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2y ago
Absolutely, if you’re precious about it review the code, remove the lines, and away you go. Your pipeline will error with an unexpected result from man, you can grep the man code for “gimme” and remove it in 2 minutes, far quicker than read
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chgs
2y ago
Which would be the same as the next 72 hours in PST
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2y ago
Is a UTC day a different length to a common solar day? At this level of pre soon leap seconds and even sidereal day difference makes no difference
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2y ago
It relies almost entirely on the massive US might, military, cultural, diplomatic.
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2y ago
You could have them turn up to an office for a few days when they start work if you wanted
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2y ago
There’s a reason the US has the largest economy in the world. It’s modern colonialism.
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2y ago
> But the way that advertising has its tentacles in our culture now... it's bad. Yes. But half of HN works in the advertising industry.
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2y ago
Ibuprofen, paracetamol etc is advertised in the uk.
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chgs
2y ago
In the context of crowning kings, the union of the crowns was 1603, before the mayflower, before new Amsterdam, even before Jamestown. But even with 1707 you’re talking 30% of the age of the USA again.
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2y ago
Is the risk for a ceo of a billion dollar company 10 times that of a 100m dollar company? Or 10 times lesss than a 10b company? Are they personally accountable?
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2y ago
Including James 6th, who then took over England.
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2y ago
Scotland and England has been the same country for far longer than say the USA has even existed.
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2y ago
Lowest paid employees get outsourced. We already see it in most companies - they buy in cleaning services rather than employing the cleaners for example.
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2y ago
I assumed it was an innovation - I’m in the US at the moment and amazing how annoying it is not to have he cap just sit next to the lid.
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2y ago
Yeah a typo is a minor mistake that doesn’t usually change the meaning. 400 a month is insanely cheap, 400 a week is insanely expensive. That completely changes the context.
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chgs
2y ago
$400 a month or $400 a week? Does anyone proof read blogs any more? One off comments, fine, but if you’re going to the effort to publish something on a blog? This isn’t a typo, this is a difference between 400 and 1700.
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2y ago
Is the problem the head isn’t well built? Or wired incorrectly? I don’t think I’ve seen one with the heater on the head, but electric showers and other electric water heaters are perfectly normal in my country, the comments suggest they mig
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chgs
2y ago
Apple kit is awful for that, same applies with phones too.
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2y ago
I guess that’s an Americanism - no national anthem played at the start of club sports in the UK as far as aware. Country level sports where the national team is playing, sure.
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2y ago
Someone randomly walking into a Duane trade in Seattle and purchasing a device would not be reasonably coveted under the GDPR However if 23&me were targeting European citizens that would be different. Despite what the adtech industry li
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2y ago
Pretty much. If EU citizens are targetted then it applies. “Provided your company doesn't specifically target its services at individuals in the EU, it is not subject to the rules of the GDPR. ” https://commission.europa.eu&
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2y ago
Mostly. Howver if I am in New York and walk into Sam’s deli GDpR doesn’t apply. If Sam were to target an EU citizen then it would.
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2y ago
Or his 50th anniversary video https://youtu.be/0YmSxTIvs_M?si=rJmzh_1XJ_UsaQTf
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2y ago
If advertising was for my benefit it would be optional. It’s not.
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2y ago
Advertising - one of the largest industries on the planet. It’s not even zero sum, it’s a net loss. The views loses $50 and 100 hours, the winners gain $50
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2y ago
Yet more definitions of free speech that some agree with and some disagree with. That’s fine, block whatever you want. Just don’t whine that others have a different view on what “free speech” means.
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2y ago
For small businesses cash also allows for easier tax evasion
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2y ago
What’s the dispute protection with cash?
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2y ago
In the U.K. you paid by the minute for phone calls too. That’s on top of tue per minute compuserve charge and the monthly charge. While the extra charges ok top of the phone we’re slowly removed, the genral per monute phone costs remained w
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chgs
2y ago
Well they’re certain no good here - scratches, verges, and you want as narrow a car as possible.
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