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by desdiv 8y ago
>Statistically much of China is under-policed [0] That table is slightly misleading depending on how you count police forces. China's numbers are slightly shewed due to the 1.5 million strong People's Armed Police[0] not being
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by desdiv 8y ago
You have been on this site for less than an hour and yet you have three flagged comments already. Maybe it's time to change your approach?
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>The $40 million in penalties will be distributed to harmed investors under a court-approved process. [0] https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-226
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by desdiv 8y ago
Up until late 2013, the connection between Google data centers were all in plaintext, which allowed State sponsored attackers to acquire pretty much every piece of data that Google had. Source codes, customer data, internal data, everything
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by desdiv 8y ago
Exactly. The original deal was: 1. No admission of guilt 2. Bar from chairmanship for 2 years 3. $10 million fine for Musk and $10 million fine for Tesla The final deal was: 1. No admission of guilt 2. Bar from chairmanship for 3 years 3. $
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by desdiv 8y ago
The video is a reference to this No Man's Sky parody video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvAwB7ogkik
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by desdiv 8y ago
I think your pricing information might be slightly out of date. AWS Lightsail's $5 plan is equivalent or better than Linode's $5 plan. Plus AWS Lightsail has an even more barebones plan at $3.5 per month. Two years ago you would b
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by desdiv 8y ago
Squatters are defined as people who occupy building or land _without permission_. As soon as you give them permission to occupy, i.e. with a caretaker's employment contract, they are no longer a squatter, by definition.
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by desdiv 8y ago
When a Canadian has $14,000 in capital gains, their tax liability is calculated as: $14,000 * 50% * marginal tax rate. The 50% is basically the Canadian way of taxing capital gains lower than earned income. What GP was trying to convey, alb
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by desdiv 8y ago
It doesn't affect a lot of US consumers, but it will affect a lot of US retailers. Let's say after 2019-01-01 I want to purchase a $500 gadget that's being hit with the 25% tariff. I can either: 1. Buy it from Amazon or a loc
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by desdiv 8y ago
To be pedantic, the first Wiki link in that article goes to the Fruit preserves article[0], which begins with: "Fruit preserves are preparations of fruits, vegetables and sugar, often stored in glass jam jars." So while tomato jam
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by desdiv 8y ago
Wouldn't "the Sect of Reason" be a much better English translation then? "Culte" in French and "sect" in English are neutral. "Secte" in French and "cult" in English have negative conno
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"All that we have to do is to send two Mujahedin to the farthest point East to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al-Qa'ida in order to make the generals race there to cause America to suffer human economic and political l
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by desdiv 8y ago
>22 year old children Big parts of the tech industry has an ugly ageism problem, as you have witnessed first-hand. So why do you help perpetuate it?
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by desdiv 8y ago
You're misreading OP's representation: > The polynomial x^3 −3x +1 is represented as Poly [1, -3, 0, 1] It starts with the 0th coefficient and goes up. So adding `x+2` and `10` would be zip-adding lists [2,1] and [10,0].
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by desdiv 8y ago
A combination of donations, affiliate links, and enterprise subscriptions. >How much does NovelRank cost?[0] >It's completely free! The site is supported by author donations, Amazon bounties, and affiliate income when book purcha
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by desdiv 8y ago
The Economist allows two free articles per week for non-registered users[0]. You are not seeing the paywall likely because you have not hit that limit yet. [0] https://www.economist.com/help/paywall
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by desdiv 8y ago
Then it's a good thing that they made clarifications in their FAQ: >Feel free to compile Krypton from source and run it on your phone and workstation. [0] [0] https://krypt.co/faq/
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by desdiv 8y ago
This link should work everywhere: https://store.google.com/us/product/titan_security_key_kit?h...
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by desdiv 8y ago
Same here. Use this link to force-redirect to the US product page: https://store.google.com/us/product/titan_security_key_kit?h... (mods, can we please change the story URL to the above one? It should show the cor
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by desdiv 8y ago
Other posters already mentioned the storage factor, so I'll mention the safety factor: Hydrogen is flammable, but kerosene is not; kerosene is instead combustible. Here's the technical difference between the two[0], but in practic
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by desdiv 8y ago
Looking at https://aws.amazon.com/elasticache/redis/ Redis is in the URL. Title of the page is "Amazon ElastiCache for Redis"; it's also the main header. The phrase "Amazon ElastiCache for Redi
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by desdiv 8y ago
Some are casters, like T90[0]. They stream a couple of hours of AoE2 commentary every day on Twitch. They collect income from Twitch subscriptions and donations and also Youtube ad revenue. It's very hard work for not a lot of money. A
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by desdiv 8y ago
Previous HN discussion about the RFC for Minimal Ubuntu: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16292883
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Minimal Ubuntu, on Public Clouds and Docker Hub(blog.ubuntu.com)
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The screen displays a Mars rover. You turn the steering wheel to control where that Mars rover goes. I'd consider that a video game. I guess you don't consider that a video game, which is a perfectly valid opinion. But I'd ju
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by desdiv 8y ago
Here are the easter eggs in action, on a production vehicle: https://youtu.be/1GrNv3ow9H8?t=640 Weird, the tweet was dated 2018-05-22 but the Youtube video shows easter eggs already deployed by 2018-05-23. I know all Tesla
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by desdiv 8y ago
Exactly. Property losses correlates with population density. Related XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1138/
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by desdiv 8y ago
Child labor laws, environmental laws, workplace safety laws, etc should apply to all goods transported, stored, or sold within a jurisdiction. One hundred something democratic sovereign states and not a single one implemented this yet.
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by desdiv 8y ago
According to this HN discussion you're probably not covered by GDPR: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16751791

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