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by docdeek 7y ago
In other words, please make sure that the government can access any communication they might wish to by ensuring your encryption doesn't work. Here's hoping Zuck ignores it.
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>Take a look at the Australian PM. What a stick in the mud, the whole state of NSW is practically on fire, and all he can say is that isn’t not really caused by climate change, there are “other factors involved. Aren’t there almost certa
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I haven't noticed but it might be because some find it off-topic: "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." This seems to me something they might cover on the news.
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It’s fiction and mass-market but I enjoy reading the new John Grisham novel every October or about then. He’s consistent in quality, the books consistently interesting, and it’s about the only hardback novel I’ll shell out for instead of wa
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by docdeek 7y ago
An alternative to Bartender?
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CA's new employment law has boomeranged and is starting to crush freelancers(cnbc.com)
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The article explicitly includes rent: "Greeks can use debit cards, credit cards, bank transfers and ecommerce for the electronic transactions, which includes rent."
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I would expect 70% might have a mortgage but owning - as in not having to pay the mortgage because you own the home entirely - would be well under 70%.
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If I understand it, the point is to avoid cash transactions that cannot be taxed. One article I read pointed out that the 30% would include rent or mortgage payments, utility bills, and such things. Personally, I would find it easy to hit a
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by docdeek 7y ago
Australia has a version of this sort of thing, except the 'bank' extending the loan is the government. When a student graduates they repay their education 'loan' with a slightly increased rate of income tax until the loa
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by docdeek 7y ago
Title on the article is different now - maybe it was changed? > "at least ten have a police force that uses face recognition. Four plans to introduce it in the coming years." The only way to get to half of 28 is to sum those us
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by docdeek 7y ago
I don’t think it is sleazy to ask a friend or a family member to like a Facebook post. I don’t think it is sleazy to ask for feedback on a product mockup. I do think there is an issue with claiming that the mockup is already a product that
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by docdeek 7y ago
That's at least two different but related issues. The funding you combat with strong campaign finance rules. The allegiance to a foreign power you combat via single citizenship qualification rules (Australia has those federally), free
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> I’ll go out and say, a person who is not born in Australia should not be allowed to run for public office. Please provide a strong argument otherwise. I'll bite. I'm an Australian citizen (born and lived +25 years there) who
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> Since I left the industry in 2000... That's a significant time to be out of the industry and still speak with credibility about today's methods and practices. Not impossible to be entirely on point, but it would be more credi
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>> Screenshots of some of their calendars, including their names and details, subsequently made their way outside the company. To extend your analogy, the screenshots would be someone taking photos of you in the shower or sleeping, an
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I suspect the difference here is that Google alleges thar screenshots of the calendar were taken and distributed outside the company. Viewing a shared calendar that happens to include private events that haven’t been marked private is one t
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>> In one case, among other information they accessed and copied, an individual subscribed to the calendars of a wide range of employees outside of their work group. The individual set up notifications so that they received emails det
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by docdeek 7y ago
I would be interested in this, too. I use Amazon in France (mostly) and the UK and Germany (ocassionally) and haven’t had the problems that people speak of in relation to counterfiet goods in the US.
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I guess my question was around gay Americans (like Cook) and not transgender Americans. I couldn’t recall too much that had changed for gay people under Trump and it seems like most of the impact in the articles you linked is on transgender
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> There was once a man who lived for a very long time; perhaps three thousand years, or perhaps a thousand million years, maybe a trillion or so, depending on how the scientists look at it. I straight away thought of a Paul Erdos anecdot
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> It's admirable that Cook consistently avoid making things about himself, but I think you ought to draw the line at collaborating with politicians who question one's very right to exist. Does Trump really question the right o
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It’s been awhile since I caught a ferry to or from the UK but the trains to and from the continent have passport controls both sides and everyone is checked. I suspect his name would raise an alarm bell when the passport is scanned, though
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> If he is released from UK jail he can hop onto a ferry and go to mainland EU. There he could travel to anywhere within the Shengen zone. That relies on his Australian passport being valid and not being cancelled by a US-friendly Austra
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Thread: Testing Tiktok's video review process(twitter.com)
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Not OP but you can find the 50 million climate refugees claim in the report of the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development on page 20: the map itself is titled "Figure SR-P2. 50 millio
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by docdeek 7y ago
Old for a colonial city, but you're right that French cities (for example) are far older. My own city [0] is closing in on its 2000 year anniversary - should be a big celebration when it comes around in about 20 years. [0]: https:&#x2
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Exactly - Apple has about 20% market share in Germany ( https://www.statista.com/statistics/461900/android-vs-ios-ma... ). When 80% of people are using a competitor to your product, it’s hardly a monopoly.
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Automattic should really be on that list: "We’re a distributed company with 1,146 Automatticians in 72 countries speaking 92 different languages.” [0] [0]: https://automattic.com/about/
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by docdeek 7y ago
Australia has a secret ballot and uses paper ballots, as does France. I’ve voted in both countries and both see you drop a piece of paper into a ballot box, and both have seen me offered to hang around after the vote is complete to help cou

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