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by JW_00000 2y ago
But then, haven't we reached that point already with the development of nuclear weapons? I'm more scared of a lunatic (whether of North Korean, Russian, American, or any other nationality) being behind the "nuclear button&quo
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by JW_00000 2y ago
As far as I can tell, this does not allow the employer to see whether employees were idle or not. It does allow tracking of how much time they spent in meetings and how many chat messages they sent.
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by JW_00000 2y ago
Does this allow seeing how long an an employee was idle, or just whether they were in meetings?
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by JW_00000 2y ago
If that's the case, why don't they sell Teams activity data to companies? I mean, after you're idle for 5 minutes, Teams detects this and changes your status to "idle". Following your reasoning, they should be selli
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by JW_00000 2y ago
The website links to Flexbox Froggy but via a link that requires you to register an account, but you can access it directly via https://flexboxfroggy.com/
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by JW_00000 2y ago
This is pretty ironic to read on a forum called "Hacker" News, which also originated as a counter-culture that considered itself creative but was regarded as criminal by the general public.
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by JW_00000 2y ago
There are dated examples in the article.
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by JW_00000 2y ago
To be fair, we do this for a lot of other stuff as well. For instance, driving over the speed limit does not harm anyone per se, it's only when this leads to a traffic accident that harm is caused. You could just as well say: let'
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by JW_00000 3y ago
The term "derivative work" (or similar) is sometimes defined in law, but of course very abstractly (i.e. not specific to software) and differently depending on jurisdiction. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by JW_00000 3y ago
But then where would you run a small hobby project that you'd like to run in the cloud? I have some small stuff I'm running on Google Cloud Platform, and honestly I'm scared of the same thing happening to me because there&#x2
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by JW_00000 3y ago
But no electricity is used if your instance is up but idle.
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by JW_00000 3y ago
It's referring to the seaborn library ( https://seaborn.pydata.org/ ), a Python library for data visualization (built on top of matplotlib).
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by JW_00000 3y ago
At least in the EU (don't know about the UK), currently these sort of devices are installed by the government. They are replacement of the previous analog meters. In Belgium, they report the data to the (public) electricity grid compan
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by JW_00000 3y ago
The article states the exact opposite: "A small, nimble team of engineers built Threads over the course of only five months of technical work" while it "garner[ed] over 100 million sign ups in its first five days". Accor
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by JW_00000 3y ago
The Iraqi WMDs were never universally believed, neither in the US nor in Europe. There were widespread protests against the Iraq War (before it started!) in the US and the rest of the world. France, Germany, and the Benelux vehemently oppos
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by JW_00000 3y ago
Inside that quite rational in a way? When Putin hadn't launched a full-scale invasion of a country, I considered him a bit evil; after he invaded a country, I consider him truly evil. Am I making this decision based on my state's
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by JW_00000 3y ago
In the EU, countries can (and do) impose levies on printers and scanners because they may be used to copy copyrighted material ( https://www.insideglobaltech.com/2013/07/12/eu-member-states... ). Similar levies
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by JW_00000 3y ago
> If a person with a very good memory reads an article, they only violate copyright if they write it out and share it, or perform the work publicly. If they have a reasonable understanding of the law they won't do so. However a mali
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by JW_00000 3y ago
The way I see it, if the NYT goes under (one of the biggest newspapers in the world), all similar outlets also go under. Major publishers, both of fiction and non-fiction, as well as images, video, and all other creative content, may also g
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by JW_00000 3y ago
Isn't that exactly his point? They open source "a ton of work", but not everything; thereby "not competing on code alone". The code of, say, Android or Google Web Toolkit is open source, but the products they build
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by JW_00000 3y ago
I'd slightly modify 3: a for-profit company that open-sources some software that is not a product in and of itself. For instance, Facebook can open source React because it's something they need, but it would not be a viable produc
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by JW_00000 3y ago
This lead me down a short Wikipedia rabbit-hole that is quite interesting (at least to me). Apparently Dutch originally had "du" as 2nd person singular and "gij" as 2nd person plural. From the 16th century, "gij&quo
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by JW_00000 3y ago
Even more: that is currently the case in liberal democracies AFAIK. Any legislator can propose any law. It's then up to the legislative process to decide whether it should be accepted or not. (Possibly, a constitutional court could rol
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by JW_00000 3y ago
It seems dangerous to make proposing laws in a parliament illegal, don't you think? Anything should go in a parliament. I'm also not sure hate speech could be illegal when a member of parliament speaks in parliament, typically par
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by JW_00000 3y ago
Are the Android app store and GCP loss leaders? I assumed those two would be profitable at least.
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by JW_00000 3y ago
You don't need to show a "cookie warning" to store a cookie. You only need to show a warning if you're tracking a user, regardless of the technology used (cookie, local storage...) But if you want to store someone's
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by JW_00000 3y ago
I'm pretty sure that in the podcasts I listen to, no one is shamelessly making something up completely.
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by JW_00000 3y ago
Also, type mimi in the first code example: the two 'm's have different width...
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by JW_00000 3y ago
But maybe he now has other dreams he can work on.
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by JW_00000 3y ago
I expect at least some kids to be scared off by this. The BBC article above states that Omegle is being mentioned in 50 pedophilia cases in the last 2 years. If 20% of kids would be scared to click "I'm older than 13", that w

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