NeutronBoy

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Holden assembly workers despair as last Australian car-maker exits manufacturing(theage.com.au)
3 points by NeutronBoy 9y ago|0 comments
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by NeutronBoy 9y ago
Why?
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by NeutronBoy 9y ago
I know a few years ago when I was working on a government procurement project for some software, the (very good) lawyers were very weary of any OSS included in the proprietary product we were buying. Their reasoning was, we were buying the
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by NeutronBoy 9y ago
> What we desperately need is a real, useful micro-payments model where you can pay per-article The other side of the coin is that if you're a news organisation, "the economics just don't work" with micro payments. Yo
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by NeutronBoy 9y ago
Most governments have public portals (or you have to register with your company details but it's basically open apart from that) that they post RF{I,T,Q}s on.
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by NeutronBoy 9y ago
> I'd rather FB just said "we'll never pony up the wages necessary to moderate well so we're just going to make facebook a complete free speech zone." They were literally doing this! Then they got slammed for &#x
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by NeutronBoy 9y ago
Yes. Our compulsory voting is really "compulsory voting". It's "compulsory turn up to a polling station and get your name marked off". You can drop an empty ballot in the box, draw penises on it, or even just turn a
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by NeutronBoy 9y ago
> Security through obscurity is not the solution, though Security is about layers. Nothing is foolproof. It's about implementing layers of controls to reduce your attack surface to an acceptable level, with the trade-off that many c
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by NeutronBoy 9y ago
What would you question about it? There are normally multiple observers from all parties, plus election officials, that scrutinize the counting process in real-time. Disputes are raised and resolved on the spot where possible, and it not ar
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Facebook says it shouldn’t have to stay mum when government seeks user data(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by NeutronBoy 9y ago|0 comments
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by NeutronBoy 9y ago
To be fair, that's my impression of a number of people who introduce themselves as 'entrepreneurs'. The people who run a business, or are building something or are otherwise working, will say that. People who say they're
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by NeutronBoy 9y ago
There's almost two conclusions from the article: - running government more like a business isn't necessarily a bad thing, and - a ruthless business-man isn't necessarily the best suited person to do it
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by NeutronBoy 9y ago
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/words
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by NeutronBoy 9y ago
WaPo have just published a story about the attacks https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/ukraines-governm...
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Versioning APIs at Google(cloudplatform.googleblog.com)
3 points by NeutronBoy 9y ago|0 comments
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Lost Australian cubesats have been found with help from telescope and ham radio(abc.net.au)
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by NeutronBoy 9y ago
And an odd quote from some who's claim to fame is running a website that publishes leaked information.
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by NeutronBoy 9y ago
It shows up in your checking account semi-monthly ;) It's a slight difference, where the end result is a difference of 2 paychecks per year (24 for semi-monthly vs 26 for bi-weekly)
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How they did it: an analysis of emissions defeat devices in modern automobiles(blog.acolyer.org)
1 points by NeutronBoy 9y ago|0 comments
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by NeutronBoy 9y ago
Is it better to be a genius programmer, or an average programmer with an good understanding of the problem domain?
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by NeutronBoy 9y ago
Yes, as long as you don't want to convert your crypto currency into fiat currency at either end.
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by NeutronBoy 9y ago
Is there a difference between shooting at a character controlled by an AI, and shooting at a character controlled by another human?
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by NeutronBoy 9y ago
And the cost likely includes wages/costs of people for things like training users on the system, setting up and running a help desk for census staff to call when they're completing the census, costs for managing and running procur
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by NeutronBoy 9y ago
For NFC to work your screen has to be on - you can't hijack a phone in someones pocket.
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by NeutronBoy 9y ago
> 2. Commercial license Not sure if this is what you were referring to, but the article notes "With Fuchsia, Google would not only be dumping the Linux kernel, but also the GPL: the OS is licensed under a mix of BSD 3 clause, MIT,
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by NeutronBoy 9y ago
The drivers in Uber handle more than just the driving - they essentially handle all the other logistics of offering a taxi service. They keep the car clean, they handle any regular maintenance and servicing, they store the car when it'
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by NeutronBoy 9y ago
That's pretty much the point the GP was trying to make.
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by NeutronBoy 9y ago
They're "optional", but the miners can pick and chose which transactions they include in a block, and the larger the fee they get from the transaction, the more likely it is to make it into the block.
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by NeutronBoy 9y ago
I understand. At the end of the article, he tries to make the point that having everything pluggable is a problem with Android devices. In reality, it's that flexibility that enables a manufacturer like Wileyfox to even release a uni
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by NeutronBoy 9y ago
> This leaves me in an unpleasant spot as I, where I can, avoid using google services and now need to find an alternative dialling application. Isn’t this sweet? I am searching for a dialling application for my smartphone. A DIALLING app

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