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by jopsen 5y ago
> A lot of folks seem to forget that Twitter also has electricity bills they have to pay directly or indirectly. The cost of running Twitter could be very small, if they optimized for that.. cost of the engineers is harder to keep down.
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by jopsen 5y ago
I'm no lawyer, but don't you usually have to show damages?
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by jopsen 5y ago
> Nothing is safe! I'm no Apple fan, but I certainly have a special level of distrust in anything based in China.
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by jopsen 5y ago
Ideally it should if you format your laptop. But the problem is working with a vendor that has a track record for compromising its customers. How do you know they aren't inserting backdoors in the firmware? The problem is the lack of t
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by jopsen 5y ago
Hmm, about two years ago I bought an X1 5 gen, it had horrible Linux support.. as in it just didn't work properly. So I sent it back for refund, that was no problem. I'll say this: I respect Lenovo customer service.
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by jopsen 5y ago
> it was given these powers after it was obvious it had lost control of the situation... > this backfired badly: if it had been enacted it would have created a border across Ireland... Yeah, creating such measures overnight probably w
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by jopsen 5y ago
> the Trump executive order from December 2020 merely sets up the legal framework to prohibit exports if desired. Not how I understood it. But it seems you're right, the US only used war time powers to force companies to fill their
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by jopsen 5y ago
> no, it thought it had control over the situation and started virtue signalling... As I understood it, the US had laws necessary to administratively enact export restrictions during emergencies. I suspect the EU didn't have the sam
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by jopsen 5y ago
Really? We got the most vulnerable population vaccinated pretty quickly. And today we have plenty of vaccines. Is it really a catastrophe that it took 2 months longer? (Two summer months with weather slightly less conductive to virus transm
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by jopsen 5y ago
Just a reminder it was the US that blocked vaccine exports. While we in the EU let the free market handle things. Of course, EU countries were smart enough to buy vaccines collectively :)
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by jopsen 5y ago
> Are they really selling vaccines for $19/dose? Where did you get that number? > Seems like bad business when plenty of countries would have paid $1000/dose if they could get the first deliveries... This is probably why all
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by jopsen 5y ago
> However, a former Apple employee said it was possible the encryption project was dropped for other reasons, such as concern that more customers would find themselves locked out of their data more often. Sounds more plausible to me. Mos
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by jopsen 5y ago
Nature general adapts though evolution... So any large scale changes to our eco-system will likely have negative effects short term. Notice that "short term" in nature is probably a very long time for a human :)
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by jopsen 5y ago
Yeah, maybe.. but like the blog post says: > Nor are they the kind of study where you round up a hundred undergraduates and perform an experiment on them. Do we have good clinical evidence showing: lead = lower IQ? (I'm guessing nob
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by jopsen 5y ago
Yeah, cultural changes and access to entertainment might be the simplest answer :)
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by jopsen 5y ago
In other countries we have a form of digital ID with 2 factor authentication. I get that if you don't have any such scheme, it can hard to verify that anyone is who they say they are. In 2008 I reported address change online without an
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by jopsen 5y ago
Anyone know a good widely supported archive format? tar is nicely simple, if it weren't for the fact that there is so many legacy variants to support.
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by jopsen 5y ago
> Likening modern 'woke' mob outrage on Twitter to Maoist China is the correct analogy. I would personally rather be cancelled on social media, than having my breathing cancelled. It's should be possible to disagree and cr
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by jopsen 5y ago
Usually, you dependents have an SSN and requirement to maintain an address on record, as well as a birth certificate indicating who their parents are. IRS could possibly reach into some of that. Or it simply relies on what you reported last
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by jopsen 5y ago
Im Denmark that pretty much how it works. If you have complex scenarios you might need to adjust the numbers a bit, for example if you have stocks abroad or income from gigs. Many trading platforms in Denmark do automated reporting, and som
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by jopsen 5y ago
> There may even be legitimate use cases for lazily grabbing certs in the request path; Anything springs to mind? If you're using per-user sub-domains on your service, I'd imagine you'd be using wildcard certificates.
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by jopsen 5y ago
Spot on..! sure it's not great that you can't setup a new domain. But that shouldn't be in the hot path for anything.
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by jopsen 5y ago
Perhaps the market for GP computing just is smaller than.. the market for magic smartphone. We tend to think everyone needs to do computing, and understand the technology they rely. But I don't understand the magic that goes into the m
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by jopsen 5y ago
> but those requests are hard to get approved. I had no problems getting approval for a tiny 2D home-trainer game I worked on this winter.. I suppose it varies depending on what you do. But if you work on part of it during 20% time, you
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by jopsen 5y ago
> Larger scale disasters will definitely screw things up for us all. Most natural disasters tend to be local.. It's actually hard to imagine something more global than a pandemic.
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by jopsen 5y ago
Yeah, it probably wouldn't have changed anything. But US intelligences services might have caught it, by sheet chance if history was to replay with slightly different variables. Just saying, they got lucky. Consequences of 9/11 ce
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by jopsen 5y ago
> There is a bit of hubris in thinking that a computer simulation can predict the entirety of human action. Individually humans are hard to predict... but a flock of humans might not be so hard to predict :) That said: it's easy to
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by jopsen 5y ago
> We are not at the end of easy money. International tolerance of our dollar and bonds show the perpetuation of easier money. Things that can't go on forever, will eventually come to an end. Or something like that... money supply ca
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by jopsen 5y ago
> Police have no expectation of privacy when performing their official duties... True, but that doesn't necessarily mean that we have to escalate to the point of publicly shaming officers. Or at-least maybe we don't always need
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by jopsen 5y ago
> That's why we need to bring these "few bad apples" to the forefront. But can you un-spoil all the other apples of the barrel, by only removing the bad ones? I think not... once police stands idle by their bad apple co-wo

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