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by hrktb 7y ago
I am not sure about how we should feel about Huawei, but by this line of argument nobody could lay undersea cables or get anyone to use them. From the article: > The leader in the global undersea cable market is SubCom of the U.S. Japan&
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by hrktb 7y ago
It’s a bit brushed over and sprinkled in the article but this part was brutal: > Last year, when Fukui Prefecture was hit by the heaviest snowfall in decades, it was discovered that a 7-Eleven franchise store was banned by the parent com
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by hrktb 7y ago
It wildly depends on where you live I guess, but I expect a large portion of kids to eat lunch at school, and school meals are regulated.
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by hrktb 7y ago
Government can and mostly do intervene in respect to child diet as well.
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by hrktb 7y ago
Businesses that don’t have security issues when handling private data, obviously. I agree with the GP, in that ease of starting companies should not be the primary goal, setting security and privacy on the back seat. It shouldn’t harder th
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by hrktb 7y ago
Phrasing is harsh, but from the sibling thread: > If I had to face EU officials, I could never say with a straight face, "Oh yes, I was completely confident in WordPress's abilities to keep customer data secure." Should th
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by hrktb 7y ago
From the Google examples: > a team is encouraged to set as goals about 50% more tasks than they are likely to actually accomplish. > If a team scores significantly higher than that, they are encouraged to set more ambitious OKRs for t
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by hrktb 7y ago
> I feel like there are clearly ways in which facial recognition can improve a lot of systems -- ticketing (think airports, sporting events, concerts etc); automated stores (like the amazon cashierless stores); payment (imagine not needi
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by hrktb 7y ago
It depends on cost of going first vs second. If it’s 5 years of R&D for the whole company it won’t be worth it. If it’s low enough to be recouped while other players are trying to catch up, then IP or not companies will innovate.
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by hrktb 7y ago
> If you were a maritime shipper in the 1700s, you’d have to respond to law enforcement requests for information about the goods you transported on behalf of suspects Tell me if I am mistaken, but in these specific case it looks more to
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by hrktb 7y ago
It’s just moving the issue to the family. Cremating a body basically became a privacy/security best practice I guess.
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by hrktb 7y ago
I don’t code in python so have no opinion on Black, but most code formatter can be adjusted to exclude some cases of formatting. I you would be fine with 95% of what it does and just want it to ignore the 5% where you care the most, I think
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by hrktb 7y ago
The difference is these informations are produced or sourced by you, the extra 'adversity score', and what it replaces are external to you (and in this case it's not even personal) I see the issue with info circulating outsid
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by hrktb 7y ago
If this score is to replace the current college admission weighting, wouldn’t it be logical for it to have the same opacity from the student ? Correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t think students get to check their college admission evaluatio
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by hrktb 7y ago
> There is no technical reason why [...] vs the article: > “growing up in a neighborhood with less violence gives you advantages in your academic work.” The score proposed is to adjust for societal issues, and technological solutions
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by hrktb 7y ago
Thanks for the precisions. I thought I clearly remembered rumours of meltdown being publicly denied, and some sources are in line with that: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/genpatsu-fukushima/20171226/1756... Now
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by hrktb 7y ago
I'm sure they're fine with engineers who don't ask to be payed for random tasks encroaching their private life. Snark aside, it can iffy to pay someone for a task at your company when they are still under contract in their pr
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by hrktb 7y ago
This is giving too much credit to the government who handled almost every aspect the worst way possible: - the plant had designs flaws and shortcuts taken that worsened the effect of the tsunami - government media (NHK) heavily downplayed t
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by hrktb 7y ago
I am heavily using Google Photos (paid account), but it’s frustrating how slow uploads are, how bad it deals with batches of files (can take hours to upload a few thousand photos) and how little visibility there is over what is actually syn
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by hrktb 7y ago
It’s interesting to see how FTP became so fringe, when at a its peak pointing a browser at a FTP url would be enough to browse anonymously.
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by hrktb 7y ago
> vanilla I’m always amazed how much it is seen as a given compared how of a PITA it is to grow vanilla, at least relatively to strawberries or bananas for instance.
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by hrktb 7y ago
I would see it as javascript's strict mode, and I think most devs would ok with a binary switch. The only fear I'd have is a lack of big entity committed to PHP. In the heydays there was Yahoo, facebook and other giant companies r
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by hrktb 7y ago
Even before smartphones, Internet cafes were extensibly used to just rest for a an hour or two, watch some video or read manga (very practical to binge reading a full series). I think that role is here to stay as long as people want a place
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by hrktb 7y ago
Car manufacters is an interesting case. Here in the EU Volkswagen has a different maintenance and repair policy depending on whether the car stayed in the network for revisions or not, and I think aftermarket changes would also matter. They
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by hrktb 7y ago
I’d bet half of the programming jobs continually disappear in a cyclic way. What proportion of bare metal system administrators is there left now that AWS/GCP/Azure has taken the world ? What proportion of people still work in C ?
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I am not sure everyone shares that definition. Would sales or manager be a low skill job for instance ? For a number of these positions you need little to no specific education or specialisation.
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by hrktb 7y ago
> Places like Japan keep unemployment low by having many low skill jobs, like mall greeters and whatnot. This may be better than unemployment, but is possibly not the best use of human versatilty.. An interesting aspect is that those job
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by hrktb 7y ago
I feel the traditional media operated in the open as much as you can still get whatever message is broadcasted to half of the population by clicking on a few links. Even in the days anything more insidious would happen over direct mailing,
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by hrktb 7y ago
> “power Mac case door” I have the same results for animated gifs with safe search off, but I think it’s more because of the presence of “power” or “mac” in so many of these gifs or related pages, compared to the number of gifs of comput
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by hrktb 7y ago
The initial blog : https://www.dezeen.com/2018/10/17/panasonics-wearable-blinke... Panasonic’s page describing the project: https://panasonic.net/design/flf/works/wear-space&#x

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