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I'm in the camp that paying makes you a customer. Inversely using a free service makes you a user, not a customer. And as you correctly note, there I'd no "user service" department. You can of course push for any law you
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Before starting I would recommend getting a good idea about what the software needs to do. That means spending time in urban, and rural fire stations observing what they use the software for. Pay special attention to integrations with other
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Do they wanna build a snowman?
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Yes, there's a valid argument that simple code is not always best performance. Optimizing simple code usually makes it more complex. But I think the main point stands. There's an old saying that doing a 60 minute presentation is e
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My condolences for your loss. Discussing things in general terms,while having a lived experience must be painful. There are different cancers, different stages different, different chemos, and of course different people. Ultimately individu
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>> I’m not sure he knows the type of person that actually uses Firefox I'm sure he does, but he is trying to get different users. The problem Firefox has is that it has accumulated "problem" users who are only there bec
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"Cancer" is a term that covers a lot of diseases. So there is a lot of research going into a lot of different things, and hence lots of announcements. "Chemotherapy" again is a loaded term covering a lot of different dru
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Mozilla/ Firefox is irrelevant and ultimately doomed to ever smaller numbers. That's because their users are driven by opinions and principles, and those are the worst, most disloyal kind of users. They're always threatening
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This is going to be a terribly cynical comment, but I've noticed a trend here on HN to introduce laws to fix problems. The short version is that, no, you can't law yourself out of this (or pretty much anything. ) Firstly, laws hav
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Making it a crime is very regional, and enforcement is basically non existent. But opening it is not the problem here. The analogous problem would be letters opened and anthrax inserted. That doesn't (often) happen because mail is phys
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Unfortunately "cancer" is a very broad brush that covers a multitude of diseases. Plus the phrase "cure" does a lot of heavy lifting. People seem to see a win here as being "here's a tablet, all cancer is gone.
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Putting DNS Api keys on every remote install is indeed problematic. The solution however is pretty trivial. For our setup I just made a very small server with a couple of REST endpoints. Each customer gets their own login to our REST server
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I'll upvote you for at least asking the question. But you get downvoted because your premise is wrong. There are lots of organizations that support the ACME protocol. LE is the most well known, but there are others, and more on the way
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This is a popular refrain from folks hosting read-only sites. The problem is not "your part", it's the "between you and the client" part. It becomes trivial to inject extra content, malicious JavaScript, adverts etc
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If the point is to tax AI consumers then AI providers can collect that tax on behalf of the IRS. Taxing the profit of AI companies is useless since profit is a number that is easily manipulated to 0. Taxing revenue is much more direct
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Correct, building an AI is an asset, which can then be rented to other businesses. However the thread revolves around employers replacing employees with AI. Given that the number of AI creators is minimal, and the number of companies replac
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That's a different tax. Which speaks to my original point that the term "capital gains tax" is a thing, and seems to be misunderstood. Tax on property is a completely different tax which works in a different way, and has a di
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I'm not sure I'm following your thought on capital gains tax. Capital Gain tax occurs when you sell an asset for more than you paid for it. AI (software) is not an asset, and I'm not sure how you'd sell it. Computers and
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I'd add that it's also used when data is created in multiple places. Consider say weather hardware. 5 stations all feeding into a central database. They're all creating rows and uploading them. Using sequential integers for t
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The issue will be very context specific. In other words to (reasonably) answer the question, we'd have to judge each application individually. For one example, say you were making voting-booth software. You really don't want a (
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The article even refers to AWK as being the initials of the authors. And posits this as "reasonable"? Naming is hard, not least because "a million" new projects are spawned every day. And if you're going down a path
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I'm not sure the alternative is sef-created RootCA. (But perhaps I don't understand the underlying case.) To me, the alternative is just a LE cert. Can do wildcards via DNS challenge.
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In this line; Tell a story. It might be "unrelated" to thd topic at hand (I based one on Shackleton's expedition, and another on a Robert Frost poem (two roads diverged.) Or it might be related, a "my journey" type,
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I'd also argue, very necessary. A lot of thd new APIs have to do with accessing hardware. Camera, Microphone, Serial ports (currently experimental) etc. Given how easy a MITM attack to injection JavaScript or HTML into insecure pages i
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I think the best analogy for this are scams. Once a scammer finds a mark they'll pay, there's a desire to soak them for as much as they'll bear. EVs are not a scam per-se, but they also don't add any value. 80% of the wo
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I think the rebuttal to the CEO today is really very simple. a) How many of the sites you visit everyday have DV and how many have EV certificates? b) Name any site at all, that you have visited, where your behavior or opinion has changed b
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Your analogy is apt, but can be extended a bit further to show why MS is so successful. Imagine organizing a meal out for 5 people. Easy. Despite the vegan, gluten free, kosher, high protein, lactose intolerant, no-fish, only fish, carb fre
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In a program I once wrote, all menu items could be added to the toolbar. The toolbar (optionally) didn't have text (other than the tool tip.) Having the icon in the menu acted as a visual link so that the user saw it in the menu, then
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Where I live the rule is simple, and all stores adopted it. If something is mislabeled you get (one of) free, and all the rest at the lower price. (And you see a worker skurry off to fix it immediately.) And here's a shock, mislabellin
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All the above. Plus it is absurdly simple to manipulate profit up or down. For example, as an owner, I can be paid a bonus, or not. Crumbs, I can be paid a salary or not. If I want profits high, I simply take a low salary and no bonus. Or v

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