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by tyfon 9y ago
I used to work in a large international bank where SAS was the standard and while it can be used you can really feel the age of the technology. Now I work in a startup bank and since I could chose the tools we're now running PostgreSQL
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by tyfon 9y ago
> because consumers will not pay for an app that costs more money than $1 I'm quite the opposite. If a game on the play store is low priced/free and contain the "in-app"-purchases label I run far away. It's a bit
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by tyfon 9y ago
If someone makes a real name username and you don't do anything else about it, you should be fine. However, if you take that username, look up the user in the real world and send spam without consent you are in deep shit. It's all
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by tyfon 9y ago
> we are in a time of sports where games need to be more exciting Not just games, but everything from the US (I live in Europe) seems to need to create spectacles where there are none with as much flashbang as possible. Just look at the
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by tyfon 9y ago
Unless the police enforce laws differently in different neighbourhoods. In one place you can get off with a warning for violating some traffic rule and in other places you can get arrested and hanged. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia
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by tyfon 9y ago
The game Watch Dogs 2 is actually quite on target regarding this. In the game, the TPTB puts a non-scientific bias into predictive algorithms for certain neighbourhoods making the population of those areas pay more in insurance and be targe
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by tyfon 9y ago
A lot of companies use publicly posted stuff + friends on facebook to create a credit score though so it does happen in the west. Just not quite in the same way as in China.
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by tyfon 9y ago
My combination of first and last name is unique. Only 23 people have the same last name and none of them have my first. If I search for myself on facebook there are zero results. But there are probably photos of me on facebook in some form,
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by tyfon 9y ago
I'm getting severe anxiety from having a camera pointed at me since this all Facebook stuff started and people posted pictures online. Needless to say, I don't have an account there. I also take off the moment I see a camera unles
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by tyfon 9y ago
One thing does not exclude the other. I am worried about both things, in fact I touched on it in regards to manufacturing all this hardware to calculate virtual numbers that have absolutely no value in reality.
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by tyfon 9y ago
In addition to having zero real world value other than speculation and hype value, the currencies have very real negative impacts on the world. The one that worries me the most is environmental (power cost, gpu/asic manufaturing). It a
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by tyfon 9y ago
Maybe it's time to reopen the cobalt mines close by here [1]. Today it's a museum but at one point it supplied 80% of the worlds cobalt needs, mainly for colouring. I wonder at what price level it would become profitable again. It
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by tyfon 9y ago
Maybe ESA isn't worth preserving.. There should be no issues making an emulator for a server for defunct games just as there is no issues making emulators for dead consoles. Microsoft tried really hard to push for single player online
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by tyfon 9y ago
I just opened it on my phone and I was redireced to techcrunch.com without any overlays or whatnot. Maybe they are afraid that EU will smack them down for anti-competitive behaviour.
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by tyfon 9y ago
So I have seen a lot of discussion about AMP but I have yet to see it in the wild using my phone. Is it something I have to turn on or is it restricted to certain countries? I browse from Norway.
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by tyfon 9y ago
Sometimes they do, but sometimes they get caught like in this instance. Doing it by car would probably be preferable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillehammer_affair
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by tyfon 9y ago
No petrol tax, no VAT, no toll fee, free travel by public ferries, free parking on public spots, travel in bus lanes... There are tons of reasons to get a Tesla in Norway at least (or a leaf/e-golf). I tried a Tesla S but it was rattli
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by tyfon 9y ago
Anecdotally. When I play youtube videos in my browser I'm getting about 1/3 of the view time before the battery is out compared to using mpv with youtube-dl on my laptop. It's not just about being able to run it at all but ru
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by tyfon 9y ago
When you put something on the open web, you put something on the open web. It's up to me to decide how and with what software I want to view the content. If you do not want your stuff on the open web, stop putting it on the open web..
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by tyfon 9y ago
That is also a subject here containing woodwork, knitting and sowing among things :) The woodworking/mechanics part is called "sløyd" and the other is "forming" (shaping).
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by tyfon 9y ago
In Norway, cooking, nutrition and house work is a subject in school called heimkunnskap (Home knowledge) or at least we used to have it. Not sure about todays kids. So everyone here has learned how to do basic cooking and what a healthy die
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by tyfon 9y ago
You can smoke in dedicated smoking areas outside, but it's actually not allowed to smoke on bus-/train stops/sidewalks etc. There are just no one to enforce it. I guess the places where you get escorted from in the US are pri
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by tyfon 9y ago
I'm not sure if you have the law in Sweden, but here in Norway we got a "Smoking law" that prohibits smoking in public places to promote people's health and reduce the cost of running the government hospitals.
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by tyfon 9y ago
I work in a company in Norway. We are in the EØS (European Economic Area), but not the EU itself but we still have to implement this for our own Norwegian customers. We don't have any customers outside of Norway. Still we are investing
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by tyfon 9y ago
For me, if I don't use deodorant for a couple of days I can really smell myself. Doesn't help to wash with or without soap either, I almost smell worse after soaping when not using deodorant. But it does take a few days for the sm
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by tyfon 9y ago
Ok, I will simply stop using google image search. I should probably stop using google search at all. The only reason I actually could stand the awful image search result page was that it would let me bypass even more awful websites when loo
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by tyfon 9y ago
I've never used bitcoin but to my understanding it can take quite some time for a payment to be processed. What happens if you buy something and pay, then when the merchant receives the bitcoins the value of them has dropped say 10%? D
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by tyfon 9y ago
Then you might as well scramble the data completely as the customer is not supposed to be able to recover the data after deletion.
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by tyfon 9y ago
In Norway you need to keep accounting data for ten years to be compliant with accounting laws so I you lose eight of them you would be in violation. Edit: I see you mean retention, I guess if you discover after a year that your backup routi
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by tyfon 9y ago
Yep, we've been through this discussion where I work just a few days ago and one way hashing even with salt is _not_ compliant as you can search for whatever you hashed and get a hit (SSNs, emails etc).

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