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by cranekam 6y ago
Almost none, because that’s highly unlikely for most people. The system is designed such that most tax-related things don’t need a return and end of year squaring up. Income is taxed monthly by subtracting the correct amount. Interest is ta
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by cranekam 6y ago
The UK tax system is very simple in most cases. Everyone has a “tax code” which denotes how much tax free allowance they have, if they have a company car, etc, and the tax scale is progressive with a few bands. Your employer actually deduct
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by cranekam 6y ago
Braeburns are great when in peak season — juicy, crisp, not at all pappy — but in the UK at least they’re highly desirable (edit: I mean they’re a staple, not that people really crave them) and therefore grown or imported year round, despit
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by cranekam 6y ago
> I can highly recommend anyone to read about the process of medical emergency triage in general Any recommendations? I had a search about but didn't find anything much beyond basic explanations of the term.
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by cranekam 6y ago
As https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/privacy-policy says, it's things like contact, status, profile pic, name, and so on.
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by cranekam 6y ago
Clearly. As with any encryption, at some point it needs to be decrypted for human consumption, and since someone else wrote the code/maintains to do this it's not impossible something naughty/distasteful will happen with the
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by cranekam 6y ago
Yes, of course this can't be proven. I'm reasonably confident what I stated still holds but I can't be certain. If that's enough of a turn off for you then your best bet is to not use the service.
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by cranekam 6y ago
> How can you guarantee this? I mean, I can't guarantee it. As others have said, it's not impossible that things have changed since I left or will change in the future. But I doubt it — e2e encryption is a big selling point for
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by cranekam 6y ago
> Their infra is generating those encryption certificates, so WhatsApp can very well decode the message and store it for further processing. This is incorrect. The sender's device generates the key with which it encrypts outgoing me
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by cranekam 6y ago
Yes, it's all easy. I have a /64 assigned to my LAN, an /80 assigned to each of my hosts for allocating IPs to containers, etc. I have DNS and a text file listing which blocks I have allocated out of the /48 my ISP gives
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by cranekam 6y ago
The half + full dose regime appears to have greater efficacy but wasn't approved because of insufficient data. I hope more data comes in and permits this. Also: "However, unpublished data suggests that leaving a longer gap between
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by cranekam 6y ago
Who in their right mind is memorising IPv4 addresses, at least beyond the IP range used on their home network? Nobody remembers MAC addresses because nobody needs to: IP and the upper layers hide that. If you don't want to adopt IPv6 b
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by cranekam 6y ago
I'm sure that this Google outage was the combination of several independent issues. Perhaps there are the kind of safeguards you mentioned in place, but they returned an incorrect view of the world because of a bug exposed by a network
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by cranekam 6y ago
IMO Facebook Workplace is vastly superior to Slack when you have a decent number of people around because: a) posts and comments logically group discussion better than multiple interleaved discussions in a channel b) the newsfeed does a dec
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by cranekam 6y ago
If this phenomenon is actually real instead of just perception then I'd guess it is down to reduced demand of some short. Some possibilities: a) users haven't all come back yet b) Google is throttling how fast users can access ser
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by cranekam 6y ago
You can split hairs however you like on when one needs their own allocation. That wasn’t my point — I was just trying to illustrate to the parent poster (since they seemed uncertain) how internet routing works at a basic level and why decis
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by cranekam 6y ago
"Running a datacenter" isn't something that inherently needs its own IP range. You could run a datacenter only in private address space and NAT to the internet (though this wouldn't really be very practical) or even run
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by cranekam 6y ago
I'm not sure what AS11917 is for now but the lion's share of WhatsApp now runs over/in Facebook's network/datacenters. WhatsApp chat connections are terminated on the FB edge like most other FB traffic and it shares
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by cranekam 6y ago
From what I've read/listened to this is generally not the case. The kind of psychedelic-assisted research that's happening today uses full doses that induce a "spirtual" experience, not microdoses. I'll see if
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by cranekam 6y ago
It also seems quite easy to verify this hypothesis with scapy: >>> p1 = IP(dst="192.168.mac.ip")/TCP(dport=1984,sport=20001) >>> p2 = IP(dst="192.168.mac.ip")/TCP(dport=1984,sport=20002)
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by cranekam 6y ago
There’s no proof of this. And what possible reason would macOS have for not checking the checksum? Although the checksum is weak it presumably catches at least some corrupt traffic. Do you really think Apple would just skip the TCP checks
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by cranekam 6y ago
TCP checksums are notoriously weak: https://www.evanjones.ca/tcp-checksums.html With enough packets passing the dodgy RAM a noticeable number will manage to get mangled in such a way that the checksum is still correct.
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by cranekam 6y ago
Visit the last time this was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15249994
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by cranekam 6y ago
I guess we all have different definitions of best. Personally I'd much rather take a 15 minute train (leaving every 15 minutes) to the centre of London then a connecting tube (total £25ish, 30 mins) than sit in a taxi for at best hal
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by cranekam 6y ago
Of course — I was just describing ebikes in general.
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by cranekam 6y ago
> In the long term, we’ll of course work on preventing this from possibly happening again. Leaving very specific solutions like alias mv='mv -i' aside.. A bare minimum first step would be to stop using mv directly and wrap it i
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by cranekam 6y ago
Most e-bikes are "assisted" rather than having a motorcycle-style twist throttle. You pedal and the motor contributes some additional power until you reach a certain speed (typically 20mph in the US, 25kph in Europe). At this poin
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by cranekam 6y ago
Bicycle stage races often have a "prologue" (typically a short time trial) before the regular racing of long, full-day starts. That is probably the inspiration for the name, and "prolog" is just an unconventional marketi
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by cranekam 6y ago
I agree with the overall sentiment — who is this for? — but: > carbon fibre frames are prohibitively expensive and the market for them serves very involved, often professional or semi-pro cyclists whose performance bottlenecks are impose
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by cranekam 6y ago
Yep. If psychedelics were to be given to terminally ill patients it's fair to assume it'd be under the guidance of someone who knows how to help things go well and in a comfortable environment. It probably wouldn't involve sa

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