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by jsmith99 7y ago
That's why Windows can be set to require Ctrl+Alt+Del before login as it can't be intercepted by a fake login screen.
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by jsmith99 8y ago
I'm not sure if there's a convent way in R Shiny to upload files using drag and drop, but otherwise this would be a dozen lines of code in R, at most. Shiny creates the plumbing and interactivity automatically.
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by jsmith99 8y ago
Thinkpads have service manuals at least as good as that. Here's the E485 hardware maintenance manual https://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/mobiles_pdf/tp-e480-e485-...
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by jsmith99 8y ago
Using Firefox on android I would only get the 'old' style Google search results. I installed a popular user agent switcher extension (featured by mozilla) that made me appear to be Chrome when on Google sites and I got the same ri
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by jsmith99 8y ago
In the UK, if you want to see the government's financial position, not just expenditure but income, assets and liabilities, and consolidated accross all of central and local government to international accounting standards, then you ca
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by jsmith99 8y ago
Here in the UK Amex do that too: instant push notifications from the Amex app or from Google Pay, even if you used the physical card. Monzo did offer the novel feature of convenient, temporary, self service card disabling / enabling (u
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by jsmith99 8y ago
Exactly. I've also had private health insurance in the UK in the past. It cost a lot less than £150/month and when I used it I generally ended up in posh central London hospitals that get enough of their business from rich Arabs
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by jsmith99 8y ago
It would be capitalised as an intangible asset. In practice I assume a small company might not bother, especially if the website was built by their own staff, but the clients I worked on seem to get charged quite a lot for outsourced IT wor
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by jsmith99 8y ago
At least under international GAAP, assets can only be capitalised if they are expected to deliver future economic benefits. This doesn't mean that they have to be sold directly - they can be internal benefits such as a building or a fa
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by jsmith99 8y ago
As an accountant, I can tell you that the accounting standards do require certain things to be recognised once they become more likely than not (e.g. provision for expected losses) but this is not extended to e.g. recognising customer relat
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by jsmith99 8y ago
In the UK, any hidden gold and silver more than 300 years old is generally assumed to be treasure and belongs to the Crown (although the finder is usually compensated). A lot of the ancient items in museums have been found by amateurs and c
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by jsmith99 8y ago
If we're giving in to the whole 'Let's build lethal killer drones' thing, it seems appropriate that it happens in the USA from someone's hacky python project.
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by jsmith99 8y ago
Israel has a draft. Most people are veterans.
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by jsmith99 8y ago
For Samsung, there are Knox based options (I recommend adhell3) for host file style blocking that don't require root or vpn.
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by jsmith99 8y ago
I use Firefox android with Ublock origin and am logged into Google (boo). I used to use a plugin to change my user agent to Chrome when on Google sites. This was necessary as you get the old style search results page if you use Firefox, but
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by jsmith99 8y ago
What does the mouse have to do with the start menu? Hit the keyboard button, type first few letters, hit Enter.
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by jsmith99 8y ago
It's from 2014.
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by jsmith99 8y ago
The point is, no one is forcing them to export to China. These companies accept the deal.
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by jsmith99 8y ago
Many economists disagree, as there is no reason why companies should not share intellectual property when it is profitable for them to do so, e.g. https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2018/08/intellectual-prop...
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by jsmith99 8y ago
In the UK, claimants using a 'no win no fee' deal usually buy After The Event insurance to protect them against having to pay the other sides' costs.
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by jsmith99 8y ago
There isn't actually any connection between colonialism and Brexit, and elites tend to be pro EU. The stereotypical leave voter is a working class person from a decaying ex factory town.
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by jsmith99 8y ago
The crypto wars worked out well from the NSA's point of view. Obviously determined individuals, foreign governments, terrorists etc were not deterred by it from obtaining strong crypto. But mass adoption of strong crypto was delayed by
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by jsmith99 8y ago
The advantage of Knox based blocking is that it doesn't require root.
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by jsmith99 8y ago
The ratings on the product page are meant to be purely about the product. Reviews that mention the seller are often removed. This is actually the main way sellers get rid of bad reviews: most one star reviews will include a reference to the
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by jsmith99 8y ago
The books by Hillary Mantel that it's based on are even better (2 Booker prizes).
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by jsmith99 8y ago
Given that his company is suing Facebook, he was possibly quite happy to comply. He doesn't seem to have lost out, and got a historical trip in the bargain.
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by jsmith99 8y ago
I saw some of The War Game at a nuclear bunker near Cheshire. I think it ended with the protagonist screaming as she saw her (presumably deformed) newborn. Hard to believe the BBC made this.
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by jsmith99 8y ago
Why not? They even have a tag for it https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/exploit
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by jsmith99 8y ago
What other 'massive streams of money' has the Fed dumped since then?
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by jsmith99 8y ago
Dumping money in people's bank accounts would be a process called helicopter money, named after the suggestion that central banks could stimulate the economy by printing new money and scattering it out of helicopters. Sadly the Fed has

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