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by ralph84 5y ago
Inflation may not be out of control yet, but certainly things like insurance, parts and labor for repairs and maintenance, and HOA dues are already increasing more than 5%/year. And property taxes alone are guaranteed to increase 2%&#x
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by ralph84 5y ago
Here are the viruses targeted by this year's flu vaccine. Since the flu hasn't been politicized yet they're still using places in the names. A/Victoria/2570/2019 or A/Wisconsin/588/2019 A/Ca
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by ralph84 5y ago
Nobody expects Google and Facebook to care about privacy. Apple was the one running TV ads about how they were the privacy company. If Apple was really planning E2EE they would have announced it at the same time, because it would have been
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There are some differences too, though. - There is no expectation that a car should increase in value over time (except for collectibles), whereas there was and still is an expectation that houses should increase in value over time. - Becau
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Has there ever been a time in history when those in power desired critical thinking skills in the broader population? Those in power want a compliant population, not a questioning one.
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> which Facebook already uses A company looking at content uploaded to servers they own is quite different from a company spying on the contents of a device they don’t own.
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This is why I hate the "sell shovels to miners" advice. No, the biggest winners are the ones who vertically integrate and capture the full value stack, not the tools vendors.
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> My only question is China apparently doesn’t think it need foreign investment any more? China hasn't really needed more foreign investment for quite a while. They get plenty of foreign capital from international trade. What they n
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by ralph84 5y ago
Their link to why you shouldn't use GitHub[0] takes you to a page where they criticize GitHub for complying with US export controls. The FSF is a US corporation, why do they think that US export controls don't equally apply to sav
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by ralph84 5y ago
Indeed, the claimed "elegance" of SI doesn't really hold up, with the SI base units now defined in terms of inelegant defining constants ("a metre is the length of the path travelled by light in a vacuum in 1/299 79
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by ralph84 5y ago
Thanks for the reply. As unsolicited feedback, Atlassian should rip off the bandaid and pick one of the code bases and have that be the go-forward platform for both cloud and on-prem. Bitbucket's two biggest competitors have largely th
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by ralph84 5y ago
Regex reminds me of sendmail.cf. Very clever and powerful, but no one writes configuration files that way any more.
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It seems like Bitbucket has always been the afterthought in Atlassian's stack. Are Bitbucket Cloud and Bitbucket Data Center still two separate code bases with different APIs?
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> I've reached out to @fsf and @EFF's legal teams regarding this. Please also reach out if you would be interested in participating in a class action. I think she's barking up the wrong tree here. If she's looking for
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by ralph84 5y ago
GitHub's argument isn't that you hosted your code on GitHub and therefore gave them a license to use it to train their model. GitHub's argument is they don't need a license to train their model because it's fair use
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by ralph84 5y ago
Meh. For a consumer with historical context it seems like an incredible value. Apps used to cost $49.95 at Egghead, and Egghead was certainly taking a bigger cut than 30 cents. Apple fucked ISVs by dramatically driving down the cost of apps
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by ralph84 5y ago
People who are only staying because of vesting tend not to be the most productive. Better for everyone to have someone who's not working out or doesn't want to be there leave after a quarter instead of dragging it out for a year.
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And Trump hasn't dismissed the possibility that he won the 2020 election. At some point you have to produce the evidence. Where are the career DoD procurement people leaking to WaPo that they were pressured? This was AMZN thinking that
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by ralph84 5y ago
Except there was never any evidence that Trump got involved, even after multiple independent reviews. MSFT just made a better proposal and AMZN was able to use the broken protest process to tie things up long enough to make canceling the fa
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by ralph84 5y ago
These ideas always start out targeting the “rich”, then end up falling squarely on the middle class who can’t afford tax advisors.
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by ralph84 5y ago
By its very nature only a few players will be able to offer (effective) DDoS protection. They are in a constant arms race for bandwidth with botnets, and with the internet of shit botnets aren't getting smaller anytime soon.
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by ralph84 5y ago
Every legitimate company will comply with court orders. What's the story here?
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Why would you GPL the code in the first place if you didn't want other people using it? It's perfectly within the license for someone to do basically whatever they want with GPL code as long as they're not redistributing it.
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https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-privacy...
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If you don't want people and/or AI to read your code, why would you post it anywhere? Just post binaries and call it freeware.
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by ralph84 5y ago
Good luck getting a bank account anywhere except in the most remote places of the world if you left the US with unpaid taxes. Everywhere else the banks will comply with FATCA and want nothing to do with you [0]. [0] https://en.wi
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by ralph84 5y ago
There are no regulations on execution quality for crypto. RH treats crypto as forex and quotes their customers a huge markup on the bid/ask spread (think airport forex booth type spreads). RH customers can only trade with RH and their
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I get the sense that GitHub wants this to be litigated so the case law can be established. Until then it’s just a bunch of internet lawyers arguing with each other.
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Lots of places in the US had "covid curfews" too.
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I think you're a tad too optimistic congress won't find ways to tax Roth distributions. It's easy to imagine a future with a higher age for qualified distributions and/or distributions over $x or from an account with a b

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