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Isn't there a problem of copyright associated with Government ID?

In the UK, things like your passport are copyright to The Crown and there's official guidance[1] on how to go about getting permission to make copies of them.

I'd imagine other countries are the same. So Facebook is asking it's users to infringe government copyright.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...
Shouldn't a true speedrun be about going as fast as possible through the intended game, without exploiting obvious bugs? Finding those bugs is really cool, but I wouldn't call the result a speedrun.
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Today there are far more people who would be very interested in risking investing in Bitcoin and accepting Bitcoin for their service, than there are people who have heard of it. Every attack on any Bitcoin business brings in more people and their capital from around the world than the wealth it destroys. If Netherlands one day starts hurting Bitcoin business on big scale, it will create a resonance that will increase Bitcoin awareness and utility 10x the same year.

Also, the first country that will allow Bitcoin flourish will attract such an enormous amount of capital, it will make news everywhere and it won't be that easy to shut down business anymore.
What does that have to do with net income lol.
>1) What about gold then?

It is more easily dividable than gold.
It's nice to see this is getting posted more and more.
Also check https://github.com/opal/opal-jquery
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Nice, just what I was looking for. Now I don't have to keep any orders in Excel or similar. Are you planning to add any export features?
Isn't most employment at-will essentially making it a "trial" of undetermined length?
Doesn't injecting JavaScript give you access?
I don't have a degree, I have 3-4 years experience but part of me thinks on paper (particularly to Asian employers) this wont look as good as a degree.
I always thought the point was not that you can do the exact same thing but that you don't care if it is doing the same thing or something crazy complicated to return something to you.

OOP works much better in teams and is a bit/lot of overhead when you are making contracts with yourself.

However if I'm working with someone and they tell me call this to get a name then ill do that, if later they realize they need to split out the name into first and last I can still use that old function to get the full name by them combining the strings and returning that in that old "getter".

PS that might be a very poor example, hopefully you get my point :)
Could something like GZIP mask a lot of that repetition?
Which compiles into JavaScript...
Personally i am already very happy with the GMAIL interface. The ads are a very minor distraction. And none of the features they show have much appeal to me (except the attachment icon perhaps).

But then again, that's just me.
Do you really want to hire someone who cares so little for agreements they sign in good faith?
I've been using 99designs.com for landing page design and further used bootstrap and css to make it run. :)
Bitcoin seems to be a very good way of creating a new "club" of a small number of bitcoin-wealthy at the expense of everyone else. Being resistant to legal action is not an advantage, it will create an environment rife with fraud and security risks.
Yep, we're working on them as we speak :)
Gangland is a lot like a school for 12 year olds. A group of insecure, unconfident people are brought together as a matter of policy. They are rewarded for doing things together as a matter of policy (drug money, media adulation). Attempts at self-policing are shut down by the authorities.

Is it that surprising that the cultures are so similar?
Will smartwatches ever be a real thing? Everyone in the developed world has a mobile phone, do we need another device that does the same things albeit rather limited that our phones are already capable of doing? I like the idea of Google Glass, but a smartwatch, really?
In the US, in some places, yes.

The post's author is Australian, and is writing from that perspective. We have minimum legal notice periods from both sides (a week for the first year, evenutally going up to four weeks): http://www.fairwork.gov.au/TERMINATION/NOTICE-PERIODS/Pages/...
> If it grows too much, it will be recognized as a currency and regulated.

Honest, non-rhetorical question: How? (In the sense of both the goals of the regulation and the means of enforcement.)
> I don't deal with patent-trolls. None.

Then I'm sure you don't buy any products that contain Samsung NAND NVRAM, nor do you purchase anything with Qualcomm chips, as a significant portion of their revenue comes from aggressive patent licensing, right?

Listen, I hate patent trolls as much as the next guy, but patent licensing is a very common business tactic everywhere. Don't make broad, over reaching comments if you don't actually mean them. You're perfectly fine with not buying Apple products because you don't like Apple. I don't like LG products, so I try not to buy LG. But, lets be realistic here.
You asked him why he does it himself. He responded by saying that time and money are the issue.
The docs are fine. There can always be improvements, but it isn't orders of magnitude worse than other frameworks as people persistently claim.
> it will be recognized as a currency and regulated.

I'm still wondering how any government would plan to "regulate" it. In the same way a lot of contractors want to pay by cash so they can go under the table on their annual income for tax purposes, if you don't publish a link between your bitcoin address and yourself then it would be impossible for a government to oversee your bitcoin activity until you somehow tied a transaction back to your real identity.
Require real money for things related to those services? Such as buying gasoline?
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I find myself increasingly reading these kind of opinions

>Why would we want X? It's completely useless considering Y.

