Is it just me or does the Security Notices not link anywhere? (Chrome)
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I’m a generalist builder of software and tiny houses.
New Zealand based.
Superlinear:
https://www.superlinear.nz/
I can't see many downsides - except for the poor companies that have whole teams disappear on them.
Many sites like this already exist...
sedo flippa godaddy auctions brandbucket etc
I don't see anything different in the value proposition, what is your difference to the other sites?
There is also a lot of react-native npm packages that abstract away the hardware issues, quality & completeness varies however.
Monsanto actually has a page "busting" the myth, but I'm going to link to it because it clearly states that monsanto has the right to enforce patent fees in this case.
http://www.monsanto.com/newsviews/pages/gm-seed-accidentally...
Here is the quote: Monsanto has a long-standing public commitment that “it has never been, nor will it be, Monsanto’s policy to exercise its patent rights where trace amounts of our patented seeds or traits are present in a farmer’s fields as a result of inadvertent means.”
So they are saying that, yes they own those patent rights, but no they won't enforce them. It's pretty clear cut that one has a legal obligation to pay monsanto, but they're being nice by not enforcing their rights. ( If you watch Food Inc, you'll see how nice they are about non-enforcement in reality ).
What Bitcoin solved was decentralized trust. I don't see any banks replacing their existing 'trust' network with code, they'll want to reverse transactions and mistakes, and will also want a veto over any distributed ledger.
Unfortunately the biggest GMO companies in the world have given GMO foods a bad name.
While GM technology does have hope for the future, like AI, it also poses risks. We need to take those risks seriously, and dismissing people anti-GM as being anti-science is FUD on your part.
There are dangers of eating GM food, but that doesn't mean the dangers come from the genes themselves. GM food such as roundup ready crops can have increased herbicide residue compared to non-GM crops.
We live in a world of corporate funded "science", so being skeptical of claims of 100% safety for GM organisms released into the wild isn't anti-science, it's just using the Precautionary Principle.
The Precautionary Principle states that if an action or policy has a suspected risk of causing harm to the public or to the environment, in the absence of scientific consensus that the action or policy is not harmful, the burden of proof that it is not harmful falls on those taking an action.
I think that is the correct approach to GM. The potential risks if things go wrong are huge and irreversible, wheres the need for GM food (if any) doesn't justify that risk until we have better scientific consensus.
The dangers of GMO from a economic perspective are worthy of worry on their own. If you haven't seen Food Inc, then I would recommend that as a starting point to learn how dangerous the monopolisation of the food industry can be to society. The farmers in Peru want to protect their existing biodiversity, something North America has lost thanks to Monsanto, where you cannot legally grow a heirloom corn crop without paying patent fees to monsanto because of the inevitable wind-born cross pollination, thereby violating monsanto patent rights.
The author seems to paint a broad brush in saying all dynamic languages are poorly designed. Languages can have different design goals.
From Matz, Ruby's creator;
> Instead of emphasizing the what, I want to emphasize the how part: how we feel while programming. That's Ruby's main difference from other language designs. I emphasize the feeling, in particular, how I feel using Ruby.
( http://www.artima.com/intv/rubyP.html )
So one of Ruby's primary design goals was programmer happiness, and in that respect it isn't not poorly designed at all. The technical 'perfection' of a programming language only matters to a point, it's us as programmers people that have to speak its language all day, and optimising for how we feel doing it is a valid design goal.
I don't think it is a valid criticism to say something is poorly designed, without looking at its design goals. Every language is poorly designed in one way or another.
Hold on, what about wiretap laws?
Doing the legwork of law enforcement, is different from doing research.
Not that they knew what they were doing - they seemed to have suspected something, but made the decision that it was a small enough fraction of the network to not worry about, but obviously in hindsight they were wrong about that.
It is listed on the ASX stock exchange, although hasn't released a product to market yet. However, I think they may be further down the line towards commercialisation.
The JB-9 looks more lightweight and fun, but the Martin has a parachute...
You can read the latest judgement here (PDF: http://cjbrownlawcom.c.presscdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/... ), but I'd recommend listening to both serial, then undisclosed for the background.
"Somebody with great power, who wants ProtonMail dead, jumped in after our initial attack!" "We have no such power to crash data center and no reason to attack ProtonMail any more!" "WE DO NOT HAVE THAT POWER! NOT EVEN CLOSE!" "We are not attacking ProtonMail! Our attack was small, directed at their IP only and lasted 15 minutes only!"
I don't believe Protonmail have said they have received any more requests for money, so that would go along with the above. I agree that it was silly to pay the blackmailers, but there is some reason to believe that these are two separate attacks.
Just so everyone is aware, you can use any email address as your company email address on the google play store without verification. This means when looking at an app, you see the email is support@legitcompany.com and think it's from them, but it's not.
Press release: https://www.airbnb.co.uk/press/news/airbnb-partners-with-vic...
But seeing AirBnB do something for refugees would be great.
"secret courts"
Secret Courts? Seriously! We have (mostly) open courts today because we have learned something in the past few thousand years. Let's not go back to the dark ages. This agreement needs to fail!