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by Strom 4y ago
> iD tech used to set the standard for the entire industry, but long term its totally lost out to Unreal and Unity. Unless you fault Carmack for selling id to Bethesda, this isn't so much Carmack's fault. He always proposed m
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by Strom 4y ago
This seems like a bad take on popularity. What exactly is the criteria here? Is Qt not popular because it's not a JavaScript framework? I think it's much more valuable to look at this from the viewpoint of the Rust GUI ecosystem,
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by Strom 4y ago
What you are talking about has nothing to do with custom vs native controls. Instead it's a question of using a single or multiple windows. There are Rust GUI toolkits like Druid with custom controls that have elements outside the boun
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by Strom 4y ago
Can you provide any source/documentation on how to achieve this? As far as I know Electron is based on Chromium. And Chromium doesn't use native controls, it has its own custom controls that sometimes look similar to native contro
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by Strom 4y ago
What even is "native" on Windows? Is it Win32? WinForms? WPF? UWP? WinUI? Windows App SDK? There's so many to choose from and they all look and behave differently.
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by Strom 4y ago
I think you raise a good point. In an ideal world this would mean that only more sophisticated criminals with access to money laundering would be able to use large amounts. An unsophisticated criminal can't just buy stuff from a law ab
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by Strom 4y ago
Money laundering was already against the law. The whole premise of this 10K limit is that it will somehow stop money laundering. The way I see it, at best it creates some hassle.
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by Strom 4y ago
Well in Estonia (an EU state) this certainly doesn't happen with any regularity. The tax authority has the possibility to ask for bank statements, but they are required by law to inform the account holder of this check up. It only happ
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by Strom 4y ago
You mean a bank will demand to know information about the customers of a business that has an account with them? I personally already run a business and my bank has never wanted any info from me about my business's customers. Sure they
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by Strom 4y ago
Can someone explain to me how this 10K EUR limit can be enforced? What will stop the launderer from selling an item/service valued at 1K to a thousand anonymous customers who paid with cash? Surely they're not going to demand KYC
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by Strom 4y ago
I'm having a similar issue but even deeper. It's not that Google doesn't accept my edits, it's that Google Maps doesn't even seem to support the format that my address is in. My house number is 1/2 and the neig
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by Strom 4y ago
> the only way you can know which one has the taxes on it is to go look at some government website In Europe the tax is listed separately on the bill by law, no need to visit any website. The amount of tax charged isn't hidden in
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by Strom 4y ago
Local municipality taxes exist in Europe too. Some cities have an extra 1% tax for example and Apple isn't exempt from that. The price still remains what they advertise for the larger region.
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by Strom 4y ago
European states have different VAT rates too. A company advertises 999€ and then depending on the state it can be either 832,5€ + 166,5€ VAT or 839,5€ + 159,5€ VAT or 799,2€ + 199,8€ VAT etc. In the case of Apple they sometimes do this and
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by Strom 4y ago
Leap seconds can be negative.
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by Strom 4y ago
Tax payers seem to enjoy their Uber / Uber Eats type services which depend on GPS.
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by Strom 4y ago
I wouldn't call myself a devotee, but I'm still on the positive side of the opinion spectrum. The primary reason to not talk much is that it's useless. You can't reason with an angry mob. Sure there are plenty of things
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by Strom 4y ago
> ultimately it's an implementation detail Impressive engineering is always about details. If you want to argue that there is really nothing superior about Tesla's engineering that's fine, but you can't shove imp
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by Strom 4y ago
> now they want to ban russophone schools There is nothing about banning Russian language schools. It's about shifting state funding from Russian language to Estonian language. Privately funded Russian schools can keep operating.
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by Strom 4y ago
Estonia already has experience with faked election results with paper voting, due to Russian occupation. So that argument doesn't work as well in Estonia. Yes the electronic system can have flaws, but the old system didn't prevent
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by Strom 4y ago
None of this matches my experience. > You need to install some government software It's open source and on github. Check out any of the ~50 repos https://github.com/orgs/open-eid/repositories --- not sur
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by Strom 4y ago
They can convert themselves to a Russian citizen at any time. They don't do it, because they don't want to actually live in Russia. They just want to be able to go there regularly for family and friends. In the 1990s Estonian citi
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by Strom 4y ago
> AFAIK all Baltic states have a minority with limited rights, so they are far from true democracy. Limited rights in the sense of not being able to vote for the parliament, sure. However that isn't unusual at all. In fact, I don&
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> A quick question - how can a person born in a Baltic state and living there their whole life end up without citizenship? The people in question are ethnic Russians who CHOOSE to not get a citizenship. They choose this, beccause peopl
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by Strom 4y ago
Definitely not true. Would cut down on a lot of scams, but alas. The e-residency is popular among various online scammers, because it gives them access to the EU banking system.
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by Strom 4y ago
I also got 10/10, but by looking at ears and facial hair. There's a long way to go for a test like this. That said, if I didn't know I was looking for artifacts, all of those pictures would be passable at a glance.
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by Strom 4y ago
It's a great episode and I also recommend it. For those who wish to have something visual the better link would be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2lJUOv0hLA
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by Strom 4y ago
Fall of Civilizations is absolutely amazing stuff, I double recommend it. It has an episode that covers this specific topic as well - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2lJUOv0hLA
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by Strom 4y ago
I also think Chad was the original plan for the OST. However I don't think Marty/id ever decided that Chad isn't up to the task. Note that Mick only got the contract by going straight to their parent company Bethesda. Marty o
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by Strom 4y ago
It's still possible to "mess with the URL" .. you just go type paypal.com again and it won't show the phone number request the second time. So this number request seems to be part of the login flow, but the session cooki

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