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> However, WhatsApp Ireland, which had previously set aside €77.5m for a possible fine

Yes, but that would have been against this complaint when it arose - So in 2018 when the action started they took a look and figured they would have to pay a fine, accounted for it appropriately. They will now allocate the remainder of the amount, continue to appeal and maybe in another 3 years finally make payment on that fine.

Your comment suggests that they have a slush fund and try and break enough laws each year deliberately so they can spend the $77.5 budget they have for fines.

I am not a lawyer or accountant, but a public company not reporting a contingent liability for litigation in progress in their accounts would probably be a violation of all sorts of things.
Sounds just like every pre-8:00am meeting i have ever had to attend.
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this is a GDPR related fine. It will get a lot worse if the noncompliance doesn't get addressed.
Hard agree here.

Seneca’s letters are intended for a public audience; Aurelius’s meditations are the self-reflective journal writings of a stoic (and emperor).

Additionally Epictetus has the enchiridion that is the closest thing to a textbook on Stoicism we have
> What? GPS works fine indoors.

Not in all the cases. In my particular house GPS (and all the others, Galileo, Glonass, etc) doesn't work. It may find a sattelite or two but never gets a fix, even when I stay close to a window.
>The latter gives a vibe of a person crazy enough that you do not want to mess with them.

Or provoke the attention of a whole squad from the enemy ranks, as it marks you as a high-value object lesson. Whereas a more moderate stance might be common enough for them not to bother going after every such person.

:(And if they did go after you, you'd probably have the sympathy of the public and the authorities more if you were just a moderate follower declaring your allegiance with one flag than if you were a True Believer^TM completely dedicating your property to signaling your status)
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I find all the comments about FBI honeypod interesting, just because they are a company from Europe that isn't well known in the US.
Every bank app is different. I'd advise getting a cheap phone which supports LineageOS (ROM with the widest device support) and see if it works there first. You can also try LineageOS with microG builds to see if it only needs basic verification with Play Services in order to work.
"Which is going to be a fixed amount regardless of distance"

Sure, but knock off another 10%

"I would expect HVDC to be a dead end already if it made a difference to my conclusion."

I didn't get that. Could you re-phrase?

"Surely a web is the best topology? "

My point you're underestimating the line length since you cannot connect generation to consumption with a straight line. Also, the hub-spoke or a web network would need the connections to be much larger than needed for that city (since the city would also need to transmit to it's neighbors)

"While true, I’m not even going to try to play at global geopolitics; [..] worsen the performance of my opinion and give your criticism the best possible chance."

You cannot dismiss cultural concerns. Look what happened in Kabul last week!
You compared it to crystals, which are not recognized by the scientific community for anything.

As you can see from my posted study, there is a lot of evidence that ivermectin is efficacious against covid, and some that it isn’t. I suspect those are similar to the now retracted study denigrating Hydroxychloroquine
What it is is specific to the choice of Turing Machines as a model, and the teeny-tiny small size of Turing Machines that we can afford to analyze by hand for BBB size. It so happens that Collatz-like behavior is simply the most efficient behavior for creating large quasi-halting counts with so few states to work with.

One of the ways I think about how large the conventional-BB (two Bs) function is is to think about how large a TM it would take to simulate some other putatively-larger sequence. Consider the famous Tree function, for instance. Tree(3) is wildly larger than BB(3)... BB(3) is 21, Tree(3) is effectively inexpressible. Surely with such a head start, the Tree function is larger than BB? Consider, how many states would it take to program the Tree function? Surely it is a finite number, and even in a very simple TM's restricted notation, let's call it easily less than 10,000 states, where I'm being very generous because I suspect it's probably comfortably fewer than 100, but all I need is for it to be finite.

Then, consider two TMs basically smashed together; for one, we use the BB winner to generate its number on the tape, then for the next one, we use that as input to compute "Tree" of that number. (Some math work would be needed to properly weave them together but it's not that hard.) Then we have some number of states after which our BB candidates are computing Tree(BB(1)) vs. Tree(10,005) or so (giving a few states to work with to fold the TMs together), then Tree(BB(2)) vs Tree(10,006), and it's not hard to see that this sequence is going to blow tree away in just a few more iterations and never look back.

