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by logifail 3y ago
> enterprises start demanding SLA guarantees My experience is that SLA "guarantees" don't actually guarantee anything. Your provider might be really generous and rebate a whole month's fees if they have a really, real
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by logifail 3y ago
> It is technically possible to do client side scanning; and since we don't trust the government to do it, we can do it on localhost only, and report AI-flagged results to parents I'm afraid I don't understand the last bit
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by logifail 3y ago
> Snowden knew this when he leaked the documents and he now resides, ironically, in one of the most surveilled countries in the world Just to put the end of that sentence in context: "Privacy International's 2007 survey, coveri
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by logifail 3y ago
> Why can’t they just let adults buy and sell the way they want to? Perhaps we should all go and (re-)read the history of Standard Oil just to refresh our memories of what it looks like if we were to let that happen? https://e
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by logifail 3y ago
> I also think that for security purposes they should leave out extraneous detail Disagree completely, it's the frank detail that makes me trust their story.
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by logifail 3y ago
> ECTS scoring is nowadays awarded to every degree that is obtained in a country that is a signatory to the Bologna accord It seems that ECTS is indeed useful to those who move internationally between institutions during a course of st
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by logifail 3y ago
> When you get a degree you get a transcript where all local grades are translated to to ECTS, which you then would use to apply for jobs https://www.google.com/search?q=%22job+application%22+%22ECT... gets me only a han
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by logifail 3y ago
> no one else makes full size diesel pickups. Not the Japanese, the Koreans or the Europeans (Genuine) Q: Why is it that the rest of the world manages just fine without needing full size diesel pickups? Over here even tradespeople dri
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by logifail 3y ago
> University grades are standardised already ... for some value of "standardised"? UK[0]: First, 2:1, 2:2, Third Germany[1]: 1 to 5 France[2]: "on a scale from 0-20" <chuckle> [0] https://www.imp
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by logifail 3y ago
> signing official documents like grades from school I have no Earthly idea why a) this needs to be done digitally, or b) for the EU to be involved (at EU level) with this. Unfortunately if you pitch mission creep vs the principle of sub
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by logifail 3y ago
It's a pity that politicians will only be honest in (what they think is) private
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Multiple services down and API availability – DigitalOcean(status.digitalocean.com)
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by logifail 3y ago
> I was in a WeWork in London on the day of the original Softbank-induced meltdown 4 years ago Should we really blame Softbank for the meltdown? We can certainly blame them for believing Adam Neumann and investing to start with, but no
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by logifail 3y ago
> Of course this is also fantastically expensive to build and maintain "Fantastically expensive" is quite the claim. Google won't tell us, but how much do we think it actually costs to operate it?
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by logifail 3y ago
> Did you organize meetings with parents? In coop with teachers? At least where we are, schools have been told not to touch WhatsApp at all, and use another (more GDPR-compliant) messaging product; despite this there is typically an unof
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by logifail 3y ago
> teach your kids signal? Getting your own kids to switch messenging client is fairly trivial. Then they can talk to you (and to each other). The network effect means you then have to persuade other kids, and parents, and sports coaches
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by logifail 3y ago
https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/data-protection-and-the...
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by logifail 3y ago
> I have been a flyertalk member for 15 years Excellent, that means you've been on there 3 years longer I have :) I only wish I'd found it sooner. > Yes you can contact airlines via twitter for sure but I don't think
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by logifail 3y ago
Among frequent travellers it's an open secret that you will often get stuff actioned faster by contacting your travel provider via Twitter than you do by contacting the provider directly via phone/email/webform. ( https:&#x2
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by logifail 3y ago
> There's a massive difference between going from free to say a few hundred dollars a month to $42k a month For an airline, with enough Twitter staffers to operate 24x7 including holidays, all trained to cope with disruption, rerout
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by logifail 3y ago
Why were they keen to provide better support to customers contacting them on Twitter than customers contacting them via email, phone or their own support site? (Spoiler: I think we all know that Social Media was one budget item and Customer
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by logifail 3y ago
> So many businesses and ideas grew up around Twitter’s flexibility and relative openness. Many of those ideas don’t work at all in a monetized model Don't work at all, or don't work for free?
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by logifail 3y ago
Firefox with NoScript works. That way the entire page loads in less than half a second, too.
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by logifail 3y ago
> A meter read every 3 months? All of my utilities (electricity, natural gas, water) have monthly bills. You don't need to read monthly to bill monthly. Our electricity provider used to read yearly, yet we've always paid mon
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by logifail 3y ago
> make the doctors support the initiative at the expense of the pharma industry (Full disclosure: family member works for Big Pharma) You might not get them to admit it out loud, but Big Pharma sees the USA as the cash cow that funds R&a
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by logifail 3y ago
> most (all?) big companies will use the tax system in a way to give them the best outcome that's possible through legal means Not every company feels the need to set up their corporate structures to revolve around Luxembourg (or wh
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by logifail 3y ago
> Lot of healthcare services have extended hours [..] Umm, OK. Not everywhere, apparently, hence my question. > Why would that be a surprise? For reference: My dentist works a four day week (Monday-Thursday). My local doctor's p
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by logifail 3y ago
> Are you also boycotting every other large company that uses the tax system in a legal way that you don't agree with? Umm, where possible why wouldn't one choose to avoid giving your money to companies that behave in ways you
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by logifail 3y ago
Sorry, but it's been a very long time since I've come across prose that's both hard to digest and yet so tedious. >> "Carlisle lures us back to Eliot’s whole body of work, even to such unvisited tombs as [..]"
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by logifail 3y ago
> going to the dentist... but maybe a lot are going on the weekend? Q: Where in the world are (non-emergency) dentists open at weekends?

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