What's wrong with this? When did the idea of making a cool concept like modular phones accessible to the average consumer become a something negative?

I remember loving to build computers, I don't anymore because I've dropped desktop altogether in favor of portable solutions and a Pi. That however does not mean I wouldn't want to see and support a technology that ultimately would boost portable computing innovation.

I believe many of you simply do not see the potential in this! The whole idea might flop, but if it doesn't, it opens up a lot of possibilities. An Apple iPhone lets you play with software within a very strict sandbox, and Android only offers a slightly larger sandbox. The devices have in common that they are so versatile in their usefulness, and this brought them success; they greatly outperform the older generations. This idea is one idea that might prove another leap in versatility and usefulness, and if it does, it'll disrupt.
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Didn't they end up doing a recall and replacing the defective cards for free, even out of warranty?
I use a native app for my gmail so I'm not the target (although I'd certainly be interested if I were using the online interface), but here's some feedback on your homepage:

-Make your headline a different color other than white, because it's very hard to see with that background image.

-It took me scrolling "below the fold" to find out what it is this product does. I'd change your headline to something more concrete, like "Gmail, the way you want it" while also finding a way to move up some of the product-specific content higher up on the page.

-You also have way too much text and the two paragraphs that start with "Gmelius, pronounced 'Gmail'-'jus'..." seem unnecessarily long and distract me from finding out more about your project. I actually read that and just skipped past that whole block of text and later realized I had also overlooked your donation box.

-There's also too much text explaining the features, making those screenshots look tiny in comparison. I think you could just get rid of the descriptive text and keep the feature titles, like "Restore the old compose window" and "Experience Gmail without ads" without losing any of the message.

-Minor point: That red download box should explicitly tell me it's not supported for Safari, if you're detecting my browser. Right now it says "Free Download for Safari" in bold text with "Browser not supported" in a lighter typeface underneath. Like I said, minor, but I found it a bit confusing.

Hope that helps!
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Yup, and you will discover the at-willness of your employment when you ask for a week of personal time. They will panic that you are running off to play some other founders little game.
More than 90% of gold value is speculative. This all will move to Bitcoin as it's superior by all measures. Storing and transporting gold is just way too expensive. The universe wants one money: http://blog.oleganza.com/post/54121516413/the-universe-wants...

Rubber hose is more expensive than QE. You can steal one person's stash, but cannot steal from millions at once (well, you can, but it'll be too obvious and very expensive). Just watch zebras crossing the river infested with crocodiles. The fiat currency is when all zebras find themselves in the slaughterhouse.
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The only thing that governments would need to do to stay in business is to tax things that can't be hidden, like land and real estate. I'm hoping they go with a single land value tax.
It might alleviate a few problems, but a. There are better solutions, and b. there are much, much worse problems caused by Facebook.
Except that finite money supply in a growing economy with positive interest rates is both deflationary and a driver of increasing inequality.

Sensible active monetary policy and "lender of last resort" activities are vital to functioning modern economies. That's why they had to be enacted in Europe during the financial crisis despite not being properly provided for by the existing Euro framework.
In my experience (happened twice), even if you buy the device from an Apple Store on some other European country (thus having the 2-y warranty) Apple Stores in the UK won't fix it. I had to wait for the flight home to have it fixed in my home country (and it was).

I own all categories of Apple devices but I never had a good experience at an Apple Store, not even when buying stuff. I realise I'm an exception though.
Most people face simple issues. And when they look for answers, they find stackoverflow and upvote the answer.

When a really tough question comes up, it probably effects only a few people, so only few people will upvote. I'm assuming 'tough problem' comes up only because something new and unusual is being attempted.
Some economists suggest a better measure: establish a coercive currency and print it as they like to pay for public goods. Just put a gun to people's face when they don't want fiat currency and then print all you want. Very practical solution.
I agree with you, for APIs - or very large teams where you can't communicate in person easily.

(And that's where C#'s way of dealing with getters and setters is a big win, because they look like member variables, so there's no extra kludginess.)
For the moment, yes; it's an employees' market right now.