And these composited "Tree(BB(x))" functions are, by human standards, infinitesimally tiny compared to the real BB(10,006), because the busy beaver function just keeps optimally using every single state you give it to compute some ever-harder and more complex math function.

As you scale up in the TM size, the "problems" it will be solving will change as it has the states to represent them, because the BB function (and the BBB function) explore all possible TMs of a given size. So, what seeing Collatz-like conjectures at such tiny TM sizes means is that the Collatz conjecture is essentially the simplest hard problem, by the defensible (albeit not unique) standard of "what it takes to understand the behavior of a Turing machine".

It also means, measuring by the complexity of understanding the behavior of a Turing machine that solves the problem, for all Mankind's millennia of mathematical development and problem solving, there is a math problem that we don't fully understand represented a mere four steps into the mathematical thicket.

(That is, yes, this particular instance was solved nicely in the linked article, but the generalized version of this problem immediately suggested is not solvable by our math.)

Which is sobering.
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Yes, but since nuitka targets distribution, you probably wants to disable that for the end user.
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That China has a lot of consumption is neither here nor there. My point is that they would have to build one hundred of these dams which is clearly totally impractical.
yes, via journalctl
Not really surprised. Back in 2015 (when I was still at a telco) we were contacted to sell our DNS resolver logs for "analytics" purposes. They were inordinately interested in getting hold of anything that resembled PII or where they could have a close enough match to advertisement trackers.
Hmm, based on this I should have had "out-of-the-park" and "won-the-internet" ( nr 1 and nr 221 here https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=matsemann )
I assumed they meant words like "mortgage" and "insurance."

You know, the kinds of topics they flag as "adult situations" in TV.
Satnavs are actually too polite - explicitly telling the driver that they went wrong (sans insults of course!) is useful information that could avoid a lot of confusion.

I imagine the reason that this is not done is the same reason as lots of sound engineering is compromised - marketing dweebs.
Sorry about that - was doing it from memory. Apologies, glad you got it fixed.
Honestly that's why I wish most games would just completely do away with minimaps because you're exactly right. Minimaps let the designers be lazy when the correct answer is to actually put things in the world that let you know which way to go. Octopath Traveler did a great job of this by putting signposts at every crossroads, but then they still screwed it up by adding in a minimap.

Witcher3 has to be one of the biggest failures here. They put all this detail and work into a living city like Novigrad, but provide 0 visual clues regarding how to find anything that you really are living in the minimap.
Why do we misjudge groups by only looking at specific group members?
Conduit was built around sled in the past. It has been depreciated in favor of sqlite as sled was using too much memory. (and sqlite is used as a key-value storage)

As there is now an interface allowing to add several storage backend, more backends could be added later (for instance a real key-value storage rather than a RDBMS used as a KV-store)

(according to the article)
Yeah, looking at the Edward Scissorhands one, it was obvious that it was a Tim Burton movie, but not which one. I had guessed Corpse Bride.
Just don't collect data and who funds the development and infrastructure? If your answer is to start charging users, everybody would move to another messenger that is free, and the same problem will eventually arise.
The "single device" problem comes from WiFi, not IP. Normally, you can extend Ethernet by plugging in a switch or bridge, but WiFi is limited to 1 MAC address per associated client, unless operating in WDS mode.

So an unprivileged WiFi client needs to hide tethered devices and VMs behind a single MAC address, using ARP proxy (IPv4) or ND proxy (IPv6). These proxies do NAT-like mangling of MAC addresses, but are mostly transparent at the IP layer.

The Linux environment on Chrome OS uses ND proxy, and IPv6 works fine on WiFi. Compare that to WSL2 on Windows, which is IPv4-only.
So I've been watching Spanish language soap operas for 20 years (no judgement please). Lately, the Mexican ones have some characters in them speak in half-English, half-Spanish sentences, with no subtitles, or even full on English sentences, between Spanish sentences. Note that these TV series are targeted at a broad part of the audience, so that implies that they kind of require the watchers to know english to understand them.

There is no question about it, english is eating the world.

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Some very simplified answers:

- Everyone would hire more seniors if possible. Juniors are sometimes seen as expensive and hiring only juniors does not scale.

