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by barbegal 6y ago
If you are offering a service to create a landing page then you really need a top notch landing page yourself. Some improvements: * Don't offer a call to action that directs straight to a signup page, it is very off-putting and you los
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by barbegal 6y ago
Its a tough thing to study but I'm not sure the definition of verbosity is particularly good. >size of the clean (i.e. no comments, normalized white space) GZip’d program source code, in bytes. Some languages idiomatically use comme
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by barbegal 6y ago
Which may be deemed a "deceptive business practice" [1] [1] https://www.freeprivacypolicy.com/blog/update-notices-change...
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by barbegal 6y ago
You can signal in more ways than this: email, QR code or any method that can transfer a small amount of data [1]. You do need to think of the security of this channel though as it forms the basis of authenticating the other party through th
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by barbegal 6y ago
> Any other entity which buys us or part of our business will have the right to continue to use your Personal Data, but only in the manner set out in this Privacy Policy unless you agree otherwise. I thought this was implied in any contr
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by barbegal 6y ago
Yet Warren Buffet has made most of his wealth through either normal leveraging or leveraging using his insurance companies' float. https://www.nber.org/papers/w19681
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by barbegal 6y ago
And that's why there are products to insure you against this risk called payment protection insurance (PPI). It's a shame that in the UK, PPI is now synonymous with mis-selling. The true cost of debt should be the interest rate an
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by barbegal 6y ago
Yeah I completely disagree with this sentiment that debt = bad. You should use debt where it acts as an investment (in the true sense of the word investment, rather than speculation). If you need to take on debt to buy that car that saves y
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by barbegal 6y ago
What is the best practice for preventing these man in the middle (MITM) attacks? Brian Krebs seems to suggest the only way of doing so using a phone alone is to put down the phone and ring back, that way the initiation of the connection can
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by barbegal 6y ago
It can be very clean, it can be very dirty. It depends on your roof type, weather and local environment. In most cases, it wouldn't pass most country's regulations on safe water quality [1] [1] https://www.nature.com&#x
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by barbegal 6y ago
I think lots of people would be rather embarrassed to post their company's database structures. And lots of databases have table prefixes that can easily be traced to a company or product.
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by barbegal 6y ago
It can work in a limited fashion using iBeacons. These have special status on iPhones allowing them to be received by an app even in the background. But even these are rate limited and each iBeacon can only wake up the app once when it come
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by barbegal 6y ago
I feel like the ability for this method to work well depends on the methodology of taking the enrollment and the subsequent key-generation images. If you take them using the same poses, with the same camera and lighting within a few hours o
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by barbegal 6y ago
The spike receding is due to incomplete data rather than a reduction in deaths. Deaths (especially in the current circumstances) can take a couple of weeks to get registered properly.
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by barbegal 6y ago
I can write programs in LabVIEW in a few hours that would take me weeks in another language. Not all of that is due to the graphical nature, most probably due to the domain specificity and IDE integration. LabVIEW makes it super easy to cre
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by barbegal 7y ago
In this case, a prototype (which is probably worse than existing PAPRs [powered air-purifying respirators]) is demonstrated. It certainly hasn't been manufactured and the Formula 1 team involvement looks to be just of the design of a f
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by barbegal 7y ago
Can you point to evidence to back up your claim that "The general evidence for washing hands as an effective counter-measure is very very strong." Meta-studies show that the effectiveness of hand washing alone is minimal https:&#
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by barbegal 7y ago
I disagree with his opening statement: "Formula 1 teams have been able to design, prototype and manufacture essential health equipment incredibly quickly" As far as I can see they have done none of these things and are only helpin
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by barbegal 7y ago
I think one of the things people over-estimate is how much evidence is used in making public health decisions. The UKs advice is to wash hands but not to use a face mask. Hand washing is essentially free but the cost of producing reusable c
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by barbegal 7y ago
Which you can read here https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/010203.pdf
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by barbegal 7y ago
Where does the spec say that it does that? As far as I can tell C only allows objects to have sizes in whole number of bytes, and that includes booleans. Although a _Bool type can be used for a bit field (having size of 1 bit) but you can&#
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by barbegal 7y ago
I agree, I don't mind lists like "Largest countries" as that is fairly definitive but when you get into subjective lists of things that are hard to properly define, measure or record like "costliest hurricane damage&quot
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by barbegal 7y ago
In my uneducated mind, it seems like the connection should only be accepted if the initial handshake ACK packet is completely empty.
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by barbegal 7y ago
Its not 500 employees per location [1], it is 500 employees total but there are exceptions for restaurants, hotels and franchises. [1] https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/PPP--Fact-Sheet.p...
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by barbegal 7y ago
Yes specifically queuing delay. It is unlikely that any significant proportion of packets are being retried but both servers and network infrastructure will have slightly longer queues.
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by barbegal 7y ago
Floating too easily is dangerous [1] Modern cars don't sink as quickly as old cars because the cabin is sealed better but this actually traps people inside the car whilst the car is floating to a more dangerous location. [1] https:&#x
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by barbegal 7y ago
If these companies aren't allowed to pay a dividend until they have paid back the government aid, isn't the government effectively taking an ownership stake?
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by barbegal 7y ago
That may be true when the screen is on, but from my experience scanning is not switched on in sleep modes on iPhones and most Android phones. I don't have definitive proof of this but I have never seen a modern phone be able to reliabl
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by barbegal 7y ago
The big problem with all radio based contact tracing solutions is the receiver. Receivers use at a minimum several mW of power. A typical Bluetooth low energy receiver will use about 50mW so will drain a coin cell battery in a day. Bluetoot
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by barbegal 7y ago
I believe s.98(1)(b) of the Employment Rights Act 1996 [1] allows dismissal for "some other substantial reason" which could be argued to cover this scenario and there is some case law such as Garside and Laycock Ltd v Booth [2] [1

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