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by dx034 6y ago
The SEC has a whistleblower program. A material breach of a public US company is definitely of interest to them.
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by dx034 6y ago
Would Facebook have to inform me within 72 hours if someone got access to another account that can read private info of my account? I don't think that Facebook (or similar networks) disclose such breaches. At least I've never seen
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by dx034 6y ago
Exactly that. Disclosing earlier would've definitely been cheaper than $500k. And even billion dollar companies care about $500k. Companies that don't care if they spend $500k on a fine or not don't tend to exist for very lon
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by dx034 6y ago
I also see this as the value of stand-ups. Even in the office, it's nice to have time with the team if not everyone goes to lunch together. Forced daily interaction can be good for team productivity.
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by dx034 6y ago
Sadly, some people interpret agile and scrum as getting rid of QA teams. Of course you can release faster if no one has to manually check the feature but it just turns the user into the QA team. And no developer can properly test their own
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by dx034 6y ago
And no unit tests can replace an actual person testing the software. Unit tests can catch bugs earlier but getting rid of a QA department (or even one person) manually testing features is worrisome. The developer will always be blind to the
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by dx034 6y ago
Interestingly, according to [1] there were only ~11k visitors from Hackernews for a post on the front page that had ~1k comments. I would've estimated the visitor/comment ratio to be much, much higher. [1] https://simpl
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by dx034 6y ago
Certainly a bold move. After first restricting it to only younger people because of a lack of study data, then reversing that and now another restriction with the opposite effect. But as the agency said, while the move might damage the imag
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by dx034 6y ago
No, they also like to do that with large companies. A few hundred € damage is too low for most companies to care much about it. If the open source developer hires a lawyer I'm sure they'd be happy to make them some money. I wouldn
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by dx034 6y ago
Still survivorship bias. We tend to assume that because they cracked it, anyone like them could've done that in the past. In reality, maybe even the author had a chance of 0.001% to crack it and they just got lucky in choosing the righ
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by dx034 6y ago
Still, most websites (and especially ecommerce) are full of tracking to give Sales all data they could possibly want. That Apple restricts tracking here points towards a general restraint towards tracking.
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by dx034 6y ago
Ok maybe I should reconsider moving there, last time I visited (just before Covid hit) I had the impression that most smaller settlements have very poor connectivity (both mobile and from talks with people living there).
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by dx034 6y ago
I wasn't talking about myself or really any senior person. But tell that to an intern or someone in their first job. And that's the problem with flexible working, it's often especially terrible for the most junior employees.
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by dx034 6y ago
From the link you posted: > Even though an employee has fewer employment rights in the first two years of their employment, an employer would be foolish to assume they have carte blanche to dismiss at will. So while it's true that t
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by dx034 6y ago
It's usually the 180 day rule. So unless you move abroad that shouldn't be an issue. But moving abroad has more issues here. Nationwide is a bank and customer data leaving the UK could cause regulatory headaches for them. So I&#x2
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by dx034 6y ago
Absolutely. You learn so much more during the first years than just technical content. It's all about behavior at work, socializing, office politics etc. Sadly, anyone deciding if people should work remotely has already done that and i
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by dx034 6y ago
I also don't like it and I believe it's not necessarily legal in all countries. Many European countries have a minimum amount of vacation days and companies need to make sure employees also take those (not all do but theres no enf
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by dx034 6y ago
I'm really curious if Starlink et al. will change the region over coming decades. Its attractiveness is undeniable. I'd be surprised if remote places (esp islands) receive more interest if fast internet is available everywhere.
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by dx034 6y ago
That only works if you don't have the chat/emails on your phone and if you can just switch that off. There are enough companies that allow business phones for personal use (can be great to save costs) which means you always have y
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by dx034 6y ago
The standard probation period is six months in the UK. I haven't encountered two years yet, is that even legal? And it's called probation period for a reason, it's a time for both sides to figure out if the arrangement works
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by dx034 6y ago
I disagree. The company has a responsibility to set rules around when it's ok to call people. Especially for junior employees it's very hard to decline calls from their managers late in the evening. This has become a bigger issue
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by dx034 6y ago
Absolutely. Vodafone sells unlimited data (incl. 5G) in the UK for £26/month (~30€), in Germany the maximum you get is 40GB for 60€/month. And 40GB is nothing if you are on the road a lot. Other providers are similar.
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by dx034 6y ago
Fort William had decent internet last time I was there. Probably not a city by most standards but the biggest place around there so it does feel like a major center. But maybe their connectivity is also a result of the tourists coming for B
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by dx034 6y ago
Nothing to do with cashless, most places don't accept £50 notes and cash machines often only dispense £20 (apart from airports). Using less cash will probably decrease the use further but so far the lack of £50 note usage had little to
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by dx034 6y ago
No, Europe tends to have the same tax rates and rules per country. But in a way you can compare the EU and US here, moving countries within the EU also has tax consequences. But due to language barriers, that happens less often than people
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by dx034 6y ago
40km from Berlin isn't really rural though. Try going 100km further. I recently drove through rural Brandenburg & Saxony close to the border to Poland. Some villages had 2G, I also encountered (tiny) villages with basically no mobi
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by dx034 6y ago
It won't be for everyone but there has still been a huge revolution. Many businesses didn't even have laptops for employees before. Having the technical infrastructure makes it much easier to allow 1-2 days per week from home. I&#
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by dx034 6y ago
Only mid-sized towns, really. At least currently, very rural areas often lack the infrastructure to allow several people in the household to use video streaming (calls for the parents, youtube etc for kids) simultaneously. Starlink could ch
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by dx034 6y ago
If you work at a bank that's basically impossible. Most people will deal with data to some degree, anyone else in the room needs to be cleared for that data (i.e. employee of the same company). And banks aren't the only companies
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by dx034 6y ago
The EU and US data centers are completely separated. You can't even use both from the same account. To change, you need to open a completely new account selecting EU at the start. So it's not really easy to use both at the same ti

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