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by metildaa 8y ago
If Microsoft doesn't ccontinue to open up parts of the .Net stack, the OS and MSSQL licensing revenue is going to taper off more rapidly. Microsoft sees the writing on the wall, their software is focused on a stable, but not significan
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by metildaa 8y ago
Paper ballots mailed to voters are speedy, convienent, reliable. Especially when read with a machine. Plus anyone can do Quality Assurace by counting a portion of ballots themselves, and comparing it to the scanned total, making it hard to
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by metildaa 8y ago
The ethical implications are often not considered by software developers, thus you get cases like this where the author did not stop to push back, acting as a useful idiot for the NSA. There are way too many people like that in tech, who do
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by metildaa 8y ago
Microsoft could lock out 3rd party app stores like Steam, and already has on certain versions of Windows. Valve is trying to protect themselves from irrelevancy, they have all their eggs in the Windows basket, while consoles and mobile are
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by metildaa 8y ago
The CoC being a political document is expected, it is laying the boundaries that define acceptable behavior, an inherently political task. On that ssamw tangent, the GPL series of license is inherently political. I personally like the polit
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by metildaa 8y ago
Linus may have been sincere in his writing, people saw him as this verbally abusive boogeyman who would tear people apart, which led him to become that type of person more and more. The embrace and extend going on over in Redmond right now
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by metildaa 8y ago
I think this is just an early stage of the "fuck you, got mine" mindset, where OP can't quite plug his ears yet...
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by metildaa 8y ago
For around the same price you can get an Orangepi PC+ with 8GB of fairly speedy eMMC. Need smaller? The ESP series and OrangePi Zero (if more grunt is needed) are popular.
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by metildaa 8y ago
This would take quite a bit of effort to maintain, as there are many discrete features on most boards. Just the Allwinner chips supported by the sunxi community have a kernel upstream status matrix that could easily fill a good chunk of a p
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by metildaa 8y ago
Likely not, you can probably even host your friends too without much server load. Scaling is a concern when you have many users, just a handful of users won't ttend to create much load.
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by metildaa 8y ago
> Most of the ads you see aren't funded by Gilead, or by any pharmaceutical company at all. They're funded by local agencies and nonprofits tasked with HIV prevention efforts. This differs significantly from what I see, the loc
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by metildaa 8y ago
There are 3 million people living in the US with Hepatitis C, many who are needlessly dying from it are not incarcerated. The sticker price is a scam to make insurers feel good when they get double digit percentage discounts, while still li
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by metildaa 8y ago
Even with insurance, the cost of essential drugs is too high. Our whole healthcare system consists of the care providers billing crazy, unjustifiable amounts to Insurance, followed by insurers paying out a percentage of that. Showing prices
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by metildaa 8y ago
In the context of a decietful medical system that bills pie in the sky amounts for rendering basic care, a $100k cure for Hepatitis C might seem reasonable. But those who need it most are dying due to this pricing scam, which is standard fo
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by metildaa 8y ago
In the US, there is big money to be made bilking insurers and citizens for as much money aas possible with crazy drug prices. This is what funds most of the ads we see for PreP, and also makes this treatment inaccessible to those who need i
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by metildaa 8y ago
In this case, literally a member of the US media.
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by metildaa 8y ago
Credit card numbers are immaterial, especially for Google's use case of showing advertisers that their spending is resulting in tangible, offline purchases. Transaction amount and a timestamp combined with Android Location data is enou
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by metildaa 8y ago
$100 and we don't exchange info/I made sure no pictures were taken or license plates studied is generally baseline IMO. Even if they're at fault, if it's minor I do not want my insurance to know about the accident. It wi
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by metildaa 8y ago
If your driving a car 5+ years old that was $30k or less, a small nick such as the one I mentioned isn't apt to be repaired. All one is trying to do is satiate the party that had their car damaged, and that is generally possible for a
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by metildaa 8y ago
The data is up for sale, notably Google buys this data (see link below). If Google can buy it, so can one of the hundreds of credit agencies out there, ditto for potential lenders. It is obviously priced low enough for non-lenders to buy tr
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by metildaa 8y ago
Would not Venmo & Zelle be reasonable for this use case?
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by metildaa 8y ago
Venmo and Zelle already dominate this market vertical though, if Zelle could get their butt in gear for writing integrations with bank and credit union backends, they coukd easily take a similar place to mobile payments in China. Instant, f
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by metildaa 8y ago
Avoiding payment fees, negotiating a discount by having cash ready to fork over, etc. Its always good to have $100 or so in your pocket, quick way to smooth over small fender benders/paint nicks if you accidentally damage someone else&
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by metildaa 8y ago
Avoiding tracking (which credit/debit networks, banks & credit unions actively leverage against you) is another reasonable use for cash. I don't want Chase knowing I shop at Goodwill, if they choose to pass that along to one o
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by metildaa 8y ago
Have you considered taking Motorola to small claims court over this? Motorola has a history of turning off features in software months after selling a device, I remember when they bricked band 12 on certain devices at T-Mobile's behest
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by metildaa 8y ago
Edit: Two downvotes but no comments? Pretty lame downvoters today... With regard to Twitter, what is being done to staunch the bleeding of users? I stopped using it in favor of Mastodon, which is starting to eat into my Reddit usage as of l
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by metildaa 8y ago
Outlook.com, Mail.com, Yahoo, AOL and numerous others have significant marketshare among personal accounts. Your comment claims these private email accounts don't exists.
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by metildaa 8y ago
This doesn't match what I see and hear, on Windows if you already have a C/C++ codebase, its likely that one will stick with that. Otherwise, legacy Visual Basic/Delphi programs seem to consistently be rewritten in C# (primar
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by metildaa 8y ago
Depends on the organizations needs, for what we work on performance does not matter terribly much, thus a MVP in Flask is often cleaned up and put up on Gitlab (with a Github mirror) once its vaugely usable.
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by metildaa 8y ago
Citations & context? Your numbers seem unrealistic, Google does not operate 90% of email accounts. Search is definitely seeing erosion courtesy of competitors that have gotten more competent and numerous in the last few years.

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