- Education systems do not produce senior people. Also there are other sectors than tech too. I don't know the current situation, but it used to be that places for IT education were never filled completely. There just isn't enough people.

- I don't remember this being reported as significant

- I believe there is difficulties with taxation etc. if you hire people living in different country.
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They are sending it to a third party so that party can use indirect behavioural information to enforce commercial contracts.

Imagine McDonald's selling data to your insurance provider so they can help determine your rates etc..

It's definitely out of bounds and worth putting up a fuss over.
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Another repacked Nextcloud. Nope, thanks. First of all it's PHP and it's not like they follow the best coding practices.

And then - both Android and iOS Nextcloud clients are happy to crash and leave semi-uploaded files unnoticed.

I'm not even talking about e2e encryption, which is somehow supported but good luck not to loose your data.
You should still use common sense to determine courses of action when you don't have evidence.
On the other I'm guessing your country does actually provide a ton of services you benefit from every day. Transport and utility infrastructure, health services, social services, policing and justice systems that protect your personal and property rights, national security and defence, it's easy to take all of that for granted.

If you live in a democracy, 'the government' is a consensus agreed by the people around you that you live amongst. The government is your family, neighbours, employer, all your fellow citizens. If you really don't like it vote, campaign, go into politics and change it. People do that.
Honestly, I would like to see movie posters made by 5-year-olds that were given a short description of a movie. It wouldn't be the same as this, but it would be interesting in a similar way.
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I played one of the very first Pong coin-ops as some kind of a market test in the country at the then-new King of Prussia mall in the early 70s, just set out by a fountain. It didn't generate much attention there but very soon afterwards the home versions and coinop CRT cabinets came out as "video arcades" started popping up all over. Culturally, there was a new market and suddenly something to do with your friends that didn't exist before.
Ironic that the website hosting the article likely itself violates the GDPR.

It makes it much easier to accept all cookies than to reject, without any good technical reason to do so, and presents the "accept all" as the default choice.
No bathroom, no sink, no shower, no water, no stand-up space like it never rains, lots of foggy windows...

How to live like a rich homeless for just $6k.

There are used trailers built in late '90s early '00s in great conditions for less than that.

Also a $270 stove or a $180 mug are not what I'd call "rock solid recommendations".

smh
-While you mostly (around here, in the Norwegian boonies at least) will have to go to a specialist shop to get Japanese pencils (I've a box of Mitsubishi Hi-Unis on my desk as I type this), any two-bit shop carries a bunch of Japanese rollerballs (Mostly Pilot and Pentel) and fine-liners (Sakura).
You do not need podman-compose, in fact it is quite inferior to docker-compose.

Podman has added full docker-compose support, and in fact even the docker binary works with it. Rootfull works as of v3.0.0, rootless was added in 3.2.0. Rootless can be a bit buggy, but I believe they polished a lot of the issues for 3.3.0.

Because they've re-implemented the docker api, it can actually work with any tool that uses docker's API.
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I got nine of them right.

SPOILERS BELOW

I got most of them by looking at either landscapes or color palettes. In some cases, certain characters were actually visible in the collage.

Wizard of Oz,
Ghost Busters,
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,
Mad Max: Fury Road,
Office Space,
Space Jam,
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National Treasure,
Star Wars.
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I assume it's basically an easter egg.
> Is the labor shortage real

It is pretty real. Hiring programmers is a challenge. The pay you can get is pretty good.

> The Finnish education system was held up as the most successful in the world when that was a topic a couple years ago; why can't it produce more tech talent?

Only 5.5 million people in all of Finland.

> Does the country experience a significant brain drain of (English-speaking) local engineers?

No. Finns don't move abroad that often.

> Given the circumstances, why not try to use more remote labor (e.g. in EU countries, within the same time zone) rather than trying to move people to Helsinki?

More of that is happening, especially after the pandemic, but obviously the mayor of Helsinki would not want that.
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Finland is great at home growing engineering talent, hence the crazy high amount of software startups per capita.

However, Finland also is the poorest of the nordic countries, with the lowest salaries comparatively—and yet similarly high cost of living and extremely high taxes.

With free movement of talent in the EU, brain drain is a problem.

