spiralpolitik

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by spiralpolitik 4y ago
Apple Books slaps an attribution notice on the end if you copy 4 or more words from a book. The Verve got sued by The Rolling Stones for a 4 second sample on 'Bittersweet Symphony'. Post 'Blurred Lines' you can now be su
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by spiralpolitik 4y ago
At this point we are back in the territory that the idea and the expression of the idea are inseparable, therefore the conclusion will be that copyright protection does not apply to code. Personally I think this has the potential to blow up
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by spiralpolitik 4y ago
A nice idea but I don't see how this is going to work given the age of a lot of California houses. A good chunk of California houses built in the 20th Century don't have the upgraded electrical to make this a drop-in replacement.
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by spiralpolitik 4y ago
DevOps (and Agile) both usually run aground on the same question of trust. If you aren't willing to trust your delivery teams then you aren't going to see the leverage that both practices bring to an organization. And if you aren&
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by spiralpolitik 5y ago
I'm guessing based on the information in page they plan to set up DAO and issue a token. I'm guessing users and developers can then buy-in, with tokens flowing to projects based on usage as determined by the graph stored on the bl
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by spiralpolitik 5y ago
Title should be updated as it’s the European Mobile carriers that want Private Relay outlawed not the European Union.
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by spiralpolitik 5y ago
The general guidance is always use the last LTS release unless there is a specific feature in the non LTS releases that you can’t wait for. So any new development should target 17 at this point. Unless you want serious long term pain then y
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by spiralpolitik 5y ago
The demise of the department store is largely due to them squandering their biggest advantage which was customer service and customer experience. When I was younger, I remember the quality of service you got from a department store. The ass
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by spiralpolitik 8y ago
If most of your communication is between two containers sitting inside a Kubernetes cluster then using GRPC is a no brainer as you get fast performance backed by a strongly typed interface definition language. No human is going to be lookin
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by spiralpolitik 8y ago
One explanation might be that the jobs are being added in places that are inaccessible to cycling because of lack of infrastructure. Example: Downtown San Francisco is largely inaccessible to cycling from the East Bay as there is no cycle l
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by spiralpolitik 8y ago
Dropped my MacBook 12 with an intermittent space bar off at the mall Apple Store on a Friday Afternoon. Got the email saying it was ready for pickup on Tuesday.
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by spiralpolitik 8y ago
The automation side of Apple has been moribund for many a year. It's almost like they can't bring themselves to make the hard decisions that they need to make: kill off AppleScript, burn out the dead wood, focus on standardizing o
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by spiralpolitik 9y ago
It's doubly ironic to see such an article from a VP of a large publisher that recently shuttered its own digital bookstore that sold unencumbered PDF copies and moved it's own content into walled gardens of concentrated content.
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by spiralpolitik 9y ago
Regulation was the key difference. The EU mandated a common wireless standard (GSM) to be in use across all countries. The US let the market decide and ended up building 4-5 largely incompatible semi-nationwide networks. Thankfully time, te
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McAfee acquires VPN provider TunnelBear(venturebeat.com)
3 points by spiralpolitik 9y ago|0 comments
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The unnecessary demise of Barnes and Noble(audreyii-fic.tumblr.com)
565 points by spiralpolitik 9y ago|448 comments
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by spiralpolitik 9y ago
So far my experience with Amazon's delivery service has been pretty negative. Expensive packages going missing, packages delivered to the wrong address, attempts to deliver packages to business addresses outside of business hours etc.
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In 2011 Preston (United Kingdom) hit rock bottom. Then it took back control(theguardian.com)
2 points by spiralpolitik 9y ago|0 comments
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by spiralpolitik 9y ago
Building code is one of the reasons. In a lot of cities the builder is required to provide parking spaces and other amenities per apartment. This is after the minimum space required to build everything to code. This makes building small cap
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by spiralpolitik 9y ago
"The downside of the second example URL is that if a book or shelf changes its name, references to it based on hierarchical names like this one in the example URL will break." The author appears to have forgotten about 3xx redirec
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by spiralpolitik 9y ago
How do you enforce such things without being able to identify and validate that the parties in the dispute are who they say they are ? Example how do you make sure that the crime ends up being recorded against the right John Smith ? The US
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by spiralpolitik 9y ago
Outside of NYC, cities typically don't get a cut of employee income taxes. Payroll taxes on the other hand is one of the taxes that Amazon will looking to get a sweetheart deal on with the city in question looking to make up the shortf
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by spiralpolitik 9y ago
For (3) you are of course assuming that there is a job in Stockton for her skill set. There may not be which makes option 3 an non starter.
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by spiralpolitik 9y ago
I'm sure the IRS would be very interested as most business that do this are typically cooking the books in other ways. State tax boards also.
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by spiralpolitik 9y ago
Merchants who accept payments using the Mag swipe are now liable for any fraudulent charges. So any hold-outs will quickly switch once they get targeted. I would expect banks to soon start limiting the amount that can be charged via the mag
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by spiralpolitik 9y ago
Gas stations already ask cash users to pre-pay and pre-auth credit/debit cards so the shift would be tiny.
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by spiralpolitik 9y ago
Adding a cash handling charge to any cash users would remove the incentive to use cash. In Europe and Canada chip and pin reduced the use of cash significantly. Contactless and mobile payment options like Apple Pay is the next nail in the c
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by spiralpolitik 9y ago
With the standardized latch system you can fit a car seat in about 2 minutes. The main issue is when you transition out of the clip-in car seat to the larger seat at around a year as you certainly wouldn't want to have to lug one of th
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by spiralpolitik 9y ago
Car seats are now encouraged for planes for < 18 months. The worry isn't crashes per say but jerks and sudden stops on take off and landing, and turbulence. https://www.faa.gov/passengers/fly_children/ It&
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by spiralpolitik 9y ago
According to Wikipedia both Diamond and Archos players were DOA by 2005, two years before the iPhone was released. Creative struggled on for a few years post iPhone. 2005 was the year of the iPod Photo and the iPod Video, although the begin

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