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by desdiv 7y ago
>I too have a chronic condition, and there are doctors who offer magic solutions for large sums of money. There is a doctor who claims he had the condition and treated himself. Then weeks later his website went up and he now offers the t
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You are correct if you interpret "Visa and Mastercard" as literally Mastercard Incorporated and Visa Inc. He used "Visa and Mastercard" as a metonymy for the entire payment processing network i.e. payment gateway + issui
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by desdiv 7y ago
More info: >Blackett's team made the logical recommendation that the armour be placed in the areas which were completely untouched by damage in the bombers which returned. They reasoned that the survey was biased, since it only incl
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by desdiv 7y ago
These sources disagrees with you: >Women veterans, it turned out, were even more interested than their male counterparts in obtaining a college degree; more than 19.5% of 332,178 eligible women veterans elected to attend college after th
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by desdiv 7y ago
Is it possible to have a proper compile time ACL for C++? Arguably the Badge pattern as presented in the article is just an honor system that provides zero security, since it's trivial to forge a fake Badge: https://repl.it&
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by desdiv 7y ago
>Also, other US companies with GPUs besides the first 3 in your list are are open to licensing if the fees are big enough. This is a news story about a UK company being prohibited from dealing with Huawei due to its products containing
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by desdiv 7y ago
"Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of
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by desdiv 7y ago
Before 2013, data sent between Google data-centers were in plaintext (!!!) because Google incorrectly assumed that the their private fiber network was actually private[0]. So if you used Gmail or communicated with people who used Gmail befo
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by desdiv 7y ago
Would this crazy-ass strategy work? 1. Spin up 50 AWS Lightsail instances[0] for parallelism 2. In each instance download from S3 and upload to B2. S3 to any AWS service in the same region is free[1]. $5 Lightsail instances come with 2TB of
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by desdiv 7y ago
His goal is to get ["apple", "dog", "cat"] from ["apple", "dog", "apple", "cat", "apple"]. He does it in two steps[0]: Step ONE: Replace any duplicate values wi
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by desdiv 8y ago
Climate change is both: 1. A slow and steady increase in the average temperature. 2. A rapid increase in the frequency of extreme weather events. Point 1 doesn't force people to buy ACs, but Point 2 will. For example, you generally don
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by desdiv 8y ago
They filed for it in 2018-08-03: https://trademarks.justia.com/880/64/nosleep-88064058.html https://trademarks.justia.com/880/64/r-88064059.html
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KUnit: The Linux kernel unit testing framework from Google(lkml.iu.edu)
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>For these reasons the Army has expressed an interest in developing a non-toxic rifle bullet that’s cheap enough for their usages. Swaged copper bullets exist, but at ~$1 a pop they’re appropriate for hunters and not for an army that goe
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by desdiv 8y ago
>Yes, Google is likely to have more cached data than you, but they can also be a half a country or two away. Google has edge nodes in pretty much every ISP of every country except China. A query to Google's public DNS never leaves y
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by desdiv 8y ago
OP has EU citizenship, OP's partner does not. OP was under the impression that their non-EU partner will loose their right to work in the UK. That's definitely not the case though, and I've replied to OP on the steps to secur
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by desdiv 8y ago
Your partner has the right to live and work in the UK, and to travel in and out of it without a UK visa. This brexit mess does not abridge any of those rights. 1. If you guys are married, she can apply for the EU Settlement Scheme[1]. 2. If
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by desdiv 8y ago
That's really weird. Does it have something to do with its UK distribution rights or something? Funny enough, I was able to find the Spanish version of the book on Amazon UK[0], but the English version apparently "will be released
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by desdiv 8y ago
>Since they can’t get back the stolen millions used to bankroll DiCaprio’s dreams, part of accomplishing justice in this case means the U.S. government now owns the rights and royalties of The Wolf of Wall Street. Minor correction: U.S.
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by desdiv 8y ago
My favorite piece of trivia used to be: "US civilians own more firearms than every police force and military in the world combined". This was based off Small Arms Survey's 2010 estimates of US civilians at 270 million and pol
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by desdiv 8y ago
It's simply not true. It started out as a factoid, but got jumbled into nonsense by a game of telephone: 1. True: 16 of the world’s largest ships produce as much _sulfur_ pollution as all the world’s cars.[1] 2. False: "How 16 shi
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by desdiv 8y ago
I googled around and honestly can't find a single phone introduced in 2019 that's still 32-bit. Sure, embedded non-phone Android devices could still be built with 32-bit CPUs to cut costs, but those devices typically don't le
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Kimurai – Modern Scraping Framework with Headless Chromium/Firefox and PhantomJS(github.com)
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"American tariffs" refers to the tariffs raised by President Donald J Trump against _China_ on March 22, 2018. This and the ensuring Chinese retaliatory tariffs has already taken effect for almost a year now and has already cost G
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by desdiv 8y ago
>You could store files in a Backblaze B2 bucket and serve them via Cloudflare with zero bandwidth fees. From Cloudflare's TOS [0]: >2.8 Limitation on Non-HTML Caching >The Service is offered primarily as a platform to cache an
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by desdiv 8y ago
Tesla's filed a SEC form 8-K[0] on 2013-11-05 that elevated both Musk’s and Tesla’s Twitter accounts to Disclosure Channels: >Tesla Disclosure Channels To Disseminate Information >Tesla investors and others should note that we an
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by desdiv 8y ago
It's his actual timezone - EST (Concord, Massachusetts). >The first thing one sees from this plot is that, yes, I’ve been busy. And for more than 20 years, I’ve been sending emails throughout my waking day, albeit with a little dip
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Ramses – A distributed system for rendering 3D content(github.com)
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I found the name Niklas Gray from one of their previous HN submissions[0]. Googling the name turned up a Github account[1] and a blog[2], but nothing hinting at what they do, except that it's game related. [0] https://ourmac
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by desdiv 8y ago
Kendryte K210 is designed for FreeRTOS[0] and other embedded OSes. Complaining that it doesn't support Linux is like complaining that a Honda Civic can't compete in Formula One. [0] https://github.com/kendryte&#x2F

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