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by parasense 4y ago
I think the issue here has historically been something like... the government should not be in the business of mandating taxes, and then preparing taxes... as that could be a conflict of interests. But that seems like classic FUD to me, but
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by parasense 4y ago
> Guys I bought a huge vanity building noone is using anymore plz help me avoid the consequences of my own actions While there is potentially a point to be made here, your argument about the sunk cost of empty facilities is misplaced, an
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by parasense 4y ago
It's the usual nonsense. Old media, newspapers, television broadcast, etc... would like to extract tax from Search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc... who hyperlink to media on their websites. They would very much like the courts
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by parasense 4y ago
Similar. Used to run flagship phones, replaced them on the yearly, ran various Android builds on current phone and/or older phones.... At some point I simply stopped caring, started to get the pixel-A phones, and lived happily ever aft
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by parasense 4y ago
> The (criminal) origin of the cryptocurrencies is often not or hardly checked by such mixing services. Even omitting the "criminal" implication, that sentence has a big problems. > The origin of the cryptocurrencies is ofte
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by parasense 4y ago
Yeah, Docker the company is funky. Docker the software is also funky.
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by parasense 4y ago
I would imagine a $500 dish, plus installation (which can be done oneself) is much cheaper than digging trenches for fiber or copper lines, or hanging lines on utilities with obnoxious right of ways. For the cost of the dish to be cited as
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by parasense 4y ago
> This is the core of the issue. A user will genuinely come to the platform for those features and then is locked in. The lock in will sometimes even cost the user more than the value of the free stuff over the duration of the collaborat
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by parasense 4y ago
> - Phil Zimmerman (PGP) was under criminal investigation for arms exports by releasing the code for consumer encryption. The case escalated and was eventually dropped, included POTUS attention. A legitimate example of free speech. Zimme
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by parasense 4y ago
> Up until now, it was at least marginally possible to state "But I didn't know it was illegal. TornadoCash was doing the exact same thing for years and never got into trouble". Oh I totally get that, but... I reasonably b
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by parasense 4y ago
>While the purported purpose is to increase privacy, mixers like Tornado are commonly used by illicit actors to launder funds, especially those stolen during significant heists. Think about the children!
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by parasense 4y ago
In my experience, even if the ORG or TEAM does not adopt the policy of adding type annotations, I just do it anyways. They might not use mypy, but I do. One caveat is I've stopped adding type annotations for anything but the most lates
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by parasense 4y ago
News papers and anybody with a printing press used to hold that same power. So it seems like the same thing, just faster, and whatever else... but that might be a too simplistic perception, ignoring other factors... or perhaps not.
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by parasense 4y ago
I remember at the time the FOSS community found a bunch of prior art that would have most likely invalidate the Microsoft claims. There were plenty of graphical UI in existence that Microsoft probably copied. I do not have links to the epic
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by parasense 4y ago
> "The supermarket is adding customers to secret watch-lists with no due process, meaning shoppers can be spied on, blacklisted across multiple stores and denied food shopping despite being entirely innocent," said Big Brother
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by parasense 4y ago
> How is this allowed in light of the interstate commerce clause? It's complicated. Obviously a website cannot simply proclaim to only facilitate the dissemination of information to people exclusively in one state, or to exclude peo
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by parasense 4y ago
> They sold just for perception reasons. Based on the charts, as best I can tell those bitcoins were probably bought and sold at approximately the same price range. This assumes the buying prices in February 2021, and selling Q1 2022. On
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by parasense 4y ago
> Besides, I'm glad to see interoperability mentioned there, perhaps one day we could text from one messenger to another one without being held back by the owner. By forcing message passing platforms to submit to sharing private enc
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by parasense 4y ago
> Fines are up to 10% of global revenue for the first offense, and 20% for repeat offenses. For Alphabet (Google) the revenue distribution from 2015 to 2021 was approximately 33% for all of Europe, Middle-east, and Africa. It's unc
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by parasense 4y ago
Story time: This one time I was hired as a tier-3 Unix & Linux support engineer at managed-hosting provider who shall not be named. This was back in my prime, I'd already had 10 ~ 15 years industry experience, so I was hired to dea
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by parasense 4y ago
I'd really love to see container constants. As of this writing only strings or numbers can be set constant. ``` const map[uint8]string { 0: "thing1", 1: "thing2", } ``` That way tables of data can be made i
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by parasense 4y ago
Agreed. Jane Fonda was a useful idiot.
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by parasense 4y ago
I only read the first article in the four-part series, which extols the virtues of darkmode. So perhaps later articles pick apart the first, or describe the nuances? Regardless, DarkMode is like a pair of sunglasses. Sometimes one wears sha
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by parasense 4y ago
I completely reject the premise of this, that one is somehow EU citizens are not personally responsible for the information they themselves put online. The most hilarious thing is cookies! For example, cookies exist, and they work a certain
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by parasense 4y ago
> I also don't care that much whether the proprietary firmware is stored on on-board flash and programmed from the factory or if it's uploaded by my OS when the driver is loaded. Bingo! Nobody cares about firmware, that's
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by parasense 4y ago
> this open-source release is nothing but a way to circumvent the GPL issues Talking about strawman arguments... that's a doozie! Instead of ignoring your strawman, staying focused on the topic...I'm going to address this nones
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by parasense 4y ago
I alway just use awk to process csv files. awk -F '^"|","|"$|,' '{print $2,$3}' whatever.csv The above works perfectly well, it handles quoted fields, or even just unquoted fields.... This sn
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by parasense 4y ago
I believe the answer is yes, but I'm not 100%. My understanding is the the stream repo sorta rolls forward but leaves behind a trail of X.Y.Z checkpoint repos representing major.minor.batch-number, so that would be like rhel-9.1.0 for
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by parasense 4y ago
I half suspect Microsoft was bidding for Red Hat, and potentially that provoked IBM into action. It's just a theory, but Red Hat for many years was setup to avoid hostile takeovers from the likes of IBM with so called poison pill stock
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by parasense 4y ago
Yeah, Red Hat is actually moving the black box of releasing-engineering out in the wide open, for anybody to replicate, and see how the sausage is made. CentOS Stream would be a perfectly suitable alternative to RHEL9, and in many ways more

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