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by jsmith99 6y ago
Nice illustration of deploying an application to an edge network, but for practical purposes if you want a hosted pihole, nextdns does a pretty good job of providing custom filtered dns with good latency.
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by jsmith99 6y ago
https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/2871 tracks effectively the same issue, which is that Firefox Android no longer supports bookmarklets.
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by jsmith99 6y ago
That would be a fair argument against, say, an oil company claiming its operations (ie distribution) are carbon neutral while ignoring the use to which people put its products. But most tech firms' products encourage users to stay at h
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by jsmith99 6y ago
Assuming only a small proportion of polluters are offsetting I would expect to pay towards the bottom end of the range. The more expensive offsets need only be considered once we approach net zero.
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by jsmith99 6y ago
Why use nosql for a ledger?
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by jsmith99 6y ago
I think they meant that AWS is hugely profitable according to accounting profit, but is cash flow negative due to the large amount of capital spend. When you buy assets, that uses cash but doesn't reduce accounting profit.
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by jsmith99 6y ago
The UK has that system too, for the 'pay a contact system' which lets you make small bank transfers by knowing the recipient account holder's phone number. I assume my bank rates limits attempts.
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by jsmith99 6y ago
It's a catch 22 - in the UK at least, answering those questions is how you sign up for a credit report in the first place.
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by jsmith99 6y ago
> I'd like to know how it's possible for third-party sites such as https://www.fakespot.com to more effectively identify fake Amazon reviews while Amazon (with presumably better data) fails so miserably. Maybe they
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by jsmith99 6y ago
The problem with blocking it is that reddit is not just for time wasting. It's also currently the most popular forum host for all sorts of experts, from audiophiles to network engineers. Whenever I have a technical query and Google is
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by jsmith99 6y ago
At the end of the teardown, after all those CPU datasheeets and speculation , my favourite was https://twitter.com/gparker/status/1301711548193230849 @gparker: @DelMurice @Foone Congratulations! When is the endian
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by jsmith99 6y ago
Well, yes. By a curious coincidence he is also chair of the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation which is publishing a paper on bias in algorithmic decision making.
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by jsmith99 6y ago
In the UK all universities are the same price.
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by jsmith99 6y ago
It's very easy to open a UK limited company online and it costs £12 plus £13 a year subsequently. If your business activities are simple you can file accounts through HMRC (tax authority) website without any software or necessarily nee
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by jsmith99 6y ago
Capture One is the main professional rival for an integrated asset management, raw processor, and non destructive retoucher. Darktable is the most popular open source alternative.
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by jsmith99 6y ago
Not sure about freelancers specifically but factoring is normally used by small companies to reduce short term capital requirements, as most companies will only pay invoices after 30 days and some have payment terms of much longer eg 90 day
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by jsmith99 6y ago
2% is the Fed's inflation target.
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by jsmith99 6y ago
They are arguing about semantics. The labour market is a free market but not a totally efficient market as some participants use their power over demand or supply (huge corporations, unions) to drive different outcomes to a perfectly co
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by jsmith99 6y ago
Doesn't Excel have a similar table system?
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by jsmith99 6y ago
How are the records maintained in the US? In the UK every household gets a form every year on which they reconfirm who is eligible to vote at that address.
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by jsmith99 6y ago
Too much gin and tonic. British cuisine doesn't really use bitterness much. Although Britain brought back curry from India they didn't pick up a taste for bitter cuisine such as gourds.
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by jsmith99 6y ago
It was actually pretty standard. Even in the mid 19th century when Charles Dickens visited America to a rapturous welcome he pointed out that he didn't earn a penny from American sales of his work. America only started to recognise f
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by jsmith99 6y ago
Disabling the tab bar is pretty easy. I use tree style tabs and they supply a couple of lines of css to paste into userChrome. You can even live debug userChrome using Inspector. The userChrome format did change about a year ago though.
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by jsmith99 6y ago
> I’ve no idea what all the valves in the picture below do, but I bet they don’t all open things that relate to each other. Disappointingly, the picture is just a bank of water meters for an apartment building (possibly in Israel?). It d
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by jsmith99 6y ago
There are simpler solutions, such as dollar bills, or a centralised digital banking system in a trusted currency.
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If you only upload your transactions infrequently how do you prevent double spend attacks?
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by jsmith99 6y ago
Regular desktop Excel supports multi user collaboration on workbooks saved in onedrive exactly the same as excel online/Google sheets etc do. You can see what other users are working on and their changes are synced instantly. The only
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by jsmith99 6y ago
My GP is not very tech savvy and any time we call the surgery there is a lengthy unskippable message about Covid with the receptionist reading out https://111.nhs.uk/covid-19 down to the last colon.
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by jsmith99 6y ago
Scott Sumner and John Cochrane make strong arguments that companies transferring intellectual property to China is neither poor business sense nor necessarily a bad thing https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2018/08/
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by jsmith99 6y ago
Yes, that's why it's called a Balance Sheet because it shows that net assets = equity, meaning it 'balances'.

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