I did mean shouting; it wasn't a typo. I see that the way I phrased it was ambiguous though. :-) I meant that the police generally pull out their gun to emphasise their power and to reinforce their shouts, not always with the intention
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by rtb 13y ago
Massive +1 to this. It seems to me that the UK police, since they are not armed, generally try to defuse situations. (Of course, they can call for armed backup if it is necessary.) Time and again, I read of US police unnecessarily escalatin
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by rtb 13y ago
Thanks. I was reading the semicolon as a list separator (like a comma), not a sentence separator (like a full stop / period). The use of a lower-case "and" after the semi-colon pushed me in that direction. It looks pretty con
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by rtb 13y ago
I don't follow. Are you saying that I changed the meaning by my choice of ellipsis? How so? I didn't intend to, sorry. It says "except Felony". Releasing classified secrets is a felony. So it sounds like it means that a
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by rtb 13y ago
[Edit: It seems I was misreading this. See child comments for more details, or just ignore this comment. Sorry for the confusion.] I don't think they could. I'm no constitutional lawyer (I'm not even American), but someone po
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by rtb 13y ago
Otherwise known as a petabyte?
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by rtb 13y ago
"neutralize"? Say what you really mean.
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by rtb 13y ago
How about Softwire? http://www.softwire.com We tick all your boxes. Tech: We use interesting state-of-the-art and varied technology (I just finished a Rails project; I've done plenty of Java work at Softwire). Career: We are a small(ish)
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by rtb 13y ago
> (what job is only 40 hours a week any more other than checkout jobs at supermarkets or governement jobs? I think this is an American perspective. Plenty of very good jobs in Europe and London in particular are 40 hour weeks. Plenty of
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by rtb 13y ago
"To learn more about the types of ciphers and codes that terrorists, spies, and criminals use to conceal their communications, see ..." made me laugh. Remember kids, only bad guys use encryption.
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by rtb 14y ago
Breaking news: people do immoral shit on the internet. Luckily you can read all about it on arstechnica, including lots of voyeuristic photos you can look at "for research".
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by rtb 14y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. Your gold example doesn't really prove the approach sound though. If you ask a gold buyer how much they would pay for gold, I would expect them to be able to give you an accurate answer immediately. However,
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by rtb 14y ago
This seems like a spammy advertorial to me. There is nothing in the article to back up any of their sensationalist claims. As far as I can tell, they ask customers how much they would pay, and draw a pretty graph of that. What evidence do t