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by jpmoral 5y ago
A
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In Australia you may also be asked to provide a copy of your rent payment history. Edit: >It's pretty standard to require a year or two of the first couple pages of your tax returns, and 2-3 months of bank statements, to prove your
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by jpmoral 5y ago
Our child's dentist recommended a sonic toothbrush. We got a Sonicare (no app required). It's one of the best things that's happened to his teeth. YMMV. I don't deny that people often have ulterior motives but I think op
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This isn't accurate. There is a citizenship test, and as I understand it some level of English proficiency is required. The residency requirement is four years, at least one as a permanent resident. Permanent residency, depending on th
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by jpmoral 5y ago
Sure, but GP was asking about how insurance might work. Also, I'd thinnk making lowering ransoms (by making it illegal or other means) works only if it's paired with a low probability of the kidnappers being able to enjoy the proc
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There was an article or discussion I believe I read on HN that discussed how kidnapping and ransom insurance reduced violent outcomes and made dealing with the kidnappers more predictable.
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I don't know if it's because I've only been here four years, or because I'm from a city/country with a lot more crime, or it's my train line, but I've never felt unsafe on the late trains or the night buse
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by jpmoral 5y ago
The question was which the most important prediction he got wrong was.
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How to manage an army of not-really-devs trying to write code?(workplace.stackexchange.com)
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Dumb question: how does the checking for .env work?
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Depends on how the team defines "as soon as you need help". Nothing in the grandparent post precludes writing good docs and allowing/encouraging experimentation.
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I don't think they meant that there should be One True Open-Source License but rather that open-source projects should pick one of the 'standard' ones (GPL, MIT, etc.) instead of writing their own.
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Sorry, should have included that. I believe it's "should".
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> How should we read? The S-word makes it sound, like it or not, like a moral injunction—deep, passionate and enthusiastic readers we may well be, there nonetheless remains something about the way we transform marks on a page or screen i
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by jpmoral 6y ago
I keep seeing this type of comment in Bitcoin threads. Is this something people in the Bitcoin space widely believe, that bank transfers are necessarily slow and expensive? Free, near-instant bank transfers have been a thing for a few years
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In Australia, instant bank to bank transfers are free. And I always thought it was behind the rest of the world (except the US).
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> Yes, 10 minutes is not very fast. However, compare that to inter bank transactions and this number seems blazingly fast again Near instant bank transfers have been available in a lot of countries for many years now. Or did you mean som
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by jpmoral 6y ago
Bitcoin has bigger problems than an attempted ban (which I don't see happening). I tried using it a few years ago. It was fiddly, slow, and the value was too volatile for me.
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You can argue that the advice is BS, but I don't detect any moralising in it.
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If I liked other people I'd met well enough I'd give that feedback (politely and without assigning blame), not to change their mind but just to let them know.
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I understand your point, but where do you draw the line? Do the children or grandchildren of corrupt politicians get to keep their parents' ill-gotten wealth? Edit: removed reference to third-world dictators, as it isn't really re
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The 100k/yr would be the first thing to look at.
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by jpmoral 6y ago
Downvoting isn't a mod-only thing.
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by jpmoral 6y ago
What people are criticising is the manner of rule-enforcement. The IPO got to a late stage of the process before being personally halted by Xi. Rules being unevenly applied and being dependent on the whims of the powerful is what is harmful
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by jpmoral 6y ago
Sure, I just wanted to point out that other places seem to have a much higher bar for denying entry to visa holders. A lot of the anecdotes in this thread would probably make the news if it happened in Australia, but seem to be unremarkable
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Each country provides their own guidelines to border officers. How clear these are and how closely they are followed varies from country to country. Just because one country's officers apparently deny people entry on a whim doesn'
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by jpmoral 6y ago
I think you meant 'flout'.
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by jpmoral 6y ago
I hope you meant steaks... but agreed, this is true in any sport, there's no real way to compare across eras and in the end it's just opinion.
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>Edit: I just saw all of the comments on the article itself noting this. Glad I'm not the only one. Did you also note the author's take on that? >If the journal were published by nature.com but just called Communications, I’
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by jpmoral 6y ago
Some days, my guilt of having left country and family, of not living up to a promise made to a teen-aged self, rises to the surface. I have my own rationalisations, and over video calls my parents tell me the choice I made was the right one

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