What I hate to think about is what happen when the pendulum starts swinging back. My partner is in print design, and most companies seem to put candidates through onerous application procedures because they can.
You should look for videos or streamers who specify glitchless in the category. Otherwise glitching is implied in a speedrun.
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personally, i can see why people want this, but as an engineer i'd only do it if i was either pretty desperate (like, not having a job), or if there was a chance to learn something pretty cool. if the trial week were as interesting as, say, the matasano crypto challenge, then i'd do it even if i wasn't looking for a job. but i guess making something like that is difficult.

now i suspect most companies would like candidates who think that working there is "pretty cool" in itself. but let's be honest - jobs aren't like that. they have good bits and bad bits. and picking out just the good bits for a week, for someone who doesn't understand the context, is hard.

so it seems to me that there's a disadvantage to the company - they are discouraging people who are good enough to not be desperate and attract people who think that a typical job (sorry, but most are, by definition) is "pretty cool".

or maybe they just get younger, less cynical employees ;o)
Not unless their JS has ajax calls in it. But technically yeah they could, but, it's a pretty stupid fucken idea considering it would be found out almost immediately and suddenly it has become a blacklisted addon, their reputation has been destroyed etc.

Additionally you could just not update the addon ever if you're OK with it right now.
As for number 2, if they get satisfaction out of it, I think that's a perfectly fine (if unusual) hobby.
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Bitcoin owners become wealthy not by stealing, but because government is stealing from people via money printing and capital controls and regulations. Then, "wealthy bitcoiners" gladly share part of their investment and teach everyone about Bitcoin for free.
This is probably a good approach to the permanent "How to fix email" problem.

"Add-on" is the keyword here. Instead of disrupting your workflow by offering a distinct native app developed from scratch, this simply enhances an already great experience. I consider Gmail's UI very efficient and actually quite close to perfection (speed, reliability, labels, filters, multiple inboxes, keyboard shortcuts...). Gmelius just corrects the small annoyances that remain or have appeared lately.

This reminds me of a sentence in Dropbox's YC application: "With Dropbox, you hit "Save", as you normally would, and everything just works." The worflow isn't altered. It's just better.

Of course, Gmelius is just and add-on, with no clear business model. But maybe that's all we need after all.
That's the best answer.
It's not binary. That someone might still be a good friend, and be willing to communicate by different means for one on one conversations. But it's easy to forget when you're setting up an event and inviting a large group, that one of your friends won't see it and you'll have to contact them individually.
I love having the old compose both for writing new mails and replying back. Thanks! Any chance you could setup a donate option that doesn't involve paypal? :)
Opal is cool. I prefer CoffeeScripts approach to adding functionality though, without including an entire new standard library.
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It can play games though. It can buy and hold to tighten the market and then dump coins to loosen it up.

Given the current size of the market, a government budget of a few billion dollars can easily whipsaw the bitcoin supply.
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Thanks a lot for the feedback kyro! Your idea of headline sounds better indeed :) Regarding the amount of text, you have a point... Will try to prioritize pictures and key features. Thanks again. Best.
"Tainted Bitcoins" can be trivially laundered and mixed in with normal Bitcoins. This will only become easier in the future, and conceivably make it into the protocol itself with something like ZeroCoin.

It's funny but there is a lot of similar discussion on the other side of the fence, too: "Now that the FBI has a hold of DPR's Bitcoins, how do we blacklist these tainted Bitcoins so that we don't fall for honeypots/undercover agents?"

You can't, unless you want to fork the blockchain and start a new genesis block sans the Bitcoins you don't like, but that would be disasterous and no one would agree to it. It would defeat the whole premise of Bitcoin—why are your Bitcoins more special than my Bitcoins?

Truth is, tax collection works largely on the honour system, cooperation from employers, and through audits/investigation. Bitcoin is no different. The only real benefit the blockchain could give is to help automate some of the consensual tax collection further.
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I thought paperless billing was a good idea until I stumbled across similar situations. I now try and ensure I keep paper billing as much as possible (or at least have them e-mail me a bill every month where I can back it up myself).

2 years should be a legal minimum for free, open access to bills, because many self employed people only do their accounts once per year and you get nine months in which to complete them.. so that's 12 + 9 == 21 months you have a legitimate need to collect together your records.
I have the same early 2011 MBP, but with a failing logic board (kernel panics, restarts, fails memtest86 identically with multiple sets of RAM). AppleCare sends me to Genius Bar to get it fixed. "Genius" reinstalls the OS and tells me it's fixed. After disagreeing that this was a fix--when I started seeing the problem I tried clean reinstall--they run their memory test which doesn't catch the issue, and tell me they won't fix.

At this point I offer to pay out of pocket for a new logic board even though I am covered under AppleCare. 3 days after first calling Apple, I just want my machine working. They tell me they won't even do that unless their iMemoryTester comes back with an error. So, they offer to mail it to a repair facility to see if they can figure out what's wrong. So, I'm now into a process that they tell me will take an additional 5 days, and they may still elect to not fix the problem unless they can reproduce a problem that is intermittent in the OS and is reliably flagged by memtest86.

