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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
Yeah, I did all those things as well. They were essential. And yet I would say that at least 50% of the bugs we ran into were either buffer overflows, stack overflows, using freed pointers, not freeing pointers, or incorrect pointer indir
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
I don't think they mean "old" programmers exactly... more like "programmers back in the day". We just didn't have the quality of tools back then. Also, our machines were orders of magnitude less powerful, whi
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
I was there. We had plenty of those kind of problems in those days. I also had the classical training of which you speak, but the industry was far ahead of academia in terms of actually dealing with that kind of thing. The reason pre-int
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
Other commenters have noted that businesses don't have the governments monopoly on the use of force, but also worth noting is that if a business chooses to treat you poorly, you can (usually) select a competing business. Not so with t
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
So, imagine you're running a free service as a side project. And the state of Idaho introduces a law, that has federal teeth, such that if a resident of Idaho might use your service, you must register with the state of Idaho. Would yo
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
Still in the dark mate. I'm sorry, maybe it's me, maybe it's you, but we seem to be speaking a different language.
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
In fairness, this story is consistent with my own (limited) experience dealing with EU law. A few years ago, I was trying to determine if an EU based company I was advising really needed to offer the now-ubiquitous cookie advisories. I met
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
Actually, I'm pretty sure they still stick the toys inside the eggs everywhere except the US. Perhaps a European can correct me on this assumption. EDIT: Turns out the US-style kinder eggs are indeed available outside the US.
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
Ah yes! That's the one. And he owned it but could never drive it on public roads. Thanks very much.
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
Apologies, I genuinely don't understand this critique.
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
I think you'll be fine, and I wouldn't worry too much about it, but technically, it's against the rules. (As a thought experiment, suppose I knew what apartment building you lived in, and I actively hustled up potential tena
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
Yes. Rather a step back from the original offering isn't it? If I'm being honest, I couldn't give a damn about the kinder eggs prohibition, as I am not a child, and I do not have children. The Bovril issue is by far my bigge
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
There will be a cost involved. And presumably there will be some benefits that result. Those are precisely the parameters of OP's decision.
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
Bovril could easily comply. They would simply have to open a manufacturing facility that did not use UK beef. The French cheese makers could sort of comply, by pasteurizing their milk. Kinder, I admit, has a more difficult problem, and h
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
Indeed. And the prohibition on raw milk does not ban cheese. Many cheeses from France are still available, because they do not involve raw milk. The EU has passed a law, perhaps it is a worthwhile law. This is one of the consequences. Th
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
It is impossible to sell raw-milk cheese in the United States. Are French cheese makers overreacting by simply choosing not to do business here rather than change their centuries-old production techniques? It is illegal to sell kinder egg
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
They vary wildly. Some states (washington used to be this way when I lived there) don't require insurance for motorcycles at all. But yeah, private companies can often make their own rules.
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
Yeah, for "specially constructed vehicles" that safety inspection is extremely minimal. For a production vehicle, the requirements are much more extreme, and cost millions to comply with.
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
Yep. You could totally sell it, and in fact that's exactly what Boss Hoss motorcycles does. I believe each vehicle has to be unique, or something. Not sure where the line is between these custom vehicles and "production" c
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
You have pointed me to the entire content of the GDPR. It's 11 chapters, with 99 articles. I'm unashamed to admit that I don't consider even skimming such a document "easy". I was imagining something more along t
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
The indicators are a tiny subset of the actual requirements involved in a production vehicle. In fact, there are examples of European production cars that can't be street legal in the US, and the companies involved chose to simply not
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
TIL in some states they do emissions checks (although in a lot of states motorcycles are totally exempt from those anyway). And no, they don't do safety inspections of "specially constructed vehicles". And based on the ones
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
Your first two examples are cute, but your third has the unfortunate side effect of undercutting your argument. A car you built yourself (or more often a motorcycle) actually _can_ be driven on roads in the US, as long as it has the appropr
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
Interesting, and a sensible exception. Like I say, the rules on this are sure to vary substantially from state to state.
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
Typically (but not always) the complaints about this kind of thing come from people who believe they've been discriminated against, but in fact pretty much anyone can complain. In NYS, you can call the DOS and register a complaint for
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
Actually, it might be more subtle than that. Simply referring someone to your landlord might be ok, but if you discussed anything at all about the property with that person, I think you'd definitely be in violation the moment you cash
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
Probably, yes, although as I said it would probably never be enforced. To be clear, your landlord is not the one breaking the law. Anyone taking them up on the offer would be though. IANAL, but I was a licensed real estate agent in NYS ab
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
Every time something like this comes up, we see similar objections. They normally take one of three forms: 1) You are overreacting. The EU isn't going to come after some small fry operation, or some non-business entity. This is an ea
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
I'm not sure if it would matter, if you were just doing this as an individual once or twice, but it's worth noting that in New York State, at least, this would be an illegal transaction, unless the tenant referring you to their la
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
He said the _site_ doesn't make money. He might make or have money from any number of other sources.

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