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by brainwad 1y ago
When I got my first LCA 14 years ago, the min salary my employer had to pay was 77k (and I actually got 90k). How on earth do Indian outsourcing companies get 401ks for employees earning only 40-60k?
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by brainwad 1y ago
If they leave so much of a group alone, it starts to suggest that the intended targeted group is a different, smaller one. In this case, residents of Gaza vs Palestinians as a nation. Especially in combination with the "siege" com
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by brainwad 1y ago
As an Australian, I do find it a bit perjorative for countries north of us (many of them in the northern hemisphere!) to be deemed the "global south", while we are excluded despite actually being the only inhabited continent entir
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by brainwad 1y ago
I more or less agree with you (if it were a _genocide_, you'd expect Israel to be equally targeting Palestinians in the West Bank and in Israel proper), but the report does have some specific examples of things that seem to go beyond &
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by brainwad 1y ago
Chrome had nothing to do with the case, though; the prosecutors were grasping at straws. The obvious remedy is to ban Google from bidding for placement, which is what happened.
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by brainwad 1y ago
Yes, and Firefox Mobile falls into it by default.
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by brainwad 1y ago
1.8 probably would produce a non-integer number of CSS pixels. The browser needs (wants?) to pick a number that divides both the width and height without remainders. For 1920x1080, 1.8 doesn't (works for the height, but not the width)
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by brainwad 1y ago
Maybe it's better to say that browsers just take what the OS tells them, rather than actually deriving a device pixel ratio from first principles according to the CSS spec. Because, yeah, there's some weird devices with DPRs like
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by brainwad 1y ago
Not really. All major browsers just use the value the OS gives them, which is usually rounded to 0.5 or 0.25, which helps keep integer CSS px values an integer number of device pixels. So you could be off as much as 12% if you are on a devi
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by brainwad 1y ago
96dpi seems like a bad default for mobile devices. The CSS spec says the reference pixel ( https://www.w3.org/TR/css-values-3/#reference-pixel ) should be 96dpi at ~28" viewing distance. But handheld devices ar
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by brainwad 1y ago
Discounts for Pix vs cash sound cool and a fine alternative to cashback via the payment system. Though I can imagine this might be hard in some countries, where there is a strong pro-cash lobby.
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by brainwad 1y ago
So long as the price is the same for cash and card (and Pix?), then you should pick the one that gives you the best kickbacks. I don't think capping CC fees will actually lower prices for consumers much (because merchants prefer round
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by brainwad 1y ago
> Only since Wednesday of this week due to COMCO action That Visa fee table is dated July 2023?
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by brainwad 1y ago
Reducing merchant fees seems like a mistake if you are in competition with both cash (which has high intrinsic merchant costs) and credit cards (which has low intrinsic costs, but which are padded so they're closer to the costs of cash
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by brainwad 1y ago
Switzerland has interchange fees of 0.4% for consumer credit cards (by contactless, only slightly higher by chip+pin): https://www.visaeurope.ch/content/dam/VCOM/regional/ve/unite... , https:/&
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by brainwad 1y ago
Credit card isn't more expensive than its main competitor, cash, though. It's just the costs of credit card acceptance are transparently added to each transaction, while the costs of cash are distributed over the whole day's
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by brainwad 1y ago
Credit cards give me cashback, worldwide acceptance and peace of mind. The country I live in, Switzerland, has a very widely accepted QR-based payment system... but credit cards (in mobile wallets) are more convenient, safer, faster. The on
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by brainwad 1y ago
>If I create content like recipes ... previously I had exclusive rights to my created content Recipes are not protected by copyright law. That's _why_ recipe bloggers have resorted to editorialising recipes, because the editorial co
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by brainwad 1y ago
> junctions still slow them down This is also mostly fixable, with signal priority. Except at complex intersections where different roads each have transit lines fighting for priority.
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by brainwad 1y ago
There's a collective action problem, though. One parent taking away their kid's phone is just isolating them from their friends, which might be a net negative. However, all the kids having their phones taken away would be a net po
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by brainwad 1y ago
The Indian system is clearly less consistent from an outsider PoV: You use a 3 digit gap for the first comma, then 2-digit gaps (1 crore is 1,00,00,000); the western system is consistently 3-digits (1 million is 1,000,000).
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by brainwad 1y ago
It happened in newspaper jargon for the leading sentence of an article (though they used the spelling "lede" instead), because "lead" was already a metonym for hot type (which was cast out of the metal). It hasn't h
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by brainwad 1y ago
Most English words are regular, and most commonly used ones too. "the", "be", "are", "why", "can", "might", "life", etc. are all perfectly regular if you understand how t
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by brainwad 1y ago
Your examples are more or less regular though. English is a stress-based language, so it's expected that pronunciation might change when you add an extra syllable, if the stress moves (syllable -> syllabic is another example, btw).
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by brainwad 1y ago
You don't even use them consistently in the same sentence (your unaccented i has at least 3 different values, for instance). The real reason English spelling is frozen in the 1600s is that that is the last time all English speakers had
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by brainwad 1y ago
Just the uppercase variant ẞ - the lowercase ß _is_ there. Notably, uppercase ẞ didn't exist at the time the source typeface was designed – it was only officially adopted 111 years later in 2017.
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by brainwad 1y ago
It's shit even with an ad blocker. The problem is that there's just very little organic content anymore, because the fad of posting all the time on social media passed. A social media site can't subsist on birthdays, wedding
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by brainwad 1y ago
Well, the problem is obvious in hindsight, and perhaps even in foresight. Giving out free money attracts these scammers, who crowd real students out of not only the aid money, but also the actual class. So the net effect is to make it harde
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by brainwad 2y ago
Perfectly readable in Firefox Mobile. Chrome too. What mobile browser are you using?
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by brainwad 2y ago
This has always been the case though. Before the smartphone, it was computers and internet; before that it was landline phone service. Both of the latter were far more expensive than a modern smartphone, so we are actually making progress i

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