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I've seen one or two people using the Switch on the London Underground. Rare but not non-existent.

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…

Canada has their own version of the OGL too. Dunno about Australia. https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada

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 govern…

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.

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…

> 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, th…

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 prote…

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 i…

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 pro…

Good luck arguing that novel legal theory when in front of a judge on a fraud or tax evasion trial.

Yes, acaí berries are tasty and make a lovely addition to a healthy breakfast. Cryptocurrencies are Internet penny stocks with lofty aspirations.

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.

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 malic…

> 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 inclu…

> 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.

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 syst…

Sounds pretty similar to SQ3R. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQ3R

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

> 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 …

> 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 skeptici…

> 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…

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 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 d…