hardolaf

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by hardolaf 5y ago
Yes, but you see Europe has functional privacy and consumer protections laws. The USA has functional legalized highway robbery as long as it's done by corporations laws.
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by hardolaf 5y ago
Lawyers signed off on sites using Google Analytics. Oops. Turns out that was a mistake.
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by hardolaf 5y ago
Wow. You really have no idea how it works. This is a case about an IP address. The most basic thing that gets logged by most websites. You should honestly go out and hire an attorney to teach you about GDPR. Let us know what the legal bill
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by hardolaf 5y ago
It's better than the rest of the nation...
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by hardolaf 5y ago
The decision to sell a safety feature as an optional extra was pushed by bean counters.
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by hardolaf 5y ago
Most products defense companies produce are to prevent people from dying or to do completely tangential tasks.
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by hardolaf 5y ago
Boeing ended up getting run by bean counters with the eventual expected results where the bean counters wanted to charge for a safety feature. Magically, the planes with the safety feature (every single plane sold to USA, Canada, and EU bas
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by hardolaf 5y ago
In Chicago, PTO is accrued at a minimum rate of 1 hour of PTO per 40 hours worked regardless of employment type or status. You guys should get with the times in the rest of the nation.
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by hardolaf 5y ago
I'd be okay providing those documents to the government. I'm not okay providing those documents to a third-party for-profit company.
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by hardolaf 5y ago
This is also why most defense companies are run almost entirely by engineers. Even though they're not required to be, they organize themselves that way to ensure a culture of design excellence. It's better to fail to deliver a pro
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by hardolaf 5y ago
Just block the EU and only worry about California's laws.
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by hardolaf 5y ago
It's also a cost. To be compliant, there's a bunch of mandatory expenses you have. It's not as simple as "just figure out the GDPR". Heck, just doing that is paying some lawyer $400-500/hr. And because it'
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by hardolaf 5y ago
And people were making fun of American businesses for just geoblocking the EU.
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by hardolaf 5y ago
My biggest motivation in buying a condo this year is the ability to switch to an induction stove and electric oven from shitty gas appliances.
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by hardolaf 5y ago
USPTO is mostly self-funded. If they collect fewer fees, then their budget gets slashed. This model was introduced under Reagan.
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by hardolaf 5y ago
> I live in one of two Chicago suburbs notable for excellent connectivity to Chicago's transit fabric (we're on both the Blue and the Green CTA train lines, a major regional commuter rail route, and a zillion bus routes). But p
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by hardolaf 5y ago
> In Roman times, they probably said similar things thinking about how advanced they were compared to the Macedonians a couple hundred years back. The fall of the Roman Empire, and actually really even the decline from when the city sto
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by hardolaf 5y ago
I gave Go a try recently and it was a quite pleasant experience. I don't see why I wouldn't use it for greenfield work over Python.
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by hardolaf 5y ago
I'm what most people call a FPGA Engineer though I work all the way from boards/silicon to cloud applications. The number of times I've been asked to consult on something in the software world on performance, where the answer
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by hardolaf 5y ago
I started off programming doing web development working on an community run asynchronous game where we needed to optimize everything to run in minimal time and power to save on cost and annoyance. It was a great project to work on as a high
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by hardolaf 5y ago
Ah yes. The classic mega insider trading of... buying Apple stock. Yes, only the most non-obvious and insiderest trading ever imagine. Next you're going to accuse me of "insider trading" for moving all of my assets into the A
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by hardolaf 5y ago
I know a lot of Australians and absolutely none of them are against the lockdowns. Many of them think the government should have gone further. And these are people who absolutely hate the current government and want labor in charge again.
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by hardolaf 5y ago
I found when losing weight that the first 20 pounds was easy. After that every half pound was a major mental challenge to keep going. Then COVID-19 hit, I stress ate, my activity level fell to virtually 0, and yeah. Back to -0 from where I
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by hardolaf 5y ago
It's worse than that. Digital design engineers get screwed at almost every company. Basically only Google, and Facebook in their WA offices, are paying digital design engineers the same or better than software engineers categorically.
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by hardolaf 5y ago
Since Apple doesn't provide you any services, I guess you'll no longer be distributing your app updates through the App Store?
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by hardolaf 5y ago
> "We know you have 500 simultaneous users, so we know this package is worth $50,000 per year to you." That's like 1-2 simulator licenses per year. You really don't know the cost of the software generally being protec
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by hardolaf 5y ago
I'm in the financial industry and believe we need way more regulations than we currently have. And we need tougher and more rigorous enforcement of the existing regulations as well.
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by hardolaf 5y ago
Apple was a zombie before Steve Jobs was rehired. Also, it was initially funded by Mike Markkula who was from Intel which was a company founded with DOD and DARPA backing.
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by hardolaf 5y ago
Most Americans pay a shit ton of money before their insurance kicks in to pay for the majority of their non-preventative care. I personally need to spend $3,000 before I only pay 10% of the bills that insurance receives until I hit $6,000 i
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by hardolaf 5y ago
Yeah, that statement made zero sense by the other person. Sure, on paper, us Americans at the median have more money. But after you pay for a single visit to the ER or urgent care, or after you have a kid, or any expenses, Western Europeans

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