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by yarcob 5y ago
Maybe because screens make the appartment darker?
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by yarcob 5y ago
I don't understand this line of reasoning. Why should photo libraries not be end-to-end encrypted? Are you suggesting that Apple or the government should be able to search your personal photo library stored in the cloud at any time bec
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by yarcob 5y ago
Tor has reputation problems. Lots of services block tor exit nodes because of all the abuse that comes from them. By making it a feature for paying subscribers only, Apple probably hopes that their solution won't be interesting for cri
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by yarcob 5y ago
The number of times restaurants tried to defraud me makes me happy that authorities are getting stricter. Waiters make "errors" on the handwritten receipt that somehow are always in the restaurants favor, or they "forget&quot
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by yarcob 5y ago
In my opinion the capital requirements are really not the biggest hurdle. If you start a GmbH, you have so many extra accounting requirements and everything gets more complicated. You also pay a lot more taxes in most cases. So it's so
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by yarcob 5y ago
Yeah, that's why most founders don't actually register a GmbH. Many small businesses are sole proprietors, even businesses with a few employees.
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by yarcob 5y ago
You can start a software business in Austria with just a laptop and get health insurance for 32€/month (total social security payments if you don't make profits are about 150€/month). Fees for registering a company are waived
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by yarcob 5y ago
> I know it's just being used to correlate purchases and track me, but I don't view it as creepy at all. The creepy part is when people do things without telling you. That stores keep a record of your purchases when you swipe t
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by yarcob 5y ago
It would be nice if prosecutors really were that compassionate. I've read that lots of kids end up in foster care because their parents go to jail. But maybe that only happens to poor people. An alternative would be to have criminal pa
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by yarcob 5y ago
I assume that the guy bought some type of short term options on Amazon to bet on rising/falling stock prices. I don't think buying an index fund, even with insider information, would allow for such massive profits.
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by yarcob 5y ago
If you peel away the buzzwords, FLOC is basically just your browser tracking you, and telling advertisers which ads you are most likely to click on. Google claims to do this in a way that preserves your privacy, but ultimately these are emp
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by yarcob 5y ago
As long as you are small enough, that's what everyone does. Pay taxes in your own jurisdiction, ignore foreign taxes. At some point you may reach a limit where you need to file taxes in other places as well. But as a one man operation
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by yarcob 5y ago
Presumably because it's hard to do correctly, and Stripe chose to focus on the easier part. For example, I need to report VAT on the 15th of the second following month. If I got a refund after that date, I have already reported that ta
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by yarcob 5y ago
I sell an app, and people often tell me they can't find their license code anymore. More often than not, these are from Gmail addresses. This may be just because Gmail is popular. But it's still baffling how Gmails original propos
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by yarcob 5y ago
I'm also a happy Fastmail customer. They actually offer customer support (at least they did a couple of years ago when I needed it). I had an issue with Fastmail where I accidentally deleted a bunch of emails, and with help from their
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by yarcob 5y ago
According to the article, it sounds like Fastspring themselves blocked customers with Russian IP addresses from signing up, and removed their app from Russian app stores. I'd hope that even if the Russian authorities would block Fastma
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by yarcob 5y ago
I originally read about it on HN, but don't recall where. I found this Bloomberg article about the issue: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-03-13/when-elon... (I originally didn't want to
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by yarcob 5y ago
Did you read any of the stories what a tech company did to an employee who complained about safety issues at the plant? Tried to get him SWATted up by lying to the police. People are extremely petty, and just because people have well paid
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by yarcob 5y ago
I maintain two slightly popular open source apps, and my experience is that there are a lot of people interested in using your product, but very few people interested in contributing to it. I've had a few people offer help over the cou
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by yarcob 5y ago
> We're talking about blocking IPs originating from China. How would that hurt the affected people outside of China? Most of the affected people would obviously be inside China.
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by yarcob 5y ago
I really don't think blocks and embargoes are going to help anyone. They just suck for all the affected people, but I don't think they are very effective at convincing foreign governments to open up.
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by yarcob 5y ago
> From my point of view, the lab-leak hypothesis is presented in a political way and not a scientific way, so it's hard to challenge scientifically. I think my problem is that I'm looking for a detailed analysis of a possible s
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by yarcob 5y ago
> most virologists think it's nonsense That's exactly the kind of unsubstantiated statements I see all the time (both from proponents of the lab leak theory and from opponents). I'd love to read the actual reasoning why vi
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by yarcob 5y ago
One thing that's baffling to me is that I've not seen any discussion from scientists who actually know what they are talking about. All we get are articles who talk about the political side, and try to prove things by how certain
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by yarcob 5y ago
The problem is that the officer is corrupt, and he should be charged for taking a bribe. I don't think corruption is "just a policy violation", but I don't know enough about US law to know if taking bribes make you a fel
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by yarcob 5y ago
PostgreSQL is vulnerable to certain workloads. For example, if you keep appending something to a text column, you'll use up a lot of disc space since PG will copy the row each time and keep deleted copies around until autovacuum comes
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by yarcob 5y ago
It's probably a mis-translation from German. "Knack" is a german word that describes a specific sound - I'm not sure there is a precise English translation. The dictionary offers "click" or "snap" as
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by yarcob 5y ago
Aren't you worried about the fan stalling and catching fire?
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by yarcob 5y ago
As a Swift dev, the reason why it slows me down is that I often end up fighting the type system. I start with a concept, design my data structures on the whiteboard in a way that makes sense, then I try to code it and because of some detail
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by yarcob 5y ago
If that fuse blows, does swapping it help? Wouldn't the blown fuse typically mean the fan bearings are broken and a new fuse would just blow soon again?

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