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I don't think I've ever used DigiD to verify my passport, I was vaguely aware it had the capability though. On the other hand I use DigiD all the time to login to websites. My health insurance, government websites, etc. Super efficient and simple.

The passport feature is a new one to provide an alternative safer method of verifying ID for the times you need it. It isn't the default use of DigiD and is meant as an alternative to physically taking your passport places.

I play PF2e and the entire community seems to have switched from Roll20. At least all of the DMs in the online living world I was part of, my regular games, and all of the PF2e games I see listed on various LFG subreddits.

edit: I misread the previous post. Ignore this.

How are you using the word simpler? Because to me that implies a combination of more obvious and number of lines of code. Something that a benchmark shouldn't be involved in.

For example asking someone to delete 10 lines of code and instead use go's ` net.SplitHostPort` would be an example of "simpler".

With proper infrastructure and cycling culture a helmet adds little benefit. Meanwhile it has several negatives including making cycling a more burdensome activity. Such as having to have your helmet, have to carry it with you in the store or leave it on the bike in the rain or to be stolen, etc. Mandatory helmet laws do more to reduce cycling then they do to protect cyclists.

Having proper cycling infrastructure protects you far more.

That is basically the entire shtick of rust. That data is "owned", and only the owner can write. You can "borrow" something for read access, but if something is borrowed it can't be written to.

There are of course workarounds for this like reference counted wrappers and so on.

Legal according to who? Different countries have different laws. As we see with India and Signal this week.

This is something I think about semi-frequently. Not in these specific words, but how in an ideal world I'd love to live a half hour or so away from my parents, and my siblings. This just isn't possible. Not because of jobs, there are quite a few tech jobs in the area now, and if I lived in SLC I'd even have a decently urban life.

It isn't possible because my family is scattered to the four winds. Various siblings are all over the world. It also isn't possible because the world has grown so hostile. I'm trans so living near my parents would be at best uncomfortable for me, at worst it would be dangerous, and soon possibly illegal (banning access to hormones, etc).

This doesn't seem accurate. US Citizens/Residents/People who travel into the US who do many types of business with Iran can get into legal trouble. The person you are responding to is asking if that would apply here.

Signal seems to have had the proxy for a while. I'm guessing that China blocked them, they started developing this, released it, Iran blocked them, they signal boost this feature off the back of the second blockage.

This is discussed in the blog post (which probably should have been linked instead of the git repo) https://signal.org/blog/run-a-proxy/

16 core machine is 32k per year. Assuming you have a hundred machines (which really isn't that many) that is 320k per year. Which pays for a single engineer to get you off Akka.

Lets say a 16 core machine costs 20k with associated costs (share of router, etc). This is a pretty high price for a machine, but isn't entirely insane.

Your akka license now costs €32k per year. Meanwhile if you are doing standard five year deprecation your 16 core machine is 4k. This means you are paying 8x the cost of the machine itself for the software license. An important software license but not one that is a full complete piece of work.

I could understand paying this much for software like Wowza where it is a "complete" solution for a problem. Where you are buying a full piece of software, but not a developer framework.

Additional barriers might not stop all issues, but heavily reduce them.

Isn't the both parents required to be there to stop kidnapping and other issues?

NL has both.

* Electric Cars are exempt from both IIRC.

* Diesel is mostly front loaded in the yearly road tax. With a very low tax on fuel. So if you drive a lot it is worth getting a Diesel for this reason alone.

* Petrol has a lighter yearly tax. There is a formula someplace and it has to do with engine size, weight, age and some other things assuming I understood correctly. The yearly tax is cheaper on average than the diesel. Then there is a large tax on petrol. About €0.17 a liter or €0.642 a gallon.

We have the best or second best roads in the world (which is very noticeable when you drive into neighboring countries). Additionally we have extremely low congestion even at rush hour.

Road tax depends heavily on the vehicle. I think we pay ~€1000 a year, ~€83 a month, for our Hyundai ix35.