And it’s basically impossible to import talent if your value proposition is: “come for the low salaries, stay for the high taxes”

English isn’t the issue. If Helsinki companies paid like those in Zurich and had similarly low taxes, there would be no problem retaining or importing talent.

For people who didn’t grow up in the country and benefit from the social welfare system at all, why would they want to come from outside and suddenly start paying for it?
I'm going to answer with anecdotal evidence from Finnish people I know, not first hand.

- Is the labor shortage real, or is the available labor simply too expensive for local tastes?

Both, but mostly the first. A friend of mine chose to work for a local consulting company because it paid more than certain well-known Game Engine company in USA. Furthermore, the Finnish company was more "agile" in the recruitment process, meaning they probably weren't feeling picky, but rather slightly desperate. Caveats: it's just one case.

- The Finnish education system was held up as the most successful in the world when that was a topic a couple years ago; why can't it produce more tech talent?

There seems to be a mismatch between how much Nordic people are in need of the money and job security that a tech profession brings, and the industry needs. In other words, with a social security net, more people pursues other careers, even if they risk finding themselves jobless at certain point.

- Does the country experience a significant brain drain of (English-speaking) local engineers?

Hard to answer that one, but it seems the opposite. Last time I checked, Finland had a downright friendly immigration system for qualified people.

- Given the circumstances, why not try to use more remote labor (e.g. in EU countries, within the same time zone) rather than trying to move people to Helsinki?

Companies do use remote labor, but I don't think that's a policy the major of Helsinki would go out of his way to promote publicly. Also, when it comes to tech talent, the EU has a peculiar situation: some countries have affordable tech talent slightly in excess, and some countries are searching for affordable tech talent. So there is market competition for the same talent. Hiring out-of-border is not an automatic guaranty of meeting needs.

There is another factor, and that's that Finland invests heavily in social security. A local engineer benefits from those investments just by living in Finland. For example, child-care and free, high quality healthcare. Add other benefits the employer already gives to the local workforce, like access to a gym, local cafeteria, and work facilities. An employer may believe they can extract higher-quality labor from somebody by relocating them to a place where they enjoy those investments, and that would come practically at no extra cost for that employer.
I love the camping experience and the freedom of being on the road with all its flexibility. However, the sense I get is that some of the reasons for much of the camping-in-your-van, sleeping in a car, tiny home interest is because of the insane cost of housing, especially near work, and as a result much of this interest has a somewhat homeless-chic vibe. Not too long ago, sleeping long-term in a car, SUV, or van didn't imply the same sort of free wanderlust that it seems to imply in these articles.

Just yesterday there was an article about living in a quasi-legal shed on a garden patch that didn't have running water or toilet with a hand-dug trench for power. I love the craftsmanship and ingenuity, but its not-so-legal status makes you feel like it's high-craft squatting and not high-brow camping.

With all the nostalgia of suburban nomadic living, I think we're bound to see a resurgence of the hobo lifestyle, squatter camps, and shantytowns.
I'm not sure if it was you that downvoted me, but you are mistaken.

boot2podman/machine, what you linked, is not an official part of podman. It is a third party equivalent and not relevant. The official podman repository is https://github.com/containers/podman, and the machine bits are integrated and part of podman proper:

https://github.com/containers/podman/tree/main/cmd/podman/ma...

If it was you that downvoted my comment, please consider not doing that because you disagree. The comment was factually correct and made in good faith. You're equating a third party deprecated podman-machine with the integrated into upstream podman machine. We were not referring to the same thing whatsoever.

Hopefully this makes more sense to you now.
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I think the article is mislabeled.

It should read: his to spend $4000 on stuff you will only use once for two weeks in your whole life.

Seriously, a headlight for $40 where I'm sure I bought line just some weeks ago for $3,50. Who makes this stuff up?
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They could have just said Kuiper ("Kuiper") or Amazon ("Amazon"). The parentheses imply that they choose themselves how they call it from then on, which they are indeed free to do. But it's clear the thing officially is called Kuiper, but they choose to refer to it as Amazon. Which is understandable from a PR point of view, but I still think it's a little dirty. I mean, get that whole Amazon webshop 'down' also, while we're at it.
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They could be but it's not visible in the picture. There might be a long wooden bar in between them. There sure is no food though.