razakel

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by razakel 2y ago
All politics fundamentally concerns identity.
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by razakel 2y ago
DEI in practical terms is basically HR, compliance and auditing so the company doesn't get sued for using slave labour or something.
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by razakel 2y ago
"Democracy" is a funny way of spelling "fraud".
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by razakel 2y ago
Exactly. It's about as meaningful as passing a law making it illegal to be a criminal. Right, so what does that actually mean apart from "we'll decide when it happens"?
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by razakel 2y ago
So they're offering a free (presumably limited) ngrok-like service?
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by razakel 2y ago
It absolutely can if those companies want to do business with EU citizens.
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by razakel 2y ago
I've heard of kids becoming fluent in English before their mother tongue simply from exposure to subtitled TV and movies! It's usually countries where the market is too small to justify dubbing.
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by razakel 2y ago
The UK has Open Banking, a standardised API for accessing banking data: https://www.openbanking.org.uk/
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by razakel 2y ago
>If he’s wrong why does it take Herculean effort to outdo a bunch of average companies? Inertia. It's very difficult to outrun someone who has a head start.
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by razakel 2y ago
>I think they used him in an ad campaign They did, for Pepsi.
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by razakel 2y ago
There'll be a higher external fence for access by vehicles and people who need to go near the tower (someone is mowing that grass), the short fence is just a reminder to go no further unless authorised.
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by razakel 2y ago
Every property of a character that the client can display can also be seen by the Lua API.
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by razakel 2y ago
Reverse engineering.
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by razakel 2y ago
In what world is "work or we'll make your life even more miserable" not coercion?
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by razakel 2y ago
What happens if you refuse?
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by razakel 2y ago
>In some states, they are required to work. >It's not the same as being forced to work. That's exactly the same thing.
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by razakel 2y ago
>3.14 bil daily active users That's about 2 in 5 people on the planet. Astonishing.
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by razakel 2y ago
We went with self-hosted Passbolt. Free, open source, and based on PGP. Only downside is having to explain PGP to the less technical users...
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by razakel 2y ago
It was time to switch to fiber 50 bloody years ago.
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by razakel 2y ago
That's a local government rather than a private company, though.
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by razakel 2y ago
Because guarding something does not generate new capital.
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by razakel 2y ago
You are right, but you could've said that in a nicer way.
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by razakel 2y ago
I have a work-in-progress theory that permissiveness for some level of misbehaviour is what is necessary for freedom. For example, as Gibson put it, Singapore is Disneyland with the death penalty. Now, how many Singaporean artists can you
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by razakel 2y ago
It's a British term; it basically means a somewhat independent authority nominally at arm's-length from the government, for example, regulatory agencies or national museums.
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by razakel 2y ago
But it proved ARM had a mature ecosystem with lots of developers...
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by razakel 2y ago
FreeBSD is excellent if your use-case is flinging bits as fast as possible, but it is kind of niche. Who else is going to fund them? Netflix?
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by razakel 2y ago
The Open University in the UK is one example, and has been around since 1969.
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by razakel 2y ago
Every country has some sort of quango that throws money at "weird" projects.
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by razakel 2y ago
Legal reasons. (It's not Amazon.)
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by razakel 2y ago
You could also just start your own country - you'll have just about as much luck convincing anyone.

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