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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
Disposing of a crytoasset requires paying Capital Gains Tax, not Income Tax
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
>You’re totally correct that there are trade offs. Sadly, Signal's developers don't think trade offs exist
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
Servo was a research project, AIUI it was never meant to completely replace Gecko.
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
Proportionality is a big concept in EU law, and it's explciitly written in to the GDPR. Article 83 ("General conditions for imposing administrative fines") states that: > Each supervisory authority shall ensure that the im
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
No, I meant ARM. ARM was created as a joint venture between Apple, Acorn and VLSI.
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
>You can edit the title back and that is kept. Aha! That worked. Thanks.
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
The title should be "Where is HTTP/3 right now?" but for some reason HN has changed it to be "Where is HTTP/3?"
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Where is HTTP/3 right now?(daniel.haxx.se)
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
Apple has a perpetual royalty-free license as a result of being an ARM co-founder. It wouldn't be too surprising is Acorn had the same arrangement.
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Nominet rejects serious change despite losing CEO, chair, 1/2 of board in vote(theregister.com)
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
It looks like OWASP is an "Associate Member" of this Foundation
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
That may be visually simpler, but if onMount were to start passing a parameter to its callback in a future version (for whatever reason) then that will be passed to listenForAuthChanges. Using the anonymous function means that wouldn't
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
.io is not one of the "new" gTLDs, though, it's a ccTLD just like .uk
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
I'm unnerved that the vote was so close, but it's undoubtedly the right call. Thanks to all of the Nominet members who voted yes. Hopefully the remaining board members will appoint the two proposed interim directors and work can s
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
>Not sure why they'd do that - there's far more infrastructure for ARM. It'll be about patent licencing fees. Those couple of dollars per chips really add up when you have hundreds of thousands of machines running all over
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
They said they knew they haven't been able to restore backups for 2 years. Which is another way of saying that they don't have backups at all.
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
>Apropos of nothing... I also remember a story about a northern country replacing traffic lights with LEDs and then spending even more money adding heaters because the old lights were naturally warm, and melted any ice that stuck to the
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
There is no "the app". There are many apps. The protocol is open, so you could even write your own app, or if you lack the skills or time to do so, commission somebody else to write one and nobody can stop you. In contrast, the si
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
The GDPR is not a cookie law. It's not even an internet law. The GDPR applies when any processing of any data is done regardless of context.
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
> Good riddance. GDPR is an insane, Byzantine mess of legalese, which maps poorly onto reality. Have you even read it? The GDPR is a quite straightforward piece of legislation.
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
Axel Voss wasn't even one of the GDPR's architects. He was trying to kill it before it was born.
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
> Many flipped to the "winning" side. And the ones that didn't were purged
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
The GDPR is not a law that only regulates the internet. The GDPR applies to all processing of all personal data regardless of whether that's pieces of paper in a filing cabinet or an entirely online social network.
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
VPNs just move the problem around, they don't solve it. You've gone from your ISP being the point at which interception can happen to your VPS provider and/or their ISP being the point at which interception can happen.
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
>This isn’t a meaningful comparison unless the pre Chernobyl birth defect rate in Poland and Ukraine was at least as high as the global one. Even then there will be confounding effects. People are, generally, richer now than pre-Chernoby
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
> And a crime in both cases. Copyright infringement is very rarely a crime.
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
RFC 5141[0] has a mapping of ISO standards to the URN namespace. SO the latest version of the English-language version of ISO 8601-1 would be encoded as urn:iso:std:iso:8601:-1:en [0] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5141
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
Colourism is a thing. Depending on one's culture it can be a form of racism or classism, or both. Have a skim of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrimination_based_on_skin_c... to see some examples of this.
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
> I doubt the people high up the ladder think themselves without conscience. Quite the opposite. Some might, and just not care. Psychopaths aren't that rare (although how frequent the incidence is within Nasa is I have no idea)
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
> The confusing part is that the government has to maintain the confidence of the house, and is comprised of members of parliament. Confidence of the Commons, yes. The government doesn't have a majority in the Lords. >Normally th

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