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by FateOfNations 1y ago
A "Windows Subsystem" is a concept that dates back to the original Windows NT line of operating systems. Historically, there've been a number of supported "Windows Subsystems", essentially APIs for the kernel. In Wi
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by FateOfNations 1y ago
Your bank/credit/debit/etc. card is a “physical token with a crypto key that is protected by a password and tied to one's bank account”. FIDO and EMV even both use the same underlying ISO/IEC 7816 and 14443 protocol
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by FateOfNations 1y ago
As somewhat of an aside, this development doesn't necessarily mean much in the way of changes to the way the program is currently run. The foundation can act as a conduit/collection point for funding from industry, with the progra
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by FateOfNations 2y ago
People have really bad memories of Mini- and Micro-USB, or aren't old enough to have experienced that era. Those things were fragile . At that point in time, it made all the technical and business sense in the world to replace their e
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by FateOfNations 2y ago
Yeah, I'm going to have to spend some time trying to understand the math too. I was mostly waiting for things to calm down standardization wise. This newly selected algorithm is based on error correction codes (the same ones used in co
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by FateOfNations 2y ago
Given how seriously the spookie parts of the US government are taking it, I would treat it with a similar level of urgency. While we obviously aren't privy to everything they know, their public actions indicate that they don't thi
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by FateOfNations 2y ago
I'd summarise it as: Apple can ask Google to do business, but Google will be under court order to respond, "Sorry, we can't." In that situation, Apple would not have any obligations to the court. Google would be responsi
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by FateOfNations 2y ago
The $1199 I paid for my iPhone is how they make money on Apple Maps.
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by FateOfNations 2y ago
> SpaceX tells you how much it costs to ship something INTO SPACE. https://www.spacex.com/rideshare/
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by FateOfNations 2y ago
Yes. In a few states, there is a state-run short-term disability insurance program that pays if you are sick. Some employers offer short-term disability insurance as part of their benefits package, which is also available to purchase privat
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by FateOfNations 2y ago
There actually is, but it isn't the employer's responsibility. It's called Unemployment Insurance. The one-week waiting period is waived as part of the state of emergency declaration.
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by FateOfNations 2y ago
A natural disaster is neither the employee's nor the employer's fault. If a business's operations are interrupted due to a natural disaster (or for any other reason) and it cannot productively use an employee, it is appropria
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by FateOfNations 2y ago
The ideology that the employer-employee relationship is fundamentally one where labor is exchanged for money? The most I expect is, "Don't worry about things at work. Take care of yourself and your family. You are welcome to use a
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by FateOfNations 2y ago
10 days per year.
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by FateOfNations 2y ago
"abusing the registration system" apparently.
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by FateOfNations 2y ago
This is a messy legal situation… For the most part, it looks like consumers weren't directly harmed aside from the false promises about "finding the best deal," but consumers weren't paying anything to Honey for that pro
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by FateOfNations 2y ago
Most of the merchants seem to be somewhere between indifferent and complicit in what Honey is doing, so there is no problem there (the teaser for part two seems to elude to what happens to the merchants who don't play along). The Chrom
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by FateOfNations 2y ago
Establishing a company in the US is easy, but you'd have difficulty finding a bank willing to do business with a brand new company with Russian beneficial owners (at least in the current geopolitical climate).
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by FateOfNations 2y ago
Technically, jurisdictions could try to collect the taxes directly, but they generally lack the infrastructure for it, and it isn't feasible to set it up. Instead, they must play by the state's rules if they want the state to coll
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by FateOfNations 2y ago
Or they do something silly where there is an "Online Convenience Fee" when you buy online, but if you try to buy it at the box office, there's a different "Box Office Ticketing Fee." The event promoter should pay th
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by FateOfNations 2y ago
At least here in California, the state collects the sales tax on behalf of all the local jurisdictions, so they publish and update them all simultaneously (twice a year) and in the same format.
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by FateOfNations 2y ago
Various restaurant operators have experimented with what you described but haven't succeeded. The big issue is that servers hate it specifically because owners use the additional revenue to "pay a decent salary to their employees.
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by FateOfNations 2y ago
We almost eliminated those here in California until they chickened out and exempted restaurants.
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by FateOfNations 2y ago
Surprisingly, neither Dish nor DirectTV has gone bankrupt. Satellites are pretty capital-intensive. They both faced challenges over the years but have managed to skate by. AT&T kept DirectTV afloat for quite a while. The proposed Direct
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by FateOfNations 2y ago
The model weights.
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by FateOfNations 2y ago
OP seems to be Irish. Outside the US, "pension" means retirement plan/savings in general, including defined contribution plans. This contrasts with the US, where "pension" is a defined-benefit plan, almost always sp
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by FateOfNations 2y ago
Overall, it seems pretty reasonable. The regulators seem to have understood that obligations should fall on the entities in the supply chain where money is made. They shouldn't flow upstream to open-source developers who do their work
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by FateOfNations 2y ago
Looks like it was this: https://www.theregister.com/2018/03/01/trustico_digicert_sym...
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by FateOfNations 2y ago
There are around ~3,000 cases per year in the United States[1]. Since cancer is the result of cell division gone wrong, it can develop pretty much anywhere in your body. However, areas where cell division occurs more frequently are more com
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by FateOfNations 2y ago
Good news: the system successfully detected an error and didn't send bad data to air traffic controllers. Bad News: the system can't recover from an error in an individual flight plan, bringing the whole system down with it (along

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