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by sgift 7y ago
> Maybe, just maybe, this isn't a problem you can "solve" by engineering. And maybe, just maybe, the solution (if it exists) isn't a "product". Or maybe it is. In all your comments in the various threads her
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by sgift 7y ago
Did Ada - or rather its proponents - make any effort to get people to learn it? If I google for "Ada programming language" I do not even find what could be an official site? I thought it could be adacore.com, but that's a com
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by sgift 7y ago
What do you use as foundation of that analysis? Top 5 sorted by fine (from https://www.enforcementtracker.com/ ): - British Airways - Marriot - Google - TIM (Italian communications provider) - Austrian Post Doesn't real
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by sgift 7y ago
The data protection agencies will come around to them at some point. It's not like they stop with Facebook Dating and don't check anyone else in the future.
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by sgift 7y ago
> The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC; French: Conseil des droits de l'homme des Nations unies,[2] CDH) is a United Nations body (...) I know some people dislike it, but lets stay with the facts here. It is "the UN&q
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by sgift 7y ago
This leads to situations a society has to be willing to accept without crying how much money is wasted - namely: You will have empty beds/hospital wings/hospitals most of the time. And people will sit around doing 'nothin
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by sgift 7y ago
> That is necessary because the FAA does not have aircraft designers on staff, and won't, because aerospace keeps advancing. I don't understand this part. Could aerospace engineers working at the FAA not learn about advances?
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by sgift 7y ago
Allegedly. Note that it looks much better for the OPM if they can say they got hacked by "cyber warfare units from China" than "sorry, we are bad at OpSec, a few script kiddies got us". From https://en.wikiped
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by sgift 7y ago
You hear this attitude all the time on HN, but never see any kind of disruption happening. After working with big companies (in many ways not so different from governments) and also a few government agencies I feel like "this is all co
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by sgift 7y ago
The German mineral water industry started using a standardized glass bottle in 1969, all of these are reused: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normbrunnenflasche If we could do it 50 years ago, we can do it now. It&#x27
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by sgift 7y ago
If they did export more, how much of the money would go directly to the US government? The main advantage of Norway seems to be that they didn't give away their resources for pittances to private companies, but exploit them directly.
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by sgift 7y ago
> But I’m not sure how necessary the passive-aggressive jab at the three-year free trial now becoming paid is to the fact that CERN is dropping a tool only 150 people actively used. I don't see any passive-aggressive jab in that pos
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by sgift 7y ago
Sounds like debt to me. With all the refinancing going on I wouldn't be surprised if there's still some debt out there that can be traced back to someone centuries ago that hasn't been payed back yet.
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by sgift 7y ago
> The fix went out less than half an hour after they learned about it, The article says the issues started on Friday and users told them then. So, it seems to be three days for a fix, not half an hour.
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by sgift 7y ago
> Of course, you're going to have to come up with it somehow (so will the bank), For the most part modern banks can lend money that didn't exist until they lend it to you and that stops existing the moment you pay it back: htt
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by sgift 7y ago
> Banks give access to money that you don't currently have with understanding that you will pay them back a premium over time for that service. By using money that they don't have either. I think that part is important to remem
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by sgift 7y ago
I think your comment falls into the same trap that Mozillas leadership probably fell into: Middle manager and top management are different, even if they look superficially the same. Not every good team lead or even department lead is a go
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by sgift 7y ago
Frontpage and Dreamweaver ... never before could you produce so much bad code in so little time. And never before did the person who had to clean it up to have any chance of breaking out of the box and change something hate you so much. Esp
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by sgift 7y ago
Personally, I think all of the current "long term storage" options are bad. They promote the idea that we can deal with the garbage once and then the job is done. Continued storage in short term facilities on the other hand has va
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by sgift 7y ago
Many reasons, e.g. You want people to use your API, but not reimplement it. Or you want to allow people to use your API for specific use cases without paying, but want money for others. Sun wanted the second one, Google thought they could g
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by sgift 7y ago
As in "new CPU with 4 GHz, far better than the old 3 GHz CPUs"
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by sgift 7y ago
> It appears to be specific to Java. Other languages don’t seem to exhibit high memory usage with the same frequency or severity as Java, and that’s not because developers of other languages spend more time optimizing. It's because
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by sgift 7y ago
> There are no other instances. Conveniently forgetting Ukraine for a current example. Or the havoc Russia did in the 20th century in all of Eastern Europe. > "geographical malady of being next to Russia" This sounds Russoph
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by sgift 7y ago
Since Wikipedias concentration of labor itself is a source of declining participation[1] it's doubtful that continuing this behavior will result in something else than a death spiral with even fewer people ready to do the work, more co
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by sgift 7y ago
The idea that moderates or "the center" would win an election just broke Labours back in UK. It's also what broke Clintons campaign in 2016. The left has a big enough voting base to win elections, what it lacks is motivating
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by sgift 7y ago
Over 90% acceptance in all cases (IBM excluded, as the article states it's probably due to their service business), 95% for the majority. Why is that discouraging? Looks to me as if even with very stringent checks they didn't find
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by sgift 7y ago
No, it's not. I think it would even have been counterproductive to find that programmer. People would have latched onto "see, it was a bad programmer!" and the real problems could have been forgotten. The investigators did th
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by sgift 7y ago
Yeah, just like Theranos. Companies are always correct and thought about everything.
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by sgift 7y ago
> So I'm not sure if Facebook can do anything here without a drop in revenue. Probably not, but that's kind of the point: Some things may make you money, but we do not allow you to do them. Find another way to make money. GDPR
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by sgift 7y ago
> In any case, i don't think facebook cares too much anymore and will just pay another yearly fine for operating in the EU. Time to push the amounts up. 2% of worldwide annual revenue per infraction (e.g. per user) should start to a

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