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by tavavex 1y ago
For just SMS authentication, you just need a phone. Any kind of phone. But it also just so happens that in both of those countries, you must have your identity attached to any SIM you purchase. So, anything that makes you register with your
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by tavavex 1y ago
It's both. In allowing Cloudflare to grow so big, we now have one huge universal button for governments to push. If instead all of these customers were dispersed over hundreds of different services from different countries, good luck w
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by tavavex 1y ago
This only makes sense in a spherical-cow-in-vacuum world where government and business are somehow barred from communicating with one another. In reality, the "current set of rules" in many countries is a result of companies relen
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by tavavex 1y ago
1. Not all companies are publicly traded, and they don't have to be 2. The 'voting' and 'steering' in a corporation is also completely dependent on money. The value of your 'vote' is proportional to how mu
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by tavavex 1y ago
Is that a bad thing? Democracies, even if flawed, are accountable to their citizens at least to an extent. Their power structures aren't dictatorial, like in a company, and can be steered and course-corrected. Private companies are acc
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by tavavex 1y ago
I'm not sure if either you or the person you're replying to are correct about safety. The way I see it, safety is completely orthogonal to regulations about routes, passenger services and so on. Safety's been on a rough upwar
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by tavavex 1y ago
That's still way too inefficient, it leaves so many gaps and barely tiles the space. As soon as we get our hands on full reconstruction, you can bet the airlines will require everyone to be ground into a slurry and pumped into the fuse
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by tavavex 1y ago
It will be some variation of the well-treaded argument of "us making more money just so happens to be in the public interest". Companies have become experts at arguing this in many different ways. You can see some examples in the
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by tavavex 1y ago
80% would be way too much, the consumers would catch on and probably not buy tickets anymore. But don't worry, the airlines' best MBAs will be hard at work calculating the exact percentage of flights they have to fly before it sta
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by tavavex 1y ago
I agree, I'm not the most representative of HN users, so I can't gauge how willing one of them might be to pay the higher price. Maybe someone making six figures in the US (the average user on here?) wouldn't mind it, but I i
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by tavavex 1y ago
> Like, you might have a use where you ONLY need a cheap display card, but there's a reason LTT calls the 1030 eWaste from the factory. Similarly, you might get enough out of the Geiger or it might do something the Radiacode doesn&#
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by tavavex 1y ago
Popularity says that a lot of other people agree there is value there. While I'm not informed enough to say what 'taste' means exactly, the common understanding that seems to be present in this comment section is that it&#x
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by tavavex 1y ago
Meanwhile, here in Canada I've never seen "sticks of butter", only the large bricks. They're the same size as American ones, and labeled as 454g, but I only recently found out that in some places in the US, they cut them
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by tavavex 1y ago
I have no idea what they were thinking with that. Their product relied on it having attained the status of being a common unit. They have many recipes calling for 1 box of their product, it's the perfect way to have your customers prom
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by tavavex 1y ago
> Um. Ok. You say this like it's a good thing? I'll be honest, your statement makes me want that less rather than more. That person listed a lot of completely different ingredients. Did you dismiss them all out of hand for a sp
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by tavavex 1y ago
> After a while you start to realize that there's a whole world of people just like on HN and we hire people too . No matter what you do, youll end up in the place you deserve. I mean, I'm hoping for that too. But it also feel
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by tavavex 1y ago
Yeah, I don't mean to justify the actions of the interviewer, they were likely in the wrong here. It's just that, to someone in my position, it seems almost funny to be willing to throw the entire interview over something like tha
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by tavavex 1y ago
I don't mean that you're literally allowed to run interviews for years. I mean that companies can, if they choose to, interview people indefinitely until they find a suitable candidate. The company won't collapse if they don&
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by tavavex 1y ago
People don't miss that about interviews, they just know that the balance of power is so skewed that the interests of the employer become the only relevant part. The employer can keep going through hundreds of applicants until they find
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by tavavex 1y ago
I feel like I'm entering a whole different universe on HN. Maybe things are this equal and fair on the senior, high-paying part of the spectrum that most people here seem to occupy, but in general there's a huge power imbalance in
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by tavavex 1y ago
You're talking about a specific educational system ("our" system, "public education's goal"), but what the article is talking about is global. And the world's educational systems vary a lot. Now, yes, the
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by tavavex 1y ago
The scary thing is that if you swapped out the 1984-speak for regular modern euphemisms and corporate jargon, and cut out the last few sentences, this could've totally been something posted on one of these website's help pages or
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by tavavex 1y ago
As someone who is just starting their proper adult life, the feeling of seeing the past's most bleak, extreme, "irrational" depression fuel resurface as today's level-headed, sensible predictions for the future is diffic
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by tavavex 1y ago
Has either the US or the EU ever promised not to retaliate against their enemy states or something? Actually, has any nation or national organization in the world ever promised that? You know, not to engage in war or any retaliation for any
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by tavavex 1y ago
You're right, but it's not because it's a challenge that we like, it's not like this is something enjoyable. Nerds do it through gritted teeth, it's annoying to bypass all of that. They just know it's a possibi
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by tavavex 1y ago
What makes you so confident that this alternate path is actually real and as good as you describe it? You say that the additional market coverage they would've gotten by not being abusive could've easily made up for the profit tha
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by tavavex 1y ago
I don't think you and ModernMech are really disagreeing over the core premise. They aren't saying that Meta isn't reprehensible on a personal level, but that Meta is acting in a very predictable way given the incentives that
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by tavavex 1y ago
The person you're replying to isn't at the opposite of your stance. They complimented China on several occasions. All they did was add more nuance and bring up the fact that these benefits may come at a cost. Authoritarian governm
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> These postulated entities are by definition people. Why? Does your definition postulate that people are the only thing in the universe that can measure up to us? Or the inverse, that every entity as sentient and intelligent as us must
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by tavavex 1y ago
YYYY-MM-DD is also the official date format in Canada, though it's not officially enforced, so outside of government documents you end up seeing a bit of all three formats all over the place. I've always used ISO 8601 and no one b

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