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> the cloud giant can make software patents on the changes they've committed and change the license of that code/features

If you choose a license with a patent grant (e.g. Apache), wouldn't this be fairly difficult to pull off? To re-license they'd have to re-write all the original contributions or create a separate project with the 'patent-encumbered' code under a different license without a grant, on which the main project depended.

> Hours are not regulated here but generally 8 per day

Whilst a lot of employers will have you opt out of the working time directive as part of an employment contract, you can opt back in at any time, limiting your max hours to 48 a week on average:

https://www.gov.uk/maximum-weekly-working-hours/weekly-maxim...

> why did they put these things together like this?

At a glance, it looks to be an act that defines regulations for all matters requiring licensing (weapons, alcohol, taxis, etc.) that are controlled by the devolved administration - I don't see any reason why that wouldn't be in one bill?

That's peanuts compared to the 15-30% of salary a recruiter will charge

Yes: 100% renewable energy consumption, and carbon neutral since 2007

https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-sustainability.appspot.c...

(No connection to Google, I just remembered looking this up once before)

I was about to comment that most customers might expect more support than a bugfix for a $100k support contract, then I remembered my last few interactions with enterprise software vendors.

If anything, it'd probably exceed expectations.

Billing 30 cents is unlikely to even cover their credit card handling fees, let alone the cost of actually providing the service.

I read it as the customer wasn't happy with something, and having learned that 'the boss' was on holiday, decided to parachute in their own management to oversee things.

Not that I think it'd necessarily be a great idea, but you could probably get a decent bounded latency by using dedicated / leased lines, which is e.g. good enough for remote robot-assisted surgery in some places.

From the FAQ [0]:

"It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds.

In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic."

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Paying for something with £50 notes is a nerve-racking experience rivalled only by attempting to attempting to spend Scottish notes in England

(I usually chicken out and just deposit them all at a bank)

> are they usually that messy looking?

They don't really look much like that. See:

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/current-banknotes

I'm hoping the fact that's just the concept art means it'll be reworked to appear more like the existing notes ...

> Perhaps poor customer service should be considered an indicator that an antitrust breakup is needed

It'd be a fairly unreliable indicator in and of itself though wouldn't it? Just think of all the businesses that position themselves as 'value' providers by cutting out all the 'wasteful' customer service - budget airlines are notorious for this e.g. Ryanair. And yet the airlines industry is one of the most cut-throat and an almost sure-fire way to lose money as an investor.

If you're of the age or condition where you're living in a retirement home, there's likely the additional costs of at-home care, panic / fall systems, etc. to add to your "living in a house" costs.

To be honest, it sounds like quite a lot of big 'luxury' blocks of flats (gym, pool, cafe / restaurant, concierge) with a slightly higher class of building management than usual (the centralised cleaning and interior decoration).

Heck, this is basically the modus operandi of most luxury student accommodation in London.

I know there's some flats you can buy in London close / connected to some major luxury hotels that provide that. E.g.

https://www.homesandproperty.co.uk/luxury/property/1125m-apa...

Might be different in other countries, but in the U.K. at least I believe the highest-ranking member of staff is usually the steward / majordomo.

Given that one of the few things I still get text messages for is two-factor authentication codes from people who should know better (looking at you financial institutions ...), SMS can't die soon enough from my POV. Although replacing it with an un-encrypted protocol in 2019 seems a tad silly, and one can only hope they choose to move to better 2FA methods rather than RCS.

Any privacy regulation that could be circumvented by simply transferring the data offshore surely wouldn't be worth the paper it's written on. The GDPR certainly doesn't allow this.

Which is quite something considering the dog and pony show that is the recruiting process of most large orgs. One suspects that if OSS developers routinely offered to invoice for "software support" rather than requesting a donation, this would be a vastly superior option from the company's viewpoint compared to having to go through the expensive palaver of hiring.

Someone might want to correct me on this, but I believe most use the public suffix list:

https://publicsuffix.org/

Whilst perhaps a bit tangential to what you're looking for, "Database Reliability Engineering" by Charity Majors is an excellent read, and has a chapter covering all the major steps in improving observability in existing apps / infra (here applied to databases).

Also being able to control everything via Siri with actually competent speech recognition is a godsend compared to the several minutes of shouting in various accents that most in-built voice control systems require.

The need for internet access is slightly irritating however.

> Assuming this is naivete and not a deliberate attempt to mislead

I sincerely hope it's neither. I'm well aware that a third party can't direct Mozilla as to how to channel its resources. They can however ensure there are sufficient contributors external to Mozilla to maintain the features they wish to keep.

Even if the end decision is still made by Mozilla internals, the decision to keep functionality is much easier if they don't have to battle for resources to maintain it thanks to external contributors being willing to do so.

At the end of the day, being an open project does not require the maintainers to do work simply because a subset of users wishes it.

Firefox is an open source project. I'm sure if you pitched in with time and / or money to maintain said features, they'd be much less likely to disappear.

I thought I remembered the general gist of the argument, and a quick HN search for "brain speed light" [0] brought it up as the first result ... so probably pure luck!

[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=brain%20speed%20light&sort=byP...

> I once saw a comment similar to yours on HN, and there was a very good reply that critiqued the idea

This one? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20219354

Honest question - If you don’t care about making any money, why can’t Duck Duck Go afford you?

Yes, under "related party transactions": https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1533523/000119312519...

"We are party to lease agreements for four commercial properties with landlord entities in which Adam has an ownership interest..."

They are. Relevant support page for those who are curious: https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/202249734-C...