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yasth
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About yasth
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Comment #33030058
Payment processors have never been classed as even kind of a common carrier. Pretty much the moment you deal with money the government will more or less be your "partner". Cloudfla…
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Comment #24016257
I use and see others use smart watch triggered from time to time. Occasionally I see people use Bluetooth headphone triggers. Believe it or not a lot of use is out of the public ey…
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Comment #20072615
While you need ID, all that proves is that you have been asked to attend. You can get access to the building (ok after hours) by signing up to a meetup and providing your name. Als…
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Comment #20017756
If you are able to talk about porn and ban it with your parents (presumably providing some alterate means, because you know they have needs), then well congratulations that sounds …
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Comment #20017727
Because the numbers are kind of crap lately. People don't realize just how the average episode of Friends beat 20 million for every one of 10 seasons [1]. The audience is fragmente…
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Comment #19908251
Joel's article ( https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-a... ) has tons. A classic trap for new players is that in most modern compiled languages you can add st…
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Comment #19850753
Onsite is your site. It is at times a confusing term, but if you get an onsite warrant you needn't go anywhere, you wait at your place of business or your home and the tech comes i…
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Comment #19734588
Rarely does a good local reporter just sit in on the meetings generally they also get some background from parties presenting, and on the council. Often they even develop sources t…
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Comment #19734538
He apparently "occasionally skips toast in favor of ice cream" https://www.chatelaine.com/living/cooking-the-news/todays-pa... So you might want to get an ice cream based printer. …
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Comment #19718967
Not so much the windows site licenses as their office ones but yes. For anyone running office 365, base teams/skype conferencing is free and adding on call in lines and the rest is…
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Comment #19687219
You assume they would sign it. That quick little agreement is likely to be a major point of contention.
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Comment #16740310
OS as a gatekeeper is still present in a lot of corporate stuff. You'd be amazed the number of people who are still running IE because of one reporting package or what not. That sa…
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Comment #16348876
They aren't opposite. You need the practice to learn the music, but it doesn't help (apparently) you determine pitch , or pick out rhythmical differences (which is what it actually…
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Comment #16271138
I do kind of suspect that a lot of the problem was really their ability to impose a $1/user "tech" fee. Once you get to that point you really don't have to explain over much to any…
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Comment #15524370
Because a bus lane is actually a really cheap train. Construction costs are minimal, your "stations" are generally unmanned, and cheap, and if you need to reroute for construction …
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Comment #15495987
As to other ways to avoid lifetime employment denial, a lot of places are forcing at least public sector places and many private sector employers to "Ban The Box" [1] that is to sa…
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Comment #15382767
Just for people as uninformed as myself: the UK will apply GDPR post Brexit http://www.blplaw.com/expert-legal-insights/articles/gdpr-an...
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Comment #15226619
They do, at least in the US, [UPS mychoice]( https://www.ups.com/us/en/services/tracking/mychoice.page)(w... has a free tier and a paid one) and [ https://www.fedex.com/us/delivery…
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Comment #14192046
Honestly they don't seem to be that close to cracking it, like at all. They may be using camera phone images, but they are well framed images of very distinctive features. Trying t…
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Comment #12804012
Eh except if you can work there you can work at several other places in the financial industry, and the pay and future career benefits aren't that special if you are already in tha…
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Comment #12803990
The good/bad news is that you were already plenty vulnerable. Also they wouldn't need an app to be installed, all they need is to force an app to use (or induce you to say click on…
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Comment #12795968
People have tried to build software like Civil Engineers build bridges. It becomes frighteningly complex and involved to make a stop light controller, and you end up wanting to thr…
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Comment #12697938
Eh, I think it is a natural process though in one's professional life. Especially with something like phones where the complexity has just exploded within each platform. The number…
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