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bilekas
1y ago
It's disgusting what the internet has become, in this case it's even more egregious that the author as far as I see isn't even making any commission off of these ads, not that that would justify it. And then you have companie
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bilekas
1y ago
But why do you think the Netherlands govt was in anyway involved in this? I host some bsremetal in the Netherlands but I don't need to report to the government what I store..
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bilekas
1y ago
> The US governments spend more on healthcare as a percentage of GDP than many countries spend giving it to everyone Is this a product of inflated prices ? Or is this research funding for example ? I'm curious what the complete defi
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bilekas
1y ago
Yeah it's already a known point of failure. The annual chaos is always when they have some downtime. They do offer an incredible service though. Would like to see some competition but it's not easy.
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bilekas
1y ago
> Health care has been a focus of the financiers because it accounts for 18% of gross domestic product in the United States. This seems extremely high.. Ireland with free public healthcare for example is ~6%.. I think the largest in Euro
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bilekas
1y ago
They will get a tax write off for their medical bills via their companies expenses ?
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bilekas
1y ago
> “Pornography apps are available on iPhone from other marketplaces – apps we’ve never allowed on the App Store because of the risks they create, especially for children,” Why are they going to this now ? Nobody is holding apple responsi
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bilekas
1y ago
> there had been questions as to why the various highly advanced air defense systems and sensors, both American and Qatari, which would normally provide alert to an impending attack on Qatar, had not provided warning and defense. Yeah go
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bilekas
1y ago
The US has a new GoldCard system actually. : https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/the-...
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bilekas
1y ago
I'm mostly behind you with this, a great point that you make is the insurance. > Businesses are able to insure their limited cost of cancellations, and price their tickets to absord these insurance costs (which are ultimately born b
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bilekas
1y ago
Are we sure ? I'm not disputing it, but is geo location alone as a data point covered GDPR ? I'll have to look that up, but as someone else said it's only enforced at EU member state level, however there is another central ov
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bilekas
1y ago
Okay, I can see some benefits to the airline that are not too egregious for point 1, maybe automatic can be updated to manual intervention. Not the worst. But price transparency ? > A4A opposes the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DO
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bilekas
1y ago
> First, realize that there is no such thing as the 'public interest'. The public is composed of different subdivisions of people, from everyone everywhere down to the individual. I don't buy that at all, that's what
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bilekas
1y ago
These two in particular : > Automatic Refunds for Cancellations > Transparency of Fees How does a lawmaker justify this being in the publics interest ? I'm not even joking, I know "well lobbyist going to lobby", but th
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bilekas
1y ago
It's not identifiable info maybe ?
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bilekas
1y ago
It's incredibly frustrating the author doesn't actually say "Garbage Collector (GC)" I'm aware but something niggling in the back of my head had me second guessing.
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bilekas
1y ago
This is a great example of how this whole requirement hasn't been properly thought out. > Desktop support is not currently within the project's scope. What I would like to take from this is that, by their own definition, deskto
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bilekas
1y ago
Given your username I wouldn't expect such harsh sentiment about people who enjoy playing football. I would prefer my kids play a sport they enjoy than sit on an iPad all day. But I'm not a lifestyle guru.
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bilekas
1y ago
> That’s not a thing, that’s not a valid reason to grant anonymity under normal journalistic principles. It’s the “Washington Game” of “official leaks”, disseminating propaganda without being held accountable. Yeah makes a lot of sense w
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bilekas
1y ago
I really would like more of your data to show that, I think it would put this discussion to rest actually because I keep seeing articles that dispute it. At least older ones that ring bells, specifically https://epoch.ai/blo
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bilekas
1y ago
> GPU compute in datacenters has been a thing for at least 20 years. Many of the top500 have included significant GPU clusters for that long. Of course they've been a thing, but for specialised situations, maybe rendering farms or b
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bilekas
1y ago
This is something I have noticed while I'm by no means seasoned enough to consider myself even a mid level, some of my colleagues are and what they tend to do it plan ahead much better or pedantically, as they put it, the worst thing y
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bilekas
1y ago
> For humanity to continue increasing the quality of life for more people, more energy is required I'm not 100% sure that's strictly true.. We naturally assume for the moment that more energy = more quality. It's like the
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bilekas
1y ago
> Similarly, nothing forces AI or 5G to use more power than whatever you would have done instead Am I missing something or has the need to vast GPU horsepower been solved ? Those requirements were not in DC's before and they're
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bilekas
1y ago
I have always thought that there is a place for YAML but I do tend to avoid it when I can. I will say while working with terraform I have absolutely falled in love with HCL. It makes a lot of sense to me and there are a lot of validating yo
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bilekas
1y ago
I know for my own side businesses with some friends we have moved over completely to EU from email to server co-location. We have stopped entirely with any regions outside the EU entirely. This limits us in some areas but we do actually nee
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bilekas
1y ago
Yeah I'm not sure why the title of the link v the article is different. > Officials also warned of the havoc the network could have caused if left intact. McCool compared the potential impact to the cellular blackouts that followed
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bilekas
1y ago
Why anyone would choose to use the Razor syntax at any time is beyond me, let alone for the web. There is no need to make it so complicated, HTML is interpreted. As the article says : > HTMX leaves it up to the developer to impose discip
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bilekas
1y ago
> Secondly, because of the use of ARR as a key metric that lock in has an extra benefit to the SaaS provider in dealing with investors I'm sorry to the investors but I'll still prioritize users experience in the saas lifecycle.
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bilekas
1y ago
> That article still says that "the likely outcome is that providers will be required to refund customers for the unused portion of prepaid terms". You say it like that's a bad thing, surely that's fair actually?
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