a3camero

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by a3camero 4y ago
In Toronto there's a giant cooling system for downtown buildings that uses cold lake water pumped downtown from 83m underwater: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Lake_Water_Cooling_System . It's being expande
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by a3camero 5y ago
I'd like to take up a different view on this issue, in the hope that this discussion helps to understand this issue from a different vantage point. Neither of us make any rules for anyone else, so this is an academic discussion anyway.
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by a3camero 5y ago
Some contract law is codified in the United States: the UCC.
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by a3camero 5y ago
There are other codes in Canada too, even outside of Quebec, like the Criminal Code of Canada.
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by a3camero 5y ago
Who not both? Just because it’s normal that low level workers are fired and get nothing doesn’t mean that’s how it has to be. Severance could be generous enough to make this work out.
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by a3camero 6y ago
They don’t even make most of that 95%. It’s licensed from wire services like Reuters and AP.
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by a3camero 6y ago
Searching by hash, where the hash is locally generated and then sent to the server, avoids this sort of surveillance issue. It doesn't stop the issue of forced changes to code that impair that local hashing, but it's detectable by
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by a3camero 6y ago
The Supreme Court of Canada in 2009 specifically recognized a defence related to defamation as being one that's broader than "journalists" in the sense of employed people who work for the news media, and here's their exp
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by a3camero 6y ago
Wouldn't that be a great outcome? Cheap cars or cheap cola? That's better than more expensive products (because of the cost of advertising that's turned into billboards and banner ads.)
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by a3camero 6y ago
Rules on paper aren’t rules in reality. Enforcement of law, and the way it’s experienced (or not) is far more important than what’s written in the law books, and the enforcement part is much less transparent, and impossible to know at the t
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by a3camero 6y ago
Neat idea.
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by a3camero 6y ago
Searching based on hashes of the words is one improvement on the status quo that you could do. Hash every token in the documents, then when a user does a search it hashes the words in their query locally and sends that to the server. This r
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Modern spin on collectible cards: NBA Top Shot(cameronhuff.com)
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by a3camero 6y ago
Companies buy a combination of goods and IP (patents and trademarks). The goods come from a developed country and the IP is licensed from a tax haven. The goods are sold at near cost with the markup being in the IP. The result is a supply o
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by a3camero 6y ago
Because everyone in charge owns a house.
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by a3camero 6y ago
“Transfer pricing” is why this doesn’t work out.
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by a3camero 6y ago
The "Personal Health Information Protection Act" (PHIPA) in Ontario: https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/04p03 .
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by a3camero 6y ago
I’ve done this over the last year on a tiny scale for my own needs: gorillafind.com. It’s from scratch and just for government sites to sidestep some of the challenges (but so far only has 50 sites). The cost per site is around $1/mo f
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Show HN: gov-only search engine w/ custom crawler, hashes keywords locally(gorillafind.com)
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by a3camero 6y ago
This is an impression that TV and Twitter give. But politicians in all countries often say positive things about policies and ideas they like. But that’s not newsworthy so it appears to not be common.
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by a3camero 6y ago
Features: “map” of how keywords appear in results, screenshots, exact keyword matching using local hashes for greater confidentiality, not built on an existing index (doesn’t use Google/Bing).
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Show HN: A visual search engine using keyword hashes(gorillafind.com)
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by a3camero 6y ago
I'm working on a search engine like this. So far just government websites but I think you're right about the need to focus on selected sites for some kinds of searches. For example, if you're looking for securities laws, you
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by a3camero 6y ago
Making a search engine for government websites. Not using someone else’s index. A full search engine, writing all of the components.
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by a3camero 7y ago
It's by H.L. Mencken (1915): https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/H._L._Mencken . https://books.google.ca/books?id=hXVHAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Democracy...
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by a3camero 7y ago
Yes. I’m a Canadian lawyer who has corresponded with the author of that NDA. I pointed out the same language and he’s working on a version that’ll account for other countries. The author is keenly aware of this and wants to make it not US-c
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by a3camero 9y ago
Also Toronto now.
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by a3camero 9y ago
No. Many people are able to book visits with their family doctor (GP) on short notice (e.g. next week). Walk-in clinics are available and you can see a doctor within a couple hours, same-day, without an appointment (and without being regist
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by a3camero 9y ago
I would ask: who wrote the DAO code? Someone (or several people) tested, developed and then deployed the code.
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by a3camero 9y ago
That's a pretty egregious example but I'm sure that's not the only time that's happened with a law office server. This is a really good example to add for future presentations - thanks!

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