calcifer

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by calcifer 4y ago
> Those reporting 1000mi+ between disengagements (at least in urban settings) are only doing so because they aren’t counting the vast majority of events. Source? Do you work at one of those companies?
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Reducing our NAT Gateway cost with private networking between AWS and GCP(monzo.com)
4 points by calcifer 4y ago|0 comments
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by calcifer 4y ago
The fine was less than 20% of their annual income, for a crime committed over decades . Compared to what the law says, they got away completely clean. The punishment was barely more than a sternly worded letter.
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by calcifer 4y ago
The consequence by law was the revocation of their banking license. But because they are "too big to fail", they got away with a slap on the wrist instead.
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by calcifer 4y ago
> the only bank that is willing to do business with me is Revolut. That's because Revolut isn't a UK bank. Until very recently (less than a year ago), it wasn't a bank at all anywhere. Unlike Monzo, Starling et al. (which
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by calcifer 4y ago
> Each time they increase prices They have never increased subscription prices. They still charge the same amount they did 7 years ago, when subscriptions were introduced.
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by calcifer 4y ago
It's an article meant for the general public. I think the visuals demonstrate the "it comes from above" nature of it quite well enough.
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by calcifer 4y ago
It is continuously monitored, but then what? There are no feasible solutions as yet.
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by calcifer 4y ago
What's EJ? I wish people defined their acronyms. It doesn't appear in the linked document either.
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The Strange Afterlife of George Carlin(nytimes.com)
4 points by calcifer 4y ago|0 comments
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by calcifer 4y ago
> in an industry like Silicon Valley, where people have glowing references not because of sincerity but because everyone who matters retains a hit man to "fix" negative ones, you're putting people in danger of physical har
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by calcifer 4y ago
Those are uncompressed sizes, not download.
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by calcifer 4y ago
> There are some use cases where a rental car or train tickets just don't cut it I get trains, but what are some of these car-requiring scenarios where a rental won't cut it?
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by calcifer 4y ago
> and the second largest shareholder (Kingdom Holding Company) Source? There is no such investor, at least not in the top 13: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FQWWgx_VsAUoFxT?format=jpg&name=...
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by calcifer 4y ago
> albeit the action of an emotionless machine with a programming bug rather than a malicious human Yes, if you remove a major part of the definition (intent) then it can fit whatever you want it to fit. Like Gino D'Acampo most famou
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by calcifer 4y ago
> it also doesn't gaslight the person that starred a repo only for it to disappear from their list. It's honestly hilarious how the definition of 'gaslight' has expanded so dramatically in the past few years that it n
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by calcifer 5y ago
Funny, this comment reads like something Commander Data would say in Star Trek. He would always respond to the letter of what was said, while completely missing the human context. It fascinates me that someone who read the parent comment co
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by calcifer 5y ago
TLDR: They still don't know why this is happenning.
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by calcifer 5y ago
> It's also not super great for some workplaces because tailscale kinda...gets superpowers in your network. It is definitely something smaller companies are using though. There are banks [1] using Tailscale. If their security conc
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by calcifer 5y ago
Thank you for your valuable contribution to this thread about employment practices. I'm sure the CEO who fired people over pre-recorded video appreciates your praise!
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by calcifer 5y ago
> Why should the functioning of a browser be dependent on telemetry working? It isn't. The bug was in the networking stack, and it just happened to be triggered by a GCP change which effected the telemetry service. Firefox having te
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by calcifer 5y ago
> I'm sick of anti-ligature people telling everyone else not to enjoy their fonts Who is doing that? Certainly not the author. It sounds to me like you're taking the author's opinions as a personal affront, which seems...
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by calcifer 5y ago
> That's like saying the Church of England still has significant political power. Yes, they have no political power except the 26 unelected, unaccountable bishops they have in the House of Lords, where every law must pass through.
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by calcifer 5y ago
No? What provision do you think are they violating?
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by calcifer 5y ago
You seem to be conflating Linux support with FOSS support. They have nothing to do with each other.
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Lufthansa Could Be Forced to Fly 18,000 Empty Planes to Keep Slots(simpleflying.com)
42 points by calcifer 5y ago|0 comments
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by calcifer 5y ago
> London banned gas stoves in apartments years ago. Do you have a source for that? I have a gas stove, and so do many others I know, and I've never heard of a ban.
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by calcifer 5y ago
That was a lot of words to tell us you use Arch :)
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by calcifer 5y ago
> If we want to grandstand at all cost, then we have to wage war with China and force them into submission. Who is we and they ? Based on your Twitter profile, you're Chinese and your views seem perfectly aligned with the officia
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by calcifer 5y ago
For card payments, yes there is no verification but for bank transfers, at least here in the UK, "confirmation of payee" is a thing and wrong names are rejected [1]. [1] https://www.ukfinance.org.uk/confirmation-of

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