I used to believe that a laptop and AppleCare was a way to have a worry-free three-year cycle. What I'm going through right now is making me reconsider that.

This isn't germane to the topic of censorship, but appears consistent with Apple not giving a crap about certain classes of problems.
But I already have one :
http://www.motorola.com/us/MOTOACTV-16GB-Golf-Edition/121481...

is technically not a watch ( it does display the hour though) , but I saw its power and I use the features daily. And looks totally geeky on my hand.
Then, governments cannot longer be "socialistic" by promising something for nothing. To do new awesome "government service" they'd have to raise taxes and then the lie will become obvious. Since no one really wants governments if they don't get free stuff, governments will quickly lose any moral support and will be viewed as plain thugs.
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I agree with what you're saying. Something needs to be off by much more before I'd personally call it a bubble. Interesting read regardless.
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That's a good point, it has historical significance.
You can't sign something unethical and immoral in good faith, by definition. You need a meeting of the minds on an equal playing field.
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Do you have a demo of the "Experiment Writeup Functionality"?
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I've been prototyping a HTML CSS javasxript all in one language to do exactly this, in particular great support for in-code representation of the data structures common in HTML. Hopefully you'll beat me to it so I can stop spending time on it and use yours instead =D
They're not enforceable.

However, you can't take trade secrets or sales lists with you, that kind of thing. But you cannot be prevented from (say) working at software company A, then walking across the street to work at software company B doing the same job.

The trade secrets thing is where it gets nasty. I've seen people in court because the old employer accused them of using trade secrets in the new job. So if your old employer has a tendency to be nasty, you need to be squeaky clean about your departure, and even then you might get sued.
European webmail privacy, is it really better than in the USA
Egghead is great and all, but it's really useless if I want some important feature explained in-depth. (What do I need to define for it, what actions does it have, what is it use for, what is the best structure for it, etc etc)
I'm obviously being stupid - but what do I have to do to make this run in Chrome?
Yeah I've considered doing this a bunch of times but my biggest problem is coming up with small chunks of work that require little-to-no domain knowledge and can be done in a day/weekend/week.

We've switched to having candidates do two take home problems that are derived from actual problems we faced and it's worked very well. It cuts down on the number of bad candidates that get to the office and waste an hour of time and it gives a chance to candidates who are good coders but bad whiteboarders.
There is a more or less open campaign to flag NSA stories despite the appearance that some kind of crisis is coming to head about about spying on European allies and that General Alexander and the UK PM are openly calling for media censorship.
Indeed, we do need to get our act together. I'm still just starting, but I have a couple of ideas on proactive things I can do, but it's an uphill battle.

Thanks for that link---it's always nice to see other people in the field concerned with this. There aren't enough of them.
As someone with interests in a company that tests solutions for these kinds of problems... bring them on :D
I literally know nothing about this space... but I'm aware of Quartzy ( http://www.quartzy.com/ ) which I think competes similarly.

Care to do a competitive analysis with them?
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I doubt they think they're special. I doubt they think you're special either.
Yep, for 7 days after you register your account, you have full access to experiment writeups. Click "Writeups" in the right sidebar in the dashboard :-)
But accusations of Hate Speech are being broadly abused. For example, a guy I disagree with on almost every issues (economy and immigration) Eric Zemmour was accused and found guilty of hate speech for saying that most people in jail are Arabs in France. This is a fact that was confirmed by many judges and yet the guy was still sentenced cause he hurt some people's sensitivity (I guess...). I'm half Arab myself and still it's obvious to me that most people in jail in France are Arabs (mostly cause they're the poorer), but still, it's true.
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I'm only aware of one case challenging it, and it was a pretty specific context (a 1982 case [1] in which tenured professors challenged their university's ban on taking a second full-time job, which was upheld).

In general though these kinds of restrictions tend to be upheld unless there is a state law against them. There have occasionally been proposals that a robust "right to work" law should generally protect the right to form new contracts selling one's labor to a willing buyer, and void any exclusivity contracts with other parties that would interfere with that right. But in practice all states that I know of with a "right to work" law have adopted a much more limited version of the right, which only voids very specific kinds of exclusivity contracts (relating to employer–union contracts). Some states separately void noncompete agreements under a related principle.

I'm not aware of any state voiding contracts relating to exclusive employment with the employer for the duration of the contract, at least for full-time, salaried employees.

[1] http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=1733979708568541...