Because family members use it and they don't want to use alternative communication methods, because groups you are involved in use it for organization and if you want to stay involved in said groups then you have to use it, because the country you live in has a large amount of its social web woven through facebook.

There are lots of reasons. Yes they aren't literal needs as in you are going to die, but sometimes the cost of not using facebook is significantly greater than the cost of using it.

This is at best authoritarianism or corportatism not fascism. There is no ultranationalism, there is no "othering", there is no enforced hierarchy of individuals.

Would not a drought that is affecting large percentages of populations worldwide not be considered a 'global' drought even if it isn't everyone?

The daily signal is not a reputable source for anything, and most definitely not for trans related topics.

Keira Bell purposefully lied and ignored all guidance and gatekeeping she was given; as she has openly admitted. She proceeded with transitioning, and then decided she was wrong.

Kiera Bell won her initial court case against tavistock and got puberty blockers banned. This ruling has been overruled. The ruling was in direct contradiction Gillick competency, and made zero sense in light of all case law in the UK.

Re tavistock:

> In March, a review of gender identity services for young people led by the paediatrician Hilary Cass confirmed what everyone knew: that the service was under “unsustainable pressure” as demand outstripped capacity, resulting in overwhelmed staff and waiting lists of up to two years that left young people at considerable risk of distress and deteriorating mental health.

> Cass recommended the creation of a network of regional hubs to provide care and support, a recommendation accepted by the NHS.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jul/28/tavistock-ge...

DynamoDB usage is heavily based around correctly structuring your keys. Allowing you to do things like query sub-sets easily. This in turn means you need to know what your usage patterns will be like so you can correctly structure your keys.

God help you if you need to make major changes to this down the road.

Database Access Layer can't do this for you, that just isn't what they do.

I imagine most datacenters will be jumping through many hoops to make sure they have power through any cuts. Things like paying premiums for electricity, backup diesel generators, etc. This is their bread and butter. There is of course a chance that the worst case will occur, but honestly I wouldn't spend too much energy focusing on it.

I think the person you are replying to is trying to say something more along the lines of "name the company so we can shame them, and avoid them", not "what is '[INSERT COMPANY]' actually.

wage theft comes in many forms. Most would use it to describe the deprivation of any pay or benefits as agreed upon or required by law. So not paying benefits required, reclassifying legal status of workers to avoid paying things, not paying overtime correctly, etc.

Wage theft is still theft. In the US it is the largest form of theft there is.

I think a trillion dollar company can afford to loose some percentage of its income.

Particularly if it opens the door for new innovation. Things like subscription services to alternative Siri/Alexa/Google. Instead of the current Alexa foisting more advertisements and things you don't want onto you, Google's complete invasion of privacy/data, and Apple's complete ineptitude. This is something that can't happen right now because the hooks aren't well designed in iOS or Android. Making it so that you don't have the concept of "private APIs" for such things levels the playing field.

Amsterdam has lots of issues with tourists that fly in, spend a few days, cause a lot of problems, do a lot of drugs, visit one or two high profile tourist destianations (which puts an oversized burden on these few places), and then fly out.

Instead Amsterdam wants to court tourists who fly in, spend a week or two, go to many tourist destinations, spend a bit more money at many locations. It spreads it around the city/country, does less wear and tear to a few places, and makes the locals lives much nicer.

But Scotland (and the rest of the UK) were better before leaving the EU. On the whole Scotish voters didn't want to leave the EU, to the point that it was one of the primary arguments that Boris used in the independence referendum, that if they left the UK they wouldn't necessarily have EU membership any more. Well they lost it anyways, so why shouldn't they chart their own path back?

I really hate the word sovereignty beign thrown around because in and of itself it doesn't mean anything. At least not in the way that Brexitiers use it.

You are missing all sorts of important information in this post. For example what country and or state do you live in? Really though you should go find a local employment lawyer and talk to them, as even if your contract says that you must do X that doesn't mean you actually have to do said thing depending upon your area's laws.