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by altacc 5y ago
Currently performance is not a guarantee of long term outcomes, many companies have appeared to be in a strong financial position and then suddenly collapsed. As it is Peloton is currently running at a loss. You also have to factor in acqui
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by altacc 5y ago
> "In our ongoing work to ensure our products are even safer ... we released Tread Lock, a four-digit passcode to secure Tread+ against unauthorized access. Unfortunately, Tread Lock is not yet available without a Peloton Membership
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by altacc 5y ago
The way I see it is that if you are going to restrict freedom's based on a status, then everyone should have had the option to attain that status before those restrictions are in place. If the government is controlling access to that s
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by altacc 5y ago
It comes from SNOMED, which is a system for electronic health records and is very comprehensive, multi-lingual & multi-national. Every disease, symptom, medical term, etc... has a code which allows matching across languages. I doubt the
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by altacc 5y ago
I have a different take on this because I think it can prevent people from realising how these actions ended up happening and how to stop them. Here in Norway there are people who refuse to name Anders Breivik, who car bombed Oslo and massa
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by altacc 5y ago
All of them. It's certainly true that there are other important factors and I don't think the parent poster's list is exhaustive, but these are crucial factors in China's current rise. Slavery: we know there are factorie
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by altacc 5y ago
Not the parent poster, but a distribution centre for stores has a different function to a distribution centre for individual customers. The former is about getting whole boxes of products onto large trucks to deliver to stores, the latter i
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by altacc 5y ago
I feel it is somewhat obvious and goes without saying that malicious action results in personal responsibility & repercussions. However I don't have any evidence or past experience that malicious action by an internal employee is a
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by altacc 5y ago
Probably a different answer for each site. I'm not a DNS expert but I think you're right on both counts. Having failover also requires a duplicate CDN architecture at the fallback location, which is an increase of costs in time, m
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by altacc 5y ago
v1. "It's Bob's fault and so we fired Bob." v2. "The issue was caused by a previously unidentified pathway that caused a feedback loop and overloaded our servers in a cascading fashion (or whatever). We have impleme
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by altacc 5y ago
That depends upon your communication patterns & architecture. If your outsourced/offshored workers are tightly knit into your development team, then they're basically the same as WFH workers. But if they are discrete teams, wo
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by altacc 5y ago
You make it sound like the cookie consents are the only think the EU tackled, ignoring that it is only one small aspect of the EU's data privacy & protection legislation, which is having a big effect globally, not just in Europe. I
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by altacc 5y ago
I can understand avoiding a company due to a bad experience but that sounds like a rather general and rather restrictive conclusion. Did you mean bookeeping specifically, or payment handler, as they are somewhat different things? For small
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by altacc 5y ago
Whilst it's somewhat hypocritical there is some false equivalence there to consider. An ebike can still go beyond the engine cut-off speed and exceed the local speed limit, so would act differently to a speed limiter on a car, which wo
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by altacc 5y ago
I think some people summarise that as "an armed society is a polite society" but it seems more like "a fearful society is a repressed society". In some countries the populace is oppressed by the fear of an authoritarian
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by altacc 5y ago
If it was 50% likely that people would break the speed limit when driving, should they be banned from driving? It's easy to make false equivalences all day long but it is of no benefit to anybody.
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by altacc 5y ago
Well, no. I was referring to the question posed related to available knowledge and your article. But your statement makes an assumption that it’s origin is a lab, as that would be the only way that somebody would know for sure. If it’s nat
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by altacc 5y ago
No, it's not rational as then you're relying on the other side to prove a negative, which is an unreasonable reversal of burden of proof (e.g. Russell's teapot). As to 50/50 being reason to take large scale regulatory ac
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by altacc 5y ago
Debunking a theory doesn't make it disappear. Sometime it can do the opposite and reinforce the theory. In this case there is no smoking gun either way and a natural origin is much harder to trace than lab origin. That lack of absolute
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by altacc 5y ago
There is no clear yes/no answer here. Without a smoking gun either way there is a scale of probability/certainty and everyone who looks into this falls somewhere on that scale based on their experience, ideology, biases, research,
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by altacc 5y ago
This article should definitely be read as an opinion piece, not objective analysis to conclude the truth. Regardless of his personal views it's his methods that introduce a lot of doubt. The author has previously dismissed large swathe
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by altacc 5y ago
First, "conspiracy theory" these days has a wider meaning, in that it can be used to refer to pretty much any claim that goes against conventional explanations. I'm not a fan of the wide use of this term but it is what it is
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by altacc 5y ago
I think so. I believe that the Oracle vs Google case gave legal precedent that recreating the functionality of APIs from other companies is fair use.
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by altacc 5y ago
Salesforce do tend to buy a company and then brand that company's products as part of Salesforce. The result is a mess. Want the same data in your marketing cloud than your core? Nope, it's a different database and data model and
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by altacc 5y ago
In the video you can see the old bomb craters and some jars are scarred or broken by the bombing. The entire country is battle-scarred and an amazing place to visit. I don't know what it's like these days but a couple of decades a
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by altacc 5y ago
Yes, indeed. Having lived in both countries, the fishing & farming industries are much more protected & respected in Norway than the UK. To me it seems that part of Norwegians' story about themselves is that not so long ago the
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by altacc 5y ago
The UK thinks its fishing industry is important but Norway knows its fishing industry is important. This is not a surprise. The influence of the industry is not to be underestimated in either country but in the UK it's a small industry
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by altacc 5y ago
The problem with "what about other increases in cause of deaths" is that you have to find a LOT of these reasons to even begin to compete with Covid-19 as a cause. When the increase in deaths is in the hundreds of thousands it is
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by altacc 6y ago
You probably need to consider the wider impact, not just Wisconsin. This was national news (I'm international and I remember reading about it) and would have contributed to his supporters general perception that he was delivering on pr
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by altacc 6y ago
While this is an interesting point to consider it's not completely equivalent. In short, taking an action that might harm in exchange for a small possibility of a benefit is much less appealing than taking an action which might harm yo

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