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by elmerfud 2y ago
The typical responses you'll get here are summed to as "sucks to be you". The attitude of allowing larges places to have opaque processes for termination of a business relationship is staunchly defended here. To the point tha
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This is where I wish governments would step in and stop allowing companies to make appliances that are throw away. I understand that a company can only viably support or offer warranty for a limited time period but that should not cause som
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by elmerfud 2y ago
I'm not going to keep tabs this is hacker News not advertise my garbage to build a following. You should be posting something of interest technology related not trying to build some following to pad your list to potentially sell off to
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The voodoo of how you are going to send data for someone to view optically without consuming data. Because I looked at the site and all it says is I get to stream documentaries without cellular data no Wi-Fi etc. so how exactly do I stream
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by elmerfud 2y ago
Maybe you can elaborate on how this voodoo works.
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Considering that 70+% of the federal budget is spent on some sort of social program, I'm going to say, I already have given more than 10%. I realize that some are valid and necessary but they cannot all be.
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You're correct Microsoft ruined their own reputation with Internet explorer but does that mean when a company utterly fails with one of their products to the point that a competitor can come in and dominate the marketplace we should so
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I do think you're rewriting history a bit here. Of course a Google advertised to their product but people didn't move to Chrome simply because of the advertisements. Chrome took hold because literally every other choice sucked and
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That is true in a valid point but install Windows sometimes and see how much it pushes you toward the edge browser. Which is chromium at its core but the experience it provides is not as good as Chrome even with all of Chrome's downsid
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But I don't see how that equates to a monopoly. They certainly have the ability to direct their development of their product in the way that they want. Since the core foundation of their product is open and available to every other com
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So I understand trying to break up monopolistic companies to provide better competition in the market which is generally better for the consumer as a whole. This strategy of saying Chrome should be sold off seems strange to me because unlik
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Of course, people always like to turn the knob they have the most control over. It's also the easiest way to pass yourself off as being a protectionist. Right now I think everyone is in speculation mode. I think everyone has forgotten
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I think you're framing this in an "I don't like this candidate" way rather than the electorate en masse is generally pretty ignorant. Each party always talks in terms that will largely be poorly understood by most. The i
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I agree, they are a powerful tool if used correctly. There are some benefits to the "make it locally" but it's also dependent on the specific goods. There are some tariff that have been in place for decades to simply prop up
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They are a form of tax, but where is applied is different, which is why it gets its own term.
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Of course they will, it becomes a cost of doing business and it hits everyone equally. People also love to talk about raising taxes on business, but that still gets passed on through. The difference between a tariff and a tax is that a tari
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I understand that monitoring and status is reasonable to optimize for cost and this comes with some tradeoffs. Loss of monitoring should not equal a loss if service not unless that monitoring is off line for an extended period. The actual f
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by elmerfud 2y ago
Fiber still relies on electronic circuits. While they can be isolated network wise they are not immune to attacks in the way a pneumatic system is.
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My core question is, why? I understand that security can be difficult, but why is infrastructure that is able to operate effectively for many decades before micro controllers were even a thing vulnerable to remote attacks. I get having mon
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by elmerfud 2y ago
Freedom of speech is not about things you want to hear it's about the uncomfortable things. You cannot possibly put prior restraint on free speech. Doing so means you would no longer have freedom of speech
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by elmerfud 2y ago
I don't understand what the big deal is. It's just saying the same things that humans say to each other multiple times a day. So what's the big deal that some set of algorithms that study what humans do and the compendium of
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by elmerfud 2y ago
When you become independently wealthy you cease working to earn yearly salaries as your wealth. Your work becomes exposure because that exposure increases your net worth.
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While this does sound a bit obnoxious asking someone to "work" for no pay, considering the ask, this isn't a strange does it might sound. It's quite likely that position like this can't be monetized in other ways, a
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by elmerfud 2y ago
Isn't that just the daily build of firefox?
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I support this idea about storing less data about your customers. The reason data breaches are so common is because so many places store data far in excess of what they need in order to perform their job functions.
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If you read the fine print you'll see that there's disclaimers on that two-day shipping. I live in the country where Amazon hands off to the USPS for most deliveries and still things usually arrive in 2-3 days. Not sure what your
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What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
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It's difficult to answer your question without much more detailed analysis of your use case. I looked over this document and i seriously question at the beginning when it talks about using ansible to apply their policies and they tell
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Yep, police can lie to you with impunity, but if you lie to them it's obstruction or some other similar offense. This kind of thing needs to go away. If police are actively lying during and an investigatory stop or during official ques
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Power shifts back and forth all the time and despite whether they have an R or a D beside their name how they view a particular issue seems to be very fluid on their political beliefs of the moment. Also considering that 80% of the governme

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