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by jsmith99 3y ago
The strong ones are modern innovations (in response to Belgium banning bars from selling spirits for much of the 20th century) but those aren't the type the monks drink themselves.
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by jsmith99 3y ago
They can't. The contract generally says the price rise will be inflation plus a specified percent. Otherwise, eg if they raise call costs, they have to tell you that you can cancel penalty free - which I have done multiple times.
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by jsmith99 3y ago
When auditors talk about the Other Information they mean the front half of the annual report and accounts i.e. the annual report rather the actual financial statements.
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by jsmith99 3y ago
Yes but countries generally have rules that require rotating auditors and inspection of a sample of audits by a regulator.
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by jsmith99 3y ago
Music settings like the Equaliser actually only apply to Apple Music. You can uninstall it but there is no systemwide equaliser, because why would you need one when you can use Apple Music?
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by jsmith99 3y ago
Everytime you open settings on a new apple device you get a artfully phrased reminder 'x number of days remaining to add applecare' and 'try your new trials'.
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by jsmith99 3y ago
The accounting standards forbid expensing things that should be capitalised, and if you go ahead and do it anyway your investors will wonder why your accounts show you have no assets.
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by jsmith99 3y ago
That assumes the TPM is willing to unseal the drive, so you can use a probe to capture the key as it sends it. Microsoft recommend using TPM+PIN which prevents this as the TPM won't release the key unless you provide the PIN. The PIN c
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by jsmith99 4y ago
That would hopefully be caught by internal controls and internal audit but would be of relatively little interest to an external auditor like EY. The figures are small enough to be immaterial, meaning they don't significantly affect th
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by jsmith99 4y ago
The auditors are appointed by the audit committee which consists of board members who are non executive directors i.e. they are not involved in the day to day running of the company and so theoretically should be independent and interested
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by jsmith99 4y ago
The original Polars launch blog was proud of coming a distance second to data.table but I see the latest benchmarks against the python port of data.table give Polars a tiny edge.
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by jsmith99 4y ago
R also has the data.table package, possibly the fastest dataframe package in any language.
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by jsmith99 4y ago
UK civil service is a defined benefit scheme that each year from state pension age pays 1/42 of your average salary multiplied by the number of years you worked there. It's inflation linked. You also need to contribute several per
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by jsmith99 4y ago
I bought a cheap (£50) hp multifunction at the start of covid with an instant ink subscription. Obviously this involves dystopian DRM and the printer phoning home the number of pages I am printing but it actually works really well. I print
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by jsmith99 4y ago
Which are great but they don't actually have any light bulb reviews, just advice.
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by jsmith99 4y ago
The disadvantage of not offering an API for iMessage is that there is no easy way to block clients. Apps like Bluebubbles have to work by being installed on an actual Mac and scraping messages from iMessage and Beeper uses a similar archite
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by jsmith99 4y ago
Do you feel Mac is better? The article is about windows suggesting OneDrive, but Mac also suggests iCloud if you haven't connected it.
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by jsmith99 4y ago
Absolutely, I think it's bizarre. But I find that many users actually seem to like it. The apple news app seems pretty tabloidy too (although not as bad) so I'm cautious about projecting my taste onto others.
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by jsmith99 4y ago
What clutter? I removed the preinstalled news widget, turned off the telemetry options in the installer (I personally am ok with some light telemetry because I know from experience how useful it is as a developer but I agree it shouldn&#x27
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by jsmith99 4y ago
What kind of thing? That it comes with a News app that has a pre installed widget that can be removed with a single right click?
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by jsmith99 4y ago
Windows doesn't have a keylogger, and irresponsible 'declutter' tools can do more hard than good.
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by jsmith99 4y ago
ISO 3103 requires adding the milk first, otherwise the first drops will be scalded.
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by jsmith99 4y ago
This sounds like a win-win. No need to imply it is a zero sum competition.
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by jsmith99 4y ago
Even the biggest fan of free markets agrees government need to prevent market failures, such as natural monopolies caused by network effects.
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by jsmith99 4y ago
You would think that. Actually, Google authenticator does NOT backup codes, although there are other apps that do.
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by jsmith99 4y ago
For certain industrial uses or to cover large areas I see the benefit of private 5g networks, but for home/SMB (the apparent target) didn't femtocells dissapear years ago because they were killed off by WiFi calling? This seems to
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by jsmith99 4y ago
I'm sure differential pricing would be more efficient but there aren't any easy ways to do it. Maybe developers can advertise discount codes on sites where cheapskates hang out. Can you imagine the backlash on HN if it turned out
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by jsmith99 4y ago
The app store is full of programs that haven't been updated in several years but still attract subscriptions until they get too buggy. Eg most popular ebook readers (eg kybook 3 still costs £15/year).
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by jsmith99 4y ago
On my iPhone at least, if I scroll down the app store listing to the app details and expand the IAP section it shows a list of all the IAPs the app offers. The names don't always reveal what they unlock, but sometimes it's clear t
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by jsmith99 4y ago
So no compile time checks and no runtime checks? What would the advantage of types be?

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