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by utunga 13y ago
This guy was unfortunate in tripping some sort of alarm for them. I've travel NZ<->US approx twice a year for going on 15 years now and have never so much as been stopped. I always ask for the frisk and grab rather than the micro
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by utunga 13y ago
Dude on a practical level this might be your best bet.
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by utunga 13y ago
"Those who can't do, teach. And those who can't teach, teach gym.” - Woody Allen Obviously it's an iterating/evolving meme.
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by utunga 13y ago
Realise it was thrown together in a day but didn't especially like 'the feels' I got from being told that I would see my Dad, who has already died, 572 more times before he passes on.
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by utunga 13y ago
Very, very impressive. I'm excited about the possibilities! FWIW using machine learning approach to try and individualize treatments and treat people one at a time (linking 'what works' for the individual rather than trying t
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by utunga 13y ago
I'm that person too I always make sure i have time to opt out and sometimes it gets annoying. The last time, the TSA person seemed friendly and chatty enough and I remarked towards the end that, "you know why I'm doing this r
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by utunga 13y ago
Does this help to explain xKeyScore? If there have been major mathematical advances in the last 6 months what is the chance that mathematicians at NSA made those advances 2 years ago and didn't reveal? (How many good mathematicians kno
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by utunga 13y ago
Your position would be more clearly stated if you said that the problem is weighing freedom against safety. There I agree with you. It is not my freedom from government mandated medical injections or procedures the needs to be weighed ag
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by utunga 13y ago
I'm not a doctor, but having had small kids in the US and in New Zealand I noticed a marked difference in the number of jabs that are recommended. I don't know the reasons for this but the idea that it may be correlated with a lar
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by utunga 13y ago
Even if we are 100% clear that there is no evidence that vaccination causes any malady, government mandates requiring that the government chooses what things should be injected into every single citizen crosses a very important line of
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by utunga 13y ago
This is bang on. The tech details matter - a lot. Thought I'd add to the discussion by linking/quoting from this piece from wired UK http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-06/11/prism-powerpo.
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by utunga 13y ago
I think we qualify under the last two criteria ;-) unfortunately our GCSB get's lots of help from our big brother across the lake. We actually had our own wee 'Oh noes they are spying on our local citizens' scandal the other
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by utunga 13y ago
Please don't be under the impression that things are any different outside the US. In fact, if anything NSA surveillance (with the help of various allies) is even more pervasive. In particular the UK, Australian, Canadian, and NZ equiv
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by utunga 13y ago
It's this kind of bullshit from paypal and the banks generally that is providing wind beneath the wings of alternative payment systems which charge the true (much lower) cost of international money transfer... Great! Bring on a bitcoin futu
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by utunga 13y ago
Good call. Definitely a 'thing i need', and (having just shelled out my ccard) clearly something willing to pay for. Not sure where to put this feedback so I'll put it here. Both very minor issues but for what its worth... - When I switched
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by utunga 13y ago
Great idea. Here's some ideas to toss around. Maybe.. - We cannot have a proper trial for these men because many were actually innocent but should we turn them loose now we would lose a huge amount of face (but whose face would be lost unde
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by utunga 13y ago
This is not a situation where we should be outraged at a president breaking his promise (yawn), but a case of an executive order not being carried out. We should not gloss over the fact that Obama's 'promise' (or rather, executive order) to
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by utunga 13y ago
The whole point of the trillion dollar coin idea was that it allowed the executive (aka the president) to create money without asking the Fed (and thus by pass the congressional deb-ceiling debate). This only illustrates the point that pres
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by utunga 14y ago
So much amazing innovation is driven from the valley but in this case it's Kenya showing us the way. Why is that? Worth thinking about.
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by utunga 14y ago
I totally agree. Firing someone over a tweet sent by a third party - is just nuts. The tweeter (Adria) is not really responsible here, rather the person(s) that overreacted to it.
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by utunga 14y ago
What upsets me is not so much that someone posted something on twitter - who cares? But that someone got fired over it. Surely that is the real issue - not so much what Adria did but that some other person decided an (esentially unsubstanti
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by utunga 14y ago
I'll never forget when my boss was showing the girl scouts (literally) our very expensive UPS room. He explained how even if the power goes off we'll switch to batteries then switch over to generator power. See watch, he says - then flicked
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by utunga 14y ago
not sure how much use but fwiw heres my video explaining ripplepay http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySzqM5dpF7s from 2010.. before the 'new' ripple but same exact idea
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by utunga 14y ago
snippet of email from Ryan Fugger Sep last year (2012) seems relevant .. group would like to take over the Ripple project and call their system "Ripple". They have offered me xx for this, which would give them ownership of all Ripple softw
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by utunga 14y ago
Looking for where someone mentions http://www.opentransact.org but can't find it so I'll mention it.
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by utunga 14y ago
I notice that eduardordm has not actually released this code on github yet. I'd forgive you Eduardo if you end up changing your mind....
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by utunga 14y ago
An explanation of the results would be very helpful. It works but I have no idea what its telling me. Why are some boxes orange and some black?
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by utunga 14y ago
Yes absolutely. I was already familiar with that google mail 'feature' because I/it had unconsciously 'messed up' a couple of my replies before I realised what it was doing (and why).
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by utunga 14y ago
i think i do it to make the text feel 'tactile' and thus more engaging
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by utunga 14y ago
And right now, twitter is, incomprehensibly doing the same thing - copying Facebook to try and become a walled garden with rich content from your 'friends' instead of sticking with their anti-facebook strengths - the open API, open data, de

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