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by buyx 10y ago
Archiveteam does not give a flying fuck about some corporation's IP if it means that people's creations can be saved for them and future generations. Future generations are likely to be disappointed already, since it seems, sadl
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by buyx 10y ago
And the EO has an exception for 'religious minorities', which are (surprise) never muslim in majority muslim countries. I don't follow..a religious minority in a Muslim majority country would by definition not be Muslim. Wh
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by buyx 10y ago
Where in the EO does Muslim come into play? So Trump campaigned on a promise to ban Muslims from entering the US. He then instituted a blanket ban on entry from 7 overwhelmingly Muslim countries. Are we splitting hairs again implying that
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by buyx 10y ago
Blocking a country is not racist. If the EO was "Persians are not allowed in" that'd be different. Indeed."Muslim" is not a race. Perhaps a better word would be "bigoted" or "discriminatory" no
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by buyx 10y ago
Agreed. Trump clearly stated that he was going to institute a Muslim ban and didn't rule out a Muslim registry when asked by reporters, so this policy shouldn't be a surprise to those who voted for him. Germans have accepted colle
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by buyx 10y ago
As a non-American, I have to ask why the large, liberal states don't embrace States' Rights? I know that historically, "States' Rights" has been a codeword for racism, but times change. Why don't liberal state
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by buyx 10y ago
The mine dumps are largely a problem in the south of Johannesburg. The article shows that the problem is spread across the entire country. And the Mpumalanga Highveld has particularly shocking pollution levels, from the coal-fired power sta
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by buyx 10y ago
No, they've built their model on the fact that for the vast majority of their users this will never be an issue. Maybe a celebrity, maybe an important target but the average user, never going to be an issue. Email is the gateway to a
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by buyx 10y ago
SIM swap fraud has been common in South Africa for years, and bank accounts were being cleaned out before the cell networks tightened their procedures. Yet I've started to see reports of similar scams in the developed world. I'm s
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by buyx 10y ago
First National Bank (FNB) in South Africa has adopted every one of these absurd rules, and more: Passwords must contain a mixture of upper and lower case letters as well as one letter and one special character Length between 7 and 33 charac
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by buyx 10y ago
The quality of South African reporting is not particularly great, but it seems like Uber allowed two major lapses to occur, allowing a criminal rapist to drive for them, and then allowing the same person using a "stolen" Uber vehi
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Two held for brutal attacks on Uber passengers(iol.co.za)
2 points by buyx 10y ago|1 comments
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by buyx 10y ago
Slightly OT, but The article alludes to xenophobic violence in South Africa. South Africa already has a de facto open borders policy and its local black population has been squeezed out of many business opportunities by people from the re
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by buyx 10y ago
The population of Botswana would be bankrupt and digging for scraps of food (there is a customs union with South Africa, but beyond that, the economy doesn't seem particularly diversified).
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by buyx 11y ago
In South Africa, the decimal comma is the standard, but beyond school, I almost never see it used. The space is still retained as a thousands seperator (I don't think I've ever seen a comma thousands seperator in a South African c
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by buyx 11y ago
Internet in Africa from balloons would solve many issues. Mobile internet has far more penetration than fixed-line broadband because of infrastructure challenges. Providing another means of low-cost wireless connectivity to millions of peop
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by buyx 11y ago
The problem with pre-populated online forms is that if there are issues with the data that the tax authority receives from third parties, proving it wrong is difficult, and the burden of proof shifts to the taxpayer. A few years ago, I resi
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by buyx 11y ago
I don't have a problem with occupational therapists. Indeed, I went for occupational therapy myself, in the 1980's when it was far less common. I had genuine problems that needed addressing (when I was 5 I couldn't do buttons
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by buyx 11y ago
It could just be a matter of overdiagnosis of problems from medical professionals in a for-profit healthcare system.
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by buyx 11y ago
As much as the rise in "sensory issues" may be real, it could also be occupational therapists trying to generate more business for themselves. It's happened in South Africa's[1] for-profit private healthcare sector, wher
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by buyx 11y ago
The comment by Uber South Africa's spokesperson shows that Uber is sensitive of the perception that poor labour is being exploited by capital-rich wannabe taxi kingpins (which this article is aimed at): Asked about the prospects of in
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South Africa: Getting your slice of Uber’s success(moneyweb.co.za)
2 points by buyx 11y ago|1 comments
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Types of Software Consulting firms-which do you work for? (2010)(skorks.com)
1 points by buyx 11y ago|0 comments
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by buyx 11y ago
If it results in a contraction of the real Chinese economy then resource exporting countries (Brazil, South Africa and Australia spring to mind) would feel some serious pain. I'm not sure how much of an effect it would have on the US
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by buyx 11y ago
Plutos "demotion" from being a fully-fledged planet makes me wonder if it would have been politically feasible to start the New Horizons project if the redefinition had happened a few years earlier. Still, I am pleasantly surprise
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by buyx 11y ago
In the case of South Africa, taxi owners tend to own fleets of vehicles, rather than a single vehicle being shared.
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by buyx 11y ago
In South Africa, that seems to be exactly the case, at least for most of the rides I've taken on Uber. The vehicle owners are not the same as the drivers (most of the Uber drivers here wouldn't be able to afford their own vehicles
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by buyx 11y ago
I actually once had to build a tree from subtrees for work (I was modelling some kind of process as a tree, given pairs of data). It was good fun, and a break from the mundane CRUD-based work I usually do. I did it with a whiteboard initial
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by buyx 11y ago
I was once in an exam hall and middle-aged female primary school teachers were in the next row writing a trivial (non-degree) exam on primary school mathematics education or something [^]. They were brazenly passing notes to each other even
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by buyx 11y ago
I guess the bank account thing would be confusing initially, but it really just needs to be explicitly stated upfront that the bank account is drawn up from the perspective of the bank, and your accounts are literally the inverse of the ban

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