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by filoleg 3y ago
The OP says that the issue is that the scammers live in countries to which most western merchants refuse to ship anymore due to high prevalence of scams originating there (eastern europe, russia, etc.) and near zero ability to enforce the l
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> Taking a higher resolution screen and setting it to low resolution because you can't see it does not have many advantages over a lower resolution screen. It does. Rendering at high DPI, especially for text, is amazing. Otherwise,
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I share the sentiment about the declaration being ill-conceived. But given that it was signed by EU (not sure how that works given that both EU and Germany are listed separately)+China+US+Canada+South Korea+Japan+India+Israel+etc., I would
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by filoleg 3y ago
Don’t worry, the other “poor boys” are getting prosecuted for their crypto cons by SEC too[0][1][2]. While SEC might not be the fastest, they methodically go through all of those and take them down (similarly to IRS). I only listed 3 exampl
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There is now also a button for “advanced resolution settings” in display settings menu, and behind it there is a toggle to permanently display all possible resolutions among the existing ones already there.
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> Why would high resolution make it worse? Because the person you are replying to hasn’t learned about the existence of the resolution scaling setting yet.
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I don’t think that the existence of those bodies is the reason for being able to pronounce most words in German and Spanish exactly how they are written. Afaik there is no such regulatory body for Russian language, and yet as long as you kn
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by filoleg 3y ago
Ayup, another example I can remember of is that swedish professor who went ahead and hired services of a PMC to extract her grad student and his family from Iraq[0]. Background: the student vent to visit his family back in Iraq as his town
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> Is this a US thing where your school buys you a laptop? It is a thing that is essentially an equivalent of an employer-provided work laptop, but for students and provided by their school.
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I think the grandparent comment was talking about making AI Force a separate military branch, rather than a joint office under DoD. Not arguing one way or another myself, I think it makes sense for it, at least for now, to be a joint office
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by filoleg 3y ago
It all depends on the brand of the TV. Built-in Roku seems to be limited to TCL and a few other minor brands. In-fact, I just checked, and all top 4 recommended TVs on RTings with built-in Roku are TCL-made[0]. Sony has been going with Andr
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> I have not found the over 40 engineers I've worked with to be like that. Keep the survivorship bias in mind. It would make sense within that per theory that the engineers in their 40s who have both hard skills are soft skills are
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> After moving to Europe and seeing how mobile kids are without cars even, i wish i had that growing up, as just seems so much nicer to be able to meet friends and do things without needing a car or having to survive biking in traffic. S
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by filoleg 3y ago
Hate has nothing to do with a job being a dead-end. A dead-end job just means that there is nowhere to go from there, your progressed as high as you possibly could in it, and staying there won’t help you with your future career elsewhere ne
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by filoleg 3y ago
Kinda yes and no. The “no” part comes from understanding what’s happening. And what’s happening is that for every year you work there, the pay for the level you are at increases across all of them. However, you wouldn’t be getting those inc
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by filoleg 3y ago
Ah yeah, when something doesn’t conform to your narrative, it surely is an astroturf. All coming from accounts that are many years old and have thousands of karma points that leave meaningful posts on all types of topics. But the second the
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I liked it, it was quite a wild ride. Though I feel a bit sad, as it definitely would have had way more of a mindblowing effect if I watched it during a time period when all the tropes it introduced weren’t that commonplace and beaten to de
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Talked to my friend who is an actual dermatologist (to clarify, I am not his patient, he is a friend of mine through unrelated means, but we have been friends for many years irl; also has a couple published papers on skin cancer from the pa
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by filoleg 3y ago
It isn’t misleading, Kotelniki (the place in the article) is as much a part of Moscow oblast as Khimki or Domodedovo. And people routinely just refer to those areas as Moscow all the time. Beyond that, Moscow subway transit system goes to K
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by filoleg 3y ago
Great explanation. Another example in a very similar vein - Akira. Watched it for the first time ever around 7 years ago, and while I loved it, it was very clear that it was pretty much the origin of a massive number of modern tropes and cl
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by filoleg 3y ago
I use both iOS and iPadOS, and from my experience, it feels like iPadOS is just a superset of iOS features. Thinking about things like multi-window controls, pencil support, etc. The only thing I can think of that iOS has that iPadOS doesn’
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Is this a direct admission that unions are for protecting low-performers? Because if yes, that’s not a good look for them at all and is kind of a perfect ammo for the anti-union side.
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Correct, yep. Which is why tax avoidance is not a crime, but tax evasion is. It would be a rather strange conversation with an accountant doing your taxes, if you walked up and said “hey, can you make it so that i pay more taxes than the le
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They are.
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I don’t think so. Been living in Seattle for almost 8 years, spent a lot of time in CA and Oregon as well. The only time I ever heard word “petrol” was in british media.
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by filoleg 3y ago
Hearing such accounts makes me believe that it either varies so much or the outliers online are just being loud, it isn’t even funny. I have been happy as an elephant with their service and build quality. Been a model 3 owner for 4 years wi
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> For warehouse operations, not everyone needs to be a user in AD Do you agree that every employee needs work email access and some sort of a user account (for managing their benefits, interacting with payroll systems, etc.)? If yes, the
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Office isn’t just for spreadsheets. Office is the whole shebang, including Outlook, Active Directory, Teams, etc. If your company uses Office, then your employees typically have their employee accounts managed through Active Directory. Whic
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by filoleg 3y ago
I know it is in bad tone on HN, but did you read the rest of my comment? Asking because the part about the media was just one small piece and, imo, the least relevant point out of all that I’ve made. And I’ve never said anything even close
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> Maybe not excel on its own but I imagine office is already its own org inside Microsoft. You are correct, it has been its own org for a long time. I don’t see the decoupling from the rest of MSFT ever happening though. Working with som

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