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by curun1r 8y ago
Actually, the maximum fine is 4% of revenue or €20m, whichever is more. For a small business or organization, the 4% number isn't the scary one. You can say that in practice this would never happen, but calling it FUD also doesn't
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by curun1r 8y ago
Sorry I missed your message from a couple of days ago, but in case you read this: The feeling of being a second-class citizen comes from recently purchasing a new computer and the process of getting 1password configured. - First, the webpag
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> every version of 1Password in active development...Can be licensed standalone This is incorrect. The command line client is subscription-only.
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I feel the same way and I'm starting to look towards alternatives. Despite having bought (or had bought for me, at various jobs) somewhere between 10 and 15 individual licenses, 1Password won't ever get another dime from me after
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> I think a game (quoting Powerball here) where your odds are 1:292,201,338 is by definition a fleece No, it isn't. The odds from an individual ticket are irrelevant. Only the ratio of expected value to price matters when if you wan
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They're marketed at that target segment to avoid the problems that came with not providing a state-sponsored version of those services. If you look back at the history of the lottery, it started out as black market, unregulated gamblin
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In some cases, that's true. But not when it's a technical term that has a specific technical meaning. A good example of this is psychological terminology. The general public has latched onto terms like depression and borderline
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No, you can't. That's a malapropism that's become common as a result of non-technical people appropriating a technical term. Just because a lot of people say it, doesn't make it right.
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Film is inappropriate for most modern movies because they're no longer filmed, they're digitally recorded and distributed. When there's no actual film stock used in the production of a movie, you shouldn't call it a film
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There's nothing wrong with it, besides the pathological need to write their desktop client in web technologies. I can't use Google Music because I registered and uploaded music for a Google account that isn't my primary Googl
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> So de Vries calculated how much electricity bitcoin miners would have to consume for bitcoin mining to no longer be profitable. He assumed that electricity prices make up 60 percent of the cost of mining and that electricity costs an a
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by curun1r 8y ago
I've been happy with EasyDNS for more than a decade. They charge a bit more but treat customers well and in the few instances where I've contacted support, they've been great. I know there's a lot of cheaper registrars,
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You don't have to go all the way to $1k+/yr to get much more piece of mind. For well under $100/yr, EasyDNS offers fantastic support. My go-to example of their customer service philosophy: A number of years ago, there was som
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by curun1r 8y ago
The math only works like that if you realize the gain from the appreciation of your home's value. But on a primary residence, people don't want to sell. Selling, while realizing the gain, means either sinking most, if not all, of
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by curun1r 8y ago
The part you're ignoring about prop 13 is how much it incentivizes nimbyism. If rising property values were accompanied by resultant higher property taxes, homeowners would be incentivized to work with renters to get new housing built
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I actually like python, the language. I think it balances the needs of a dynamic language well and I like that it is, at least, strongly typed. My hate is entirely directed at python, the environment and tooling around the language. Other l
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by curun1r 8y ago
IMHO, the whole mindset about college is broken. There was a time in this country when the value of educating someone was viewed more from the perspective of society. We wanted people to go to college to have a more informed electorate and
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I'm not sure that's the answer. I got an eye-opening view of the problem when I took a trip to Southeast Asia a couple years ago. Being in the third world, there's very few recycling plants to process plastic waste. The next
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by curun1r 8y ago
Anonymization won't really help because you can't store unique identifiers. IPs, emails device identifiers, etc and anything derived from them (no hashes of that data either) are all prohibited. So you can't really build a pr
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Which is exactly the point. $500 is very competitive with the cost of the Galaxy/Pixel -class phones. At $200, the 1-2 generations behind used iPhone is very competitive with the slower, cheaper Android phones that you can buy new. The
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Apple already has a second tier, and it's constantly ignored in all the discussions about how much more Apple devices cost than alternatives. The second tier is the resale market. When I sold my 3-yr old iPhone, which cost around $700
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The US Government still pays a civil war pension to the daughter of a Union soldier. The last surviving American veteran of WWI died in 2011. Whenever I hear stuff like that, I always have the same reaction you did that we're more conn
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Close, but the slaves are primarily Cambodian and Myanmarese who flee to Thailand and end up on those fishing vessels. There was a great series of nautical-themed long-form journalism by the NYT a few years ago and one of the stories [0] de
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An interesting compromise might be a crate maintained by the core team (std-ext?) that simply re-exports crates under generic names that the community has blessed as being, for better or worse, the default in the Rust ecosystem. So someone
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With the release of impl Trait (easily the feature I've been most looking forward to), has there been any talk of/proposals to allow anonymous trait implementations? (see: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs&#x2
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I'd think it would also be a great opportunity to have access to a young, malleable mind that's unencumbered by a significant body of past experience and preconceived notions. Every answer is like a pure function...it's deriv
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I don't know about general purpose computers, but my life would be completely different if my high school hadn't required the use of computers that masqueraded as calculators. My school required us to use either a TI-81 or TI-85 a
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I've got a mitigation strategy that won't be far worse than the current system. Stop requiring expensive gadgets like laptops and tablets to be removed and scanned separately. It's all security theater anyways, but that polic
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What about Tesla's choice to design its technology around cameras rather than lidar? They seem to be the only ones going that route. I've seen quotes from a number of people who build this kind of technology who say that's a
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That would result in tech workers continuing to be underpaid, just slightly less so, and other professions being complete non-starters for immigrants. Working in tech, it's easy to get myopic about H1-B issues and only see how the prog

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