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by rlpb 5y ago
I wonder if it's possible to devise a QR code verification system that doesn't erode privacy. For example, what if guests could regenerate the QR code, or the app did it automatically, every five minutes? And the QR code contained
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by rlpb 5y ago
> So, you think the gas stations are charging you the cost of gas? Fast food joints charge you according to the cost of a hamburger or a soda? It costs more than the cost of the goods to run a business. There's also the cost of payr
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by rlpb 5y ago
> Prices are not set based on costs. In a competitive market, prices follow costs. Businesses that raise price above cost lose business to businesses that do not. And obviously businesses that price below cost fail. Margins might vary pe
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by rlpb 5y ago
> But I also think there should be a law that all these huge stores must staff every checkout line that they build, every hour they are open for business. That would be a job-creation bill. It would also mean higher prices, because the s
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by rlpb 5y ago
Apparently Nissan are moving to CCS for US/Europe, although I don't see anything that suggests the Leaf will ever catch up. For example: https://chargedevs.com/newswire/the-war-is-over-nissan-to-sw...
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by rlpb 5y ago
Identical twins might be another example. What happens if one twin wants to make money selling adult content, and the other twin does not consent?
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by rlpb 5y ago
What kind of Galactic Federation defines their requirements in terms of time intervals defined by the orbital period of some random planet using numbers that are nice and round but only in some alien base?
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by rlpb 5y ago
> Anyone can upload anything to PyPI. This is kind of like saying that you detected malicious packages on GitHub - the question is whether anyone actually ran it. There's a bigger social problem here. In many communities it has beco
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by rlpb 5y ago
Even within English there are different accents. I'm British. If I meet an American "Annie" then do I put on a faux American accent while saying her name? Or do I just say "Annie" with a British accent? If it's
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by rlpb 5y ago
Even just removing the audio entirely from the affected sections and providing subtitles instead should do, surely? Point out that the perpetrator deliberately played music to try to prevent publication and they will lose any claim of the s
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by rlpb 5y ago
As a Debian Developer, I don't share your view. Debian users want a unified release cadence. That's why they're using Debian. For example, they specifically don't want random packages to update, changing behaviour, bec
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by rlpb 5y ago
That does nothing to derisk those further downstream of infringing content.
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by rlpb 5y ago
> that’s the person who uploaded the code’s infringement rather than GitHub’s That's not how it works. Anyone and everyone who distributes it is infringing and carries risk of enforcement action. That could also be someone further d
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by rlpb 5y ago
> Github (and by extension Microsoft) is gambling on the fact that their license agreement granting them a license to the code in exchange for access to the platform supersedes the individual copyright notices attached to each repo. The
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by rlpb 5y ago
> Bang! you have a non-gpl copy of the program! Moreover, it is 100% yours and you can re-license it as you want. This will be a boon for copyleft-allergic developers! Thinking that this would conveniently bypass the fact that your goal
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by rlpb 5y ago
> I don't believe this is true. `mysql_secure_installation` script exists to create a password on the root account, and disable root@'%'. The packaging does the necessary setup for you, and modern MySQL has secure defaults
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by rlpb 5y ago
Modern Debian/Ubuntu MySQL packaging doesn't even do that. It defaults to Unix socket authentication, and so you can only log in if you are actually root on the system (eg. if you use "sudo mysql"). It does also only bin
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by rlpb 5y ago
"Then NASA’s plan dictates that you take manual control and fly back to safety." I believe that visually flying back would be extremely difficult unless you're already quite close. The further you are away, the more you'
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by rlpb 5y ago
No mention of basic economics in the article? It's rarely a case of "running out", merely the economics of supply and demand. If supply is low and demand is high, expect the price to rise. In this case, that means that if you
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by rlpb 5y ago
Part of the problem is that nobody has a definition for what "blockchain" even means. We all know what Bitcoin means because it has a whitepaper and an implementation. The same goes for all other operational systems that use the s
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by rlpb 5y ago
There are plenty of situations where it isn't absurd at all. I'd like for it to be criminal for someone to set a bear trap in a children's playground. Even if spotted before a child got hurt, the behaviour should still be cri
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by rlpb 5y ago
What would the price be to renew after 12 months? Will it have changed at that time? What about 24, 36, 48 months? At what age will AppleCare+ no longer be available on my hardware? How do I calculate my total cost of ownership over, say, f
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by rlpb 5y ago
I'm not trying to claim otherwise. My point is that an underlying connection, if one exists, would make the gp's Occam's Razor argument moot.
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by rlpb 5y ago
> The fact is that an epidemic with a corona virus (never before or since seen in the wild) with a peculiarly efficient ability to infect humans started in the _only city in the world with a lab where gain-of-function experiments on coro
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by rlpb 6y ago
> "When an inquiry from the Netflix CEO ensued, Kail falsely denied that he was formally working with Platfora. Kail resigned from his advisory position at Platfora the next week." Apparently he lied to the CEO for personal fin
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by rlpb 6y ago
Bezos' billionaire-ness is partly on paper (based on Amazon's valuation) and partly acquired by selling his shares in Amazon. The money comes from investors gambling on the future value of the company, not from skimming off the mo
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by rlpb 6y ago
I find it remarkable that in this sort of case the public sentiment is to hate on the corporation, rather than on the governments who set the (byzantine) tax rules that the corporation is following.
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by rlpb 6y ago
Amazon is renowned for choosing growth investments over profit. The latter is taxable; the former isn't. Therefore it's possible that their tax reporting is entirely legitimate. I welcome investigation that shows otherwise, but in
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by rlpb 6y ago
So investigate and report on the illegitimacy then. This article fails to do that.
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by rlpb 6y ago
What proportion of carbon emissions are made by rural drivers?

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