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by kyrra 5y ago
Reading the article is important here. The person that was being sued is settling (paying a 6-figure sum) and staying anonymous. They could have fought they case, but they apparently had enough money and were worried about being outed, th
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by kyrra 5y ago
Googler, opinions are my own. Over in payments, we use micros regularly, as documented here: https://developers.google.com/standard-payments/reference/gl... GCP on there other hand has standardized on unit + nano.
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by kyrra 5y ago
I recently started hosting something on Linode, thanks for calling this feature out. It looks like they started launching Cloud Firewalls back in November. Full rollout was maybe April? https://www.linode.com/blog/lin
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I think this is a good TLDR from WSJ: > Judge Boasberg said the FTC’s lawsuit was “legally insufficient” because it didn’t plead enough allegations to support monopolization claims against Facebook. The judge, however, said the commissio
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This is why I haven't taken the dive either. Though, is this why Microsoft crested Hello? https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/sign-in-to-your-...
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PC Gaming is still windows main advantage. There is wine, but how does it compare for performance? Plus Nvidia's drivers are still a mixed bag?
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Per their about page[0]: > We dig deep into important issues, shining a light on abuses of power and betrayals of public trust — and we stick with those issues as long as it takes to hold power to account. As you said, the "abuse of
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by kyrra 5y ago
Another fun one that is the Jones Act: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_Marine_Act_of_1920 My TLDR is that you have to use american-made ships when transporting product from 1 US port to another. The US governmen
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Republicans are a coalition party, just like the democrats are. It's really important to remember just how broad of a group those 2 parties cover. AOC said it correctly in Jan 2020[0]: "In any other country, Joe Biden and I woul
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I've lived in both. HOAs have their place, and really I think it depends on the person. Going into a home purchase, you have to sign the HOA agreement, so you know the rules they set forth. They keep the neighborhood looking a certa
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by kyrra 5y ago
Different tool, but this forum post lists some options: https://forum.photostructure.com/t/automatic-phone-uploads/2... Some of the tools recommended are: https://syncthing.net/ https:/&#x2F
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Apple manufacturers in India and maybe Taiwan soon it looks like. Samsung makes its phones in Vietnam and India. Looks fairly possible to by non china made phones
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It matters if it was caused due to gain of function research. These virologists purposely try to make viruses stronger so that they can research how to counteract or fight one if a stronger similar version of them appears from the wild. If
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Point taken. For smaller incidents, Chat or Meet are regularly used. But larger (cross-team or maybe infra related) are handled in IRC.
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Ahh, the Wuhan Virus bit, I did forget about that, thanks for the reminder. I don't consider that racist, but some people seem to. For people talking about th lab leak theory, I found another piece I remember from the time from April 3
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To pile on, Google uses internally for incident response [0] > Google has found IRC to be a huge boon in incident response. IRC is very reliable and can be used as a log of communications about this event, and such a record is invaluable
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I think you've been reading too much left-wing propaganda. Certain groups within the political and media class love calling Tom Cotton and and Mike Pompeo racists, but that doesn't make it true. You can read Tom Cotton's Ap
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by kyrra 5y ago
As people said, true spammers know to just strip off the "+" in the email address. This is actually a fun reason to set up your own domain and set up email forwarding for *@example.com to go to your main gmail or whatever account
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US had three motives for entering the Middle East. The first was originally the attack on 9/11, the second being trying to maintain one friendly government (Israel), and third was access to oil. The problem with the first is that the U
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by kyrra 5y ago
The issue isn't that Iran is doing bad things directly, it's their proxies forces. You can Google and find a source you may trust more, but here's two[0][1]. Iran was taking much of the money the US was paying them to not bui
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> U.S. authorities have confiscated roughly $90,000 from a Utah man who sold footage of a woman being fatally shot during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump, according to court filings. T
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by kyrra 5y ago
Googler, opinions are my own. (I don't work on this thing) This is the next steps of meena: https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/01/towards-conversational-age... This is a real thing, but it just hasn't been o
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I really should say payments world. Banks use PGP regularly for file transfer (bank statements and the like). Payment processors use PGP for settlement statement transferring. The page I linked uses PGP for application layer encryption.
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The discussion of the original article (The PGP Problem) got a lot of comments on HN 2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20455780 (googler, opinions are my own) Over at payments in Google, we still use PGP fo
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> Monopolies are inherently harmful to the customer. A monopoly implies lack of competition. I disagree. When you look at a company that is dominant in some part of the marketplace at a given point it time, you need to understand how th
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This is actually the difference between the US and the EU when it comes to monopoly lawsuits. The US has to prove that the behavior of a monopoly was harmful to customers/consumers. The EU has no burden of proof and can just take mar
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(googler, opinions are my own, I know nothing about this project). I will bet that this will ship with accessibility support. If it doesn't, maybe they will launch with it being opt-in, as they flesh out a11y. But if I were to put mo
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(googler, opinions are my own. I know nothing about this project). I really hope this fixes the large-document problem. As someone that has to deal with large specs (1000+ page MS Word documents), Google Docs does a not-so-great job of ha
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The problem is that there are financial implications for a state saying they have covid deaths. From some of US covid relief packages, the more covid deaths a state had, the more money they get. As well, you get the over-the-top cases wher
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by kyrra 5y ago
Googler, opinions are my own. I don't agree with you. My read on why they keep doing reset days is that "down" time doesn't really exist anymore. When in the office at Google, there are lots of "fun" things t

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