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Why?

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 prod…

> 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 jus…

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.

> 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 thi…

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…

> 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…

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 r…

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 workin…

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 s…

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WaPo have just published a story about the attacks https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/ukraines-governm...

And an odd quote from some who's claim to fame is running a website that publishes leaked information.

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…

Is it better to be a genius programmer, or an average programmer with an good understanding of the problem domain?

Yes, as long as you don't want to convert your crypto currency into fiat currency at either end.

Is there a difference between shooting at a character controlled by an AI, and shooting at a character controlled by another human?