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by cosmie 9y ago
While technically true, if the EU has no jurisdiction over you or your business, it's difficult for them to force compliance. Another example of this is sales tax in the US. Several states have laws that tell the seller to collect and
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by cosmie 9y ago
That covers the "required" part of their statement. But they also have the weasel phrase "as permitted", which is far more open ended. In much of the US, for example, the law does not expressly state what steps a provide
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by cosmie 9y ago
The sheer fact that it routed to a line that rang is enough for them to know it's a good number. Their auto-dialer could be configured such that answering it increased the cadence of calls or something such as that. But the absence of
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by cosmie 9y ago
Tennessee should be on that list, too.
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by cosmie 9y ago
The numbers aren't suspect, the journalist just segued into a second topic without being clear. The outage happened at the Pyeongtaek plant, which according to Wikipedia has capacity of 450,000 chips per month[1]. Making the maximum es
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by cosmie 9y ago
In isolation that sounds fantastic. When looking at the greater market dynamics, it's not at roses. Professionals tend to form opinions in the interest of their self preservation, whether consciously or otherwise. By shaving off the ti
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by cosmie 9y ago
> Still, at > 2 times the real original estimated cost, it's a good example of why we should go high instead of low when it comes to estimates. It's also a good example of why no one goes high when it comes to estimates. The
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by cosmie 9y ago
I'd suggest turning on Scam ID for a bit before turning on Scam Block. It still rings, but has a "Scam Likely" caller id name. So far it's had three false positives: the robocalls from my kid's school related to sno
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by cosmie 9y ago
Did you happen to get a timeline from those companies on their price increases? I'd be curious to see if there were any common milestones for when the companies decided to increase prices. In a few cases, I've taken the strategy o
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by cosmie 9y ago
> Who is pulling numbers out of thin air, statista.com or Samsung? These numbers don't necessarily contradict each other. Since the X is the first OLED iPhone, and the X wasn't realeased until November, those "50 million O
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by cosmie 9y ago
Working code is king, but in the IRS's case it's a very expensive king. A huge amount of fraud happens by exploiting a timing attack against the batch processing architecture of the existing process. The system only has visibility
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by cosmie 9y ago
Whoops, just realized I left off the reference and it's too late to edit. Here it is: https://mobile.twitter.com/patio11/status/936616624378978304
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by cosmie 9y ago
It was a bit of a winding process, but essentially early on in my career I learned that I fit this[1] description very well. And stumbled upon the same fact that patio11 did: it's incredibly hard for most companies to consistently fill
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by cosmie 9y ago
Not necessarily. Or more precisely, the intuition doesn't have to be in the domain itself. I've done operational improvement work across supply chain/inventory management, marketing, digital analytics, ecommerce, healthcare r
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by cosmie 9y ago
I wonder if the fontSettings section of the Chrome extensions API[1] can be used to defend against that. By randomly and deliberately poisoning that info for when in Incognito mode (or even regular browsing). [1] https://develop
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by cosmie 9y ago
That domain belongs to Tealium IQ, an alternative to Google Tag Manager. Tag managers allow you to encapsulate third party tags (and really, any JavaScript you want) and have them dynamically injected without having to hard code anything el
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by cosmie 9y ago
It's not an argument I've seen before, but also not one I've had refuted when I put it out there. There are plenty of ways to align the incentives of insurance companies with those of the insured. But a static max ratio betwe
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by cosmie 9y ago
The cycle you mentioned is certainly a vicious one. But you missed another: their cap on profit is percentage based. This disincentivizes the insurer from truly attempting to contain costs, because while the percentage of income they can
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by cosmie 9y ago
In traditional compensation plans, you get “X vacation days” as part of your compensation plan[1]. It can be as low as 0 since there’s no legal requirement for them, but if it’s more than 0 then thecompany also provides an earning schedule.
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by cosmie 9y ago
Unlimited PTO/Vacation time is an HR hack to get around such laws. In such schemes, you don’t earn any vacation time, so there’s not technically (and legally) any to pay out. You’re basically lazy-provisioned PTO time as it’s taken,
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by cosmie 9y ago
I've only worked in a place like that twice. Once (a large company), I didn't last long. In the other (a growing company), the blame-shifting and credit-stealing politics and the people who brought them in didn't last long. I
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by cosmie 9y ago
I think one of the more fundamental issues is the programmers access to that conversation itself. I’ve seen this scenario be far more common when developers try to get business context : Management: “I want an app that does A.” Programmer:
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by cosmie 9y ago
I mentioned it in another comment, but along with Aurora Serverless they also announced Aurora Multi-master in Preview[1]. No clue how far it is from General Availability or if it allows even remotely close to the horizontal scaling of Span
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by cosmie 9y ago
Multi-master Aurora is actually in Preview right now[1]. Only for the MySQL variant of Aurora though, not the Postgres variant. [1] https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/11/sign-up-f...
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by cosmie 9y ago
Not specific to your resume itself, but be careful of your phrasing when speaking to potential employers. You mentioned in your OP that you do design work. And here you’re throwing out a statement that could instill doubt related to your co
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by cosmie 9y ago
> I read "we're here to somehow insert fees between you and your food stamp money". The self delusion of these people is incredible. There’s already an enormous number of fees. Check out midway through [1] where it lists o
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by cosmie 9y ago
Interesting. I hadn't realized that before. In the Windows version, there's no reference to it anywhere. And I no longer have a Mac to check that out (although it did trigger the dedicated GPU in the MBP, I attributed that to the
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by cosmie 9y ago
It has a plugin architecture. Most of the core services it supports are listed in the Franz Plugin repo[1]. Note that it's not just about IM protocols, but rather a one-stop messaging app in general (so supports things like Gmail). And
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by cosmie 9y ago
Franz[1] is the closest thing I’ve found to a client around newer IM protocols. [1] https://meetfranz.com/
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by cosmie 9y ago
I'm not sure, but Google Search in general strips punctuation that isn't specifically designated as a search operator[1], and likely strips control/non-printing characters in a similar manner. Testing it[2] with a few URL-enc

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