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bmh_ca

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About bmh_ca

Standing on the shoulders of legal and tech giants.

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    Comment #17061000

    I had a few moments to work on tko (knockout 4) this morning and I just have to say how happy I am with the ko methodology. Not to knock (pardon the put) any of the more recent for…

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    Comment #16947734

    Thanks for posting. The claim is not especially bold or novel, unless I misunderstand. Math can be seen as a source of absolute truth. It’s long been noted that this butts up again…

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    Comment #16920503

    > It is backed by the obligation to pay your taxes in that currency. If it's a reserve currency, as the U.S. is, it is also backed by the demand of other states to hold U.S. dollar…

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    Comment #16803561

    > If I visit g00gle.com and sign-in using the Web Authentication API, my browser is going to use my credentials for g00gle.com, not for google.com; unlike me, it _can't_ be fooled …

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    Comment #16773819

    On #3 and #4 I had what I believed to be some reasonable conceptions to formulate parameters for a discussion, here: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/71522 Basically I sugg…

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    Comment #16736896

    > It started 24 years ago with the Clinton administration granting China "most favored nation" status.[0] A controversial move at the time, and one that broke a one of Clinton's ca…

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    Comment #16196265

    Is that not the Nissan Leaf?

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    Comment #16057825

    I'm one of the knockout core developers. Just a heads up, knockout 3.5 just went into beta, and 4.0 is in alpha. I spoke the other day with another core developer, Ryan Niemeyer, a…

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    Comment #16036497

    This is a great read. The principles are also applicable to other problems such as evaluating a constant time comparison function, symmetrical cypher, or hash.

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    Comment #15943161

    The devils advocate is literally a Catholic position occupied by a person arguing against conferring sainthood. The interesting bit is that historically the strength of sainthood h…

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    Comment #15941076

    Teaching became more open to women as men were killed in war.

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    Comment #15894765

    The rich, who benefit from tax breaks, spend copiously on issues that influence the poorest’ votes. Abortion, religion, military, immigration, homophobia. Emotional issues that inf…

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    Comment #15778599

    Make them judges. Almost all judges become less conservative and more liberal over time on the bench.

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    Comment #15752586

    SIGINT resources are under-allocated for domestic defence of civilian assets.

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    Comment #15713373

    FWIW, my personal anecdote: I chose Google App Engine for a large enterprise application almost a decade ago and it's been absolutely, undeniably one of the best choices we made. T…

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    Comment #15686565

    A positive result would require Toyota to advertise on Facebook, yes? This may not be the case. A better question may be car-related ads.

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    Comment #15524007

    Nailed it.

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    Comment #15518103

    Justice is an outcome. Law is a process.

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    Comment #15458087

    I love how you've capitalized "Human", as if to say there were some other race competing to complete the Hyperloop. :)

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    Comment #15416923

    > Do you really think the tools you use like your web browser, mail client etc, have less vulnerabilities on OpenBSD than on any other BSD or linux distribution, please... Yes. Ope…

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    Comment #15413022

    Note Google Spanner.

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    Comment #15357252

    For further reading on this, look to articles about how the Phillips Curve (the theoretical link between inflation and underemployment) is broken (if it ever worked). e.g. http://w…

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    Comment #15332517

    There is definitely a value for this. A useful integration for some would be using the hardware security/key modules in Amazon, Google, Microsoft, etc.

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    Comment #15330329

    Not exactly on point, but I found this to be an excellent read & comfort: https://macdaddy.io/apfs-backup-software-developers-perspect...

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    Comment #15302862

    Aside: In your opinion what are good issue trackers and code review tools?