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by sbov 8y ago
I'm not a huge Elon fan, but he is pretty unique when it comes to rich people. Most people in his position would invest their money wisely and live off it forever. Instead he put everything he had into several moonshots. Society coul
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by sbov 8y ago
This is what happens in literally every regulated industry: if you can't abide by a countries regulations, you don't make your products available there.
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by sbov 8y ago
> But if you use an @gmail.com email address and Google decides to ban you, you're screwed. You can loose control of your domain too. And if someone else snatches it up they could even read your newly incoming email. I'm willi
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by sbov 8y ago
If the marshmallow test is truly valid, then we should see a difference for kids in low income households that waited for the second marshmallow vs kids in low income households that didn't.
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by sbov 8y ago
If you only stock 3 meals at once, you have a much more likely problem on your hands: natural disasters.
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by sbov 8y ago
The link tax is one thing, but I would say GDPR actually aids in price discovery, because without GDPR one side of the transaction has no idea what price they're paying.
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by sbov 8y ago
Not all business models are legal. If the companies don't want to abide by the rules of the EU, they can opt not provide services to people in the EU.
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by sbov 8y ago
Yep. They also block countries until they can be sure they can abide by their regulations.
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by sbov 8y ago
> The flip side of all the wailing about heavy handed regulation is that business people will not obey something that isn't enforced. And then feel it is some sort of natural right to go on that way. Business people aren't spec
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by sbov 8y ago
My reading is: if it's a mistake, hopefully other people learn from it. Because usually people only learn from their own mistakes.
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by sbov 8y ago
I'm curious, how do you define "area"? How long does water have to travel before its no longer in the "area"? How do you classify rivers? Water falls one place, and rivers direct it elsewhere, sometimes hundreds o
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by sbov 8y ago
Then they can't complain about a tech shortage I worked for a small self funded startup a decade ago. We flew interview candidates in from across the country.
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by sbov 8y ago
> “There’s a bug over there because you re-used lastCachedTime. Otherwise, looks good. Ship it!” The fixed code still has a bug. It assumes successive calls to lastMidnight() within the method will always return the same date. But pres
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by sbov 8y ago
Why? Are there any laws that are certain? If we held that all laws be 100% certain wouldn't we only allow convictions if they included confessions?
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by sbov 8y ago
None of the articles you link mention the 1st amendment, which makes sense because it has no application inside the EU.
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by sbov 8y ago
The person you're replying to presented no such false dichotomy. They said when was the last time they sided with the people WHEN they were in opposition, not that they were always in opposition.
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by sbov 8y ago
They aren't picky because they can be. If that were true they wouldn't be complaining about the lack of qualified developers (pretty much every tech company I know of). Rather, they're picky because they (think they) need to
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by sbov 8y ago
It's their job. But it's your ass if they don't do it.
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by sbov 8y ago
I'm not talking about every geographical location, I'm talking about their own home. Where they have lived for the past 5+ years. Where the vast majority of their waste products are disposed of. Where recycling food stained pap
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by sbov 8y ago
Because it's outside the scope of how you interface with the language. Calling these side affects is like calling Python a low level language because programs you write still use registers and raw memory access.
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by sbov 8y ago
Lazy. Whenever I see it happen, I tell people I know: not to recycle plastic bags, not to recycle food stained paper products. I tell them, and explain why; no one I've told cares, and they all just keep their old habits. "How d
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by sbov 8y ago
Yes. We were a subscription only website. Most of our users were in Asia at the time.
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by sbov 8y ago
In 2016, we shutdown one of our websites where around 11% of our userbase was still on IE6.
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by sbov 8y ago
> (a) Force the caller to resolve the IDs to actual entities before invoking the method: This doesn't really fix the potential problem you pointed out. All it turns it into is this: > Cart cart = lookupCart(productId); With the
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by sbov 8y ago
Not to the point where it costs $14,000 per MW. At that pricepoint hiring humans to hand crank generators is not the laughably ridiculous proposition it should be.
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by sbov 8y ago
I considered purism in my most recent laptop hunt, but with 4 core laptops going mainstream in Intel's latest update I couldn't justify it.
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by sbov 8y ago
$15k here, $20k there, pretty soon you're talking about a lot of money.
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by sbov 8y ago
> Second, there is no moral difference between the welfare of a human being in China and one in the U.S. or any other country; there is no reason the American deserves to be more wealthy. Lol. If even a tiny percentage humans followed
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by sbov 8y ago
Sometimes I feel like software developers are using rockets to climb trees.
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by sbov 8y ago
While good advice, your proposal is not necessarily better than #2 because #2 is something that happens automatically once the password hits your object model. If rather than a naked string you have a Password class with literally no way to

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