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A New York City Restaurant Loses Money on a $14 Sandwich(eater.com)
2 points by docdeek 5y ago|0 comments
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by docdeek 5y ago
Reminds me of the response Kerry Packer gave to the Australian parliament when accused of evading/minimizing his taxes: "I am not evading tax in any way, shape or form. Of course, I am minimising my tax. Anybody in this country wh
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by docdeek 5y ago
Not American but recently listened to the Audible edition of John Grisham's 'A Time to Kill' and the word is used dozens if not hundreds of times. Grating to hear but added to the story about race in a way that an alternative
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by docdeek 5y ago
In fairness, it is the additional private health insurance on top of the French government’s public care. It’s not the most expensive option but we rarely pay out of pocket for anything medical (the odd non-compulsory baby vaccine, for exam
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by docdeek 5y ago
If we’re talkiing regular monthly expenses: - Health Insurance for family of four: €118 - Accountant: €99 - Apple One Subscription: €19.95
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Bubba Gump Shrimp seafood restaurants will start accepting Bitcoin payments(cointelegraph.com)
3 points by docdeek 5y ago|1 comments
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Signal Is Wrecking Your Images and Videos(sneak.berlin)
7 points by docdeek 5y ago|4 comments
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by docdeek 5y ago
It is (at least in France) Armenian Genocide Rememberence Day. It could be a reason there are a few different Armenian stories out there.
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Great Vowel Shift(en.wikipedia.org)
259 points by docdeek 6y ago|268 comments
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Covid-19 Impact on Resident Migration Patterns [pdf](cbre.us)
2 points by docdeek 6y ago|0 comments
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School custodian refuses to download app that monitors location, got her fired(cbc.ca)
458 points by docdeek 6y ago|291 comments
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by docdeek 6y ago
The ICC is a terrible place to try such a crime if the goal is to have a real impact on carbon emissions. Four states that aren’t members: China, India, Russia, and the US. Four states with the largest carbon emissions? China, India, Russia
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R/Ukpolitics: Welcome Back, Subreddit Statement(reddit.com)
8 points by docdeek 6y ago|0 comments
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Lenna(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by docdeek 6y ago|0 comments
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Child Suicide Is Becoming an ‘International Epidemic’ Amid Covid Restrictions(fee.org)
1 points by docdeek 6y ago|0 comments
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by docdeek 6y ago
Nice article, though my first thought was a scene from 'The West Wing': Sam: You know what I'd do if I owned a hockey team? I'd hire a sumo wrestler. I'd give him a uniform, transportation, 500 bucks a week to sit i
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Fortnite’s Epic Games takes Google to court in Australia over app payments(smh.com.au)
1 points by docdeek 6y ago|0 comments
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by docdeek 6y ago
It’s not always about what is necessary because customer preferences can change, too. The automated ordering on machines in fast food restaurants or self-checkout in supermarkets may have been introcued to save businesses money and reinforc
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Six Degrees of Laurent Fignon(sixdegreesoflaurentfignon.com)
1 points by docdeek 6y ago|0 comments
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by docdeek 6y ago
Interesting article, but running out of wilderness? Antarctica is 5.5 million square miles (14.2 million square kilometers) or about twice the size of Australia. Australia has an estimated 15-23 million buildings [1] (let alone other struct
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Online Presence Indicators(reddit.com)
2 points by docdeek 6y ago|0 comments
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by docdeek 6y ago
It’s not an exact analogy, that’s for sure. Maybe I could save it by asking where am I likely to get a better quality burger: the place that charges me $5 a week just for burgers, or the one that charges me only $4 a week AND I get a whole
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by docdeek 6y ago
> The same applies to Twitter and Substack, where signing up to just four writers’ output at $5 a month each is already more than the cost of a $17 New York Times subscription, which gives you a greater breadth of coverage. Imagine I rea
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by docdeek 6y ago
The first graph is a little hard to read being various shades of grey. The OECD has a color version that is also interactive (select a country, for example): https://data.oecd.org/hha/household-debt.htm
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Protest note about user privacy changes by Reddit(reddit.com)
195 points by docdeek 6y ago|137 comments
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World, Meet Wise: Transferwise Name Change(transferwise.com)
1 points by docdeek 6y ago|0 comments
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by docdeek 6y ago
The text of the (soon to be) law is online [1] and at Division 2.52E it states the Minister alone decides which digital platforms it applies to. Today is it Facebook and Google (though likely not Google after some recent moves by that compa
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by docdeek 6y ago
The answer to both is 'it depends on what The Australian Government says'. The law will apply to platforms at the discretion of the Minister - it's why we are talking Facebook and Google and not Twitter and iMessage.
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by docdeek 6y ago
If the media orgs in Australia were able to convert their Facebook traffic into newsletter subscribers as easily as this there would be little fury in the media. After all, they would have stopped Facebook profiting off the back of their co
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by docdeek 6y ago
The law will apply to platforms at the discretion of the Treasurer. If he/she decides it will apply to Twitter, it will; if not, it won't.

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