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by frongpik 6y ago
Because China, unlike South America, has power over others.
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by frongpik 6y ago
Actually, there's one more usecase for a html to pdf converter: making a book-style copy of a multipage website. I'm looking right now at a scientific site with content spread over multiple pages and it's tiring to find and c
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by frongpik 6y ago
You'd essentially have a pdf editor that can import a pdf, edit it and export the html back to pdf. Working with official forms is one usecase. Another is an iframe that can preview pdfs without resorting to plugins.
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by frongpik 6y ago
Add to this a pdf to html converter, with a focus on official forms (e.g. irs tax forms), ability to easily edit fields and add signatures (similar to how the free android adobe app does it), and you can charge money for it.
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by frongpik 6y ago
You don't need to give your ID or sign up for auto renewal.
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by frongpik 6y ago
I can tell you why. It's because you gave FB your personal phone number, while any number would work, e.g. a prepaid sim card (a one time 15 bucks expense).
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by frongpik 6y ago
Well, that's a rather depressing view on life. I'm on the opposite side of this spectrum. This makes me a rather flegmatic person and perhaps the only thing that makes me at least somewhat worried is not doing enough during my lif
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by frongpik 6y ago
Can't you move all your savings to a trust that would pay only to your kids?
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by frongpik 6y ago
That's actually completely rational if we recall that America is run by pure ruthless greed. It lets young people spend their energy on creating wealth (for others), feeds them with cheapest junk food and when their energy level deplet
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by frongpik 6y ago
There was a famous story that indians finally saw the himalayan ridge, but only for two weeks: humans quickly figured the virus wasn't going to wipe them out and resumed driving.
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by frongpik 6y ago
A better question is what if your tax evasion savings had been stolen by your friend who has already paid taxes on the property he had stolen, but not returned, last year?
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by frongpik 6y ago
What do you do if you're a high profile criminal with state-level enemies and can't file tax returns under your real name and address? Can you ask IRS to send you a tax return via a mediator accounting firm (an outlaw entity with
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by frongpik 6y ago
Solution? Bring millions currently remote office workers back to offices. Gigatons of fuel they'll have to burn on commute will supposedly negate the global heating.
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by frongpik 6y ago
The bottom 50% owns nothing (paycheck to paycheck lifestyle), the top 1% owns 50% (so they get half of the total sp500 growth while contributing nothing to society) and the middle 49% own the rest 50% (but their wealth would evaporate rapid
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by frongpik 6y ago
Wellfare for the rich.
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by frongpik 6y ago
No, you can't. If it takes 30 mins to drive to office, it'll take 3 hours to get there by buses.
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by frongpik 6y ago
This also proves that the climate change initiative is a wash. They can't take co2 emissions seriously and at the same time demand 100k employees to spend 1 hour a day driving to offices. That's like what, 100 millions gallons of
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by frongpik 6y ago
It's published in quarterly financial reports. Iirc, their real estate is worth 100B.
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by frongpik 6y ago
Or even simpler: execs own super expensive real estate in the tech hubs and the only thing that supports the prices is the hoards of employees that have to live in the area.
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by frongpik 6y ago
With 8 not allowed, because it's become the new bad rating.
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by frongpik 6y ago
Youtube is trying to sit on two chairs: it needs dislikes to feed its ML algorithms, but it wants to keep users in the dark. I doubt users will bother to send likes and dislikes into the void, so youtube will have to give at least something
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by frongpik 6y ago
Looks like trolling to me. There's 95% dislike rate even for a mundane "paycheck protection bill".
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by frongpik 6y ago
Tbh, the article doesn't tell anything unusual. CCP rules by fear and a necessary part of such systems are labor camps. They aren't 731/nazi level evil, but they are still fairly cruel.
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by frongpik 6y ago
I bet that most dictators are addicted to power over other people. They can't just stop.
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by frongpik 6y ago
An unpopular answer: we can't do anything. This is about maturity of the mankind. Long ago it was expected to eat your enemies "to gain their power". Now it's labor camps for enemies of the state. Soon labor camps will b
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by frongpik 6y ago
One semi-secret feature of IoT is that wooden walls are almost transparent to the microwave / wifi radiation, so it can be used to effectively see thru walls.
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by frongpik 6y ago
That's really old news. I guess the paper has just properly described the effect.
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by frongpik 6y ago
Almost nobody does, at least today. Some offtopic. The reverse side of the dollar bill depicts a small pyramid with an eye on it. This symbol is a pretty clever summary of our civilization. The eye means the human mind that connects a small
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by frongpik 6y ago
We even have a prominent populist who "will return power to the people". And to be frank, when half of the nation lives in poverty, poulists won't have any trouble getting votes.
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by frongpik 6y ago
You're right, connections is everything and right now the business network is partitioned along the male-female line for reasons described above. It would be a monumental effort, if possible at all, to bridge this gap. Probably no less

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