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by barbegal 8y ago
A disclaimer which says “this will void your warranty” is perfectly legal. Breaching the limitations of a warranty is not illegal. In fact in some jurisdictions, the limitations of a warranty are themselves not enforceable (in the USA under
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by barbegal 8y ago
A disclaimer would not work. Disclaimers might work where there is a risk that the user will violate the acceptable use policy but this cease and desist letter has effectively said that all users will violate the acceptable use policy t
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by barbegal 8y ago
Whilst it is true that the extension has no legal obligation to follow the acceptable use policy, users do have to follow the policy and the courts would argue this extension coerces users to break the policy. The legal precedent is Blizzar
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by barbegal 8y ago
The methodology behind this study looks okay but it isn't necessarily representative of real world use. The study looks at the front page of around 200 news sites in Europe with a browser cleaned of all cookies. However in all cases th
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by barbegal 8y ago
Did you know that most Google ads have a button you can click in order to tell Google that you don't want to see the ad again. Even advertising videos on YouTube have this option. You can tell them when an advert is not relevant or you
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by barbegal 8y ago
This paper has data up to 2016 https://www.valueeconomics.com/data/The%20Bond%20Ladder%20Fa...
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by barbegal 8y ago
What you're missing is that on average the market would have factored that into the price of the 1 year bond. If you look at past data there is on average no difference between buying 1 year bonds and keeping them to maturity and buyin
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by barbegal 8y ago
This seems overly complicated. The market for bonds reflects the current inflation and interest conditions so selling bonds at any moment in time should on average be as profitable as holding them to maturity (except for broker fees which a
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by barbegal 8y ago
This was a failure of a fibre connection to the internet and a cloud service. Oddly enough, Gatwick's CIO was last week [1] telling journalists that he didn't like to rely on the cloud: "The airport has used multi-tenanted pu
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by barbegal 8y ago
So you're saying: as you get more senior, less of your comp comes from equity?
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by barbegal 8y ago
It's not significantly more efficient than pumped hydroelectric storage which is 70 to 80% efficient. And whilst it might be able to store quite a lot of energy, it can't release it particularly quickly I'd estimate the 6 cra
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by barbegal 8y ago
Whatever mapping service you use, more traffic means more cost and ultimately someone has to pay. Just like your company, Google Maps offers non-profits a subsidised service [1]. [1] https://support.google.com/nonprofits&#x2
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by barbegal 8y ago
I would argue enums are less complex and easier to use. Imagine we were talking about a date field instead which is more complex? A products table with a column called date (of type date) Or a products table with a date_id column and a date
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by barbegal 8y ago
But by adding random data, differential privacy destroys the ability to apply the usual statistical analysis techniques to the dataset.
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by barbegal 8y ago
Hardly, this was a very unsophisticated attack, they cut through the entire loom as opposed to through individual wires so it was quickly noticeable what had occurred.
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by barbegal 8y ago
This definitely isn't the first time this technique has been used. I'm sure I've heard many similar stories before and the internet backs me up. https://www.askaboutmoney.com/threads/attempted-car-theft-w
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by barbegal 8y ago
10^0.043429 ~= e^0.1 10^0.0043429 ~= e^0.01 10^0.00043429 ~= e^0.001 So that gives some insight into the algorithm that is being used
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by barbegal 8y ago
I can't understand why "694 people found this helpful". It's not a very good review or even a review at all. The only review-like part of it is "I still don't feel I have learned everything the book has to teac
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by barbegal 8y ago
The Model 3 is up against the 3 Series and the C-Class.
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by barbegal 8y ago
The Model 3 is being categorised as a mid-size sedan by pretty much everyone. What is misleading is neglecting some other premium mid size sedans from the market [1] such as the Acura TLX and the Inifinit Q50. On top of that the premium mid
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by barbegal 8y ago
Wow that FAQ and license is confusing. They define personal use as: > use solely by the person downloading the Product from Oracle on a single Host Computer, provided that no more than one client or remote computer is connected to that H
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by barbegal 8y ago
As much as a host with Internet connectivity can be considered "completely trusted".
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by barbegal 8y ago
I was confused as to how you could represent a bootable CD image in printable characters. It turns out that you can't. This is a tweet of a perl script which creates a cd.iso file that you can then boot from. The perl script significan
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by barbegal 8y ago
The current situation seems perfectly fine to me. In reality, lots of people are using VirtualBox for completely trusted virtual machines so why not allow 3D acceleration for that use case?
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by barbegal 8y ago
Are you sure you mean "Guest additions". Guest additions is GPL licensed however the "VirtualBox Extension Pack" requires a paid for license to use commercially. And since Oracle make it very clear what licenses are need
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by barbegal 8y ago
Based on the category ranking on Amazon of the Carbage Can it looks like he sells ~250 a month which at $20 equates to $5k a month in sales. This could easily equate to the $15k he claims in November/December. Total yearly sales could
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by barbegal 8y ago
I used to believe that javascript was slow, C was fast and that there was no way to change this because of the way that javascript is interpreted and not compiled. But the more I've learnt about the benefits of "on the fly" &
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by barbegal 8y ago
Star ratings in general are just poor. In a 1 to 5 star rating, 3 is average but most people would perceive 3 stars to be above average. People tend to leave reviews only when they are displeased with the product, really pleased with the pr
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by barbegal 8y ago
"Sustainable Energy – without the hot air" is a much better book and available free to read online at https://www.withouthotair.com/ Whilst it's a bit out of date and focuses mostly on the UK, it contains a w
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by barbegal 8y ago
My guess would be that they shipped with an updated firmware version to the one programmed in the factory. It should have upgraded the first time the device is powered on but because of a missing security signature or maybe key to verify a

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