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by ectopod 4y ago
Public services can be as efficient as private services. And without the overhead of dividends they are cheaper.
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by ectopod 4y ago
The users also provide all of the content.
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by ectopod 4y ago
Here's a simple test: would the data be turned up in legal discovery? Nobody is doing a sector level disk scan but you would be expected to turn over relevant audit data if you had retained it. So it needs to be accurate and GDPR appli
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by ectopod 4y ago
Get a job!
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by ectopod 4y ago
This is true of every corrupt country. It's just how things are done. It's still corrupt.
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by ectopod 4y ago
I used to live in a country with shitty police. An American I knew there reported several crimes. The officer would ask for his ID and when he opened his wallet the officer would extract his cash and send him on his way. Weirdly, he always
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by ectopod 4y ago
Pyrex used to be exclusively borosilicate glass but some of their stuff is regular glass now. And as the author discovered, it doesn't like sudden temperature changes.
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by ectopod 4y ago
The large gender disparity in China's population didn't occur naturally.
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by ectopod 4y ago
Of writing, prosaic means unpoetic, i.e. dull.
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by ectopod 4y ago
Why on earth would you think this? The executives don't change the system because it continues to make them money and they suffer no consequences for the company's malfeasance. Maybe this fine is enough to rebalance the equation b
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by ectopod 4y ago
Some boxes come with systemd, which has its own scheduler, but not cron. This is not a big deal but I was somewhat confused the first time I saw it.
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by ectopod 4y ago
I travelled freely in China fourteen years ago. I paid cash everywhere. Nobody had a smartphone. I didn't feel surveilled. From my limited perspective it seems much less free now.
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by ectopod 4y ago
vim has both terminal and gui builds. The latter supports the mouse.
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by ectopod 4y ago
Exactly. My tendency is to jump in and try to root cause problems but nowadays the most productive solution is almost always some kind of a restart.
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by ectopod 4y ago
Yes, RSS is terrible, use Atom. They do the same job, most tools support both, and one of them was thoughtfully designed.
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by ectopod 4y ago
Being pedantic, isn't Minix more widespread because Intel embedded it in CPUs?
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by ectopod 4y ago
Not necessarily. They might have concluded that the potential liability from non-ownership was insignificant compared to the upside. Even when courts find against corporations who have massively screwed artists the compensation tends to be
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by ectopod 4y ago
Fun fact: Qatar's world cup football stadia were designed by Albert Speer & Partners. This Albert was the son of the Nazi.
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by ectopod 4y ago
The science bit says it's safe because the seasoning inhibits microbial growth during the drying period, but the recipe at the top applies the seasoning after the drying period. Something doesn't add up.
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by ectopod 4y ago
Mincemeat can be vegetarian but it traditionally contains suet.
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by ectopod 4y ago
It was the first ARM product but it wasn't the first RISC product.
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by ectopod 4y ago
EE has just removed the DNS entry from their server. 1.1.1.1 still works.
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by ectopod 4y ago
Thirteen years ago I met a traveller who paid their way with travel writing, which was basically blog spam. They soon ran out of authentic material so they started writing about places they'd never been using some light googling for in
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by ectopod 4y ago
You can usually set a custom date format without changing the locale, and you can usually find a tool to edit the nasty config file it's buried in. It is a pain though.
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by ectopod 4y ago
It is paper. Paper made with cotton.
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by ectopod 4y ago
Its not uncommon in the UK but the big investors tend to be funds and their managers are part of the same class that benefits from ever increasing executive compensation. So they rarely vote against.
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by ectopod 4y ago
You need to fix the broken spring in your accelerator pedal.
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by ectopod 4y ago
Your first three paragraphs are a précis of the article so at a glance your post seems pointless. I suspect that prompted the down votes. Maybe skip the fluff.
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by ectopod 4y ago
Or there is a car coming and it isn't slowing down but there is just enough time for me to nip across in front of it. Maybe this doesn't happen in countries with jaywalking laws, but it does happen here.
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by ectopod 4y ago
I thought it was just a negotiation, not a lawsuit. In an actual lawsuit there would be time limits to prevent these stalling tactics.

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