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by samus 2y ago
A limited fire will only temporarily impact supply since companies have reserves of the stuff. Anyways, the market was much smaller back then, and everyone's attention in 2008/09 was rather on the crisis...
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by samus 2y ago
GnuCash has a scripting engine. If you have to do a specific correction very often, it might be worth it to implement something. If possible, the CSV should be preprocessed of course. If nothing else works, a Gnucash file is XML. A bit anno
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by samus 2y ago
True, he is a billionaire because he started early and . Most of us start late and don't have so much capital, so naturally we will never be billionaires, but investing regularly is still the way to make the most out of our money. Inve
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by samus 2y ago
The difficulty is the same as for current sandboxing efforts on desktop Linux though: most existing applications assume unrestricted access to user data. They have to be adapted or have to be granted unrestricted access. Otherwise users wil
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by samus 2y ago
GnuCash actually does that after an import. Sure, one can use the nice reconcile flow, but for importing lots of data I prefer slowly working through the bank statement at my own place, paired with occasional sanity checks.
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by samus 2y ago
That's not really comparable; by reverse-engineering a cookie one would have to fight against entropy. The issue with software is that it's magnitudes easier to figure out any trade secrets inside of it. Reverse-engineering LLMs i
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by samus 2y ago
The idea is that without copyright there is no benefit in keeping the source code secret. It justs makes it a little bit harder for the customer to recover it. The GPL is ultimately intended to be customer-friendly, therefore sharing source
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by samus 2y ago
Thanks for the insight!
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by samus 2y ago
The issue is neither corporate tax nor globalization, but the difference between corporate tax rates, which provides an incentive in the first place to shuffle profits offshore. A solution could be to tax offshore expenses with the differen
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by samus 2y ago
That's what the AGPL is designed to cover, and I think it's a major reason why a lot of software nowadays runs in the cloud. This is already a common way to circumvent the GPL. Obfuscation only gets you so far. But faithfully reco
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by samus 2y ago
That's not really the problem the GPL is intended to fight against. The source code can usually somehow be recovered via decompiling. But that's illegal in the presence of copyright, and even reverse engineering is a legal minefie
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by samus 2y ago
Nope, that's just currying and/or partial application.
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by samus 2y ago
There are countries (Sweden IIRC) where the salary record is public, probably to eliminate this information asymmetry.
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by samus 2y ago
The employer requires this data to do payroll correctly. Apart from that, it sound only be used for expressly authorized purposes. But maybe that's a european GDPR-influenced way of seeing this issue.
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by samus 2y ago
Broad index funds are indeed recommended to be held for a very long time for maximum yield. Continuous investment over at least 15 years is better precisely because it spans multiple business cycles and allows taking advantage of the lower
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by samus 2y ago
ARM chips were widespread already long before they reached performance parity with x86, and actually already before the smartphone market took off. There always have been vastly more chips of another architecture for every x86 chip. Most of
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by samus 2y ago
"Explicit" is to be understood as asking for STARTTLS on OSI Level 7 instead of Level 4. If the client cannot establish an encrypted connection, the attempt is aborted in the first place. Of course, there is the hazard as in HTTPS
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by samus 2y ago
If they were staying up for hours debugging, then they were also probably too tired to see the forest for the trees anymore. Simple exhaustion is sufficient to cause people to go on autopilot and follow trails that lead nowhere, or to just
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by samus 2y ago
That's a very common term in stock trading as well! Prices are crashing, and you try to make use of that opportunity to buy stock and make a profit when the stock rebounds. Then the price crashes further, the rebound is not gonna happe
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by samus 2y ago
HotSpot has a handy command line option for this issue: `-XX:+AlwaysPreTouch`, which forces the OS to actually assign memory and thus increases the likelihood to expose such issues.
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by samus 2y ago
Thanks for your insight into that market!
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by samus 2y ago
The advantage is flexibility. It is occasionally very useful to be able to drive for far longer than that. It increases competition between petrol/charging stations since people can choose to go to a cheaper one instead. They could als
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by samus 2y ago
If they have reasonable suspicion that it indeed was. For example a case with a unique color pattern that is similar to a phone known to be stolen. Or if you can't unlock it. This ship has sailed quite some time ago - resist TSA or bor
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by samus 2y ago
Removing this power is almost equivalent to defunding the police. It would make it impossible to stop a lot of crimes as they are committed.
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by samus 2y ago
This moves the problem one level up and makes returning it more difficult since they are now muddled with other assets. A safe deposit box would be required, with the court handling the keys.
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by samus 2y ago
The whole exigent circumstances exception is required to stop a crime which is highly probably to already be in progress and for which evidence could be lost to the prosecution. Especially at international airports this is highly likely to
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by samus 2y ago
Story points are used to plan a sprint. They are a honest estimate of how much work and how difficult a task is going to be. If they are used by management, then it turns into a tool to excerpt undue pressure on the team. > The team isn&
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by samus 2y ago
Apart from the impact on team motivation and the incentive to inflate estimates, another problem with that approach is that the story points might not correspond cleanly with how much time was actually spent on the task. Story points are an
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by samus 2y ago
They probably do. They just make it their day job by selling their services to others as well.
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by samus 2y ago
> I mean, not like sourcing materials locally alleviates things. Apparently the US embassy in Moscow was discovered to have listening devices mixed in the concrete used to construct it... I think this was the main reason why they shipped

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