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by beecat 7y ago
Correction: Title should read "Why It's Hard for Startups to Excise Wealth From Europe."
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by beecat 7y ago
Cigarettes are technology. They are referred to as "nicotine delivery devices" in the tobacco industry. Magazines are technology. Billboards are technology. If google is part of the "technology industry" then you could s
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by beecat 7y ago
> The lawsuit said GitHub had an obligation under California law and industry standards to keep off or remove the Social Security numbers and personal information from its site. The plaintiffs believe that because Social Security numbers
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by beecat 7y ago
... And why exactly should we return to that? How is that progress?
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by beecat 7y ago
Peak Medium.
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by beecat 7y ago
Yeah no contract, but if you don't formally cancel your month-to-month service they will send you to collections for the next months bill.
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by beecat 7y ago
If I think about it, I feel pretty dehumanized myself each time I click through a clumsy AWS GUI for a set of shoddy services that my company pays 60k a month for the privilege of running our operations and storing our business intelligence
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by beecat 7y ago
Solution: Publish your infosec tutorials as fetish videos on pornhub. I bet they have a better monetization model for creators anyways.
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by beecat 7y ago
Good, and good enough, are two totally different things.
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by beecat 7y ago
I didn't see this before I posted my reply. I'm so glad I'm not the only one who is seeing this. I would go so far as instead of saying: > It was fine. To say that "it was better", because there was more competit
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by beecat 7y ago
I don't understand comments like this. I see this sentiment adopted, and echoed by so many really smart people who should know better. They talk about FAANG like they're essential services, like the food supply, or water. Almost a
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by beecat 7y ago
Section 4-B says it's acceptable to use a customer's personal data: "To advertise or market the provider's communications-related services to the customer;" With ISPs that own networks, e.g. Comcast -> NBC, would
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by beecat 7y ago
Okay, for the sake of semantic digression, let's call it 'fraud' then. It's tantamount to fraud... ... Which is tantamount to theft.
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by beecat 7y ago
Comparing 'Apples' that are killing us to 'Oranges' that will kill us.
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by beecat 7y ago
I can't second this strongly enough. Why are we utilizing such vast amounts of our limited resources to persuade people to make certain decisions? In my humble opinion it's usually because the decisions the people who employ adver
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by beecat 7y ago
Yeah! That's a really good idea! Why not set an upper limit? Why not set it at say... 5 million dollars? Once you have 5 million in total assets, that's it. You can't keep any income beyond that point. Your income in excess o
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by beecat 8y ago
Yep, it turned out for me the slow transition was best. Over the course of a year anytime I register anything new, I just didn't use my gmail, and would just check both. Eventually I just wasn't checking gmail. Google -> DuckDu