Sooner for some than others. I am currently in the market for a rental property while planning on purchasing an EV - I want to trade-in my current vehicle on a used Leaf. One life decision will clearly dictate the other.
AC's look upon this bill and despair! It will become a framework for verifying your ID in other sectors as well. I don't know that this law will actually protect kids from seeing the pr0n they so desparately want to surf but maybe a good solution will come out of it and we can free the world of bot accounts and anonymous cowards
^^ Agreed, it's a pretty bad metaphor. Like most things in programming, perhaps 'buying a car' is a better metaphor.
I buy a car from a certified dealership. It ships with a factory radio. I want an aftermarket radio. Obviously, I have to buy an aftermarket radio that fits the vehicle, otherwise make warranty-breaking modifcations to the car. Surprise! It's an Apple-certified vehicle bought from an Apple dealership. Apple requires that I buy a radio through the dealership, which they collect a percentage on. I'm also not allowed to install the radio myself, unless I'm an Apple-certified technician. It ends up being really expensive due to restrictions placed on me that other vendors do not place on their products. It's also very anti-competitive as it turns out it's hard to get the dealership to list radios in the first place, and Apple always pushes brands that they've partnered with first.
legal tender
noun
Denomination of a country's currency that, by law, must be accepted as a medium for commercial exchange and payment for a money debt.
Sounds to me like Amazon is making the right move. I don't see much room for interpretation for the definition of 'legal tender' here.
There are plenty of cable and satellite packages that include streaming services. Most people that subscribe to streaming services will probably own an internet package. That internet package might possibly be bundled with cable services. The use of these services are not mutally exclusive. The author might as well be claiming that higher cereal sales are threatening the milk industry.
Don't underestimate government's influence on private industry. I'm sure that as long as the government needed 3.5" floppy, there was a plant somewhere making 3.5" floppies for them. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if there are still some sectors where they are being used.
I know exactly what I'm talking about. If you're not interested in refuting a claim that I made or making a counter-point then you're wasting both of our time.
The rise of the Rich Internet Applications has necessitated the need for strict typing. As such, I enjoy this TypeScript provided by our MS Overlords. However, ECMAscript is evolving quickly to catch up. TypeScript might get left on the side of the road as quickly as it was picked up.
P.S. Also over time you realize that even if that time it wasn't falser overall you probably learned something to make something similar faster later.
This right here. I'm trying to get my co-worker into the habit of re-factoring when he comes across redundant code in the hopes that he'll stop wasting time writing redundant code in the first place. As such, I hold myself to the same standard. It seems to be appreciated by the rest of the team as they've often struggled to release new features at a good place and haven't had much time to re-factor their own code.
A free press requires a free market solution. Any market that accepts government handouts is beholden to government interests, ergo any tax that subsidizes the industry is not in the interest of Freedom of the Press.
Online magazines need to think harder about how to monetize their websites. Perhaps they could write up a Terms of Service that explicitly charges for sharing their links? It fits their argument - journalists as content creators are what add actual value to social media sites. Perhaps the social media sites should be following the same rules that newspapers and magazines have been for decades.
Please refer to this link. I don't see what the big deal is though - I use DuckDuckGo because they don't share my information with their partners. I could care less if they aggregrate their search results from many different sources.
Facebook is literally going to be printing its own money, virtual money at least. Sure, we're all familiar with similar schemes like arcade tokens. Corporations create walled gardens where only their currency is accepted. We can even look back in the not-too-distant past before it was commonplace for The Federal Reserve Bank or the Federal Government to be the de facto legitimate currency of the nation. The Federal Government backed the value of its money by gold - the Federal Reserve bank is a fiat currency but its inflation rates are heavily regulated.
How will Facebook regulate the value of their currency? Does it fluctuate with the value of the company? What value does Facebook have beyond stock speculation at this point? Does all that Big Data really sell for that much? Does Facebook really sell that much advertising? What prevents Facebook from building its own walled garden?
...if the hacked hardware intercepting the intelligence is replaced by Huawei equipment. So they're not really making a threat, they're just laying out the facts of the situation.
Tim Berners-Lee simply laments the balkanization of the Web community, the creation of walled gardens, and the death of net neutrality. Who can blame him? It is the open standards and open borders that have given us the World Wide Web as we know it today. I shudder at the idea of an alternate timeline where the only sites I could reach are the ones are on whatever network I've sworn allegiance to, be it AOL or CompuServe.
The vending machine at works charge me an extra dime on the dollar if I use a credit card, even if I run it debit. The bar down the street insists on a $10 minimum on credit card due to banking fees. The gas station around the corner charges a higher rate for credit purchases of gasoline. These banking fees results in million if not billions in profits for banks every day. I'm over here trying to get my budget right -- I can't have the bank nicking and diming me at every corner.
