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by jsty 8y ago
Although if you'd realised it was a 737 MAX, you might already be clutching a medicinal gin & tonic ...
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by jsty 8y ago
In the UK at least, it's both 737-8 and 737-9 From the CAA: https://www.caa.co.uk/News/Boeing-737-MAX-Aircraft/
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Radical proposal to artificially cool Earth's climate could be safe(theguardian.com)
4 points by jsty 8y ago|0 comments
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by jsty 8y ago
"Distribution" is definitely used w.r.t. describing different Kubernetes offerings - e.g. https://www.cncf.io/announcement/2017/11/13/cloud-native-com... Likewise for the Hadoop project: https
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by jsty 8y ago
They changed job to sticking things together ...
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Mark Zuckerberg lays out new 'privacy-focused' vision for Facebook(theguardian.com)
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What's the particular issue you're running into? A few general notes though: - Uptime SLAs will probably be very high for such a central service, so HA backing database choices and / or read-only replicas. For authn & aut
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by jsty 8y ago
IIRC, under EU VAT regs Google Ireland will charge and remit French VAT rates to the French treasury for digital content sold to consumers in France, so there's no imbalance there. The big issue is that digital services, particularly
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by jsty 8y ago
There is already a difference in tax (VAT) rates based on the consumer's location. This move would be distinct from import duties or product standards in that it's not really creating a clear barrier to sales across the single mar
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Huawei Frightens Europe's Data Protectors. America Does, Too(bloomberg.com)
5 points by jsty 8y ago|1 comments
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I raise you https://imgur.com/tNlpOd4
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by jsty 8y ago
It's going to be interesting to see how the circle is squared regards defending against autonomous weaponry. There's probably a large design space of offensive autonomous weapons that could only effectively be countered by a syste
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by jsty 8y ago
Whoops, sorry! Can't edit the URL unfortunately. Perhaps if one of the mods are around they could do it?
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Burning Man finally fights Instagram culture and bans high-end camp(theguardian.com)
21 points by jsty 8y ago|11 comments
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GDPR: What Happens in the U.K. Post-Brexit?(dmnews.com)
5 points by jsty 8y ago|1 comments
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There's a reason they call it the lump of labour fallacy
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by jsty 8y ago
It's not quite that cut and dry in the UK[0], and the article mentions that parental consent was required. But if they were operating in the UK, I'm somewhat doubtful their disclosures as reported in the article could be classed a
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by jsty 8y ago
> I am very confused by the movement towards using the cloud for everything, because I work at all sorts of scales, and can't find a cloud host who works well for any of my use-cases Just a couple off the top of my head: 1 - Incredi
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by jsty 8y ago
Only if you actively stored or processed their age or star sign. It's not 'disclose every possible inference you could make given the data you hold'
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by jsty 8y ago
It might be that data protection regulations start to 'encourage' movement in this area regards more careful consideration of the software dependency chain. If you pull in a malicious dependency which results in personal informati
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by jsty 8y ago
I've always found the idea that the manager must earn more than the managed a little odd. Fundamentally, those are completely different jobs. It's not like the rather more insidious version where "Software Engineer level 4&
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'The goal is to automate us': welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism(theguardian.com)
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by jsty 8y ago
Now we know what the placebo is ... </joke>
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by jsty 8y ago
The document layer offers this: https://www.foundationdb.org/blog/announcing-document-layer/
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by jsty 8y ago
I don't think it would ever be the chosen option and guide dogs, human assistance, etc. would all be preferable. But sometimes those just won't be available. One of the more dangerous aspects is in areas where cars are reversing &
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by jsty 8y ago
> has a loudspeaker in a fake exhaust pipe to make it sound like a petrol engine This is however exceptionally helpful for blind people navigating near a road. I haven't seen the BMW in question so it might be unnecessarily loud, bu
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by jsty 8y ago
IP offshoring is a big tax avoidance strategy already. Not that it couldn't be made harder to exploit, but it's not a fait accompli to simply tax the IP resident in a country.
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by jsty 8y ago
"leak" might be used to denote the release in a more passive / accidental sense, whereas "breach" in its traditional usage denotes a purposeful attack, such as if the release stemmed from a wilful actor. From the Ox
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by jsty 8y ago
Alternatively, with a little lobbying and a few tweaks, any 'platform' deemed not to be implementing sufficiently advanced filtering could be subject to ISP-level blocking / filtering. This one's a double edged sword.
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by jsty 8y ago
Not GP, but Bazel requires you to explicitly declare your dependencies for each 'target' you want to build. These dependencies can be within the same Bazel workspace, or imported at build time via say git - there's no need to

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