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by mcny 5y ago
Each Linked In user has the option to make as much or as little of their information public. I don’t see how any injunction can stop that. None of this data belongs to LinkedIn. It nudges us to make more of our data public. I don’t even wan
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by mcny 5y ago
I think it is unfair to compare apples to apples. Nobody other than Apple has the M1 chip. You should not judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree. Pick up a recent top of the line desktop processor, possibly an AMD Ryzen 9 or a Threadri
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by mcny 5y ago
One story I remember is some corruption is okay when there is enough to go around. If I told you that the janitors responsible for changing the light bulbs didn’t wait for the lights to burn out and replaced light bulbs with a few weeks wor
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by mcny 5y ago
I assume EU regulations apply to all EU persons, not just those in the EU? If so, is there a way for anyone in the world to become an EU person without giving up one's citizenship elsewhere just so I can be a party to GDPR and now this
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by mcny 5y ago
Yes and I completely agree with it but sometimes you need to have some money coming in so you go along with it even if a team implementing a micro services architecture says with a straight face they won’t know what all will have direct acc
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by mcny 5y ago
> Now that they have market power and monopoly position in certain areas they lobby for regulation to make it difficult for startups to disrupt them. They used no sales tax and lower wages when they were starting up, but now want to prev
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by mcny 5y ago
> Lift and Shift doesn’t work. It’s Lift and Whoops and Refactor. I’d like to learn more. What doesn’t work? What can vendors do to make it easier? My understanding is that lift and shift doesn’t mean one and done, no grueling manual tes
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by mcny 5y ago
For others who are just hearing about this now https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinking_twelve_problem
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by mcny 5y ago
I think Google showing Chrome pop ups to users on the latest Firefox or chrome based edge is anticompetitive but we aren’t talking the law here. When we install something like Adobe Flash and it installed Google Chrome, I would be angry at
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by mcny 5y ago
in my mind, if we don't make this a transaction involving money, we will be able to add technical restrictions later on for all providers as we need to do so. As I said earlier, I don't quite understand these things but my underst
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by mcny 5y ago
In my mind the problem is once money exchanges hands, it becomes difficult to add more restrictions after the fact. We don't need their money anyway. All Cingular and Verizon do is borrow public money. We (I mean the state) can easily
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by mcny 5y ago
» the 3G auctions sucked cash away from the infrastructure developers and providers I don't know anything about wireless spectrum and I have no solid plans to replace what we have but I really dislike the model of spectrum auctions. Do
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by mcny 5y ago
The only real complaint I have is 8GB is not enough storage to update watch os. But there is praise in the complaint: you can update it at all.
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by mcny 5y ago
DishTV also has no direct (pun intended) competition but it isn’t a buy. I don’t know anything about Vimeo but just stating the obvious: not having direct competition does not make something a buy automatically.
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by mcny 5y ago
How is this different from credit cards that have "rewards"? If you think of the independent software vendors as the corner store where you buy groceries and Apple as Visa or some payment processor... Actually now that I think abo
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by mcny 5y ago
I’m not even sure about index funds. If you put money in at the bottom of the market last March, that money has almost doubled while we are still in the middle of a pandemic. I put some money into my vanguard Roth IRA and I can not pay almo
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by mcny 5y ago
> your data I think it helps IT departments to go to upper management and put a dollar figure to information security. Personally, I’d prefer the CEO and the board go to prison for a few years for paying ransom.
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by mcny 5y ago
Would you say the same if you were in the back of a police patrol car and the officer “asked” you to have sex with them? The problem isn’t that they had sex. It is that someone in a position of power misused their power with an “implication
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by mcny 5y ago
I am not a fancy legal expert so I only have two things to say: 1. Abolish the CFAA. All of it. It is unsalvageable. Nothing good has ever come from it. 2. I will never listen to Stanford and anyone associated with Stanford about ethics. Yo
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by mcny 5y ago
I don't know anything about react native and from my (limited) experience with titanium, I'm not a fan of js based "native" apps. That being said, I didn't know the iOS app was react native. I don't use coinbas
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by mcny 5y ago
> The US Gov should make it clear, if you are a critical service and if your service drops due to items being on the internet, for each occurances 10% of your total revenue (including your parent companies) are forfeited. I would love to
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by mcny 5y ago
How do you do it? Do you have a Sql server, MySQL, or postgresql instance running on your machine? Do you aggressively limit how much memory these servers can use?
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by mcny 5y ago
I think you are right. If I remember correctly, someone on the typescript team said they have no control over version numbers. PR/marketing decides what is version 4.0 vs 3.11.
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by mcny 5y ago
I had (have?) an Azure account through my university account and while I agree that Azure services such as Container Service are (in my not so humble opinion) ridiculously overpriced but the fact it I never entered payment details to use my
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by mcny 5y ago
You raise a good question. I wonder, just a thought experiment, if providing shade in a desert might create refuge for plants that can't survive directly in the desert sun...
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by mcny 5y ago
I used to think along the same lines until someone mentioned that we don't need nuclear energy to make large swaths of land uninhabitable. In fact, coal is the answer if you want to create large areas free of humans for a long time. Un
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by mcny 5y ago
Assuming you are in the US or want a US number, I recommend Google Voice and turn on spam protection. While the SMS integration is going away soon, you will still be able to use (I think) SMS from within the app and while the terms of servi
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by mcny 5y ago
> Can you explain how? Since I've published things to F-Droid and since they also control signing and building (just like Apple and Google in this article), they can freely modify and change what's published on their store. I t
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by mcny 5y ago
> The model also shields to a certain extent against conflict of interests (the product is the user, i.e. ads/tracking/hostile maintainership takeover) What I find difficult to wrap my head around is that the Debian model (I kn
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by mcny 5y ago
> IIRC this is how it works by default for new apps. Personally, I'd like to see Apple, Google, and possibly Microsoft take this to what I think is the obvious conclusion: developers and independent software vendors submit source co

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