This story definitely belongs on Slashdot. It involves how technology is being used to spread news, factual or not. Journalism with integrity requires that the reader be able to fact-check the news being shared. It requires that the reader have some degree of certainty about who the author is. If these websites are tantamount to political ads then the implications need to be considered. While the internet loves anonymity, in a democracy, we find it important to disclose political ads. This is why, on television commercials, political ads are clearly labelled.
Let's not forget Hunter S. Thompson and Alexander Shulgin. I'm sure that's just scratching the surface of writers who espoused the use of psychedelics before the advent of the internet age.
Everyone at every level can benefit from being able to balance a budget and manage finances.
I agree with that sentiment wholeheartedly. I often see companies suffer however when they base their business decisions solely on crunching numbers (finance) or networking with a buddy (business). Even worse are business analysts and financial analysts that end up more of a burden on a company than a benefit. And how would one ever call them on their bs? They are the ones guarding the books.
I've met too many bad business analysts to hold the career in general in high regard. They should have gone to college for something more beneficial to society. Please refer to the Fyre Festival documentaries for anecdotal evidence.
Ironically enough, football players are smart enough to go after degrees in finance or business, which can benefit them if they're successful enough to make it in the NFL or any other elite level.
People with degrees in finance and business are pretty useless IMO. Moving money around is hardly a real skill. They aren't completely useless though, but pretty close.
The question is, do you want to succeed in the middle of nowhere? Personally, I don't. I like great universities and great museums and great restaurants. All of those things are generally concentrated in and near large cities or metro areas.
Same. Besides, some parts of the country are not capable of supporting certain industries. For instance, reliable internet is not available in many rural areas. It would be hard to find certain jobs in the first place.
Social mobility is a big promise of the American Dream. For some that's the Great Plains and for others it's the Big Apple. I wouldn't mind moving to Manhattan - allegedly a recruiter promises me I could get a job tomorrow if I made the move up there. However, by the time I could afford to move to Manhattan, I'll have saved up enough money to make a great down payment on a house down South.
Of course, I really want to move somewhere the laws are a little bit *cough* greener.
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Sooner for some than others. I am currently in the market for a rental property while planning on purchasing an EV - I want to trade-in my current vehicle on a used Leaf. One life decision will clearly dictate the other.
AC's look upon this bill and despair! It will become a framework for verifying your ID in other sectors as well. I don't know that this law will actually protect kids from seeing the pr0n they so desparately want to surf but maybe a good solution will come out of it and we can free the world of bot accounts and anonymous cowards
^^ Agreed, it's a pretty bad metaphor. Like most things in programming, perhaps 'buying a car' is a better metaphor.
I buy a car from a certified dealership. It ships with a factory radio. I want an aftermarket radio. Obviously, I have to buy an aftermarket radio that fits the vehicle, otherwise make warranty-breaking modifcations to the car. Surprise! It's an Apple-certified vehicle bought from an Apple dealership. Apple requires that I buy a radio through the dealership, which they collect a percentage on. I'm also not allowed to install the radio myself, unless I'm an Apple-certified technician. It ends up being really expensive due to restrictions placed on me that other vendors do not place on their products. It's also very anti-competitive as it turns out it's hard to get the dealership to list radios in the first place, and Apple always pushes brands that they've partnered with first.
legal tender
noun
Denomination of a country's currency that, by law, must be accepted as a medium for commercial exchange and payment for a money debt.
Sounds to me like Amazon is making the right move. I don't see much room for interpretation for the definition of 'legal tender' here.
Maybe this is a reaction to the GDPR's proposed Link Tax? Did that even make it into the GDPR?
There are plenty of cable and satellite packages that include streaming services. Most people that subscribe to streaming services will probably own an internet package. That internet package might possibly be bundled with cable services. The use of these services are not mutally exclusive. The author might as well be claiming that higher cereal sales are threatening the milk industry.
Don't underestimate government's influence on private industry. I'm sure that as long as the government needed 3.5" floppy, there was a plant somewhere making 3.5" floppies for them. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if there are still some sectors where they are being used.
before it starts raining needles.
Not that I'm against this at all. I'm just a fan of Murphy's Law.
I know exactly what I'm talking about. If you're not interested in refuting a claim that I made or making a counter-point then you're wasting both of our time.
The rise of the Rich Internet Applications has necessitated the need for strict typing. As such, I enjoy this TypeScript provided by our MS Overlords. However, ECMAscript is evolving quickly to catch up. TypeScript might get left on the side of the road as quickly as it was picked up.
P.S. Also over time you realize that even if that time it wasn't falser overall you probably learned something to make something similar faster later.
