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by aries1980 6y ago
I don't live in the USA, why should I be affected by the RIAA and DMCA outside the USA? If I ping github.com, it is resolved as lb-140-82-121-4-fra.github.com , so what is the rational behind the global takedown?
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by aries1980 6y ago
Wasn't that the NATO instead?
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Hydrogen-powered train makes UK maiden journey(bbc.co.uk)
76 points by aries1980 6y ago|67 comments
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by aries1980 6y ago
Let's not forget how Google enforced good accessibility practice on websites through SEO.
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by aries1980 6y ago
> Employer NI is 13.8%, but rarely counted as a tax on the worker (crazilly) It is a cost of the employment. As I wrote above, it goes to the treasury and proportionate to the salary. It doesn't matter how we label it. Doesn't
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by aries1980 6y ago
> That sounds like capitalism to me. Capitalism encourages private ownership and keeping the means of your labour. High taxation is the opposite of this, because it doesn't leave enough profit at the individual, which prevents priva
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by aries1980 6y ago
> in fact if you earn 80k and spend ALL your takehome on 20% VAT goods, you still end up with the majority share. Employment salary cost: 91.04K (gross salary + employer's national insurance) Gross income: 80K Take home pay: 55.04K
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by aries1980 6y ago
We are talking about 1.6M employee/small business owner, who has families as well. So Labour supposed to punish the most ambitious, hard-working people and their families with even higher taxes (40+20+13.8+... percent) they already pay
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by aries1980 6y ago
Some of us grew up in a mild socialist/communist regime, in where leaders thought they can more wisely spend the fruit of your labour than yourself. So we emigrated to a country that supposed to be free. In the UK, a middle class earne
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by aries1980 6y ago
...and because instead of lowering the govn't expenditure, they planned to increase the tax for the middle class: https://www.ifs.org.uk/election/2019/article/labour-s-propos...
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by aries1980 6y ago
I find ECS/Fargate and managed Kubernetes not a bit easier to manage than Kubernetes itself. On the other hand, the inflexibility or vendor-specificity of these requires as much learning as you'd use FOSS tools. Also those skills
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by aries1980 6y ago
Yes, these. I have Cheaney, Barker (I know it is not high-end by pricing, but I'm very satisfied with their quality over the years) Paul Smith, Attila Shoes, Vass Shoes and some workhorses that are worn enough not to care to walk 10-20
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by aries1980 6y ago
> Is that not an effect of marketing though? Above a given level, for sure. But you can tell the difference of a $20 shirt and a $100 from a distance. I am not sure about the $100+ range. If you check the brands I mentioned, they are not
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by aries1980 6y ago
High-end fashion is not fast fashion. I wear high-end shoes daily, some that have been resoled twice, having a 10-year lifespan each. I feel I stand out from the crowd when I appear in my don't remember-when-I-bought Hackett blazer and
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by aries1980 6y ago
Recruiters often doesn't have the role. They try to stir up an interest in you, so with your nice CV they can approach the - just prospecting - client.
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by aries1980 6y ago
> E.g., we would have needed a tax id in every EU state we are selling to You could have registered to "VAT Mini One Stop Shop (MOSS)" in one member state: https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/sites/t
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by aries1980 6y ago
Up until the 2000s, in Hungary, CVs and cover letters had to be written by hand. Mostly, because handwriting was considered a precursor to how literate and educated is the candidate.
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by aries1980 6y ago
My fountain pens leak as well. Doesn't matter which one I use, Montblanc, Parker, Caran d'Ache, Waterman, Lamy, Rotring... The leaks are not severe, but holding area always has some, leaving inks on my fingertips.
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by aries1980 6y ago
It is hard to beat a Pelikan and they have some fancy range. It is strange you didn't mention Rotring. They are quite affordable, nice design, good pens.
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by aries1980 6y ago
Indeed. This was the case with me until I became 25 and bumped into the fountain pen topic and I was finally able to afford to buy a proper fountain pen (which happened to be a Parker Duofold Chocolate Pinstripe).
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by aries1980 6y ago
Reminds me the Four Horsemen of classical music in movies: - Chopin: Nocturnes Op 9 - Mozart: Requiem - Lacrimosa - Beethoven: Sonata No 14 (aka Moonlight Sonata), 1st Movement - Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody
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by aries1980 6y ago
In Hungary, in the 1920 a new legislation was introduced called "Numerus Clausus". This limited the admission to universities and public offices by the percentage of the ethnic ration within the country. > Its aim was to restri
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by aries1980 6y ago
Camera/camcorder makers are huge market, and they use Linux internally. E.g. Sony's stuff: https://oss.sony.net/Products/Linux/
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by aries1980 6y ago
How the location of living is verified?
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by aries1980 6y ago
Indeed, but modern frameworks get around this quickly. If you use Symfony, Laravel or Drupal, you will likely never use these functions, because they are packaged as a replaceable module with proper OOP interfaces and classes. Most people w
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by aries1980 6y ago
mysql_real_escape_string() comes from the MySQL C library binding: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/mysql-real-escape-st...
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by aries1980 6y ago
> there's little consistency between types and orders of arguments in the base functions of the language This is an inheritance from C. Most of these functions are present in libc and the bound libraries (e.g. libcurl), with the sa
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by aries1980 6y ago
> If the government failed in its duty to protect the public Most governments failed when they didn't start to tax the sh*t out of unhealthy food and ingredients. "Preliminary evidence suggests that the severity of symptoms ass
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by aries1980 6y ago
In countries I lived in, it is the tenants' responsibility to maintain the property and its surroundings. Tenants need to move the lawn, cut the trees back, shovel snow, get out the weeds, remove algae off the patio, etc. For flats, co
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by aries1980 6y ago
I am not convinced the lockdown is the issue, but the general health of the people. When you see news like this: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetl... "Long queues force Elgin Burger King

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