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by ectopod 5y ago
They add friction to any outgoing payment because some proportion of customers will walk away and then they will have more money. Other organisations (especially banks) will collect far more information than is legally required for KYC beca
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by ectopod 5y ago
Banksy is a marketing man. He pretends to be anti-establishment but his organisation defends his IP as fiercely as Disney defends its. He is all about the money. I agree that that the world is full of weird, creative people, but you won&#
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by ectopod 5y ago
Apricot kernels, bitter almonds and cherry stones all contain amygdalin, which releases cyanide if you eat it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry#Health_risks
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by ectopod 5y ago
I don't understand this. The Olympics are one of the so-called "crown jewels" which are supposedly guaranteed free to watch. The Broadcasting Act 1996 voids any contract which gives a non-free broadcaster exclusive rights.
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by ectopod 5y ago
So over time the vacancy tax is increasing and the sale price is going down. Obviously the vendor needs to sell or redevelop before the price hits zero. If they fail to do so then they lose the property. Speculation sometimes fails. Wha
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by ectopod 5y ago
If nobody will buy the property for $1 then it's worthless. Gift it the local authority and then you won't have to pay the tax.
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by ectopod 5y ago
Rich Text Format is the default representation for formatted text on the Windows clipboard. Any application that can paste rich text should accept it. When you paste directly into a content-editable the browser should convert the rtf into
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by ectopod 5y ago
The author has fixed this discrepancy now.
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by ectopod 5y ago
It looks like a bug. The unhappy path contains both `node++` and `node=node->next`. Note that this is in the code following "Let’s go back to the code we showed for value speculation in C:", which is actually different from t
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by ectopod 5y ago
This. I should take the risk of enabling javascript to read about the risks of spreadsheets? No thank you.
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by ectopod 5y ago
The GGGP is talking about failures at a higher level. Not reprimanding the coder who missed an ampersand, but the manager who was ultimately responsibly for ensuring there was a functioning process for catching this sort of nonsense.
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by ectopod 5y ago
The swap file stores edits rather than the whole file. I guess this could be laggy if you were doing global substitutions on a massive log file, say, but I've never had an issue. Vim was written for much slower computers.
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by ectopod 5y ago
No. It's the police department computer. They should be liable for the harm caused by it. Maybe the police can recover damages from the software vendor, but that should be separate.
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by ectopod 5y ago
>> The main idea of the non-compete agreement is that employers want to stop people from walking off the job and taking trade secrets to rival companies. If companies weren’t able to secure those protections, they’d need to pay lower
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by ectopod 5y ago
I agree, but if you have to maintain constant control of the vehicle then it isn't self-driving.
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by ectopod 5y ago
UI designers of old were working to improve the user's experience of the UI. UX designers are optimising the user's experience for the benefit of the business. For apps and websites this often involves actively user-hostile patt
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by ectopod 5y ago
Oxford tutorials do this. They typically have one, two or three students.
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by ectopod 5y ago
When you add numbers together you start at the little end. Imagine a bignum implementation with multi-word numbers. Now imagine you have a bunch of them in a file you want to add up. If the numbers are in little endian order you can do a
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by ectopod 5y ago
I'm not attempting to explain the under-representation of minorities. I'm explaining why minorities in teams will naturally perform better than average.
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by ectopod 5y ago
In the UK there is an often-repeated statistic: the 20% of girls who take A-level physics outperform the 40% of boys who take it. And of course they do! It's like saying a team comprised of footballers from the top division will beat
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by ectopod 5y ago
As I understand it, the standard allows a single tower to offer different quality of service levels so operators can sell cheap low bandwidth connections to IoT manufacturers. TVs wouldn't have modems before because no TV manufacturer
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by ectopod 5y ago
I wish vim could do this. Or maybe it can and I don't know how. Everyone suggests using "gx" but this is for opening local files in a viewer. If you do gx on a url it downloads the referent, and then tries to open the resul
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by ectopod 5y ago
If you sold them a funeral plan you want your customers alive.
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by ectopod 5y ago
In the UK it is 62.8%. Americans don't seem especially fat because we're all fat. In many countries, anyway.
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by ectopod 5y ago
The health secretary in the UK has just resigned after footage was leaked of him kissing his lover in his office. Remarkably, this government minister didn't know he was being spied on in his own office by facilities management. So,
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by ectopod 5y ago
However safe the interior of the car is made, the number of fatalities will not be zero. Not everyone is in a car. As your parent comment's link notes, the number of pedestrian fatalities has increased since 2010.
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by ectopod 5y ago
If this business is concerned about AML, why do they accept anonymous bitcoin payments? They care about chargebacks, not AML.
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by ectopod 5y ago
The shortcut on Windows is WIN+PERIOD. You can continue typing and it will search for matching emoji. For example, type WIN+PERIOD+smile+ENTER and it inserts a smiley face. It also supports mathematical symbols and greek letters using th
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by ectopod 5y ago
I use the right hand pages only. When I get to the back I flip the book over and, starting from the back, continue using the right hand pages that were formerly on the left.
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by ectopod 5y ago
App companies are optimising for sales, and pretty sells better than usable. This isn't just true for software. There are lots of things, even trivial kitchen items, where you can't appreciate just how badly designed they are unt

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