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   by nkw 10y ago

   Big corporations are, by definition, large complex organizations. There is legal, executive management, developers, ops, etc. Hypothesizing about their actions as a singular entity can over simplify things. I don't know about the speci
2. 62.▲
   by nkw 10y ago

   > I basically know every DC in Frankfurt, so if you need any help or info in that regard feel free to contact me :-) I (and others I bet) would be interested in a quick summary of the options (and your opinions of them) for facilities in
3. 63.▲
   by nkw 10y ago

   > Once I change the laptop, maybe I should look at an android phone? FWIW, I run a MacPro, MacBookPro, family has iPhones/iPads, office runs on iMacs/MacBookPros. Owned every iPhone generation since the first, and I switched t
4. 64.▲
   by nkw 10y ago

   I was commenting to a colleague the other day how amazed I was at the sheer quantity of github "issues" that I was seeing posted to a few popular open source repositories that were rants about why feature X wasn't available y
5. 65.▲
   by nkw 10y ago

   I understand your point, but the corrupt Silk Road agents (at least the ones that are known at this time) were actually from the DEA and Secret Service.[1] Corrupt FBI agents, while they exist and can cause incredible damage, are reasonably
6. 66.▲
   by nkw 10y ago

   > meaning they need permission in each instance Where is this requirement located?
7. 67.▲
   by nkw 10y ago

   FWIW, right or wrong the United States takes the position that a wide variety of its laws apply outside of the territorial boundaries of the United Sates.[1] (And in practice their interpretation is much broader than the Wikipedia article s
8. 68.▲
   by nkw 10y ago

   Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Some judges will actually hold the Government's feet to the fire and independently inquire into the sufficiency of the Government's probable cause in a warrant application. Some will not. The issue is,
9. 69.▲
   by nkw 10y ago

   I paid for it, though honestly these days I'm using VS Code more.
10. 70.▲
    by nkw 10y ago

    That is good to know, however my first reaction when reading this is we shouldn't be using G Suite for admin@corp or bob@corp, but rather if I am going to be seriously dependent on Google Cloud I should perhaps move e-mail for said @co
11. 71.▲
    by nkw 10y ago

    > On GCP, you create a separate Project entity that can have any number of Google Accounts linked to it. In that way, the actions of your personal account don't affect the GCP project (and vice versa). My understanding from the rece
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    by nkw 10y ago

    As someone whose google account is tied to a scary number of services, e.g. our company's G Suite, Fiber, Music, Play, Store, Cast/Home, Nest, Adwords, Analytics, Webmaster Tools, etc., and is in the process of migrating a bunch (
13. 73.▲
    by nkw 10y ago

    > I do not want to link to that story here. Why not? You say they did something wrong, but then do not cite to what it was other than saying it involved "trial lawyers and an industry group". Why not provide a link to go along
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    by nkw 10y ago

    I agree with much of your statement here. However, an unintended side-effect is you may end up prohibiting a lot of behavior that isn't the one you originally wanted to address and end up with an extremely broad set of laws that have t
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    by nkw 10y ago

    First, the statute we are discussing doesn't make it a crime to impersonate a postal carrier. It makes it a crime to "wear[] the uniform [...] prescribed by the Postal Service to be worn by letter carriers". I think we can bo
16. 76.▲
    by nkw 10y ago

    Some background on the water hyacinth [1]. You might have a point there. Mailing of tobacco? It is already illegal to avoid taxes and tariffs on tobacco. Why ban mailing it as well? Similarly, it is also illegal to smuggle drugs, why does t
17. 77.▲
    by nkw 10y ago

    Identity theft is illegal. Rifling through mailboxes is illegal. Burglary is illegal. I don't see any particular harm from somebody wearing a postman uniform any more than say someone who wants to dress up as the UPS man. Especially fo
18. 78.▲
    by nkw 10y ago

    https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/711 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/707 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/710 ht
19. 79.▲
    by nkw 10y ago

    For me I continue to be somewhat excited when I see Google has an actual human interacting with a customer/user even if it is in a sales role.
20. 80.▲
    by nkw 10y ago

    I do. I don't have anything against brew, I think it is great that it is available, but I've used Macports since before brew existed. Macports' philosophy and where it puts things just seems to jive more with how I think that
21. 81.▲
    by nkw 10y ago

    I know from a technical standpoint Slack is just a pretty UI on top of IRC. However, consider for instance, one of the Slack teams I use on a daily basis is a law firm. The difference of getting users at a non-tech company, such as a law f
22. 82.▲
    by nkw 10y ago

    This is true. I figured that was implied since I'm a random person pontificating on the Internet.
23. 83.▲
    by nkw 10y ago

    I think most of the statements in the article are true, the problem is there is not (right now) a superior alternative. Yes, Microsoft is trying with the surface, Linux I'm sure has come far, but there is simply not any alternative tha
24. 84.▲
    by nkw 10y ago

    If only they had sent the HP name with Agilent and kept the Compaq name for printers and mediocre PCs.
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    by nkw 10y ago

    I'm all about considering alternatives when it comes time to replace my MacPro, but HP probably isn't going to be one of them. A colleague ordered a couple of attractively priced HP pre-built systems (not the 'workstations&#x
26. 86.▲
    by nkw 10y ago

    > Routing in AngularJS 2. > It is bad. I'm curious what you don't like about the Angular2 router. Since router 3.0 (agreed there were some false starts) I've found it to be a pleasure to work with.
27. 87.▲
    by nkw 10y ago

    But that is where my control key goes!
28. 88.▲
    by nkw 10y ago

    Wow. I hate to say it, but I thought the products in Microsoft's event yesterday were way more exciting than anything from Apple lately. This plus macOS Sierra seems like a whole lot of "meh". This coming from a guy whose fir
29. 89.▲
    by nkw 10y ago

    It has an ethernet port: http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/10/26/13380462/m... http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/10/microsoft-announces-s...
30. 90.▲
    by nkw 10y ago

    Only speaking with knowledge of their first market (Kansas City), I would guess it is a combination of three things: * Buildout costs Google was using the same contracts as everyone else for the fiber infrastructure install. The guys runnin