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by beojan 8y ago
> the IP adress in the log files alone is considered potential personal data Stop logging the IP address then. Hopefully default settings in web servers will change. > What kind of online business can reasonably be done without using
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by beojan 8y ago
Because if your business model is based on selling user data, it doesn't matter if you're a small startup, it absolutely is meant to target you. If you aren't competent at responsibly handling personal data and you want to bu
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by beojan 8y ago
It's the data protection authority that would make this judgement.
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by beojan 8y ago
Someone looked at COBOL and thought, " That looks great".
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by beojan 8y ago
> Not even Audible, or Harry's, or all those mattress brands They advertised through sponsoring podcasts or Youtube channels, which is the sort of traditional advertising that's being contrasted to tracking-based adtech.
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by beojan 8y ago
If the application is trustworthy, it doesn't matter. If not, you should think twice about running it even in a container.
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by beojan 8y ago
To buy Bitcoin, sure. When it hit $18,000 you would still look back at the $2 (then) worth that you spent at $200 / bitcoin and regret it.
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by beojan 8y ago
In the UK, we have Gift Aid, where instead of reclaiming the tax on donations, the tax paid is also donated. That sounds like a better system to me.
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by beojan 8y ago
Line / surface / volume integrals are certainly a jump from one-variable integrals.
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by beojan 8y ago
2: You can't use them everywhere. They're a view so you can't use them to actually store a string. 3: Hopefully someday we'll get a proper monadic interface in C++. Until that day, I'll keep using exceptions.
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by beojan 8y ago
Or just legislate that feed manufacturers must add the algae?
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by beojan 8y ago
And kicked yourself for that $180 Taco Bell when it peaked at $18,000, right?
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by beojan 8y ago
Based on imhoguy's comment, it looks like only corporations (legal persons) count as businesses.
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by beojan 8y ago
Even $5k for three months is comparable to the low end of the range for PhD stipends, and $12k is well above the high end.
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by beojan 8y ago
By charging users. It's the only truly honest way.
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by beojan 8y ago
The whole point of SEPA is that they aren't allowed to charge more for a SEPA payment out of the country.
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by beojan 8y ago
Only if you live somewhere that blocks it. And I suspect even then, you could still use a Signal server hosted by someone else.
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by beojan 8y ago
et al. refers to a group of authors working together, so I would say a phrase like "Python et al. eating its lunch" is simply wrong.
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by beojan 8y ago
Current AI can do (very, very, very advanced) pattern recognition and mimicry. Turns out this is enough for a surprisingly large set of problems, but it isn't making "original" decisions or spontaneously solving new problems.
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by beojan 8y ago
On newer laptops, disk space is at something of a premium (SSDs are expensive, so the disk size got smaller again), so Snap / Flatpak / Appimage are a bit of an issue.
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by beojan 8y ago
I would avoid running LTS unless you really need the stability. Otherwise, having the latest applications (and utilities like git) is going to be difficult.
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by beojan 8y ago
They don't, in practice, because what you repay is linked to what you earn.
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by beojan 8y ago
The problem still stands then.
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by beojan 8y ago
> I believe that the only country in the EU who has English as an official language will be Ireland And Malta. Though Malta is minuscule.
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by beojan 8y ago
But that's easily solved by having institutions for multiple A* students, and other institutions for EEE students. Which is the way it actually is.
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by beojan 8y ago
Not since 5.11.
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by beojan 9y ago
The candidate is the product, the policies are the features.
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by beojan 9y ago
The problem isn't X will like product Y, so lets show ads for product Y to them. The problem is X will like features A, B, and C and hate D, so lets mention only A, B, and C to them. Y will like B and D and hate A and C, so only mentio
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by beojan 9y ago
> Those are better IMO They're not. The copyleft portion of the GPL prevents improvements to open source code being locked up. In the case of source code, simply putting it in the public domain is of little use if the source code is
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by beojan 9y ago
That still ends up with a lot of copylefted code ending up losing the copyleft protection. E.g. someone could build their proprietary product on top of a two year old Linux kernel, and not have to adhere to the GPL. > In some ways this i

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