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Thought this was because of Mullvad! I also have this issue on FF with Linux Mint.

So it's likely that previous bonuses/raises were also based on 'old' stock prices. But since Amazon stock was (pretty much) always increasing, this means that those bonuses were consistently lower than what they should've been.

Of course it's only an issue now when the opposite is true, and is costing Amazon rather than the employees.

I'm surprised no one (including TFA) has mentioned Trainline yet, as it addresses a lot of the issues mentioned in the comments here:

- buy tickets (with easy explanations of when/where they're valid)

- see which platform a train will depart from/arrive at

- check delays

- see walking times between platforms

- bus connections info

- handles refunds

- etc.

It works across Europe (elsewhere, I'm not sure), but in my experience it's got the most functionality within the UK.

The app itself is fantastic too. I'm not exaggerating when I say it is one of my favourite pieces of software - it does 1 thing, and does it super well. It's fast: no fluff, no ads. Few apps on my phone are like that anymore.

Even in web services, the computationally-intensive bits are usually the database queries, which are also not handled by pure Python.

I mean, that’s a pretty big checkbox regardless.

(0 experience in offsite backups so apologies if this question seems a bit dumb)

I'm confused - can this be used as a simple cloud storage platform, or are there limits on how often you can upload/download data? If I can SSH into it at any time, why not use this over other storage providers?

One of my favourite ever YouTube channels, that sadly isn’t around anymore, explored this concept with the ‘Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’ theme song. If anyone’s interested check CDZA out!

https://youtu.be/LMkJuDVJdTw

Hey, I'm in the middle of building a large scraping application - would you mind if I asked you for some advice? Email in bio!

Is there somewhere to read more about this? It sounds very interesting, are there any places/systems that are considering using this, or even talking about it?

A new iPhone SE has flagship specs for $400-500, and Androids cheaper than that (and even much costlier ones) struggle to last 2-3 years - an iPhone easily lasts 4+.

I don't want to turn this into an Android vs iOS debate, but want to highlight that one of the main complaints against getting an iPhone (cost) no longer really applies - it could even be considered a strongsuit. I agree that the walled garden can be annoying, but I've rarely found myself longing for Android customisation, and have very much noticed how some apps work much better on my iPhone. This is completely down to preference though.

I also care deeply about privacy, but even with 0 consideration for it, I think I still would've switched - I am super happy seeing Apple pushing it this hard.

(I recently went back to iOS after 2 phones and 5 years on Android)

The only paper I see referenced talking about the vitamin D-COVID link is [0]. It doesn't look too polished, and the methodology seems a bit lacking - I'm not a professional though, so if someone is please correct me. Assuming the paper is solid, it is one study on <5000 people, where only 499 even had information about their vitamin D levels.

The article itself only really talks about this connection in a single paragraph, the rest of it dedicated to general issues around vitamin D deficiencies - I don't personally know how big a problem this actually is, but the fact that 1 small paper said it helps with COVID isn't a reason for it to now be "shouted from the rooftops".

In the sentence following this advice, a different (published) paper is referenced [1]: "A new article by a long list of medical experts in the BMJ cautiously agrees", but as they then quote, the only result that paper gives in reference to COVID is that stay-at-home orders may increase vitamin D deficiencies. Though not outright malicious, to me it read like the article was trying to gain credibility by quoting a published paper which talks about vitamin D and COVID together, even if unrelated to a possible vitamin D-COVID connection. Though this might just be me.

Either way, I don't see this "growing evidence" from the article - if it was titled different, and only mentioned [0] in passing (but even better, not at all), I'd have less of a problem with it, but it's implying that a link between vitamin D deficiency and COVID is there and is significant, when both these things are pretty much still unknown.

[0] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.08.20095893v...

[1] https://nutrition.bmj.com/content/bmjnph/early/2020/05/13/bm...

Yes but nowhere near 1 cent per email, a sum that is still very little for legitimate users (especially considering the high likelihood of getting it back), but much higher than what current spammers pay.

I'm studying Quantum Computing for Computer Scientists [1] - until I found this book, I thought anything covering quantum would be too physics oriented. As the title implies, this book is nothing like that, covering all the mathematics needed (matrices and relevant operations) to then understand various topics within QC ranging from Algorithms to Programming Languages to Cryptography, all in largely self-contained chapters.

I'm currently working through the Algorithms chapter, which builds up from Deutsch's Algorithm [2] all the way to Shor's Factoring Algorithm [3], but I will definitely end up going through most of the chapters.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Computing-Computer-Scientists...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsch%E2%80%93Jozsa_algorith...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shor%27s_algorithm

You very much don't need to "essentially be a lawyer" to be able to include ads - services like AdMob have easily configurable SDKs for getting GDPR-compliant consent.

It's really no more than a few lines of code to respect user's privacy, and if you're collecting significantly more user data then you should be handling it with care.

Yeah, you definitely need a prescription in the UK, though my eye test was free so I don't know about that one. Maybe it's because I'm a student? Not sure.

But he is right about it in Italy - no prescription required.

I'm interested in the downsides of using Lombok, since the article seems to only focus on its positives and makes it seem like I should download it and start using it right now.

Is there anyone here with Lombok experience that wants to share any issues they've run into while using it? All I can think of right now is the fact that the source code isn't compatible with Java.

People will do drugs regardless, the threat of jail has, historically, not worked.

What Portugal showed was that punishing them is actually counterproductive.

This isn't supposed to be implemented now: these are all pilot studies to see if - in the future - UBI makes sense. We don't yet know whether automation will replace most jobs (I'm of the opinion that it will), but if it does, spending all that money on making sure everyone can buy their food and pay rent becomes worth it. Right now, funding the things you listed does seem to make more sense, but this will change if the job market starts getting smaller and smaller.

The assumption you're making with most of your points is that, currently, data is only safe from governments/hackers because its not readily available to users, and for some reason it being not easily accessible by users means its safer (correct me if I'm reading what you're saying wrong).

I don't think making the data more available to users means it's now inherently less safe - actually, it could be argued that having all the data in one place makes it easier to protect ('Keep all your eggs in one basket, and put that basket in Fort Knox'). Additionally, if PII isn't stored securely enough, as it should, and that data gets breached, the company is at fault - again, which it should. Making these companies more liable incentivises them to take their security more seriously, which I think is good.

(I also trust my government, but that's a separate argument)

Because they're not failing due to misunderstanding the law, they're getting sued because their 'compliance' to the GDPR is against the spirit of it, and in most cases is actually in direct violation of multiple clauses. They're trying to follow the letter of the law and remain in the grey areas - if a 'small site run by a few regular folks' isn't doing anything shady, and isn't being basically negligent with their users data, they will be fine.

Does anyone know how this compares to Construct 2 & 3? I've only used Construct for simple 2D HTML5 game development, and haven't really heard of any other HTML5 game engines.

That seems right - they only mention LEDs as a possible factor for the increase in disturbance of circadian cycles, as people keep them on at night more than they used to with filament bulbs. The study isn't about LEDs themselves.