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by _djo_ 5y ago
Not really. The Biden administration’s proposals include more funding and organisational reform for the IRS. Democrats have been talking for some time about how the steady defunding of the IRS has resulted in less tax collection from the ri
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by _djo_ 6y ago
You're assuming developed world demographics in your answer, which isn't accurate for countries like South Africa with relatively young populations. Fully one fifth of South Africa's COVID-19 deaths were in the 50-59 age brac
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by _djo_ 6y ago
That's a false claim, though. There's evidence that at least one of the students involved did not do anything to alert kernel maintainers or prevent their code from reaching stable. https://git.kernel.org/pub/
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by _djo_ 6y ago
This is inaccurate. COVID-19 has been far deadlier than any of those already-devastating existing diseases and conditions in places like India, South Africa, and Brazil. In South Africa for instance, COVID-19 killed more people in 2020 than
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by _djo_ 6y ago
There wasn’t enough time for a full new trial, especially as the first phase was meant to be a trial in and of itself and was intended for crucial high risk individuals like healthcare workers. So the country had to rely on what data was av
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by _djo_ 6y ago
If you opt into Google's Advanced Protection Program you can no longer install apps from F-Droid.
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by _djo_ 6y ago
Because those two tweets, and the video, were both offering tacit support to people violently attacking the US Capitol and continuing to promote the egregious lie and conspiracy theory of a stolen election that was driving the attack in the
818.
by _djo_ 6y ago
You're thinking of Ars Technica, I think.
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by _djo_ 6y ago
Are you doing the formatting via a Vim plugin? I often find it's much faster to pipe out to a command line program to do formatting on huge files. e.g. :%! jq or :%! xmllint --format -
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Starlink already threatens optical astronomy. Now, radio astronomers are worried(sciencemag.org)
3 points by _djo_ 6y ago|0 comments
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Starlink already threatens optical astronomy. Now, radio astronomers are worried(sciencemag.org)
4 points by _djo_ 6y ago|0 comments
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by _djo_ 6y ago
Was there ever actually any evidence that the NYT was about to reveal Carlson's address? The paper has denied any intention to do so, and Carlson's wording was ambiguous.
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Now Open – AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region – Amazon Web Services(aws.amazon.com)
2 points by _djo_ 7y ago|0 comments
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by _djo_ 7y ago
This has been a long time coming for AWS users in southern Africa, as news about this region launching has been going around for a number of years. Fantastic to see it launch, I know it took a lot of hard work for the AWS CT team.
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AWS Cape Town region goes live(mybroadband.co.za)
2 points by _djo_ 7y ago|1 comments
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by _djo_ 7y ago
While it's not surface light rail, I'd argue that the Gautrain in Johannesburg & Tshwane counts as a modern urban rail system, especially as it incorporates substantial subway sections.
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by _djo_ 7y ago
See the PAW-20 for an example of this taken to its logical conclusion.
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by _djo_ 7y ago
What data set is this based on? Are you calculating flows by monetary value (favouring high-end systems) or by quantity (favouring small arms)?
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by _djo_ 7y ago
In my case, it's the result of a research project I carried out a few years ago. While that went into somewhat deeper detail, the kind of information I've shared here is quite openly available from official and academic sources.
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by _djo_ 7y ago
That article is not entirely accurate and is based on a misunderstanding of what those contractors are doing. They're loading NATO MIDS/Link-16/IFF keys, not 'starting' the aircraft. The Austrian Eurofighters can fl
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by _djo_ 7y ago
That is part of what the UN troops are attempting to do, but it's an impossibly difficult task. There are far too few troops for the size of the area and population size they need to defend, and that's before you take into account
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by _djo_ 7y ago
True as well.
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by _djo_ 7y ago
That's not really what this is, though. This is about industrial policy and maintaining local industrial and technological capabilities that are, in turn, useful or necessary for defence. There are plenty of examples of this being done
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by _djo_ 8y ago
The ship being used for the expedition, the SA Agulhas II, is an Antarctic research ship owned and operated by the South African government. Its regular duties are to resupply and support the South African National Antarctic Expedition (SAN
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by _djo_ 8y ago
Though of course the underlying risk is that few contractors are going to want to work for the US government again, making it a lot more difficult to fill some positions where skills are scarce. The knock-on effects of this shutdown are goi
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by _djo_ 8y ago
None of the contractors will be paid, as I understand it, only permanent federal employees.
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by _djo_ 8y ago
Technically speaking, these were the final hours of the First World War in Europe . Fighting continued in East Africa for a few more days owing to delays in communication. It was only on 14 November 1918 that the German commander in East A
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by _djo_ 8y ago
Gerald Weinberg has died. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17716098
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by _djo_ 9y ago
Already exists. The only aircraft touchscreens I've used have been those from MGL Avionics [0], which required a firm intentional press and provided feedback. There's no reason to use screens that trigger on just a light touch. [0
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by _djo_ 9y ago
For South Africa the impact will be very small. The entire mining sector has shrunk to just 7% of the economy, with diamond mining being a tiny fraction of that. Botswana is far more at risk, as around a third of their government revenues

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