This right here. I'm trying to get my co-worker into the habit of re-factoring when he comes across redundant code in the hopes that he'll stop wasting time writing redundant code in the first place. As such, I hold myself to the same standard. It seems to be appreciated by the rest of the team as they've often struggled to release new features at a good place and haven't had much time to re-factor their own code.
A free press requires a free market solution. Any market that accepts government handouts is beholden to government interests, ergo any tax that subsidizes the industry is not in the interest of Freedom of the Press.
Online magazines need to think harder about how to monetize their websites. Perhaps they could write up a Terms of Service that explicitly charges for sharing their links? It fits their argument - journalists as content creators are what add actual value to social media sites. Perhaps the social media sites should be following the same rules that newspapers and magazines have been for decades.
Please refer to this link. I don't see what the big deal is though - I use DuckDuckGo because they don't share my information with their partners. I could care less if they aggregrate their search results from many different sources.
Facebook is literally going to be printing its own money, virtual money at least. Sure, we're all familiar with similar schemes like arcade tokens. Corporations create walled gardens where only their currency is accepted. We can even look back in the not-too-distant past before it was commonplace for The Federal Reserve Bank or the Federal Government to be the de facto legitimate currency of the nation. The Federal Government backed the value of its money by gold - the Federal Reserve bank is a fiat currency but its inflation rates are heavily regulated.
How will Facebook regulate the value of their currency? Does it fluctuate with the value of the company? What value does Facebook have beyond stock speculation at this point? Does all that Big Data really sell for that much? Does Facebook really sell that much advertising? What prevents Facebook from building its own walled garden?
...if the hacked hardware intercepting the intelligence is replaced by Huawei equipment. So they're not really making a threat, they're just laying out the facts of the situation.
Tim Berners-Lee simply laments the balkanization of the Web community, the creation of walled gardens, and the death of net neutrality. Who can blame him? It is the open standards and open borders that have given us the World Wide Web as we know it today. I shudder at the idea of an alternate timeline where the only sites I could reach are the ones are on whatever network I've sworn allegiance to, be it AOL or CompuServe.
The vending machine at works charge me an extra dime on the dollar if I use a credit card, even if I run it debit. The bar down the street insists on a $10 minimum on credit card due to banking fees. The gas station around the corner charges a higher rate for credit purchases of gasoline. These banking fees results in million if not billions in profits for banks every day. I'm over here trying to get my budget right -- I can't have the bank nicking and diming me at every corner.
This story definitely belongs on Slashdot. It involves how technology is being used to spread news, factual or not. Journalism with integrity requires that the reader be able to fact-check the news being shared. It requires that the reader have some degree of certainty about who the author is. If these websites are tantamount to political ads then the implications need to be considered. While the internet loves anonymity, in a democracy, we find it important to disclose political ads. This is why, on television commercials, political ads are clearly labelled.
Luckily, Americans have More scientists getting elected to public office every election cycle.
Stop using the "Fire in a Crowded Theater" argument
I started to base all my opinions on stuff that I read on 4chan. You wouldn't believe the change in my quality of life.
Let's not forget Hunter S. Thompson and Alexander Shulgin. I'm sure that's just scratching the surface of writers who espoused the use of psychedelics before the advent of the internet age.
Everyone at every level can benefit from being able to balance a budget and manage finances.
I agree with that sentiment wholeheartedly. I often see companies suffer however when they base their business decisions solely on crunching numbers (finance) or networking with a buddy (business). Even worse are business analysts and financial analysts that end up more of a burden on a company than a benefit. And how would one ever call them on their bs? They are the ones guarding the books.
I've met too many bad business analysts to hold the career in general in high regard. They should have gone to college for something more beneficial to society. Please refer to the Fyre Festival documentaries for anecdotal evidence.
Ironically enough, football players are smart enough to go after degrees in finance or business, which can benefit them if they're successful enough to make it in the NFL or any other elite level.
People with degrees in finance and business are pretty useless IMO. Moving money around is hardly a real skill. They aren't completely useless though, but pretty close.
The question is, do you want to succeed in the middle of nowhere? Personally, I don't. I like great universities and great museums and great restaurants. All of those things are generally concentrated in and near large cities or metro areas.
Same. Besides, some parts of the country are not capable of supporting certain industries. For instance, reliable internet is not available in many rural areas. It would be hard to find certain jobs in the first place.
Social mobility is a big promise of the American Dream. For some that's the Great Plains and for others it's the Big Apple. I wouldn't mind moving to Manhattan - allegedly a recruiter promises me I could get a job tomorrow if I made the move up there. However, by the time I could afford to move to Manhattan, I'll have saved up enough money to make a great down payment on a house down South.
Of course, I really want to move somewhere the laws are a little bit *cough* greener.