tommorris

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by tommorris 7y ago
I've seen one or two people using the Switch on the London Underground. Rare but not non-existent.
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by tommorris 7y ago
It is a criminal offence under s9 of the Bail Act 1976 to agree to indemnify a bail surety. If Assange's guarantors had entered into an agreement with Assange, that agreement would have been illegal under English criminal law, and thus
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by tommorris 8y ago
Canada has their own version of the OGL too. Dunno about Australia. https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada
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by tommorris 8y ago
This goes a little off-topic, but you might be pleasantly surprised about Crown Copyright. Crown Copyright doesn't deal with university research, only with works done by the government. Pretty much everything released by central govern
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by tommorris 8y ago
We've solved the trusted-third-party problem by having a trusted-third-party (i.e. the lawyer). All hail blockchain as the most amazing non-solution to the problem.
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by tommorris 8y ago
Took this guy $177 to register a Delaware corporation called Stripe Inc and get Comodo to issue him an EV certificate that looks exactly like the real payment gateway. After Comodo revoked his cert, GoDaddy gave him one. https://
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by tommorris 8y ago
> During the process of drafting the legislation, at least here in America, the existing players have a voice on the legislation's course, and the larger the existing player is, the louder their voice gets to be. Sounds like you nee
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by tommorris 8y ago
My comparison is simply to show the standard laissez faire talking point of "oh, regulation exists just to protect incumbent market players" as bullshit: regulations exist to protect consumers from negligence and misbehaviour on t
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by tommorris 8y ago
Glad you can tell how regulation affects a market after less than one day of being active law, and zero enforcement actions or cases suggesting how courts/regulators are going to interpret the rules.
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by tommorris 8y ago
I was thinking about getting in to the car market but all these pesky requirements that I sell a car with airbags and seatbelts and fuel efficiency compliance are just there to protect existing incumbents.
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by tommorris 8y ago
Good luck arguing that novel legal theory when in front of a judge on a fraud or tax evasion trial.
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by tommorris 9y ago
Yes, acaí berries are tasty and make a lovely addition to a healthy breakfast. Cryptocurrencies are Internet penny stocks with lofty aspirations.
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by tommorris 9y ago
It is a cheap substitute. But you should try the cheap substitute: its not half bad and lots of people seem to find it pretty tasty.
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by tommorris 9y ago
The reason people use Signal over WhatsApp is partly because of a perception it is more likely to be good against malicious state-like actors: tyrannical regimes etc. If said malicious actors pwn the phone of the person you were talking to,
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by tommorris 9y ago
> you can add pgp on top of it if you want security Nobody does, sadly. Baking it into the protocol like Signal and WhatsApp did means nobody has to want it, they just get it included without having to bolt on any extras.
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by tommorris 9y ago
> I don't know that I have a better design in mind Simple: usernames. Humans are not phone numbers. Phone numbers are the IP addresses of legacy phone networks.
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by tommorris 9y ago
For science articles, yes. That took a lot of lobbying and complaining. On law/crime articles, they don't link to legal judgments. That's partly the fault of the British legal system for not publishing a lot of that material.
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by tommorris 9y ago
Sounds pretty similar to SQ3R. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQ3R
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by tommorris 9y ago
If you don't want to add them yourself, be sure to leave a note. Notes are basically bug reports for OSM. See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Notes
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by tommorris 9y ago
> If a philosopher isn't available, a lawyer would probably be qualified as well. The lawyers are busy explaining to the "smart contracts" people that trying to translate contract law into code is going to produce a whole
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by tommorris 9y ago
> I don't remember any othe philosopher adopting that stance. Peter Unger's book "Ignorance" (Oxford University Press, 1975) is probably the best modern defence of extreme skepticism. Also, Unger is pretty fun to read
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by tommorris 9y ago
> you should be the first to point out this doesn't imply causation Nah, I'd rather just go nuclear on causation, with the assistance of Hume... "...experience only teaches us, how one event constantly follows another; wi
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by tommorris 9y ago
There's some evidence that philosophy majors score pretty high on the GMAT (for graduate admissions to business school) and on the LSAT (for law school), as well as pretty good on the GRE Verbal and GRE Analytical Writing tests. Less g
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by tommorris 9y ago
The point of CC0 is that in countries (like the US) with the concept of releasing works into the public domain—relinquishing all copyright claims on the work, that's what you are doing with CC0. In countries where you can't legall
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by tommorris 9y ago
Seeing two straight people getting married or discussing their romantic relationship isn't an adult topic, but seeing two gay people doing the same is treated as one. Nobody is talking about adult or mature-rated LGBT content, they are
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by tommorris 9y ago
Pure whataboutery. The fact that a significantly worse harm happens in other countries doesn't mean this isn't something people are allowed to discuss.
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by tommorris 9y ago
Pretty sure user anger didn't stop the prevalence of pop-up Punch The Monkey adverts. The massive rise in adblocking forced the ad industry to stop being quite so obnoxious. So, yeah, relying on advertisers to not piss off users is a b
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by tommorris 9y ago
The Series 1 'Edition' watches were $10-17k and in gold. When Series 2 came out, they switched the gold to ceramic and they start at $1,249. The gold ones were definitely for sale both online, in the shops, and in department store
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by tommorris 9y ago
> Their education (at least in theory) prepares them to be contributors to society after they graduate. That assumption seems to be in doubt. https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2014/7/9/5885433&
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by tommorris 9y ago
> magically just works If we use Bitcoin as an example, it magically just works by consuming a pretty extravagant amount of electricity for the miners/nodes to run.

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