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Append-only databases and the GDPR conundrum(bloorresearch.com)
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by benatkin 7y ago
Part of the redemption values is now effectively a tax, because many people who never redeem them. This is fine, except much of it's being scooped up by people picking through the trash, as a disorganized benefit for the poor, which m
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by benatkin 7y ago
Where I used to live in Emeryville, I would get woken up by someone digging in the trash in the morning. Short of wearing earplugs, which are uncomfortable and not recommended for wearing while sleeping, there was nothing I could do about i
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by benatkin 7y ago
The recycling deposit isn't a bounty. It's intended for the person using the goods. If they choose to forgo it by putting it in a bin, it shouldn't go to some random person digging in the bin, but should go to the waste depar
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by benatkin 7y ago
The article says this: "Moving from Python 2 to 3 is not an easy task." I disagree with this. It's a Python project's dependencies that make it hard to move from 2 to 3, and most libraries have been updated. Of course, y
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by benatkin 7y ago
This got me thinking about using Redis and I needed a review of what is open source and what isn't: https://redislabs.com/legal/licenses/
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by benatkin 7y ago
Another thing that happened is GitHub acquired both Gitter and Spectrum. Gitter deprecated its mobile app. Spectrum's founder has been working on other stuff at GitHub. Microsoft has Teams so that might have something to do with it.
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by benatkin 7y ago
According to Wikipedia, there are a lot of other languages that use that style, including countries that have much higher rates of fluency in English than Germany. If I had to guess, I'd guess that the author is dutch. https:/&#x
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by benatkin 7y ago
City to city shuttles and buses seems to be growing. The one I'd been taking from Flagstaff, AZ to Phoenix and back got bought out by a national company called Groome, while FlixBus, Megabus, and OurBus have been adding routes in Arizo
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by benatkin 7y ago
Did they try as hard to manage their reputation as they did to advertise? I saw a lot of cute ads of a dog moving around a map, with a stop to poop, but also saw posts about something bad happening to peoples' dogs, and both customers
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by benatkin 7y ago
Interesting. First I've heard of Zig and it sounds like a cool language. I suggest putting the README images in a doc directory so visitors know at first glance that they aren't part of the app.
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by benatkin 7y ago
I think most go through a bunch of them. I have, and I've used DuoLingo, and it helped some. I might not be giving it enough credit, as it did help me get started, but since exploring other methods I've stopped using it.
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by benatkin 7y ago
It is inefficient. The vocabulary lessons on Spotify run through words a lot faster. You don't have free reign of what category to study things in. It teaches vocabulary when you should be learning grammar. It teaches pronunciation jus
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by benatkin 7y ago
It's worse than virtually any other way to learn a language. Saying that you can't expect it to be perfect doesn't justify it being really bad. DuoLingo isn't optimized to learn a language, it's optimized to give pe
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by benatkin 7y ago
Among the cloud providers, this seems to be unique to Amazon. There's a lot of malfeasance that's unique to Amazon, like HQ2 and the counterfeit and offensive products on Amazon.com. I don't feel like giving any part of their
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by benatkin 7y ago
With hundreds of thousands of employees and contractors, there are going to be mistakes made by medical staff. It seems Amazon's emergency care is a cheaper and more convenient alternative to UrgentCare, which is commonly used for hand
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by benatkin 7y ago
It would be better to cut energy use during peak time. In Phoenix during the sunmertime that's between 2pm and 8pm. https://srpnet.com/prices/home/tou.aspx
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by benatkin 7y ago
Exactly. Those developers they paid millions of dollars could have been paid similar amounts by other companies, and may have cared that they were contributing to a bona fide open source project.
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by benatkin 7y ago
I hope that with the proliferation of TLDs this happens often enough that people get sick of it and we start enforcing the rule that generic words like mountain and road can't be trademarked. I'd prefer nothing, including Appl
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by benatkin 7y ago
Seeking Work | Miami, FL | Remote OK Full-Stack JavaScript/Python developer. Experienced freelancer. Experience with React, Redux, MobX, Material UI, Flask, Django, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB. Familiar with Electron, React Native. Pass
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by benatkin 7y ago
This doesn't have anything to do with it being open source. It's a separate movement called Open Company, which was tried by Gittip/Gratipay. It's mostly irrelevant to the open source-ness of a product whether the compan
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by benatkin 7y ago
You own a domain. That domain doesn't give you ownership of the term remote . You seem to be trying to appropriate it and I hope that doesn't happen.
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by benatkin 7y ago
It's not the domain name I have an issue with, it's the brand. Other domains about an abstract concept such as care.com and art.com have .com in their logo. Some, unfortunately, don't. I've seen tech companies take over
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by benatkin 7y ago
Being remote is a lifestyle, where as a meetup is an event, so I think it's worse than Meetup. The brand Meetup is problematic though. It makes it harder to talk about events without accidentally dropping the name of a company. Meetu
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by benatkin 7y ago
I get the idea that remote.com is trying to trademark the term "remote". F that. The best way to stop that is to prevent remote.com from getting a lot of brand recognition. I don't care how much they want to contribute to the
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by benatkin 7y ago
It's right on the freeway, and there's a ferry. I think it's probably about as good as where the AirBnb and GitHub offices are, which are half a mile from BART. I think a lot of their employees are going to be driving in at t
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by benatkin 7y ago
The real story is the state bill which gives an opportunity for parole to inmates who were tried as adults before they were 16 years of age. Beyond that, it's a story of a statistical outlier.
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by benatkin 7y ago
I'm not all that cynical about it. I don't think that people (micro-)blogging made up stories (which this may or may not be) means there's something terribly wrong with them. It's a white lie told repeatedly with a strai
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by benatkin 7y ago
That's what someone who does this kind of thing would say. I'm not saying I think it's fake, but I think it might be. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and posting a defense isn't evidence. Edit: I won
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by benatkin 7y ago
It seems like he feels responsible for the ones he's met. They're no longer strangers. What would it be like for them to fall on hard times? He might be feeling the need to help them proactively, perhaps by putting them through co

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