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by gerikson 3y ago
Just rebrand them as WebDAGs.
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by gerikson 3y ago
I see we have reached the bargaining stage of global warming.
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by gerikson 3y ago
A whitelist of banks that have no problem with Bitcoin would be more useful.
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by gerikson 3y ago
Unfortunate use of Swenglish in the headline. In Swedish, "friskola" means a school separate from the normal primary/secondary school funding system, run by the kommun/council. So it can refer to a school funded by a pri
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by gerikson 3y ago
Le mot must.
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by gerikson 3y ago
Thanks a lot for expanding on this!
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by gerikson 3y ago
I read that as a subset of the wider community. It does not seem to be officially endorsed.
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by gerikson 3y ago
Correct, “järnmalm” is iron ore.
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by gerikson 3y ago
Isn't this Andrew Lee of Freenode (in)fame?
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by gerikson 3y ago
My understanding is that Schedule 7 applies at points of entry to the UK, where you have limited rights even as a citizen. Edit more info from the Scottish police (the institution in question): https://www.scotland.police.uk&#x
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by gerikson 3y ago
"last updated 1993-02-18" ok then
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by gerikson 3y ago
This is broadly the case in the UK as well, but with regional differences (Scotland and NI).
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by gerikson 3y ago
I'm confused by this page, the standard clock is in my timezone (CEST, UTC+2). Is the metric clock also set to this standard, i.e does 00:00:00 in that clock occur at 22:00:00 UTC?
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by gerikson 3y ago
Maybe GPT-4 wrote the headline.
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by gerikson 3y ago
SBF worked at Jane Street, for what it's worth.
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by gerikson 3y ago
How convenient those shadowy saboteurs left that pipeline intact.
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by gerikson 3y ago
You can get along quite well in Denmark without owning a car. Hence, car-owners are proportionally not as big a voting bloc as in the USA.
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by gerikson 3y ago
One can be combative and adversarial and still write succinctly and persuasively. This text does DJB no favors. He comes across like a conspiracy theorist, based on the form of the content alone.
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by gerikson 3y ago
Just googled Carter Braxton, the TFA states > Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts, and died in rags. Those debt
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by gerikson 3y ago
Online gambling is legal in most of the EU. It’s better to set something like that up in Malta, which has the infrastructure. The area seems quite rural, is probably prone to flooding, and is reliant on Croatia for electricity and internet.
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by gerikson 3y ago
Sorry, not my area of expertise. I do know that parts of Swedish foreign aid is in the form of building public institutions, reforming tax collection, etc.
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by gerikson 3y ago
Realistically, the only way to grow an economy in that area is via drug dealing, sex work, and unregulated immigration and unregulated manufacturing. At that point, it's basically academic whether the people running the place are ideol
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by gerikson 3y ago
It's only terra nullius because Croatia considers it to be Serbian territory according to its interpretation of the border, while Serbia is fine with it being part of Croatia according to their interpretation. Croatia claiming the terr
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by gerikson 3y ago
Ah, so that's where the security van's name in Gibson's Virtual Light is from. Man that book had so many references that I missed because no internet.
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by gerikson 3y ago
Seiko used to have a series of watches called Kinetic, where an oscillating weight charged a capacitor or battery. Weird that it's not mentioned in the article, as it seems to be just what's under discussion. The issue is essentia
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by gerikson 3y ago
I worked as a subcontractor once for a team that used csh for scripting. That project was doomed from the start. Now that I think about it it's possible it was a Sun box.
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by gerikson 3y ago
Wow, someone in 2023 using csh as a daily driver.
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by gerikson 3y ago
From a marketing perspective, there's zero difference between someone who cannot afford a smartphone and someone who does not use one out of principle.
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by gerikson 3y ago
You are then sending the (not) signal that you are poor.

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