ProblemFactory

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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
It seems to me that the main source of confusion is about the independence of Redis from Redis Labs. To you Redis is an independent open-source project, to which Redis Labs generously donates your salary so that it you can work on it full t
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
> It is good that it's so simple to file it, but at least when just texting an okay it probably hides just how much people pay in taxes. There are much better ways to make taxes understandable to people than making it complicated to
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
Do you have suggestions on whether to deploy simple (functional - no state or external resources used, except perhaps usage tracking) APIs as cloud functions or on the App Engine? What would be the "turning point" when it's b
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
The problem I see is that jamming GPS / wifi / mobile frequencies once you see a suspicious drone is too late. When the drone is already in view, it can find its target by inertial or camera navigation alone. But jamming 1km aroun
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
Unfortunately many cheap GPS chips use the (incorrect) or definition, not and . It was a pain to find one that works above 59000ft but very slow speed for a weather balloon project some years ago.
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
> encrypting tenant data at rest I know that this is required by various security certifications - but is there a reasonable threat model that it actually protects against? The only one I see is someone physically stealing the hard disks
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
That is still an extremely small minority who would upgrade. Based on what I've seen from non-technical friends and family, the standard approach to laptops is to buy a $300 netbook, fill it with crappy browser extensions and malware o
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
Firebase Database default settings make the entire database world-readable and world-writable by all "authenticated users". But once you have enabled authentication, then that means anyone who signs into your app with a Google acc
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
Not to mention that silicon storage comes with reading and writing circuits. IBM has also demonstrated manipulating individual copper atoms on a surface and arranging them into patterns - a scale that would be much denser than organic molec
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
Or in a much simpler and common case: you trust someone right now to run a non-modified client and not to take screenshots, for example based on a corporate policy. Months later the relationship turns sour, and they are fired or denied a pr
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
Tesla sold a $3000 "full self-driving hardware" upgrade for a while, and now advertises all cars with the same, while suggesting that the software update to enable it is just around the corner. If they admit that radar + optical c
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
I think one of the main issues is that the current employment classification is too binary. There are independent contractors, who are really independent small businesses: set their own rates, do their own advertising, choose their own cust
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
> So deprecate it with a runtime warning and remove it after some years. After the Python3 brouhaha, I think people are very cautious about making backwards incompatible changes to the language, even with a deprecation warning. If it was
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
The IRS is probably the best US example of "proportionate punishments" and why people should not be overly afraid of GDPR. The tax laws are vastly more complex than GDPR. The maximum penalties for tax fraud seem to be $250,000 + c
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
> And then the salon and the restaurant start using Duplex as well, and all phone conversations become Google talking to Google. This must be the most convoluted API protocol ever invented.
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
> One region is desert, only 10,000 people live there > In the other region there are 1M people This has already been normalized: these are European NUTS-2 regions, which are drawn to contain roughly equal populations. Each NUTS-2 reg
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
> I really dislike this kind of visualization since it makes regions with total different population densities appear on the same level. This visualization is using European NUTS-2 regions, which have roughly equal population. Each regio
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
You could skip the price models/curves, and just go with a real-time exchange. Something like NordPool ( https://www.nordpoolspot.com/ ), which trades electricity between UK, Germany, Nordics and Baltics. Electricity pri
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
XML parsers are necessarily over-complicated for structured data, because it is a text markup language, not a nested data structure language. <address>123 Hello World Road, <postcode>12345</postcode>, CA</ad
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
Technically yes. But there just isn't enough potential energy in the water falling on a typical house. For example, US average yearly rainfall of 76cm, on a 10m*15m roof, at height of two stories at 5 meters, would give you 1.5kWh of e
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
Following the recommended safety distance (2-3 seconds of travel distance if I recall correctly) is quite difficult in moderate to heavy traffic. If you leave a large enough gap with the car in front, then people will merge into that gap. I
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
My impression is that "US taxes are complicated" arises from the fact that they have such a wide variety of possible tax deductions and tax credits, each with complicated conditions and rates. For medical expenses, moving expenses
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
> Is the regulation state that we must guarantee right to erasure or that we must make a reasonable effort to erase customer data on request? The regulation does not say that this has to be automatic or instant - but if the request to er
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
To a certain extent, they aren't. The same compilers and tools are used for both, many developers mix the two in one codebase, and use small features from C++ in "C programs" because the compiler allows them to. For example b
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
BeautifulSoup4 is Python3 compatible. It was released under a new name. uWSGI has Python3 support as a module. I have been using both on Python3 for many years. I don't think there is any python module left which does not have Python3
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
> it's like when you buy an appliance. You can buy the thing that meets the needs for $X, or you can buy something that's better for $2X. Of course, the better appliance would be better. Should we make a law that requires compa
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
If Tesla autopilot relies on good quality road markings, then it's not yet usable in 80% of the world.
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
The confusion here stems from the multiple meanings of the word "capital". The logic is identical to for example founding a company in the UK: https://www.gov.uk/limited-company-formation/shareholders You pic
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
I think the confusion here might be "starting capital" vs "registered share capital". You should set the registered share capital to the minimum allowed 2500 eur. Even companies making hundreds of millions of euros in re
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
Three people in the back seat is a couple hundred kilos. Modern cars, including the XC90 have a tilt sensor to adjust the headlights automatically for this.

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