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by ar0 11y ago
Also, if you are fleeing from Trump's anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim rhetoric (as the Bloomberg article suggests), some of those places (e.g. Denmark) might not really be the best place to go.
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Could you expand on your reasoning for this conclusion a bit? What knowledge of Canada does not fit to these requirements? Which countries would in your opinion be a better fit?
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TLDR: Chrome on Android supports Service Workers and WebRTC while Safari on iOS does not. This means Android these days is better suited for fully-fledged web applications that do not require a native app (or at least a native app wrapper)
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I guess it depends on the interpretation of Phil Schiller's statement. You are basically arguing "for many people an iPad is a better computing device than a PC because there is less that can go wrong with it". Which I think
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Ghostery counts 27 trackers for me on this single Wired article, 19 of which are classified as "Advertising". I would not call this "not to be too invasive".
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But isn't the same true for Slack and its "open source competitors" mentioned in the Wired peace? At least that's how I read Slack's security page ( https://slack.com/security-practices ) that only ta
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by ar0 11y ago
Although I would guess this happens in a more "low tech" way all the time: It's so easy to switch some lines in an Excel spreadsheet or mess up the formulas (hey, it happens even to Nobel prize winners) that I bet there are m
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I have to admit that I was also wondering about the anti-trust aspects of this. Given that YouTube is a dominant player (73.1% market share in the US according to [1], probably higher in many European countries where there are fewer alterna
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Although I loved your sarcastic remarks about the cool pictures, I do want to point out that there are two issues with your argument: a) There is something else that you know about IdenTrust, and that is that your browser vendor trusts th
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Good article, but he almost lost me when he started with the passport thing: European privacy laws apply to European residents (regardless of citizenship) and not to European citizens living outside of the European Union. The latter wou
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OVH provides very cheap vServers starting at $3.49 / month in both France and Canada (the latter provides good connectivity to the US East Coast): https://www.ovh.com/us/vps/vps-ssd.xml In Europe, also Hetzne
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A nice hack, but it does suggest that IPv4 scarcity isn't here yet - at least not for some of us! ;)
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That would make sense, as I have noticed the same thing in Québec City and was rather confused about it. For me, returning the card first makes so much sense that I wondered how people could implement this differently. A lot of people will
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Working in an enterprise and having bought enterprise software, my suggestion to the sales staff would be: Learn to say "no"! If we send you twenty pages of requirements, we do not expect your product to cover each and every one
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But be aware that many European countries know laws against quasi-self-employment ("Scheinselbständigkeit" in German) to avoid people becoming self-employed to avoid social security taxes. So, even if you set-up your own company b
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Taxation is not the only legal hurdle, though: Which social deductions apply? Which labor laws apply to you if you work in your country but are employed in another country? Which rules will apply to you if you become ill or get pregnant? Wh
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I have asked myself the same question some time ago. I believe it comes down to (as some commenters below have already mentioned) the following, ordered by decreasing importance: 1. Legal issues: Hiring people across borders is a nightmare