McDyver

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by McDyver 3y ago
I did. Are you saying 25m bags have absolutely no information on them? Absolutely zero?
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by McDyver 3y ago
When it was founded 50 Yeats ago _maybe_ it made sense because technology was not that advanced. Now I'd say it's a company selling stolen goods. Airlines know who is the owner of that luggage. They have the sticker with flight, b
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by McDyver 3y ago
I'm sure it's a problem, and the degree of "problem" depends on the importance of the mail. I think the real problem is that we are delegating to google the arbitrary decision of what is spam or not. Given that their cor
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by McDyver 3y ago
Am I missing something? What stops a company from imposing enormous fees on a competitor? By continuously installing/uninstalling the competitor's app they can even make their business unsustainable. And more, what would stop appl
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by McDyver 3y ago
So what's the point? To maximise profits while making humanity worse off? Why can't we all benefit from the start? It's a sick system, perpetuated by sick people
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by McDyver 3y ago
Portugal has lots of different cheeses (and wine, olive oil, sausages, ...) The link below lists only the protected ones. https://tradicional.dgadr.gov.pt/en/categories/cheese-and-ot...
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by McDyver 3y ago
Sea Shepherd puts it well: How to save the ocean: 1) Don't eat marine animals 2) Be a voice for marine animals 3) Repeat steps 1 and 2
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by McDyver 3y ago
I believe that the question should be the other way around: Why is it that you have to lose your anonimity when you are on the internet? The real world always allowed that until it became dependent on surveillance capitalism. Of course you
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by McDyver 3y ago
They have it better now, until they don't... Who knows which change in the wind would make Musk change his opinion and make conditions worse (see "I'm a free speech absolutist (until I'm not, and I shut up every voice op
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by McDyver 3y ago
> you will no longer be able to watch any of your previously purchased Discovery content and the content will be removed Content you purchased. Their wording. Not content you rented, not license you paid for. They are effectively stealin
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by McDyver 3y ago
I suppose this is about the physical license plates, that can't be held at postnord - maybe very specific for being license plates. The next step will be at transportstyrelsen they will just strike and refuse to issue the license plate
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by McDyver 3y ago
Youtube may very well charge for whatever they want. But pretending to offer the service for free and looking at your information (in the form of browser capabilities and other PII), is like you entering a store and the owner going through
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by McDyver 3y ago
> nobody Nobody, no, but certainly companies which you entered an agreement with, and paid for the transportation of yourself and your property. It's inexcusable that with the current existing technology companies "lose" y
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by McDyver 3y ago
In the article they emphasise "all batteries", so I suppose it includes phones
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by McDyver 3y ago
Good thing European union didn't hear you, then: https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2023... From 2027, all batteries must be replaceable, FTA: "The regulation of the European Pa
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by McDyver 3y ago
Not necessarily. They can be profitable without being greedy. In this case they could have just said "we don't have capacity to fulfill all new demands, we can happily run at full capacity, and charge more if needed". Other c
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by McDyver 3y ago
Then they should have hired contractors for the specific timeframe, no? Otherwise it's just corporate greed: we know we'll have a surge in demand, so we buy new vessels and containers and manpower to last us 2 years; we make huge
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by McDyver 3y ago
If the person had applied for a credit card, used it, then refused to pay because the name is different from his legal one, I suppose it would be quickly fixed
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by McDyver 3y ago
> Twixtter? I call it PP-kat (platform previously known as twitter).
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by McDyver 3y ago
True, but you have a bigger user base and if there's any document exfiltration or compromise, it's more likely other people will notice too. Yes, with open source you can look at the source, but who analyses the whole codebase bef
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by McDyver 3y ago
On the same line, watt for watt, pen and paper demolishes anything Apple has to offer. Now and forever. One single, isolated metric is not the way to compare things
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by McDyver 3y ago
In Europe price labels have to have the price per kg or per unit (eg box of dishwasher tablets), so that you can easily compare. https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/consumer-protecti...
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by McDyver 3y ago
I wouldn't say it's by law, I'd say it's governed by the unions. If the company you're applying to doesn't have CBA, you might not have some benefits you might be taking for granted, namely pension (ITP)
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by McDyver 3y ago
Odometer reading might be tricky in places like Europe where you have lots of countries next to each other, and cross borders often. If someone has a car registered in Luxembourg and drives mainly around France, Germany, Belgium, it would b
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by McDyver 3y ago
Belgium legalises ethical hacking: https://www.law.kuleuven.be/citip/blog/belgium-legalises-eth... HN thread from 4 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35847860
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by McDyver 3y ago
EasyDNS pricing - over 11% increase, from $17 to $19.
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by McDyver 3y ago
If your landlady is frequently brought up on unrelated sites by her other tenants saying she just evicted them without apparent cause or appeal, then maybe your landlady might cause you problems sooner or later.
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by McDyver 3y ago
Is there an instance where this was actually applied? We read about privacy related fines here and there, but none really seem to take into account the global revenue
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by McDyver 3y ago
> Does he actually spend any time working? This seems the exact thought process of management wanting people to RTO. They forget there's time, and life, after working hours. And the less you need to commute, the more free time you h
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by McDyver 3y ago
As GP pointed out: > such regional restrictions are easily bypassed and WhatsApp is popular enough to make people try it. So that would then normalise the practices such as side loading / jail breaking and avoiding regional restrict

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