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One of the best comments I’ve read on HN in quite a while. Good advice for us all.

Would you consider GDPR a failure if businesses collected the maximum allowed under the law?

The difference isn’t nearly that dramatic, but there are definitely savings to be had via the app.

I don’t know how this transaction went down, but it’s very likely they didn’t purchase the organization itself, but rather its assets. The surviving organization would then dispose of the resulting cash in a mission-oriented fashion and shutdown thereafter.

Absolutely genius.

I’d imagine many of the same considerations come into play when a structure straddles a state line in the US. I wonder how that’s handled?

I grew up in a poor, rural area of the US and can attest that it's true... if you didn't pay the fee (and affix the requisite metal sign below your mailbox) you were on your own in the event of a fire.

At that time and place, fire protection wasn't considered a public service unless you lived in town. I never heard anyone question the arrangement and there was little appetite in that era for the tax increase that would've been required to provide universal protection.

I remember that as well. Just assumed that the unstated reason was to assist in identifying deceased kids.

What happened when the customer encountered the same employee on a future visit?

I’m not sure the term has ever been applied to Microsoft’s own products…

The bigger concern is whether there will be funds to process the next $10B of withdrawals.

There is a built-in feature, known as Application Guard, on Windows 10/11 that gives you exactly this out of the box, with minimal configuration. Biggest downside is that it only works with Edge.

For their UniFi line, at least, you don't have to use their cloud controller. You can self-host.

To me, the fact that you’re in an environment where knowing the digits of x/7 is appreciated is the most-impressive thing of all!

The upper trim levels of the ‘21 Honda Accord have it.

Windows for ARM can already run 32-bit x86 executables. They’re working to bring similar support for 64-bit software.

They still support it, it’s just not the default any longer for drives that report the capability.

The code’s been released under the GPL, so seems unlikely to be an issue of hoarding.

As I understand it, the change makes it easier to identify tracking cookies.

I’m confused... other comments reference ME as the root-of-trust for the system, the chip that brings the CPU out of reset. How can a system be operational without that functionality?

I think they’re trying to get around this by explicitly saying there will be no migration path, but it’ll be interesting to see whether they actually get away with that.

Recent iPhone models can handle multiple SIMs, but only one physical SIM card. The rest have to be eSIMs.

What’s even scarier is the premise of your comment: "Any decent customer service operation will fall prey to social engineering."

And what's unfortunate is that you're probably right!

This is, at least in part, a result of MINIX using a highly permissive license. It’s easier to use an open source OS in relative secrecy if you aren’t required to release your modifications. And an organization with deep technical expertise like Intel would not likely need much assistance from the community for their implementation.

How is the parent trying to impose anything on you? By what mechanism would they be able to do so?

My understanding is that residential usage of IPv6 actually outpaces Enterprise adoption in the US.

I'm not a subject matter expert, but a Google Voice number can be used to receive texts and is protected by the relatively robust security of your Google account.

Reading the original source with an ad blocker installed may not be providing as much support as you imagine.

It's going strong enough to justify someone publishing a book on it [1] just last year.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Ed-Mastery-Standard-Unix-Editor-ebook...

If it gets taken down, he'll probably be able to find another one.