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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!