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by newman8r 8y ago
I think that's fair, but I don't think it's necessarily fair to put the responsibility on foreign websites to do the blocking and vetting. If the EU wanted to block websites that aren't compliant, that would make more se
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by newman8r 8y ago
I wonder if their definition of 'should' is in line with RFC 2119 https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt I know nothing about European legal systems though
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by newman8r 8y ago
People already copy successful startups for international markets all the time, it's just the nature of the business.
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by newman8r 8y ago
I think I'd use the term 'putting it off for later'. Almost like technical debt. I'd probably look more seriously at GDPR compliance at about the same time I start working on internationalization and localization. These
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by newman8r 8y ago
I agree that exposing personal data is serious, and companies should be held responsible if they violate the terms of their privacy policy. I think companies should follow the law of the land. The thing about GDPR that I disagree with is ho
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by newman8r 8y ago
you can still use their rss feeds for maximum information density - http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/usatoday-NewsTopStories
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by newman8r 8y ago
Not wanting to use non-GDPR compliant services is completely fair. I think it should be the user's choice. I think assuming the EU won't care about tiny startups is irrelevant - I want to follow the letter of the law, it's wh
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by newman8r 8y ago
I can see why you'd be disappointed - if popular websites started blocking US customers I'd be pretty bummed out as well (even if it was easy to circumvent). As a dev though, I also understand the frustration. Creating startups is
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by newman8r 8y ago
Anyone who's interested in this might find the field of cognitive narratology interesting as well, he's a nice resource: http://wikis.sub.uni-hamburg.de/lhn/index.php/Cognitive_Narr...
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by newman8r 8y ago
> Carrying the bits of paper (and coins) has the big benefit of being tangible, that is we get to use all our senses to understand something otherwise very abstract. This is a much bigger deal than a lot of people will admit. It's a
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by newman8r 8y ago
yeah it's still off-putting. I haven't used a smartphone in years. Looking back on the days when I did use a smartphone, there was always this tiny fear in the back of my head that maybe I'd pocket-dialed someone and they&#x2
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by newman8r 8y ago
The article doesn't explain much, but it sounds to me like the device mistakenly interpreted a voice command to record and send a message.
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by newman8r 8y ago
you're right - it looks like the caverns being used for experimentation are the result of solution mining for salt.
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by newman8r 8y ago
I'd work on getting your cost of living as low as possible first, and try to have at least a year of living expenses saved up. The reality is that most startups don't succeed, it's kind of a numbers game, so be in it for the
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by newman8r 8y ago
https://caes.pnnl.gov/ - it's an interesting project. Apparently it's more like 'underground caverns' than caves.
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by newman8r 8y ago
I had no idea these existed, I want these when I move back off-grid. https://www.cottagecraftworks.com/kitchen-food-prep/non-elec...
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by newman8r 8y ago
I looked at the Ares 'team page' and I personally know the CEO of that company, but I didn't know he was working with that company. super random. Your refrigeration example is interesting - now I'm curious if there'
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by newman8r 8y ago
I feel like they have different applications so they're not necessarily competing. Obviously compressed air systems will never have the energy density of a battery, but they could be much more reliable. It also scales up really easily,
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by newman8r 8y ago
An added benefit is you could power your air-tools with something like this without having to convert to electrical energy. As a former off-gridder, that's actually a really big plus. Another non conventional way to store energy is usi
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by newman8r 8y ago
I think it's harder to pull the trigger and launch once you've taken so long (years) to work on a project. You're a lot more invested in the success or failure, so you take a perfectionist view of the project which is a view
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by newman8r 8y ago
Here's a few I enjoyed: Soft Skills: The Software Developer's Life Manual The Lean Startup The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
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by newman8r 8y ago
It is entertaining though. They chose some pretty funny stock photos.
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by newman8r 8y ago
Looks like it's due to triboelectric-related effects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triboelectric_effect so with the tape I'd assume it's due to the friction from unraveling the sticky side from the non-s
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by newman8r 8y ago
It was also discovered that the scotch tape method emits radiation in the terahertz range (2009) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19823546
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by newman8r 8y ago
I was actually just going to submit this story and found this post via search, so I guess I won't post it. I think it's a relevant story because it's the second 'firetruck' incident involving Tesla this year. Does t
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by newman8r 8y ago
Actually I see now that you specifically said 'black men', which is a different statistic, so I think you might be correct.
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by newman8r 8y ago
The article makes the claim for the year 1850, and your claim is for the year 1860. There were more slaves in 1860 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1860_United_States_Census ) than in 1850 ( https://en.wikipedia
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by newman8r 9y ago
so would it be sufficient to add a line to the TOS checkbox label: "I affirm that I am not a citizen of a EU-affiliated country" that seems simple enough - I think I'll add that to the projects I'm working on.
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by newman8r 9y ago
https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Pro+13-Inch+Retina+Disp... you should stop using it as soon as you can, it's a fire hazard
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by newman8r 9y ago
Interesting to think about. Would probably make a good interview question just to see how people try to solve it.

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