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by snotrockets 2y ago
Academic work, including for undergrad classes, is often owned by the institution you are enrolled at. Presumably, they already own the IP.
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by snotrockets 2y ago
I don’t think this was (is? I don’t follow it too closely) the use case for Redis.
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by snotrockets 2y ago
A garden leave isn't a non-compete, as you are employed during that time, even if your job is doing nothing. Techincally, garden leaves are longer, mandatory termination period, not banned under the FTC rules.
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by snotrockets 2y ago
That trend has changed: CA now has a slight incoming migration, like it used to. And yes, it's more expensive. But that's the price you pay for reaping the benefits of living in CA.
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by snotrockets 2y ago
Or how many different rails and protocols there are, and how many of those you need to support if you actually want to serve most customers.
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by snotrockets 2y ago
You also need it for cash, but there fraud takes different form, and need different mitigations.
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by snotrockets 2y ago
You're wrong on all accounts here: 1. Banks are also allowed to charge fees for SEPA transfers, with some limitations. 2. It does care about currencies, in that it only supports one: the E stands for Euro, and all SEPA transfers, in th
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by snotrockets 2y ago
From the press release: > To incorporate this new solution in their iPhone apps, developers will need to enter into a commercial agreement with Apple, request the NFC and SE entitlement, and pay the associated fees.
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Developers can soon offer in‑app NFC transactions using the Secure Element(apple.com)
11 points by snotrockets 2y ago|9 comments
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by snotrockets 2y ago
It's for the benefit of the restaurant, because it given them the opportunity to disown the responsibility to their workers compensation.
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by snotrockets 2y ago
The estimates we have suggests that wage theft by retail employers is greater than retail shrink, so your theory lacks data to back it up.
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by snotrockets 2y ago
A company is beholden to its shareholders. That the shareholder wants to make profits and funnel them to some other goal, is the same for non shareholders if they’d hoard that money like a dragon. If it’s for public benefit, than let the pu
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by snotrockets 2y ago
But deterrence doesn’t seem to work, does it?
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by snotrockets 2y ago
Have you touched grass recently? I wholeheartedly recommend it.
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by snotrockets 2y ago
You are no longer dependent on the whims of a private company and its shareholders, but bring in the regulatory regime of public service. Also reduce costs as unlike private enterprise, public service need not provide fiscal revenues.
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by snotrockets 2y ago
Putting people in jail shouldn’t be an end goal. There are two reasons to jail a person: 1. Prohibit them from causing further harm. 2. Revenge. The latter, I hope were better than that. And to prohibit the possible offenders here, no nee
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by snotrockets 2y ago
Solve two birds with one stone and nationalize SpaceX.
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by snotrockets 2y ago
No it ain’t: recruiting is sales. You’re selling a candidate on the job, and your employer the candidate.
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by snotrockets 2y ago
If the intent is to ban any commercial use (without acquiring a separate license), it’s dishonest not to say so outright instead of hiding behind legalese.
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by snotrockets 2y ago
IANAL, but on a cursory read, this seems like a minefiled for use in a commercial settings: the definition of "Competing Use" in the license ( https://github.com/getsentry/fsl.software/blob/main/
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by snotrockets 2y ago
(I'd rather not discuss the tension described and am going to be vauge on purpose, as I work on SaaS that has multiple completing services from other providers) Some SaaS, when operated by a vendor also selling IaaS, is sold at so low
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by snotrockets 2y ago
You erroneously inserted the word “will” into the above comment.
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by snotrockets 2y ago
People want (wanted?) to live and work there, because not everyone wants to live in suburbia, and enough employers want (wanted?) to attract those people. Before my employer made the adult decision to go remote only, it opened an SF office
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by snotrockets 2y ago
That was also true in mission bay, is true in Lakeshore, and I assume other neighborhoods too. It shouldn’t be like that, but those are the priorities we (as society and electorate) decided on.
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by snotrockets 2y ago
Intel put money into R&D, but they kept betting on the wrong horses.
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by snotrockets 2y ago
Apache projects carry with them reputation of the ASF itself, not just in regard to software quality, but also in regard to governance. The desire to not have projects that aren’t beholden to those standards being mistaken as one who do mak
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by snotrockets 2y ago
To avoid confusion: all the described issues aren’t with Apache Kafka, but a separate piece of software called “Kafka UI” that is a separate software to Apache Kafka, and isn’t maintained or distributed with it.
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by snotrockets 2y ago
I had a couple of times when car rentals and hotels decided to add surprise charges when I arrived. As those was booked through Expedia, the latter refunded me those immediately (and I suspect went and got them back from the vendor later)
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by snotrockets 2y ago
Of course not. It’s a (bad) case study, not research paper.
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by snotrockets 2y ago
Problem is that many do. Doing it right requires very capable individuals and a significant effort. Less than it used to take, more than most companies are ready to invest.

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