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by com 7y ago
Love the term “ramen rich”. Sums it up well, happened to me.
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by com 7y ago
> You would've thought this is what an HR department is designed to stop, but time after time, that doesn't happen. I have heard, regularly in my career, that HR is tasked with protecting management from employees. In that ligh
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by com 8y ago
Ah, “Micro Adventurer” was awesome for the same things in English. Cross-platform BASIC code, I did a lot of work based of an article on more natural Adventure command grammars. So much fun!
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by com 8y ago
And the Noord-Zuid Lijn almost bankrupted the city after all the historic houses at the end of Vijzelstraat started collapsing and people had to be evacuated in minutes for multi year hotel stays! The cut-and-cover stuff they did when they
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by com 9y ago
Root cause analysis, in the simplistic form, without a fishbone tree of events and failed controls, means that failure is inevitable. Again and again. Edit: This document is actually cool: it uses RCA as a term and actually teaches failure
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by com 9y ago
Could you point at the language that unambiguously says that? Edit: GDPR Recital 23, Article 3(2)(a). Excellent!
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by com 9y ago
Encrypt the data element using a nonce, encrypt the nonce using a public key whose private key will be purged from your HSM/SCD/key management system on a scheduled basis. You will need to retain metadata about the key ID too. Don
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by com 9y ago
You will need to have a lead regulator (or I suppose a Privacy Shield listing while that is still legal) if you are doing significant business with EU data subjects’ personal data. See recital 80 and article 31 of the GDPR.
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by com 9y ago
Adyen means something, just not in English. Their website says it means “again” in Surinamese, probably because a previous business of theirs was rolled into what is now Worldpay. Ad-yen doesn’t seem too hard to say for me.
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by com 9y ago
As a codename, Ripley is genius. As a business strategy for dealing with regulators, it’s mind-numbingly stupid and ultimately incredibly counter-productive. The Uber decision making by process and internal culture will be fascinating sourc
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by com 13y ago
I'm not sure that this article is using the word (1) in the 'canonical' way either, so don't be too critical of your rinky-dink drama friends. They're just modifying the language to suit their ends, just like everyone else! (1) the word de
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by com 14y ago
I have bought unlocked, new Android phones for less than USD100 in the UK, so I'm not sure I believe that a USD150 phone on US T-mobile will only be a feature phone. ZTE and Huawei are just the beginning of the wave of cheap smart phone pro
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by com 14y ago
Yeah, still at least a headline discount of 20-25%. And they were going to AZ anyway, so it felt like 40-50% to them. Everyone was wearing new shoes too, prices in the US are significantly cheaper than in São Paulo
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by com 14y ago
My friends in São Paulo just did that with an iMac - bought it in Arizona during their Christmas trip to the US, declared it at Guarulhos airport, paid the import imposts and still came in with a huge discount to the local retail price.
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by com 14y ago
The Netherlands might not be doing as well as you might think. Things like the Chipshol debacle in the Netherlands shows that there is strong evidence of judicial collusion in a series of court cases - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipshol
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by com 14y ago
1000km/s on the energy-limited Orion would be hard to slow down using aerobraking without potentially disrupting the planet below, and reverse slingshots would probably occur too fast to do anything more than staying in-system for a few wee
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by com 14y ago
I speak some Dutch and stofzuiger and ziekenhuis are also pretty similar to the Doric and Norwegian words - Germanic languages (of the Northern and Western types at least) seem to have a great deal of similarity. I'm interested in the gramm
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by com 14y ago
I can corroborate the (gp?) note above regarding numbers of PhD students dropping out because foundational research results that do not appear to be correct in molecular biology. It's just anecdata, but biology and chemistry, especially the
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by com 14y ago
I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Even in the US there are multiple carriers active in every market, and I assume that 3G is competing against LTE as products for the same provider, in the same market . That should mean that LTE sub
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by com 14y ago
Someone should enter the market with a product like this in the Randstad in the Netherlands, focussing on Amsterdam and The Hague. The number of new foreigners who aren't able to access the subsidized rental market every year is in the tens
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by com 14y ago
My best teachers were also content experts. My worst teachers by a long shot were also content experts, holding, in one case, the research chair of an academic department in a renowned research university. Couldn't teach to save his life an
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by com 14y ago
A lot more people have seen one of these banners via social media than the real Shell advertisements. Some of them will have talked about it. Some more will look at the cute animals and hate Shell. I suspect that Greenpeace will be able to
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by com 14y ago
I agree: I don't give money to Greenpeace because they're a marketing organisation that raises cash to do more marketing. But: there is a school of thought that without broad community support, all the hard work won't add up to much. They m
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by com 14y ago
Although parody would be an interesting defense. I suppose in some jurisdictions there might be a possible freedom of political speech defense too.
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by com 14y ago
He's not being sarcastic, I think. I've got a somewhat similar background and I agree with his stated view. Citizen and consumer activism keeps the bastards (more) honest. One thousand motivated and angry citizens with a plan can act as a v
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by com 14y ago
Ok, interesting business opportunity, time-based road pricing auctions integrated with automation. The roads keep flowing because people will pay others to defer their travel.
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by com 14y ago
The DLR is slow, very slow, and services are fairly spaced out. I want automation for safety, speed and much higher capacity used on the infrastructure. At least one Paris metro line (ligne 1?) has been automated, and it's faster and more f
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by com 14y ago
I doubt we'd see a 100% reduction of accident injuries and fatalities with automated control of cars - diminishing returns due to other uncontrolled factors like pedestrians, dropped loads, pathological algorithm responses in unusual situat
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by com 14y ago
I don't think your point 1 is as true as you think it is. Anti-drink driving campaigns seem to work: http://www.thecommunityguide.org/mvoi/massmedia_ajpm.pdf describes studies that identified significant (>15%) reductions in alcohol r
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by com 14y ago
I recall that Microsoft became very cautious about executing embrace and extend tactics to decrease their profile for potential anti-trust cases. My guess after working at organisations under enhanced regulatory scrutiny, the distraction wa

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