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7steps2much

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    Comment #38829272

    Honestly, dang is what makes this place so great! One more thumbs up from me!

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    Comment #36176524

    > if your program doesn't work on their test environment Bold of you to assume they have one of those! Personally I assume they will break production, then call you names because o…

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    Comment #35119450

    A capitalist will always support whatever is best for them. That means amongst other things: - privatizing gains, socializing losses - free markets/competition while they are poor,…

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    Comment #34851186

    I mean ... At that point you could just include a caching/proxy layer at your router.

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    Comment #34710144

    > Our measurement based on the micro benchmarks shows that Rust is in general slower than C, but the extent of the slowdown varies across different programs. On average, Rust bring…

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    Comment #34708626

    > it's pretty old tech that is very inefficient. I can guarantee you that this "old tech" was coded with more thought invested into it than at least half of these "modern libraries…

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    Comment #34558429

    > because their enforcement is seen as either unfair, or a detriment to society I mean, I do agree with you in general, its just that I do not see this issue as a detriment to soci…

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    Comment #34545633

    If you make that pen available to me under these conditions? Sure. If you "just give" me something without any conditions then no, you could definitely not claim that story. But if…

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    Comment #34322282

    If you actually care about this then you can go and write a polite but firm letter/mail to Facebook's legal department. Contacting support/appealing is unlikely to do much since th…

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    Comment #34278738

    Different scale of seriousness. If the whole world goes into a recession there is a big difference between food shortages that you can buy your way out of with cash and food shorta…

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    Comment #33982487

    Assuming that you can charge whatever number you want. Realistically however you will have to negotiate with insurances and sometimes governments about the price of things. The sec…

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    Comment #33981863

    > Curing cancer would be infinitely more profitable than yet another crypto exchange. Treating an illness is even more profitable than curing it though

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    Comment #33955423

    (1) I wasn't aware of it, but I am not surprised that something like this was written into the standard (presumably. I doubt carriers rolled their own thing) (2) All the ways I can…

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    Comment #33669165

    Banks often have high fees for investing/stock related actions. Depending on what European country you are in you could also have a look at brokers/online banks, these usually have…

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    Comment #33508021

    Only if your work is so important they can't afford to let it go undone. If a company has to cut costs they cut the positions they can do without, and in those positions consultant…

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    Comment #33494553

    Assuming the fediverse becomes popular enough there will no doubt be large websites that finance themselves with ads/subscriptions. After all git is a decentralized system as well …

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    Comment #33382686

    Copyright isn't eternal. Stuff from "a hundred years ago" is no longer protected.

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    Comment #33382667

    > Now, I completely agree with the licensing issue when it comes to github's copilot. It used public code to train, and therefor any work that is produced through it should be publ…

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    Comment #33233514

    At that point we would be almost going full circle back to terminals and mainframes. Then someone will figure out most users don't need much processing power (only emails, word, et…

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    Comment #33205022

    In my opinion you should think of WebAuthn as the first factor. If you want additional second factors (of whatever nature they may be) you can still add these of course. Think of i…

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    Comment #33181318

    Till now I kep't signal around despite the fact that I wasn't really getting that many messages on the app. Now I am faced with a decision: * Do I keep signal around, for that one …

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    Comment #33009666

    It's not, they can take you to court or take other measures against you if they care enough. At least in the EU (where this advice was aimed at).

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    Comment #32983635

    Just a quick note: It works on none widescreen desktop browsers as well if you zoom out far enough. Or at least it does on my 14" with FF 106

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    Comment #32983541

    MDN[0] says: > Glyphs are taken from the default user interface font on a given platform. Because typographic traditions vary widely across the world, this generic is provided for …

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    Comment #32982817

    At least for the verifying that an email is original I agree with the other poster, DKIM exists for that purpose, to sign emails while in transit. As for changed messages while syn…