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by alt_f4 7y ago
great anecdote and when you're having heart arrhythmia, since it is too expensive to send you to a specialist and hook you up to one of those EKG devices, why not just do a series of 20 pushups and 20 squats and see if you'll coll
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by alt_f4 7y ago
Have you considered that regular people that live under an oppressive totalitarian government have no control over said government and are actually just victims?
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by alt_f4 7y ago
> Over the long term I wonder if this will give Europe an edge in cybersecurity relative to the US? It won't because the article is misleading wrt to the "European" approach, in that, there is no such agreed EU-wide approa
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by alt_f4 7y ago
let's keep financial services in the hands of Wall Street, where everyone is very reputable and well-intentioned
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by alt_f4 7y ago
He didn't say it is good for investors, shareholders, employees, whatever. he said it is good FOR HIM. And it is, the dude is set for life, even if this company goes down in flames. I doubt anyone (incl. you) in his shoes, given the op
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by alt_f4 7y ago
> The taxes are pretty low - 10% on pretty much everything And about 20% on national insurance. And 20% VAT. Not that low.
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by alt_f4 7y ago
However, you don't see banksters on bankernews complaining how small their fine is. They realize that'd be biting the hand that feeds them. From all the big industries, only tech seems to have an active desire to watch itself burn
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by alt_f4 7y ago
I'm somewhat amazed how many people on here seem to be happy that large tech companies are forced to pay giant fines to the government when their salaries are paid or propped up by the market created by these same companies. I'm n
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by alt_f4 7y ago
too hard
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by alt_f4 7y ago
Trump is right on this one -- this measure is definitely anti-competitive and specifically aimed at American tech companies. I hope he is swift to retaliate with appropriate tariffs. Failing to do so will bring a wave of random EU taxes on
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by alt_f4 7y ago
> company that's selling ads to a French company that wants to show those ads to French users is doing business in France, end of story. yeah, so taxes make sense to pay for the roads, bridges and healthcare that these ads are using
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by alt_f4 7y ago
And that's after significantly higher rates of income tax and social contributions too. I know Europeans say they like their free healthcare and social services, but the cost seems to be about 20% extra tax on the average income. That
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by alt_f4 7y ago
PSP was never really a Corel product, it was a Jasc Software product which they acquired when they bought the company. Corel initially promised to maintain the Jasc office in Minnesota, where all of the development was being done. Eventuall
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by alt_f4 7y ago
I'm surprised how many people seem to have a huge problem with Apple, a 910 billion dollar company, paying 15k towards a membership of an organization that underpins the major ideas in their software implementation. That's, what,
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by alt_f4 7y ago
Come on, in the 90s and early 00s, volunteers ran and managed IRC networks scaling up to hundreds of thousands of users. This was back when hardware and bandwidth were much weaker and 100x more expensive. It's really not that hard.
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by alt_f4 7y ago
I agree that paying for SEO is probably pointless; unless you're just paying for some Google ads yourself. But the problem with your product isn't SEO, it's that anyone who knows what SES is, also knows how to use it for the
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by alt_f4 7y ago
yet another NYT anti-tech hit piece
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by alt_f4 7y ago
NYT does itself no favors with regard to its already questionable credibility by spreading anti-tech propaganda.
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by alt_f4 7y ago
Yes, exactly- that was my point; it is fairly unlikely the hotel cares too much. But how secure are these devices? What is stopping someone from hacking into a bunch of them, recording hotel guests and then mining the data for compromising
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by alt_f4 7y ago
ha, just imagine staying at a hotel where there's a giant flat screen with a hidden cam pointed at your bed...
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by alt_f4 7y ago
I don't understand what is the service I am paying you for that I can't do on my own easily with Amazon SES.
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by alt_f4 7y ago
> GDPR has nothing to do with taxation Fines of up to 4% of global turnover for a company like Google are more than they've actually been able to collect via traditional direct taxes. Again, I'm not saying Google shouldn't
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by alt_f4 7y ago
Whilst I am happy for you and that your business of providing these services is doing well, it is a sad state of affairs when small online businesses have to cough up anywhere between 3%-7% of revenue to deal with the regulatory mess the go
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by alt_f4 7y ago
ah, a classical govt shakedown in progress
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by alt_f4 7y ago
Given it is the 3rd attempt at fixing a fundamentally broken mechanism design, I think it's fairly likely it doesn't actually fix anything. Edit: lol, they actually have already included this new laptop in the keyboard replacement
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by alt_f4 7y ago
1. No OLED 2. No keyboard fix 3. No thin bezels 4. Still annoying touchbar. 5. $2799 for the 8-core with 16GB RAM and only 512GB SSD. Hahaha.. No, thanks.
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by alt_f4 7y ago
oh, hello, sales rep @ SalesProcess.io. How's it going?
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by alt_f4 7y ago
Terrible idea. The moment you see the bearded sleezeball CEO / salesperson on the site you're linking to, walking out of a lambo, you know it is crap.
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by alt_f4 8y ago
I don't know anyone who does.
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by alt_f4 8y ago
It is not though and I don't feel like I'm wasting my time. Audio stream in the background and pitching in when I need to is perfect -- I learn all that I need to learn and I can multitask. It is the same concept as listening to p

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