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Intention.
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The warranty/guarantee is different from the average lifetime of the device, which is defined in the law as the average period a device must maintain its working parameters stated by the manufacturer. In some countries a fridge is expe
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Are you sure a tool that a tool that > failed hilariously in many instances, is currently not private, and crashes all the time, a (not yet) walking, talking CVE Is actually doing a better job than not doing any of that at all? This isn’
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> The randomly selected applicants will receive the payments for three years Budgets are limited so they can't give to everyone all the time. They give each batch of artists money for 3 years and then move to the next batch. Interes
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It probably boils down to the definition of the word artificial , and both options can be correct. Just that in this climate I'll take anything the FDA does as a move with ulterior, probably nefarious, reasons. No artificial colors ca
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Two things can be true. While the user you're replying to has a weirdly focused agenda and insistence, some of the points raised are definitely valid. I do not agree with the overall conclusion that "EU bad". But there are so
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Sort of correct but also playing with words. Most, many. There's a divide between generations and geographies to start with. Younger vs. older generations see things differently. Westerners vs. Easterners (especially those who remember
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Maybe it’s a “but when it happens you’re screwed” situation. I’m thinking of the story of BMW’s battery safety fuse (the one that trips in an accident to protect first responders and the people in the car) actually tripping when you hot the
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Day 1 reviews, the ones that drives sales of any product, are flawed by definition. They take a narrow and superficial view of the product, a snapshot when what you need is a timelapse. The winter tires that score great on day 1 but put a b
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> one of the problems with replacing credit card companies like VISA are really technical VISA and Mastercard never resolved major technical problems. It's nothing a bank wouldn't already be able to achieve internally from a
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The most obvious difference being that unlike China or India, Europe (or the EU) is not a single country. This doesn't make things impossible but certainly complicates them.
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> But they boast the most sold video game in the history of videogames (Tetris a close-ish second), and most downloaded free mobile game, respectively. Just out of curiosity, I guessed Minecraft which tracks, and Subway Surfers respectiv
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The difference between “PKI” and “just signing with a private key” is the trusted authority infrastructure. Without that you still get the benefit of signatures and some degree of verification, you can still validate what you install. But i
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If you want to play around now and with little preparation, there's no beating proto-boards. No toying around with designing the PCB, no waiting for the order. They're also great to practice your soldering skills. Sometimes you
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"The victim did it to themselves" is a famously bulletproof defense. I don't know why people don't try it more often. This is the typical tall tale that used to travel in every neighborhood as a warning, especially to sc
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The stated goal is always to treat people well. The unstated goal, if there is one, is hard to determine. So you cherry picked some bad outcomes which just happen to be from the same part of the world, didn’t provide context for your reader
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I read it as we’ll be dead because most people on this forum are 30+ years old and will statistically be dead ~70. Most of us , not most of humanity.
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> When centralized systems attempt to institutionalize "fairness" as a primary directive, the resulting information-calculation problems and rent-seeking often lead to catastrophic externalities. Sounds like you’re focusing on
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The point is if the liability is always exclusively with the human driver then any system in that car is at best a "driver assist". Claims that "it drives itself" or "it's autonomous" are just varying degr
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It's a public company making money off of some claims. Not being transparent about the data supporting those claims is already a huge red flag and failure on their part regardless of what the data says.
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> a timeline slipping You're generous with your words to the point they sound like apologism. Musk has been promising fully autonomous driving "within 1-3 years" since 2013. And he's been charging customers money for
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> they're making Stargaze's data available to other satellite operators free of charge With so many Starlink satellites odds are that one false move on anyone's part ends up in an incident involving them. Sharing this data
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Despite the downvotes, this is at least partially correct. If unions were ubiquitous in the tech sector, companies would have been a lot more stingy with the hiring during ZIRP or boom eras. Or they would have been more creative with the hi
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Not really, no. I don’t think I can make it more clear than I, or the law, already did: IPs are PII no matter what. Period. It’s literally spelled out in the law. The misconception is that you need explicit consent for any kind of processin
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IPs are PII even before you inevitably link them to something in your logs. If you can make a case that you absolutely don’t store them anywhere, they’re just transiently handled by your network card, maybe you get away with it but only bec
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> An IP address is not "personally identifiable data". GDPR says it is [1][2]. > We are almost 10 years into the GDPR, and we still have these gross misunderstandings Because people would rather smugly and confidently post a
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The problem is that they're always a great deal, the best even, while there are alternatives. The noose tightens only after everyone is onboard. And the competition on the GPU market is soft to say the least.
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I think that's comparing to 3 years of GeForce Now at ~22EUR/month for the Ultimate plan, for a total of ~800 EUR. For someone using in 3h/week then you might as well go for the free plan and pay nothing. But renting has whil
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I have computers that are ~20 years or even more and still work fine. My main computer which I just replaced is ~14 years old (with some components even older than that), was used every single day, and is now a perfectly functioning server.
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> I never get these discussions. It's only ever online that I see complaints. everyone else seems fine with it That's a skewed conclusion you're drawing. Are you really surprised that people aren't willing to risk esc

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