Aloisius

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by Aloisius 2y ago
Sure. You trade in the currency the seller invoices in. Using USD as their currency though does mean there is no possibility of them being invoiced in their own national currency even in cases where it might make sense. Of course, most trad
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by Aloisius 2y ago
As if anyone actually implements ISO 8901 correctly. JavaScript certainly doesn't.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
> are there any other languages that support both single and double quotes for string literals? Yes, quite a few like Python, PHP, Fortran, COBOL, Lua, R, Ruby, Perl, Bourne Shell, Dart, Groovy, etc. Though some only interpolate with one
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by Aloisius 2y ago
The USD is legal tender in El Salvador though, so...
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by Aloisius 2y ago
That "article" appears to be a promotion for a test to detect maple syrup fraud in Canada. It doesn't say maple syrup fraud is common in the US. It does cite an article about someone who bought fake syrup from a random "
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Except for a couple of lines that connect the megacities of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, most Chinese HSR lines operate below capacity and at a great loss. The bulk of the rail built in the last decade was to distant poorer re
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by Aloisius 2y ago
A good plan is one that can be executed. Assuming no corruption where widespread corruption exists is a failure in planning.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Regardless of the merits of the suit, you really couldn’t ask for worse PR. I don’t know if it’ll be enough to pressure Apple into complying given the backlash that caused them to abandon device scanning in the first place.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
How long before Disney sues?
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by Aloisius 2y ago
I have never heard of maple syrup fraud in the US nor can I find any articles on it. Unless one is talking about imitation maple syrups, but those are labeled properly.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
The costs to repair submarine fiber is high regardless of whether they're buried or not; they're already dragged up when they're cut by things like anchors. It's more about the cost to bury the cable at a particular dept
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Why bother when an anchor would work fine and provide plausible deniability? This is not a fishing boat. A cargo ship the size of the Yi Peng 3 would have an anchor that weighs on the order of 11.5 Mg with 2-3 meter long flukes. With force
883.
by Aloisius 2y ago
The C-Lion1 cable that was cut was reported buried 1 meter below the seabed. Unfortunately, that wasn't deep enough since heavy ship anchors which can dig in deeper than that.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
> If the President took the same approach as the court, it stands to reason that he could go into any public authority in Romania and block their decisions based on finding that they are not properly observing the Constitution, right?
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Your quote is way out of context. "See, even in NATO, which the Americans built with their own hands, which is their thing, have you seen that? The NATO parliamentarians declare that the Multilateral Force is nothing but a big joke.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
How is annulling an election any different from their power to invalidate results? The power cited to ensure election procedure doesn't seem vague. It appears to be quite broad: > The Constitutional Court shall have the following po
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Lowered in absolute terms or lowered compared to what it would have been absent an increase in housing? Due to inflation, the stickiness of prices and the time it takes to build, it's hard to lower the nominal price city-wide. The latt
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by Aloisius 2y ago
I checked and you're right - I could find nothing about Kyiv Insider on Wikipedia. Clearly the Western conspiracy extends further than anyone realized... or something.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
The sentence for the McKinsey partner who pled guilty hasn't been announced yet.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
It sounds like what I missed it isn't worth reading. Arguing poverty is essentially a relative measure of wealth or somehow other's wealth, even unexploited or unused wealth, somehow makes everyone poor with the sudden knowledge t
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by Aloisius 2y ago
People with substantial multiples of wealth largely do not buy the same class of assets that those with a fraction of theirs do. Someone who earns $1000/month and someone who earns $10 million/month are not competing for the sam
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Having read literature on it, I still struggle to understand how most of the problems attributed to income inequality aren't really problems of poverty.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
I caution against trying to compare homeless statistics internationally. The definition of who is homeless and how they are counted varies dramatically between countries to the point where comparing headline numbers is largely useless.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
If it was only that simple. Unfortunately, increased economic costs can end up harming people as much as any toxin.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Oh, maybe this article won't be another questionable attempt at reporting something related to science... > The EPA noted that the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, which the agency paid to review its report
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Huh. I thought it was thought of negatively because people confuse the word ego (self) with egotism/conceit (exaggerated sense of self-importance). The same sadly has happened with confusion of the word selfless (having no concern with
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by Aloisius 2y ago
> Require ownership all the way to prod and beyond, no matter the role. (Turns out people tend to really like that.) Depends on what you mean. Individual ownership over code/feature/module/etc would seem to run counter t
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by Aloisius 2y ago
From the article: > When microbes have been found in the human brain, they are associated with active infections or typically linked to a breakdown in the barrier due to diseases such as Alzheimer’s. I think the question is whether the
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Both Clemens and Grant wrote when copyright was 28 years + optional 14 year extension. I'd much prefer that to the current life + 70 years or 95 years after publication.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
The length should be no more than would be required to maximize the creation of works and not a moment longer. Long terms prevent the creation of derivative works which at an extreme could be reducing the number of works created as well as

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