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   by codethief 6mo ago

   First thought: Maybe they bought the gold first? Or the gold price was at a temporary high when they sold it? Second thought: The numbers don't seem to check out: 129t are 4,147,456.307 troy ounces (1 troy ounce = 31.1034768 g). The to
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   by codethief 6mo ago

   Is anyone here actually reading the article? Yes, they really made a gain of $15B: > But instead of refining and transporting the gold, it opted to sell the bars and purchase new bullion in Europe. […] Due to rising gold prices, the move
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   by codethief 6mo ago

   What a great name :) ("elf" = 11 in German)
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   by codethief 6mo ago

   But that response is grounded in the training data they've seen, so it's not entirely unreasonable to think their answer might provide actual insights, not just statistical parroting.
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   by codethief 6mo ago

   Can someone enlighten me what's been going on in the open-source office application space lately? Here we have LibreOffice and Collabora parting ways; meanwhile NextCloud used to integrate OnlyOffice until v18, then started integrating
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   by codethief 6mo ago

   Agreed. "Prefer pure functions, push side effects to the boundary (functional core, imperative)" is at the top of my CLAUDE.md these days.
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   by codethief 6mo ago

   > The initial limitation to Google/Android is not great, we know that, and we have support for other OSs on our list (like, e.g., GrapheneOS). GrapheneOS uses standard Android APIs for hardware attestation (as opposed to Google-spec
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   by codethief 6mo ago

   > Smart albums are collections that support rule based additions, as well as one-off additions. So a contributor can add photos directly to the collection, without the owner's clients not having to perform any extra computation. Wha
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   by codethief 6mo ago

   They, too, offer integrations for LLMs these days, presumably for better OCR and classification.
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    by codethief 6mo ago

    I've been using News Feed Eradicator[0], a Firefox/Chrome extension, for the same purpose and it's been working really well. For most sites you can configure what should vs. should not be "eradicated". [0]: https:&
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    by codethief 6mo ago

    Huh, I must have missed that. Thanks!
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    by codethief 6mo ago

    Ah, you're right. I added the (·)⁻¹ at the very end, when I noticed the units on both sides didn't agree, and forgot about the average.
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    by codethief 6mo ago

    > The $1 is measured in international dollars. This means it buys the same amount of goods and services in any country as a US dollar does in the United States. It is often used alongside purchasing power parity (PPP) data. The “time” re
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    by codethief 6mo ago

    Ahhh, now I see! Thanks! > You can then share[0] this album with recipients who can view / add / auto-add items from their library. IIUC, when a contributor uploads a photo, the owner of the smart album would need to do some c
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    by codethief 6mo ago

    I'm not sure I understand yet. If tags (and the photos associated to them) are supposed to be shareable with others, how do you control read/write access to the tag if you don't use separate cryptographic keys? If you re-use&
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    by codethief 6mo ago

    > While standalone CSS is not yet Turing complete Looks like it is, though? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47558097
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    by codethief 6mo ago

    A wall hack is any technique allowing the player to see opponents through walls. Googling for screenshots or videos should give you a good idea of how it looks.
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    by codethief 6mo ago

    How is that setting supposed to carry over if I don't even have a Google account on my phone? And even if I disregard that for a moment, what's up with the author being a mouthpiece for Google? > Google's latest concession
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    by codethief 6mo ago

    > Namely: Salary is taxed lower than dividends. That very much depends on your tax bracket but at high income levels salaries are usually taxed quite a bit higher (42% vs. ~27%). 42% being the highest tax bracket of course; the first ~69
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    by codethief 6mo ago

    > It's related to commits actually having a parent-child structure (forming a graph) and timestamps (commit/author) being metadata. Yeah, I think everyone is aware. It's just that the last couple dozen commits, to me, look
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    by codethief 6mo ago

    Oops, I should have checked this more carefully. Thanks!
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    by codethief 6mo ago

    I think such "ludicrous sets of patches" are very common in many jurisdictions. (At least in Germany they are.) I agree, though, git patches would be a lot nicer.
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    by codethief 6mo ago

    The German parliament even has an official git repository: https://github.com/bundestag/gesetze Looks like it's been abandoned, though. :(
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    by codethief 6mo ago

    > how far back (in time) do those 27k commits go Looking at the commit dates (which seem to be derived from the original publication dates) the history seems quite sparse/incomplete(?) I mean, there have only been 26 commits since 2
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    by codethief 6mo ago

    So if I understand you correctly, users will be able to share tags from a given album but you don't want to make tags separate collections (inside the existing album collection). But what is the alternative here if you want to secure a
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    by codethief 6mo ago

    Sure but that doesn't make them illegal?
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    by codethief 6mo ago

    > Taiwan relies on LNG for 40% of its energy production and has like 10 days of fuel left--semis are implicated. The "10 days left" thing seems to be a hoax(?) https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/intern
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    by codethief 6mo ago

    > I'm fairly sure the German tax authority will claim that you have a local German branch office since you live and work there. That might be OK tax wise? If you work from home, your office at home usually does not qualify as a comp
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    by codethief 6mo ago

    Thanks again for the YouTube link – I hadn't had time to watch the entire video yet, so I wasn't aware your product lead addressed nested folders specifically. So how would nested tags interact with albums? Will I also be able to
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    by codethief 6mo ago

    Hi Vishnu, thanks for engaging here – it is highly appreciated! Let me respond to a couple of your statements from the interview: > I think it's important to offer a complete package I agree. But doesn't that start with making