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testvox··on Time to Break Out of Your VMs. For Containers, Home Is Where the Bare Metal Is
AWS bare metal servers are pretty nice and you can use them with AWS's container management systems.

> Bare Metal instances are full-fledged members of the EC2 family and can take advantage of Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, Amazon CloudWatch, Auto Recovery, and so forth. They can also access the full suite of AWS database, IoT, mobile, analytics, artificial intelligence, and security services.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-ec2-bare-metal-i...

testvox··on Ex-Detainee Describes Torture in China's Xinjiang Re-Education Camp
Are you ok? Where did the parent say anything about the United States?
testvox··on The Lie Behind the Lie Detector
Then just make it meaningful by threatening to shoot the interviewee in the head if they fail to trick you.
testvox··on BigInt: Arbitrary precision integers in JavaScript
What is the one language? json serialized data can be consumed in many different languages which have very different numeric data types. The json spec even says

> JSON is agnostic about the semantics of numbers. In any programming language, there can be a variety of number types of various capacities and complements, fixed or floating, binary or decimal. That can make interchange between different programming languages difficult. JSON instead offers only the representation of numbers that humans use: a sequence of digits. All programming languages know how to make sense of digit sequences even if they disagree on internal representations. That is enough to allow interchange

and later more precisely defines a number in a way that does not restrict its maximum size.

> A number is a sequence of decimal digits with no superfluous leading zero. It may have a preceding minus sign (U+002D). It may have a fractional part prefixed by a decimal point (U+002E). It may have an exponent, prefixed by e (U+0065) or E (U+0045) and optionally + (U+002B) or – (U+002D). The digits are the code points U+0030 through U+0039.

http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST...

testvox··on Ads just work, no matter what you think
Coke is still the only major soft drink to use coca leaves (with the psychoactive components chemically removed).
testvox··on British intelligence hacked Belgacom then sabotaged investigation
Public sector employees don't get social security benefits because their employer doesn't pay payroll taxes. So be sure to factor that in.
testvox··on Some private equity firms are furious over a paper in a dermatology journal
So if I am an employer in Germany and I fire an employee for misconduct but he claims I fired him for no reason how is the dispute resolved?
testvox··on ASP.NET Core 3.0 will only run on .NET Core
Its actually very nice, you can update your framework projects to 4.7 which can cross compile as dotnet core 2.1 then after you are comfortable with the dotnet core build you can drop framework.
testvox··on We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook approved all of them
Well normal ads you do not need to do any of that, you just need to have an account and a credit card. But yes for political ads you are supposed to go through their "Identity Confirmation and Authorization" process https://www.facebook.com/business/m/one-sheeters/ads-with-po...
testvox··on Proposal: Go 2 transition
This works on dotnet. The dotnet runtime is versioned separately from the language so you can use a library written and compiled with C# 5 in a project that is written in C# 7 so long as they both target a compatible runtime. You can go even further and use a C# 7 library in a F# or VB project.
testvox··on Some private equity firms are furious over a paper in a dermatology journal
Does this not create an incentive for companies to rotate through short term workers rather than keep anyone on for more than 2 years?
testvox··on Some private equity firms are furious over a paper in a dermatology journal
Very interesting, honestly I prefer the American system where you can be fired at any time but if fired without cause you are entitled to continue receiving some portion of your paycheck from unemployment insurance.
testvox··on Some private equity firms are furious over a paper in a dermatology journal
In what country can you not fire your own employees?
testvox··on Texans say voting machines changing straight-ticket choices
Its not unambiguous, look at this ballot and tell me who they voted for. It tied a race in Virginia just last year.

https://mobile.twitter.com/virginianpilot/status/94358996960...

testvox··on Why might reading make people myopic?
That page neither contains or links to any actual data on the effectiveness of any of the techniques described.
testvox··on Thermometer Tells Your Temperature, Then Tells Firms Where to Advertise
I'm waiting for https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-5/
testvox··on TypeScript support added to Create React App
They have been working on the error UX for the last 2 releases and still have some things planned https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/26077
testvox··on Large home libraries may have a long-term impact on proficiency: study
No one mentioned DNA samples. The standard way to control for genetic differences is to use genetic twins separated at birth and reared apart.
testvox··on The future’s so bright, I gotta wear blinders
It can just make Mach 2 with afterburners (supposedly).
testvox··on On McNeil Island, the only residents are dangerous sex offenders
Well yes, no politician wants to become the next Dukakis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Horton#Horton_in_the_19...

testvox··on NET Core 2.0 has reached end of life
Oracle doesn't even offer free LTS versions of java anymore. You have to upgrade every 6 months to stay on a supported version. https://react-etc.net/entry/oracle-to-stop-providing-a-free-...
testvox··on Coders Automating Their Own Job
It cuts both ways at least, those with inherited wealth are just as unworthy as those who never accumulated any.

> The so-called Protestant Ethic then prevalent held that man was a sturdy and responsible individual, responsible to himself, his society, and his God. Anybody who could not measure up to that standard could not qualify for public office or even popular respect. One who was born "with a silver spoon in his mouth" might be envied, but he could not aspire to public acclaim; he had to live out his life in the seclusion of his own class.

testvox··on More than 9M broken links on Wikipedia are now rescued
Yes at least in the United State copyright law has exemptions for archival purposes. http://www.ala.org/advocacy/copyright/dmca/section108
testvox··on Microsoft suspends development of touch-friendly UWP Office apps for Windows
GDI+ Is better in a lot of ways, but has the major downside of being limited to software rendering only.
testvox··on Tesla’s Musk pulled the plug on a settlement with the SEC at the last minute
In the United States one has a right to a speedy trial in criminal cases. No such right exists for civil cases like this one.

> In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.

testvox··on No class action for unhappy Uber drivers: U.S. appeals court
Can you provide evidence for that position? The law itself clearly mentions interstate transactions and includes directions to "any court of the United States". I also can't find a Supreme Court case matching your description.

"CHAP. 218.-An Act To make valid and enforceable written provisions or agreements for arbitration of disputes arising out of contracts, maritime transactions, or commerce among the States or Territories or with foreign nations."

testvox··on No class action for unhappy Uber drivers: U.S. appeals court
Arbitration is enforceable because the law says it is. If there was a law saying that French courts or coin tosses were enforceable dispute resolution mechanisms then you could use those instead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Arbitration_Act
testvox··on No class action for unhappy Uber drivers: U.S. appeals court
Its actually according to Congress https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Arbitration_Act

Also http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/05/the-right-to-waive-your...

testvox··on Am I logged in or not? GDPR case study on the example of Chrome browser change
So the answer is yes, they are PII. But that doesn't actually answer the question of whether or not collecting them without consent is illegal under the GDPR

> “Processing shall be lawful only if and to the extent that at least one of the following applies: […] (f) processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require protection of personal data, in particular where the data subject is a child.”

And

> “The processing of personal data to the extent strictly necessary and proportionate for the purposes of ensuring network and information security, i.e. the ability of a network or an information system to resist, at a given level of confidence, accidental events or unlawful or malicious actions that compromise the availability, authenticity, integrity and confidentiality of stored or transmitted personal data, and the security of the related services offered by, or accessible via, those networks and systems, […] by providers of electronic communications networks and services and by providers of security technologies and services, constitutes a legitimate interest of the data controller concerned. This could, for example, include preventing unauthorised access to electronic communications networks and malicious code distribution and stopping ‘denial of service’ attacks and damage to computer and electronic communication systems.”

testvox··on The Fed stalls the creation of a bank with a novel business model
But the banks are owed all the money anyways because they own a matching loan for the same amount.
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