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by jonas21 5y ago
Why? The DOJ names him in the complaint and press release.
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by jonas21 5y ago
It's a natural property of the pyramidal structure of most organizations. At the bottom, there are many people in a similar situation to sympathize with, but at the top, there is only one CEO.
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by jonas21 5y ago
Well, you're in luck! The IRS has prepared a 56-page document on just this topic [1]. The summary on page 3 is: > To be deductible, a business expense must be both ordinary and necessary. An ordinary expense is one that is common a
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by jonas21 5y ago
If you're operating a business as an individual (sole proprietor), you deduct expenses and only pay taxes on profits.
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by jonas21 5y ago
This comment is the sort of toxicity that's become commonplace on other social platforms (including Facebook) and that I come to HN to avoid.
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by jonas21 5y ago
> Even then, you couldn't actually electronically connect a device, you could only acoustically couple it. Direct connection of modems wouldn't be legal until the 1980s. In the late 90s, I remember watching the scenes in WarG
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by jonas21 5y ago
Exactly. Google does not sell personal data, so its revenue from selling personal data is $0. Of course Google is still subject to the law because it qualifies on the other two criteria.
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by jonas21 5y ago
You omitted the other criteria. Only one of the following needs to be satisfied for the law to apply: * Annual gross revenue generated in Ohio above $25 million. * Controls or processes the personal data of 100,000 or more consumers duri
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by jonas21 5y ago
The problem is if you start with B. Then you compress it to get C. Since B == C, when you uncompress C, you get A, which is not what you started with.
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by jonas21 5y ago
This is the classic innovators dilemma. The established players are afraid to cannibalize their more profitable existing product lines, which presents opportunities for new companies that don't have existing products to cannibalize. Th
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by jonas21 5y ago
It was removed in a follow-up PR, "Remove abuse enabling language pt. 2", which is linked to from the first: > Encouraged by the quick success of this PR, I made #2691 with another small change. One step at a time at fixing th
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by jonas21 5y ago
That's one of the rules they removed.
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by jonas21 5y ago
This is also important to keep in mind when reading articles about less well-liked companies, e.g. Facebook, Amazon, etc.
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by jonas21 5y ago
First, that's not actually true. Have a look at figures 3 and 4 of this paper [1]. CO2 emissions increase with income, and that holds both globally and within particular countries they studied (US, UK, China, India). Second, even if it
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by jonas21 5y ago
It's not necessarily bots. They could just be buying views with ads.
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by jonas21 5y ago
AWS has been billing me a few cents per month for over a decade now. Eventually, the credit card I was using expired, and so every month for the past 7 years, they've sent me an email: > Dear Amazon Web Services Customer, > Yo
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by jonas21 5y ago
Yeah, maybe land wasn't the best thing to call out as it's not particularly scarce in the US. Water, on the other hand... California uses more water to grow animal feed (Alfalfa + irrigated pasture) than it does for all residentia
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by jonas21 5y ago
How so? Selling and using secure messaging apps is perfectly legal, and they never told anyone "go commit [crime X] and plan it with this device"
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by jonas21 5y ago
One thing not captured in this chart is that the average house size in the U.S. has nearly tripled since the 1950's.
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by jonas21 5y ago
The link seems to be a summary of this article in the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/18/world/middleeast/iran-nuc... It provides more detail and context - the "AI" system was apparen
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by jonas21 5y ago
That might be great if you're visiting or just out for a stroll. But let me tell you, it can be infuriating if you're walking to actually get somewhere. The city I live in has been replacing 2-way and 4-way stops with roundabouts,
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by jonas21 5y ago
Have they really put it behind them? Hoefler doesn't so much as acknowledge Frere-Jones in his post. And one of Frere-Jones' type designers had this to say about the whole thing: https://twitter.com/ninastoessinger
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by jonas21 5y ago
The former is more important. At least in the U.S., ex post facto laws are unconstitutional, so you don't have to worry about concealing past actions when something new is made illegal.
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by jonas21 5y ago
Oddly enough, the post you linked to is from the blog of Fundación PostgreSQL, which is also being discussed on HN today due to a dispute with the PostgreSQL core team: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28512274
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by jonas21 5y ago
Sounds like a good way to end up with all the strings in your app translating to "penis".
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by jonas21 5y ago
> All in all, it's a good webcam, but they're picking wrong competitors. A modern mirrorless is too powerful for them, and MacBook's pinhole webcam is too good for its size. They need better marketing and targeting IMHO.
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by jonas21 5y ago
I think they're betting this is more than a niche product -- with so many jobs going remote, lots of people are going to want a good webcam for Zoom, etc. Most people are going to look at the comparison between the Opal and A7 and not
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by jonas21 5y ago
As a user, I'd take that to mean that they wouldn't keep any IP logs unless I turned logging on. I wouldn't expect that they would enable logging on their own. Interestingly, ProtonMail's privacy policy lists a numb
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by jonas21 5y ago
> React has at least been steady. Huh? I did a bunch of React work a few years ago when everything was classes. Then I went off and did other stuff for a bit, and when I came back to React, everyone was using hooks.
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by jonas21 5y ago
It's not just convenience -- it's also about privacy. For example, I don't like disclosing my home address just to prove I'm old enough to buy alcohol. With this, I won't have to since it allows for asserting proof

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