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The Chart of Everything(economist.com)
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It's a good question. If that were the case, I would have expected to also see other oil rich countries at the top of those rankings.
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Not surprising that an Atlas Shrugged reading entrepreneur dislikes taxation. But government services cost money, and by other accounts [0] Norway are doing pretty well: Norway performs well in many dimensions of well-being relative to oth
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Is this any different from detecting illegal instructions in general? I would have thought any encoding in the unused part of the instruction space would generate a SIGILL, needing the "we don't do that here" logic.
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Interesting! However, assuming that ASCII characters are always rendered correctly and never as "?", it seems like the only solution for "??d?" would be one of the four Łódźs?
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I imagine the “Poland” part of the address would narrow it down somewhat.
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If you install enough vim plugins you can get pretty close to VS Code in terms of both features and performance.
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How reliable is that media bias chart? Looking at the scatter plot of the Guardian they don't seem to have made any attempt at separating news reporting from opinion pieces. It would be strange for anyone to expect the latter to be unb
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by jplrssn 2y ago
Seems to me like greater damage was being done to the people getting stopped and searched on the pretext of jaywalking. From the article: > The Legal Aid Society called the legislation long overdue. The non-profit organization, which pro
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On the other hand, not taxing unrealized capital gains on exit would effectively create a loophole by which it would be possible to avoid taxation simply by moving to a tax haven for a while and realize the gains there.
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The UN General Assembly and various UN courts have ruled that the UK had no sovereignty over the Chagos Islands in the first place. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-55848126
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Buses can be very dependable and cheaper than rail if they run in dedicated bus lanes. You’re right that they aren’t much use if they get stuck in the same traffic as everyone else.
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That was a cultural ritual, not scientific research. What scientific basis is there for Christmas or Thanksgiving?
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> If we bring competition between the hospitals with price transparency, the prices will fall dramatically. How do you envision this working for say emergency care, where as a patient you may not be in a state to make an informed decisio
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Prime Video has consistently had the worst quality subtitles of any streaming service I've tried. I'm surprised they haven't been subject to a ADA-type lawsuits over it.
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Looking at the NoGovInternet site [1] mentioned in the article, their arguments against municipal broadband seem to mostly revolve around financial sustainability. They cite a paper that claims that 90% of such efforts fail to generate enou
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SoftBank Is Said in Talks to Buy Troubled AI Chip Firm Graphcore(bloomberg.com)
9 points by jplrssn 2y ago|2 comments
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I really hope the kind of conspiratorial thinking on display here isn't representative of HN readers in general.
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If you live in Canada you can't really opt out of doing business with the CRA.
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Representative of what? London is one of the most diverse cities in the world.
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I've never driven an EV but I'm curious about this statement. When would continuing to accelerate ever be the desired behaviour when pressing both pedals at the same time?
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I’ve noticed a fair few comments here and elsewhere starting with “In Europe…” and then extrapolating from the commenter’s experience living in a single EU country. Maybe that’s a testament to how successful harmonisation of national rules
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by jplrssn 3y ago
Reading the description of the interchange fee cap, it sounds like the cap should apply also for US-issued cards used in the EU [0]: > ... the capping of interchange fees should result in lower fees charged by banks to retailers for proc
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by jplrssn 3y ago
I'm not saying this is the case for you, but often when companies have recurring problems with retention it's because of some underlying issue: culture, perceived lack of professional development opportunities, low pay, etc. These
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Especially seeing as the steady state of DB operations these days seems to be utter chaos. But it does seem like a good way to explore the country.
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Someone had done this at a previous company I worked at. You’d subscribe to a mailing list and get a daily/weekly summary of joiners, leavers and title changes. Pretty useful. When management eventually found out they were seemingly su
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Food banks don’t help much if you can’t afford to cook the food you are given. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/may/09/more-than-2m...
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Surely you know that the history of using "monkey" as an epithet is extremely charged? It is not a neutral term.
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> Rhoticity was stronger in males, a pattern of results which suggests a female-led sound change, a widely documented phenomenon in the sociolinguistic literature. When language changes, women usually start it. I found this bit particula
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by jplrssn 3y ago
Historically it wasn't uncommon to attempt to physically prevent strikebreakers from crossing the picket line. Most if not all organisations have standards of conduct that they expect their members to follow, and its not surprising tha

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