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by cowl 3y ago
Chrome has access to all kind of hardware information. they could have implemented that hidden in Chrome without all of this dust raising for a public Standard that gets scrutinized by everyone. Note that all discussion about chain of trust
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by cowl 3y ago
By Anyone I didn't mean end-users. The TLS analogy stands. No browser has made the decision to trust only one authority. A motivated and funded organisation can become an Authority (like Let's Encrypt did) and the same can happen
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by cowl 3y ago
DRM is not about access or not (that can and is being done with simple authenticated content). DRM is about what you can do with SPECIFIC contents. The MANAGE part in DRM. Netflix requiring you to login to view a movie is not DRM. Netfli
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by cowl 3y ago
> How about you offer a reasonable opposing viewpoint Read the proposal: https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/... >That's settled then. Full filesystem, location, camera, and micr
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by cowl 3y ago
This overboard generalizations is what make me sure that everyone is just gut-reacting. Have you read the actual proposal (not an article about it)? In your knife-analogy, Google is producing sharp knifes for the cooks, not the children. th
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by cowl 3y ago
Youtube can and in some measure is already doing it without this new API. If google wanted to be sneaky they can provide whatever data they want to Youtube alone without making it a public standard. you see how all of these fears are contor
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by cowl 3y ago
It seems Everyone is taking for granted the claim that this is about DRM. The claim is that websites (not Google) will use this signal to allow or deny access but this is already possible with various means. Google or any other Browser ven
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by cowl 3y ago
This has been under discussion for a lot of time and negotiating with US to remove their Electronic registration system. Europeans are tired of this asymetric treatment and EU can not postpone this anymore. It's tit for tat with the ex
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by cowl 3y ago
usury: the action or practice of lending money at unreasonably high rates of interest.
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by cowl 3y ago
I really don't know how S&P500 indexes work in the US but that seems a lot. so let me get it straight you are saying that by investing 60k (and then another 36k over 30years) (and by investing you mean put it in an index and forg
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by cowl 3y ago
Things must be really different in the US then. The downpayment here is really not an amount that you can make any serious investment with. Even if I made it I could not afford to put it in high-risk/high reward investments and the lo
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by cowl 3y ago
This is all from an investor point of view. Most people dont have the time or knowledge to dedicate to research for good investments. The reality is that most working class people do not invest their money or at least not in the real invest
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by cowl 3y ago
The article clearly says that it is for the US but I still can not think of a reason why that would be valid for US and not Europe for example. I'm not an economist but my math is simple. I compare the Mortgage rates with Rent rates an
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by cowl 3y ago
What makes you think glass is safer in that regard? See https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S277241662... , (Micro/nano glass pollution as an emerging pollutant in near future) Now microplas
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by cowl 3y ago
We don't know if it can be a long term exposure. We don't know at what rate they are expelled from a live person. And One thing is for sure. Cell Death that this experiment showed off at the unreasonbly hight concentration is stil
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by cowl 3y ago
But it's not actually a clear illustration. Quite the opposite of it. We are all (no exception) at all times exposed to radiation (And this is not something recent or man-made, we are exposed to natural radiation all the time). So his
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by cowl 3y ago
In fact no. The parent comment is right in emphasizing the "exposure to concentrations equivalent to accumulations over several days and sources". So while your point 1. is technically true, it comes with the caveat of heavy conce
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by cowl 3y ago
> but the mining of uranium is horrendously dirty, if you go down enough the chain of anything you find something that is not so friendly. And anyway that is a call to review Uranium mining practices not a condamnation of nuclear tech. I
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by cowl 3y ago
Sydney is not but this thread (at least the title) was for europe-west1 in Belgium which is in EU.
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by cowl 3y ago
well the physical reason is that the band available at the visible light spectrum allows you to add that much channels in parallel. You can't do that at 2.4GHz
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by cowl 3y ago
99% of cases there are no legal implication of moving data in another country inside EU. Amsterdam is the closest in Geographic and Political sense. These are cloud data. already subject to EU Policy and not country specific. Those that rea
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by cowl 3y ago
We are talking EU here. apart from some rare archaic remains of past rules or really "national security related" (and of this last one I don't think anyone is using a cloud provider) clients should be free to store their data
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by cowl 3y ago
it says it right there in the website. it's for engraving so definitely not a machinist tool, more like a jewel-crafter or watchmaker tool. Engraving does not apply a lot of forces generally.
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by cowl 3y ago
What I don't understand is why they have not auto migrated all customer data to the closest region. Why ask the customers to do this migration instead of transparently handling it for them? yes the cost may be different but this was th
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by cowl 3y ago
Because the suppliers have abused this form of communication to the point it's not useful for serious communication anymore. I cant read you 1000 marketing emails to find out that one single important service related one.
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by cowl 3y ago
and your personal experience shows what? just go to any job anncouncment website and see how many specifically say that Visa Support is not available (thus requiring US Residence) and how many say it is. the Ratio from a glance is maybe 1
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by cowl 3y ago
Parent comment specifically mentioned H1B visas as the problem. It doesn't have much to do with how good you are. You can't just choose any other job. You need to find an employer who has a H1B visa Program support. While I'm
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by cowl 3y ago
I'm not sure you got the right example here. "è un dottore" in Italian is unambiguously a He. Italian Language is a gendered one and leaves little room for context interpretation. A female doctor would be 'una dottoressa
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by cowl 3y ago
much better expressed than me :D
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by cowl 3y ago
No, and that's why I also say that it has not "learned" or "reasoned". it may very well make a connection between A and B and miss the same type of connection between C and D. or also miss the same A - B connection

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