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by jsmith99 5y ago
> Because every single transaction in USD must result in a credit and debit to an account at the US Federal Reserve Are you sure about that? How about USD accounts outside America, commonly known as Eurodollars? Ultimately those dollars
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I like the fact that Firebase has a 0 for Quality and 67 for its supply chain security.
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Word also includes a nice GUI diffing tool for docx files. It's possible to make git diff use it using something like https://github.com/ForNeVeR/ExtDiff
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Ironically this is more of a problem now on desktop, where eg a website (such as eBay) in Firefox pops up a PayPal login window without an address bar and there is no way to verify the domain without using developer tools
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Perhaps I am naive about it, and I certainly agree that Iraq's oil is relevant, although more in the sense of ensuring availability than stealing it. But my point was that America's seemingly uncontrollable urge to export democrac
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This was patched a few months ago https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/23/samsung_encryption_ph... (right at bottom of article)
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How would the invasion preserve the dollar regime? As for the WMDs, I referred to Saddam's history, not to America's discredited invasion pretext.
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The Iraq war was a terrible error but it still can't be compared to Ukraine. America had no plans to colonise Iraq or absorb it into its empire. Despite the enormous death and suffering the war caused, America's aim was naive altr
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I think they mean that going to Iran voids their eligibility to travel to America in the future without a visa.
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38k of those github stars were for Jest, which they seem to have abandoned https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30168241
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Surprisingly easy for religious Jews. Sunset today? It's Friday so that's around candle lighting time. Full moon? We are just over halfway through the Adar I lunar month. North? Easy if you pray towards the east. I also live in a
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Don't feel too bad - he comments he is making $100k monthly from the ads.
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It's just a table of contents but made into a circle?
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Most companies demand an enormous amount of customisation from their ERP and CRM systems and will not change their processes to match the system. Many popular SaaS like Salesforce are more like platforms for building a solution.
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Israeli law doesn't recognise that principal, perhaps because Israeli law derives from UK legal principles in places. See https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.haaretz.com/amp/israel-news... (AMP link bu
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Excellent. Although the real shipping forecast is full of helpful forecasts like 'Moderate to good, occasionally very poor', which does seem to cover all the possibilities.
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The Harry Potter books in many countries are all set in Adobe Garamond and the italic really makes the spells stand out in a spiky, sizzly, and slightly sinister way that works well.
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The ESM and other open issues they refer to are serious. Jest often doesn't work at all if you use packages with multiple entry points (like firebase), which is often seen as best practice - it's gotten to the point that people re
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It's older than that: it's a biblical reference to Adam and Eve covering themselves.
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That organisation has a repo called Welcome People into Prison?! It even has a nice ASCII banner https://github.com/ministryofjustice/hmpps-welcome-people-in...
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Does the DVLA driving license service still only work during office hours? I couldn't believe they had an online system for renewing licences but it couldn't be accessed at night. Allegedly it's based on an ancient system tha
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Surely involving the legal team would mean the regular support team could no longer be involved?
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If you know someone always starts with SLATE it makes it easier...
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It's interesting that he identified statistics issues (eg a third variable, poverty, explains some of the correlation between race and police incidents) but there doesn't seem to be much interest in the next step: if poverty, ghet
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I'm very happy with fastmail too but I'm only paying for one inbox. If OP needs half a dozen users, then that's $300 a year, which is excessive for light personal use. I suppose as they only need SMTP they could set them all
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They had an early win getting a effective and consistent UI accross government sites, but digitising the underlying processes is a work in progress. Once you click that beautiful and accessible green submit button, it's not impossible
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There's a trade off between privacy and security when it comes to backups. For the average user, cloud backup is probably the right choice.
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At least Microsoft are still making personal office subscriptions cheaper than buying office was. 5 users, each with several devices and their own terabyte of OneDrive, is £60 a year at many retailers. I assume they will jack up the price l
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It's usually easy to install the stock apps instead, but the Samsung ones often do have advantages. Eg scrolling screenshots was a recent highlight of an Android update but Samsung has had it for years.
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Fetch doesn't have progress bars yet.

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