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   by _pmf_ 7y ago

   > go after the officers with criminal charges, and make the shareholders liable financially Even if the officers serve a prison term and forfeit all personal fortune, companies will still put them on some comfortable position (pre-bribi
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   by _pmf_ 7y ago

   I don't get this "afraid of losing something" mindset at all. In fifteen years, I've "lost" some minor changes maybe 3 or 4 times, and this was mostly with SVN, which does not have the safeguards that Git has.
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   by _pmf_ 7y ago

   > First, traditional message brokers (ie queues, topics, persistence, etc) introduce a potential bottleneck for all communication, and on top of that they are _slow_ compared to just using the network (ie HTTP, with no middleman). How is
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   by _pmf_ 7y ago

   A scientific perspective: https://hslahman.com/the-problem-with-greens-3/
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   by _pmf_ 7y ago

   I actually bought this particular book to make sense of the mess (i.e. 80% of the API surface missing), but of course it did not help here. The way to brigde UWP and regular Win32 APIs was described in this utterly kafkaesque document[0], w
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   by _pmf_ 7y ago

   > A bank that suspected money laundering or suspicious activity would be expected to behave in exactly the same way. How many lawyers do you think a bank will have to retain to deal with the flood of preliminary injunctions they would ha
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   by _pmf_ 7y ago

   I'd say looms, which would be raster devices.
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   by _pmf_ 7y ago

   Nobody disagrees that this is what you have to do in PayPal's current state. The debate is to whether you should have to do it, or whether, given that it walks and talks like a bank, PayPal should nationally and globally be treated as
9. 549.▲
   by _pmf_ 7y ago

   Please link me to an image for RPi or BBB that has working HW accelerated JavaFX. I'm not being sarcastic, I'd actually like to know.
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    by _pmf_ 7y ago

    Sounds like the ubeam "works for very tiny numbers, everything else is a scaling problem" con.
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    by _pmf_ 7y ago

    > Surely the plane either needs a safety feature or not, and it shouldn't be down to someone at an airline to make a decision on? To you own the safest car that is available?
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    by _pmf_ 7y ago

    I think this is exactly what happened.
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    by _pmf_ 7y ago

    Would like to know how much they receive via Brave/BAT: https://batgrowth.com/publishers/website Could be a nice boost to adoption if it's significant, but maybe they want to keep it their secret ...
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    by _pmf_ 7y ago

    Countries like the Maledives invest in land; that's a sensible thing to do that will save existences. What's not sensible to do is restrict fossil fuels in Europe wile China is still ramping up; it's symbolism that does not h
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    by _pmf_ 7y ago

    How do you feel as a Tesla owner knowing that after your death, Tesla will publicly post that it was your fault, based on data from your vehicle?
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    by _pmf_ 7y ago

    There's also ChucK: https://chuck.cs.princeton.edu
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    by _pmf_ 7y ago

    I think GitHub profile maintenance as a service would be quite a business model for body leasing type of consultancies (that cater a particular industry sector) ... for individuals, it would not be very sustainable. Actually, a lot of work
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    by _pmf_ 7y ago

    It's been in the GB range when I used it in the early 2000s. Always wondered that myself.
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    by _pmf_ 7y ago

    Filing a ticket for fractional length support.
20. 560.▲
    by _pmf_ 7y ago

    In my experience, such types act as gatekeeper and can effectively prevent you from getting anything done.
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    by _pmf_ 7y ago

    > lol yeah that guy should totally be fired. Yeah, introducing a new ecosystem to mask bad DB design or bad queries because she is lacking basic SQL and relational foundations is how I envision the typical 10x programmer.
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    by _pmf_ 7y ago

    Would be a much more important case if the EU commission that cared about actual freedom instead of competitors.
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    by _pmf_ 7y ago

    "Yea, can you just give it a bit more 'zing'?"
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    by _pmf_ 7y ago

    Oh, are we having this discussion again?
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    by _pmf_ 7y ago

    > HTML is not PDF, it's usually made from text in the first place. I don't know, man. Most websites would be smaller if they were replaced by a HD video of someone reading the contents.
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    by _pmf_ 7y ago

    BMW bought the brand rights to Rolls Royce for 120 million EUR. BMW will not buy Tesla at anything above a eighth of their current stock price.
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    by _pmf_ 7y ago

    > Is Panasonic and/or Tesla lying about the situation? Panasonic makes rational business decisions. Tesla is being Tesla.
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    by _pmf_ 7y ago

    > Or is it because demand is dying? The demand was for something that they no longer sell.
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    by _pmf_ 8y ago

    For me, Clojure was full of false promises and dead ends / false starts regarding concurrency[0]. Elixir delivers where Clojure failed. [0] for example, nobody uses the STM implementation
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    by _pmf_ 8y ago

    The best thing is when 1 out of 7 times, it displays the "uninstall" link for the application instead of the application.