DrJokepu

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by DrJokepu 10y ago
While it would be unconstitutional in the United States, keep in mind that in certain countries "ex post facto" making certain tax avoidance schemes retroactively unlawful is not unheard of, e.g. BN66 in the UK: https:/&#x2F
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(1) The transpiled JavaScript closely resembles the source TS, making debugging easier (source maps allieviete this to a certain extent). (2) Transpiling from a whole different language means you have to port the standard runtime, otherwise
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Slightly off-topic, but back in the day "V86" (or "VM86") used to refer to the 80386 CPU's inbult 8086 hardware virtualization mechanism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_8086_mode
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Not every piece of software that needs to store data is a CRUD application and "little side businesses" are not the only use cases for an embedded database. For example, an embedded application logging readings from a number of se
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> the performance criticism of SQLite is vastly overblown That kind of depends on how you use it. Obviously this depends on the row size, constraints, etc., but if you want to write more that a few thousand rows per second for longer per
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Or just open it in incognito mode / private browsing.
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It's not just that it transpiles into JS, if you target ES6 pretty much all tsc does besides validation is stripping type information, access modifiers etc. while basically preserving the code structure, including whitespace. Which mea
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by DrJokepu 10y ago
A one way flight from Europe is North America is not that expensive ($300-$800), it's something even poor people are able to save up for and larger families are able to pool their resources together. The practice described in the artic
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I think you're mostly right, trying to apply European solutions to American problems is not necessarily a good idea, just like trying to apply American solutions to European problems is not necessarily a very good idea. The nationalist
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https://github.com/apple/swift
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I don't know much about security, but I had the impression that a "third-party" developed and installed backdoor is called a rootkit.
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No, that wasn't my argument. Obviously moderating HN requires a lot more effort. That being said, an argument could be made that the HN's status and the people it has access to makes it easier to successfully implement a decent sy
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Yeah, I don't know about that. I don't think it's possible to consistently apply good judgement about subjective and polarising issues in highly visible contexts without excessive costs. Judgement is often possible in busines
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The weight of your body will set the escalator in motion and it will keep accelerating. As you approach the bottom end at ever increasing speeds you will have a few moments to contemplate on what a mistake it was to not take physics class i
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Not true at all! Escalators don't necessarily fail safe. If the brake is faulty, it is very dangerous to use an out of service escalator as stairs.
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Looks like a decent list. That being said, "curated" implies some notion of curation process and authority. Every time I see a work like this I wonder what the process is, what gives the author the authority or credibility. There
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According to the letter Apple is the largest taxpayer in Ireland, in the United States and in the world, surely that statement is incompatible with the statement that "they've been paying virtually no tax for years". One of t
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SHMMAX basically stopped being an important factor in PostgreSQL 9.3 (released almost 3 years ago) and later.
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Banks basically don't use database transactions to record financial transactions. Instead, failed operations are rolled back with an inverse operation. It's done this way to ensure that there is an audit trail of every operation,
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Yes, sadly, there are not an awful lot of surviving credible written historical records from Anglo-Saxon England. The ones that have survived often have been written hundreds of years later and generally not considered 100% reliable. This m
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I mean, Rickover was a through and through submarine guy though. This statement might be true, but he was hardly objective and without agenda when it came to surface naval warfare.
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* Don't let HTTP GET requests modify state, ever. It's very difficult to prevent CSRF via HTTP GET. * Session keys are password-equivalents. Hash them with bcrypt or something before you store them. * httponly is not incredibly us
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Is there a real world, factually verifiable example of this ever happening in the past, or is this an untested theory?
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Object.keys() is rather well supported these days though.
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If I understand correctly the "Proposed Changes" section, the proposed change will only affect Visa Waiver travellers (ESTA/I-94W forms). If you regularly visit Iran, it's likely that you're already excluded from th
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I am not an immigration lawyer or a tax advisor, that being said, I am familiar with the process. You become permanent resident when the CBP officer stamps the MRIV on arrival. From that point on you have the same tax obligations as any oth
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> Or is leaving the EU a one-way thing? It's possible to get readmitted, but only with the consent of every single member state.
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https://www.dropbox.com/privacy Where Around the world. To provide you with the Services, we may store, process and transmit information in the United States and locations around the world - including those outside your cou
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EU Dropbox customers are the customers of Dropbox Ireland Limited (a company registered in Ireland), not Dropbox, Inc., a company registered in Delaware, so actually all of the EU regulations apply to their EU customers. Source: I'm a
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> That remains to be seen. Isn't this a somewhat meaningless statement? Is it possible to prove that "no matter what system you create to transfer goods, resources, services or value representing those, it will be exploited&quo

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