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Yup, in NZ a two pizza team would average out to about three people I think.

Are US pizzas giant?

If you are willing to offer an extended warranty for X years, then that's pretty good evidence that I should be covered by the CGA for at least that long.

See also: all the shower scenes in M*A*S*H.

> The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed.

Maybe just the people that can move $25 million should be in the same room, the rest of us can keep the 12 second commute down the hallway.

Right, but the employee would be able to refuse the consideration, and thus the contract, and the state of affairs wouldn't change. They would be free to say whatever they wanted.

> There's never been a peace settlement that ended up killing more people than war

Versailles.

The classifieds in the back of newspapers are a type of ad that helped normal people buy/sell their stuff and paid for actual journalism.

Some ads are ok. Advertising as a concept is very broad.

And the US applies its tax laws to all US citizens worldwide and coerces foreign financial institutions into compliance.

I've replied to a few comments here pointing out why NZ and Canada would be considered both on the same footing as part of the Empire but also not at the same time.

Unlike, say the US, independence for the former Dominions isn't something you can pin point to one event. It is mostly a slow evolution of the legal environment and cultural separation over the course of more than a century. (In NZ's case you could argue that it took 163 years, or is not done yet because reasons.)

The actual difference between the Canadian "expedition" and the one that included Hillary is that the Canadian one was just some dude. One guy that wanted to try his luck, whereas the British one was organised (and I believe paid for) in Britain. It just happened to have a Kiwi on it.

And NZ competed at the Olympics in 1920.

If Canada counts as not the Crown, then so does NZ.

It's a major oversight for an article on this subject.

And NZ adopted the Statute of Westminster in 1947, so was on the same footing as Canada with respect to claiming the "first to the top" title.

Yeah but New Zealand also separately declared war in World War II, so if that is your yardstick then there is still no difference between a Kiwi and a Canadian getting there first.

Tourism? That's the only thing that even approaches realistic that I can think of.

Sure, it's almost like you need to exercise judgement when selecting metrics and planning your work.

> Take that to it's extreme and you see that code can be simplified down to nothing without anything being destroyed.

I disagree. The thing being destroyed is readability and common understanding with your fellow programmers.

I said this elsewhere: never wear gloves with roots that rotate.

Drill, table saw, router, belt sander are all big no-nos.

Orbital sander is about the only power tool I'd be comfortable wearing gloves with.

Never wear gloves with tools that rotate.

But how does that stop this sort of man in the middle attack, the other scamer on the other call just asks the real bank for the number?

Yeah, open source could mean code distributed in zip bundles. Git history is an orthogonal concern.

Sex work <> sex trafficking.

I'd like to try this out at some stage. Any tips? Any thing that caught you out?

That wouldn't work unless they manage to burn off your finger prints too.

Um, Proxima Centauri is about 4 light-years away.

Yup. Over the last 10-15 years the innovation in tech has gone from cool tech that serves users, that improves lives, to instead legal engineering, user hostile tech and behaviour that milks users for every last drop of revenue.

AI might be a cool tech that can serve to make the lives of actual humans better, but it might require breaking up big tech and fostering customer centric competition to realise any benefits to society at large.

Yeah, but I think m3kw9 was referring to dying of infection from an otherwise minor wound.

No, it is consumer law that you can not contact out of.

It's not that hard to solve if you have a "I like this / I hate this" signal from the user.

Unfortunately for Google, G+ was probably their best chance at something like that. Now they just have stuff like time on page to try and figure that out.

And you should probably be allowed one, assuming total cost of all externalities is appropriately priced in.

And possibly only for use on private roads and tracks because there doesn't seem to be a fair price for poisoning the air that the other people in your city/town/village breathe.

> Does Netflix want you to be more productive? Meta?

Yes. If you can support yourself while only working 10 hours a week then you have another 30 hours you could be spending on watching Netflix or shit posting on Facebook.