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by ectopod 4y ago
What equity? What capital? What assets? What investment? These mostly weren't PPE manufacturers or even PPE suppliers. Often they were little more than drop shippers with a 50% profit margin. It is that simple. And the fact that compan
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by ectopod 4y ago
Seriously? The high court found that the operation of the priority list was unlawful [1]. You can reasonably argue that they needed to move quickly, but that doesn't explain why some companies were getting special treatment. And the 50
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by ectopod 4y ago
Private Eye has covered this. The level of profit was not normal. Some of the companies were making 50%. And the government had two lists of companies when they were awarding contracts. The priority list was for the acquaintances of ministe
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by ectopod 4y ago
Or make whisky cake. Dried fruit and peel are soaked in whisky for a week, baked into a fairly typical fruit cake, drizzled with more whisky, wrapped, and left to steep for a couple of weeks. Recommended.
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by ectopod 4y ago
Thank you! I've had wt just disappear on me a few times now and I've been meaning to investigate. It never occurred to me this was by design.
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by ectopod 4y ago
We have secret trials in the UK where the accused doesn't get to hear the evidence. So classified evidence can be used and there is no danger of it leaking. Of course, there is a danger of innocent people being convicted but that doesn
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by ectopod 4y ago
Somebody at Medium must have been reading! Two days later and it's completely broken without js.
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by ectopod 4y ago
It varies. Some articles are fine. Some only show a couple of paragraphs.
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by ectopod 4y ago
Modern Windows apps also suffer from this kind of breakage. For example, the calculator. If you use the mouse to press a button while entering a calculation (for a trigonometric function say) then when you press enter to get the result it j
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by ectopod 4y ago
I haven't seen one in the UK for a few years now, I'm happy to say. I really don't see the point. If you don't want to use a cork, screw caps are a thing.
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by ectopod 4y ago
Many people will be reading the pdf in their browser using the browser's js pdf renderer. This is safer than running arbitrary js from the web, which most people also do. So I guess most people won't worry about pdfs especially.
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by ectopod 4y ago
If you install surveillance gear that operates through the vendor's cloud management solution then you are already giving strangers the ability to invade your privacy. Sure, the OP doesn't need to make it any worse, but it's
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by ectopod 4y ago
When you say you are doing nothing wrong and continue with an action then you are doing it on purpose.
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by ectopod 4y ago
That's not true. Just two months ago a friend of mine disputed a DD with her bank and they refused to reverse it because she couldn't prove it was erroneous. I'm nearly sure the DD guarantee used to be stronger, but this part
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by ectopod 4y ago
So you give PayPal your bank details to withdraw your balance and they create a direct debit allowing them to plunder your bank account. This is how they operate in the UK anyway. PayPal is best avoided.
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by ectopod 4y ago
To be fair to the IT people, the failover system couldn't have been any more redundant.
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by ectopod 4y ago
After enough rollovers lottery tickets sometimes have a positive expected value. Even so, I'll still only buy one.
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by ectopod 4y ago
Also > low and behold
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by ectopod 4y ago
Which is worse? a) Having poor communication skills. b) Describing people as toxic.
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by ectopod 4y ago
Edge is a pretty good local pdf reader so I added a firewall rule to stop it connecting to the internet.
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by ectopod 4y ago
I block cookies and js. Cloudflare doesn't like that.
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by ectopod 4y ago
This is begging the question. It is plainly worse to be forced into some kinds of work (e.g. serving on Russia's front line) than others (e.g. picking apples).
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by ectopod 4y ago
There is a huge difference between declining a transaction, and taking someone's money but giving them nothing in return. I guess you have experience of the former. Apple is engaged in the latter.
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by ectopod 4y ago
Another surprise: "ubuntu-latest" is not the latest ubuntu! It is stuck at 20.04. If you want 22.04 you need to specify "ubuntu-22.04". Similar issue with macos-latest.
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by ectopod 4y ago
Just to be clear, the ECHR is not an EU court and brexit Britain is still under its jurisdiction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Convention_on_Human_R...
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by ectopod 4y ago
I download it and watch it at my leisure with no adverts. I'm not going to drop everything and watch a one hour talk right now anyway.
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by ectopod 4y ago
It's investopedia. The exchange of money is taken as read. You might as well say that a vendor of exotic fish not mentioning water is proof that the fish don't need it.
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by ectopod 4y ago
The Smithsonian ignoring the elephant in the room: "The United States of America, and Why the Americans Won't Give It Back"
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by ectopod 4y ago
We call them decimal points. Most software uses full stops (aka periods, because that's what's on the keyboard), but decimal points are normal in typeset and handwritten maths.
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by ectopod 4y ago
> 3.278·10³⁶ As a Brit that looks really weird. I'd expect 3·278×10³⁶.

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