johneth

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by johneth 3y ago
It's not, in this case.
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by johneth 3y ago
If there's one thing that'll get people on your side, it's antagonising them.
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by johneth 3y ago
Blatantly and obviously circumventing a decision will not end well.
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by johneth 3y ago
Cloud gaming is a growing market – they're preventing the deal on the hypothesis that it will give Microsoft a huge advantage in a growing market.
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by johneth 3y ago
Pretty much. Microsoft and Activision do both have various subsidiaries in the UK, too.
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by johneth 3y ago
Microsoft and Activision both have assets in the UK, both sell products and services in the UK, and so the UK has a right to regulate their activity in the UK market. Similar situation to other jurisdictions (EU, China, India, etc.)
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by johneth 3y ago
> Monzo is the only one in the list that has a banking license Starling also has a banking license.
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by johneth 4y ago
How? The statement is unambiguous. The WWF also confirmed this: https://twitter.com/wwf_uk/status/1634290349098057728
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by johneth 4y ago
> Elon is such an easy target. A richly deserving target, too.
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by johneth 4y ago
> I'm guessing most of it is out of fear corporations will abuse this to no end It's a pretty safe bet.
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by johneth 4y ago
> Are there any real alternatives to Stripe? Paddle. More expensive than some, but they become the Merchant of Record and handle sales taxes / VAT / GST / etc. in many countries for you.
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by johneth 4y ago
Not since Brexit.
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by johneth 4y ago
They often hide interviewees faces; this is just a different method. As long as they disclosed this fact, I don't see what the problem is.
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by johneth 4y ago
An impressively buzzword-laden, almost unhinged comment.
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by johneth 4y ago
I think the PaaS does not include them; it's the service for hosting a service.[1] [1] https://www.cloud.service.gov.uk/
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by johneth 4y ago
Pure guess, but could it be that we're in the first year without restrictions due to the pandemic? (i.e. relatively normal lives again)
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Security.txt is now officially RFC 9116(twitter.com)
2 points by johneth 4y ago|2 comments
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by johneth 4y ago
If you're interested in H3, you might also be interested in S2: https://s2geometry.io/
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by johneth 5y ago
'Scheme' in this case is a Britishism, basically meaning a project (not something nefarious).
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by johneth 5y ago
I've yet to receive a notification (in the UK).
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by johneth 5y ago
Microsoft didn't build this project, they just host it. It's built in-house by the government.
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by johneth 5y ago
Very nice. Noticed a small typo - the footer link to Pinterest is misspelled.
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by johneth 5y ago
Not all. But obviously Novak is.
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by johneth 5y ago
They run their backend on AWS (i.e. accounts, catalogue, watch history, etc.) They serve their video data using their own custom hardware outside of AWS.
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by johneth 5y ago
So it's not your money if you can't spend it supporting, for example, terrorism?
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by johneth 5y ago
Where did you read all that guff?
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by johneth 5y ago
Surely MathML is better than an image for users of assistive technologies (screen readers, etc.). That alone should be enough to favour it over just images.
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by johneth 5y ago
I only wish it was longer.
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by johneth 5y ago
When developing, I primarily test in Firefox, then Safari, then Chrome. I've found that if it works in Firefox and Safari, it'll almost certainly work in Chrome without tweaking.
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by johneth 5y ago
> In the past year, more than 360,000 SARS-CoV-2 genomes have been sequenced and stored on GISAID, a non-profit online database for sharing viral genomes. Geographic distribution of the sequences on GISAID is broad, covering more than 14

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