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by k1t 3y ago
You can still finance the properties with debt, without it being a mortgage. For example, taking out a single large loan, then using that to purchase many properties with "cash".
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by k1t 3y ago
https://mystery-o-matic.com/
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by k1t 3y ago
In the US, diesel cars are rare, to the point that most gas (petrol) stations offer just a single diesel pump. But yes "clean diesel" took off on the EU (somewhat) but in the US diesel means dirty smelly trucks/buses
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by k1t 3y ago
To be fair: “The government seized the nests of safety deposit boxes because there was overwhelming evidence that [the deposit box storage location] was a criminal business that conspired with its criminal clients to distribute drugs, laund
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by k1t 3y ago
The company picks the arbitrator, and they unsurprisingly pick ones that typically side with the company. This is the defendant choosing the judge and jury.
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by k1t 3y ago
I feel the sales analogy is quite general (hit a quarterly/annual quota) but the engineering example is talking about a specific piece of functionality. If you asked the sales team about a specific deal and they said "We estimate
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by k1t 3y ago
A number of companies (including WhatsApp/Meta and Signal) made a big fuss about withdrawing from the UK market if the Online Safety Bill passed (which it basically did - just awaiting the formality of Royal Assent). They have been rat
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by k1t 3y ago
There is a huge difference between an employer looking at your credit report and an employer reading your bank statements.
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by k1t 3y ago
The point is that it only uses power when changing the image, so a small battery can run it for a long time - not that it works during a power outage. (and of course it is a lot easier to change than a printed photo)
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by k1t 3y ago
What if there are 32 pieces on the board?
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by k1t 3y ago
Easy option: https://www.deadmansswitch.net/
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by k1t 3y ago
Recording stacktraces of errors is a pretty reasonable thing to do. And ideally not every hit causes an error.
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by k1t 3y ago
My understanding is that all of the safeguards worked as intended and characterizing them as 'failed' is a bit unfair. The three that "failed" were designed to prevent the bomb exploding on the runway (before take-off),
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by k1t 3y ago
Pretty close: "I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anyth
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by k1t 3y ago
That's not really true. If it were, this would compile since there are no writes. fn main() { let mut x = [1,2,3,4,5]; let y = &mut x[0]; let z = &x[1]; println!("y {}... z {} ", y, z); } But
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by k1t 3y ago
According to https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2023/06/msg00... the release is expected to be tomorrow. Perhaps the goal was to alert people to that, although TFA doesn't actually say that.
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by k1t 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21352796
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by k1t 3y ago
ArenaNet did this for GuildWars when they encountered particularly inexplicable bugs: [Mike O’Brien] wrote a module (“OsStress”) which would allocate a block of memory, perform calculations in that memory block, and then compare the result
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by k1t 3y ago
They don't - from Wikipedia: Posts on the platform have informally been called 'skeets' (a portmanteau of 'sky' and 'tweet'), despite Bluesky CEO Jay Graber pleading with users not to call them that.
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by k1t 4y ago
I guess single words just don't give it enough context to go on - I got some pretty weird results by just switching the input text to: Hi! Often it would say "Bonjour", but then it would say things like: ce sujet, je peux di
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by k1t 4y ago
The fools! I would have given them £2!
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by k1t 4y ago
This one smells a bit like something I run into at work sometimes, where a non-technical person makes a technical decision and the technical people don't sufficiently challenge it. If you're trying to convert markdown documents in
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by k1t 4y ago
"We own things, but have hidden them." https://nathanwpyle.threadless.com/designs/we-own-things/hom...
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by k1t 4y ago
The article throws out the possibility that it's now lodged in somebody's tire, so it could be sitting in some random Australian's driveway instead. I assume that's the reason for the announcement.
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by k1t 4y ago
Rather than just a pile of tasks, the ability to establish dependencies. This task must be done before that one. Ideally then, given all these tasks and their dependencies, what should I work on next?
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by k1t 4y ago
"There's another new Sony Walkman, the NW-ZX700. It's 104,500 yen ($818) in Japan, and while that sounds like a lot for a portable music player, it's actually a relative bargain compare..."
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by k1t 4y ago
Well actually... the best way to protect free speech is to make sure nobody says anything objectionable... /sigh
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by k1t 4y ago
> I also don't get where the "eliminate anonymous web browsing" in the title comes from. If anything it will make it less likely for sites to track you. Presumably the author is assuming that websites would prefer to offer
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by k1t 4y ago
I'm a little surprised there's no mention of The Royal Standard, although apparently it's not exciting enough to have its own Wikipedia page. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty_Green,_Penn
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by k1t 4y ago
If I don't use Signal, then I'm not going to keep a list of my friends' Signal usernames on my phone. If I subsequently sign-up for Signal, then I have no way to discover which of them use Signal - short of contacting them vi

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