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by jsiepkes 6y ago
> Tax carbon at whatever level makes sense and Bitcoin will adjust. > The externality is at the power plant, not the use. Banning a use is like basing your server's security on client-side Javascript. How would that work? Applyin
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by jsiepkes 6y ago
Telecom providers will probably provide a service for companies like LG to lock down the connection in such a way it can only access their services. Kind of like they already provide MPLS and such.
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by jsiepkes 6y ago
> what kind of checks should you go through to make sure a private bicycle seller is legitimate. If you can reasonably know something is stolen you are liable under Dutch law. That applies to everything, not just bikes. Buying a new ATB
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by jsiepkes 6y ago
When I traveled to China about 10 years ago and we were about to land in Beijing everyone was shown a short movie on the inflight entertainment system (of China Southern airlines). It started with: "Swine influenza comes from America,
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by jsiepkes 6y ago
For the rest of us not working at LinkedIn I can wholeheartedly recommend the following to prevent burnout: Don't use social media (like LinkedIn) for a week.
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by jsiepkes 6y ago
It doesn't work because it is unsustainable. This will never hold. There is no such thing as free money. We should try to get (back) to the point where companies actually need to make a profit in order to survive.
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by jsiepkes 6y ago
> Isn’t it fine to just stop accepting connections, tell all your clients to reconnect, and do a normal restart? Dependents on how many config changes you need (per day). Besides Envoy supports it and I would call it a bonus if you can r
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by jsiepkes 6y ago
I don't know about other countries but in the Netherlands companies already pay an additional fee which ends-up with the royalty holders [1]. Meaning you have to pay a special license fee when playing music in venue's such as stor
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by jsiepkes 6y ago
I think the 90's (Napster, Kazaa, etc.) has proven people are simply not going to pay that kind of money for the product (music). The music industry also seems a bit like a "winner takes all" market where there are a bunch of
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DataBunker service to store customer data in a GDPR compliant way(databunker.org)
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by jsiepkes 6y ago
To be fair those grades come from ProtonDB[1] which is not affiliated with Valve or Proton. Though I agree that having a clear rating system as to what to expect in Steam would be great. [1] https://www.protondb.com
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by jsiepkes 6y ago
Gold, bauxite, etc. are all used to produce things with an application such electronics. Name a single thing we produce with Bitcoin.
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by jsiepkes 6y ago
As far as I can tell in the Netherlands you should just declare it as income with the tax service. I don't think you need to do anything with VAT.
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Don't host your DNS at GoDaddy. If Backblaze's entire DNS gets suspended if just one of their customers hosts offending content that's just unacceptable.
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by jsiepkes 6y ago
And on top of that Kotlin is now basically stuck with async-await forever. Removing async-await from the language and designing a more superior model the JVM now allows for with Loom is probably not going to happen. Adding a new model based
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by jsiepkes 6y ago
> The biggest problem with these posts is that authors seem to fail to see how K8s isn't targeting home servers or small companies. Who would you say are in the target audience of Kubernetes? I doubt most medium to large companies I
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by jsiepkes 6y ago
Yeah also somewhere after Java 7 (I think) Java stagnated because the next version was too ambitious (stuck in development-hell). To get back on track they cut a bunch of features, labelled it Java 8 and moved Jigsaw (the biggest hurdle) to
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by jsiepkes 6y ago
Project Loom: https://openjdk.java.net/projects/loom/ The view being that async-await leads to a "What color is your function" problem ( https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02&#x
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by jsiepkes 6y ago
Great tool! But be careful though. In the default config there is a button next to the save local button which uploads your image as a public image to imgur without asking for confirmation. Fortunately you can remove the button via the sett
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by jsiepkes 6y ago
Shouldn't Signal then also warn or refuse to work on Android versions with known vulnerabilities? Or if there are apps installed on the device with the accessibility permission? Where would you say the line should be drawn?
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by jsiepkes 6y ago
Looks like the site got Slashdotte....errr...HN'ed. Here is the Internet Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20210208171420/https://codewrite...
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Apache PLC4X – Connect your shopfloor assets without retrofit(plc4x.apache.org)
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Having AMD GPU drivers in the mainline kernel makes me seriously consider selling my 2070 Super and getting and AMD. I'm tired of playing driver roulette with every kernel update. Crossing my fingers and hoping my setup won't brea
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by jsiepkes 6y ago
I agree that at some point you need to be able to say: "We just don't want person X to ever return in our society.". The big question is how do you implement such a thing? I think the English had the right idea by expelling t
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by jsiepkes 6y ago
> Has a non-zero price, so uptake is embarrassingly low. Embarrassing for humanity that is. I've struggled to get well paid professionals to cough up the €4. What's really weird is that people park their car somewhere and pay 8
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I remember from when I was a kid the government used to broadcast commercials (in the Netherlands) about you having to pay up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPr61na7icE You don't have to understand Dutch to understan
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by jsiepkes 6y ago
The whole thing is opensource: https://github.com/penpot/penpot Both backend and frontend are in there. While they provide a docker image for testing I have actually installed it on Triton / SmartOS (ie. Illumos)
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Penpot – open-source Mock up and design tool(penpot.app)
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Close to impossible but not entirely. There is Fairphone: https://www.fairphone.com/
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by jsiepkes 6y ago
It matters because people don't always realize that it means making trade-off's. And people often don't know what the consequences can be of those trade-offs because they didn't realise it was a trade-off to begin with.

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