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by beberlei 8y ago
Author here. I agree about forums and "hobbyiest communities". I had a paragraph on this in the post, and how I manage them by muting most of the channels and reading up later. Removed the paragraph for simplicity :-) Meetings are
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by beberlei 8y ago
Author here. We tried Twist a while ago and it looked great, especially as you mentioned the Threads. But at the time had performance problems with larger threads and the REST API was very complicated to add simple posts. We didn't try
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Unslacking Tideways Company(beberlei.de)
220 points by beberlei 8y ago|160 comments
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by beberlei 8y ago
you need to send complaints to your data protection authority, each european country has one.
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by beberlei 8y ago
Yes. They are a belarus company, selling to mostly US companies, so probably pay little sales taxes. other taxes are paid on profit, so explicitly after employee salaries are paid. Salaries are usually the largest expense in many IT compa
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by beberlei 8y ago
obviously? Not every employee must be a high paid engineer. And there are certainly non SV based engineers that are totally fine with less than 100k $ per year? Being based in Germany, I calculate around 100k€ revenue per employee myself, m
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by beberlei 8y ago
I doubt that is true, do you have numbers for this claim? I see many companies founding limited structures (UG or GmbH) to have avoid maximum personal risk. It can be done with just 1€ of capital.
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by beberlei 8y ago
I dont know much about that, but in a previous job 6 years ago we saw mediawiki in quite a few non technical companies used as internal doc system
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by beberlei 8y ago
A reminder, HHVM is not Hack. you can run both type of scripts with either <?php or <?hh. Wikpedia is <?php because its underlying MediaWiki is PHP and used outside by many companies. As such a migration of Wikipedia to PHP 7 is pr
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by beberlei 8y ago
Wikipedia was always a PHP software and just running on HHVM for the performance gain, not for the Hack language. The underlying MediaWiki software is used outside of Wikipedia a lot, always on the PHP not HHVM stack. I expect its only a pr
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by beberlei 8y ago
Afaik Etsy and Wikipedia only used HHVM for the performance win and not the Hack language on top. Since Wikipedias tech stack "MediaWIki" is heavily used by PHP companies it can't be using Hack features. Slack came out with a
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by beberlei 8y ago
But you are sending personal data (ip address) to a third party by directly connecting to their service. Not sure about canadian privacy law, but eu company would need to list this third party in their policy. edit: just realized this comes
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by beberlei 8y ago
The definition of median is precisely that the top 0,1% affect it only 0,1%. But household income is very tricky to measure and for example its unclear if they include health expenditure in exactly the same way
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by beberlei 8y ago
But the absolute freedom of speech is just from prosecution of the government (correct me if I am wrong). private parties can always deny you their platform to be used for hatemongering or anything else really.
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by beberlei 8y ago
In the 90s and early 2000s you had to search for the nieche content as well or know where it was located. Hundrets of different phpBBs or other forums hidden from "uninitated" people. The simplicity of central platform just has al
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by beberlei 8y ago
The post mentions heavy API users will get exceptions based on their use-case.
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by beberlei 8y ago
If privacy shield gets scraped, then I might have to switch my European business to use only European third party services. At our company we use a carefully selected number of U.S. services that we believe have the interest of their custom
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by beberlei 8y ago
If you look at the numbers of how many people listen to radio I think this is a fair number. Each song on the radio is pushed to thousands and more of listeners at once on a station. The daily listener reach of big stations is essily in the
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by beberlei 8y ago
suddenly the EU VAT system looks awesome :-)
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by beberlei 8y ago
consider the increase in child birth rate by this outage. lives will be forever changed :-)
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by beberlei 8y ago
Diesel has a much lower tax than gasoline per liter. The car manufacturers just serve the higher demand for diesel cars, because it is cheaper to operate monthly.
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by beberlei 8y ago
Fifa has billions of dollars, it is still not for profit. Not for profit financially just means you cant give profits but have to reinvest it 100%
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by beberlei 8y ago
But wikipedia is not for profit, it seems the law doesnt apply to it?
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by beberlei 8y ago
i assumed that only small repositories that nobody except the author is using can be moved in such a small timespan of a few hours. Heavily used open source projects have issues indexed in Google with permalinks, their users probably hardco
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by beberlei 8y ago
a few hundred thousand repositories of the 85 million reported Github repositories is really not much, see https://github.com/ten at the bottom for the number.
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by beberlei 8y ago
The EU had competition law before that mentions 10% of global turnover as a maximum fee, along with very detailed notes of how to set them: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:C:... The Sherman Ac
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by beberlei 8y ago
how is interpretation of the law not a problem with any law that was in effect before GDPR. It didn't stop anybody from starting businesses before and will not after.
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by beberlei 8y ago
20 million is the max penalty for repeat offenders. See article 83 about fines being proportinate to the offense: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-83-gdpr/ This is a european thing, if any law says $x is the max fine or alike,
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by beberlei 8y ago
from the DPA that you can sign with Google with regard to GSuite: > 5.2 Scope of Processing. > 5.2.1 Customer’s Instructions. By entering into this Data Processing Amendment, > Customer instructs Google to process Customer Personal
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by beberlei 8y ago
I agree, and Google is probably well aware that they tread on thin ice and they will probably fight their version of legimitate interst up to the European Court of Justice.

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