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Comment · 2 years ago
They don't believe it's unconstitutional. They believe it conflicts with the Administrative Procedure Act from 1946. Something that they apparently believe the unanimous decision in Chevron from 1984 got wrong.
Comment · 2 years ago
That likely depends on where you are and what the content actually is. In Denmark where i am located, it would definitely not apply in most cases. Of course, if you are a lawyer communicating with your client it would be protected, but that would be the case even without the disclaimer.
Comment · 3 years ago
Interestingly, my experience is totally different. I loved working with XAML and C# for building Silverlight apps, and would have preferred using that across more platforms. Especially with a nice editor like Expression Bland that got folded into VS.
Comment · 4 years ago
Not really. It actually is about privacy.

If Google set up a subsidiary in Europe, that ran the service for european users and was the only entity that had access to the data, this would not be a problem. The problem here is Google's insistence that US entities will be allowed to access european data.

Comment · 4 years ago
It's really strange to me, that we allow this sort of beta testing on public roads. The car is doing multiple things in this video that is problematic with the driver being slow to react in order to see what it ends up doing.

This should not be something that is allowed on public roads by end-users, but rather on closed tracks by specialists. If they want to test it out on public roads, run the analysis and look at whenever it diverges from the drivers decisionmaking instead.

Comment · 5 years ago
MindGeek could obviously have done more. But i don't think you are being transparent about who promoted and ran that petition.

It was heavily promoted by Exodus Cry, an organisation that seeks to completely ban porn, strip clubs and any type of sex work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_Cry

This whole thing has lead to a lot unintended consequences that has significantly hurt, or impacted sex workers negatively, such as the MasterCard changes that made Onlyfans try and get rid of sexual content.

Comment · 5 years ago
I think it depends heavily on what area you want support for. EC 2 support is generally very good, billing support is reasonable if a bit slow. Support for a lot of their managed services, or media services is beyond useless. All the support engineer does is take your complaint and says they will check with the internal service team. Your ticket will just end up in "waiting for Amazon" state for weeks or months.
Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
No, actually the danish app has 3 versions.

1. No personal information at all. It only says valid or not valid. 2. Name and date of birth 3. Foreign travel, with name, date of birth as well as information about test type or vaccination type etc.

Comment · 5 years ago
I think that highly depends on the service. The new App Runner service for instance is a wild ride of buggyness, lack of testing and incorrect documentation.
Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
For Netflix it has a lot to do with how they integrate with the TV's. They tend to integrate directly with the chipset vendor, and then ship their own SDK that the TV vendors integrate. Everyone else is relegated to use the terrible shitty webapps like development with no debugging capability. So for Smart TV's at least, Netflix is on a whole different level than everyone else.
Comment · 5 years ago
Neither is AWS Support. But they do have much lower priced offers though.
Comment · 5 years ago
In my experience with AWS support, it's a major difference on whether you are asking EC 2 questions or some of the lesser used service questions.

For Media services, the supporter will almost always need to coordinate with an internal team, which there is no visibility over, and then it becomes a game of telephone to make the supporter relay the information in a way the internal team understands. I've had the same thing happen with peering/networking related questions.

For EC 2, VPC, DynamoDB kinda questions, they are indeed pretty good.

Comment · 5 years ago
The owner of the netblock.

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