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by logifail 1y ago
> Strictly speaking every single one of those jobs falls under that role Q: Isn't this about whether you're doing "R&D" or not?
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by logifail 1y ago
Businesses don't get to say they're claiming "$900k in costs" ... it depends on what kind of costs ... EDIT: and in this instance, it depends on what kind of software engineering.
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by logifail 1y ago
> Normally, when you have expenses, you deduct them off your revenue to find your taxable profit. If you have $1 million in sales, and $900k in costs, you have $100k in profit [..] I'm not sure it's helpful to simplify quite th
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Clickbait title, not really sure why this deserves to be on HN
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> The point is to protect all children You'd close schools to protect a minority of children with comorbidities from a virus which doesn't threaten the vast majority of children, knowing that school closures will definitely dam
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by logifail 1y ago
> I would argue that lives have value even when people have preexisting medical conditions (Otherwise healthy) school-age children - and younger adults - always faced a very low risk from Covid-19, and we had solid statistical data on
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by logifail 1y ago
> Children die because their parents believe in anti-vax nonsense Do we know how many otherwise healthy children caught Covid and died from it? My impression from the official figures is that in most countries the number is vanishingly s
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by logifail 1y ago
Q: Is this really about "the whole tariff situation" or (more likely) a lack of product-market fit...?
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by logifail 1y ago
> the banking system is slow, expensive and cumbersome I think you missed "profitable" from that list.
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by logifail 1y ago
My understanding is that ksmbd is a kernel-space SMB server "developed as a lightweight, high-performance alternative" to the traditional (user-space) Samba server... Q1: Who is using ksmbd in production? Q2: Why?
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by logifail 1y ago
> funneling more EU funding I'm sure EU taxpayers will be presented with a solid business case demonstrating value for money before our €billions are spent on a project such as this. Oh, wait, this is the EU. Most likely a deal wou
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> How can we know for sure the binaries running on the voting machines [..] As far as elections are concerned, give me paper ballots every day, and make sure you count them by hand with plenty of Mk I human observers present.
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> if there are enough scientists who are keen to promote information sharing in their field without some minimal reward I have two published papers from way back when, and thanks to the glorious broken incentives of academic publishing,
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> In other words, general anesthesia is rough on you Can confirm having watched our kids recover from general anesthesia multiple times. Full disclosure: have three kids, eldest child at lifetime total of 4x general anesthesia so far (1x
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by logifail 1y ago
(With apologies if this appears provocative) Is there evidence that SECDEF 'acted with criminal intent'? We've already clarified that '[being] extremely careless' is not enough for a court case. [I have a mental pic
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> Yes, mens rea is a deeply-precedented standard that's a good default (From the other side the pond) it does seem that legal standards such that one are applied very selectively in the USA, apparently depending heavily on the polit
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> The Times sued to get Von der Leyen to share information ...and failed > To my knowledge, SecDef isn't subject to FOIA in a meaningful way ...and as it turned out, neither is VdL.
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> FBI investigated Clinton because of her emails. Correct, and this was the outcome: [FBI director James Comey said] "Clinton had been 'extremely careless' but recommended that no charges be filed because Clinton did not a
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> Sure. They still wound up in court. That case was brought by the New York Times, not any oversight body or investigative function of the EU, which makes it even more cringe-worthy. "The European Commission faced an embarrassing gr
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> We should and do The European Commission ended up in court trying to keep Ursula von der Leyen's messages secret 'claiming that the texts were “by [their] nature short-lived” and were not covered by the EU’s freedom of inform
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by logifail 1y ago
> First, official communications [..] Unfortunately the list of politicians who either don't care about records of their communications being properly kept, or who went out of their way to keep their comms "off the books"
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by logifail 2y ago
"Kerr, however, stated more than once that the tiger represents nothing more than a tiger, and had no relevance to her upbringing"[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tiger_Who_Came_to_Tea
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by logifail 2y ago
> They will start a riot and then when you don't give in, they'll be gone If you haven't already done so, read up on TARGET2[0], things could get somewhat spicy if a Eurozone country were to leave the EU. [0] https:/
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by logifail 2y ago
> Completely barking mad Well, we'll see that and raise you the European Parliament in Strasbourg. The EU could get rid of this idiocy overnight, except - well - France. (I have nothing against the French, I've visited France d
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by logifail 2y ago
I've just opened https://x.com/dieworkwear in a private browsing window and - from here at least - I don't appear to need an account.
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> The UK stepped on its own rake because it was obsessed with tiny, already vanished industries like fishing This isn't just a UK issue: "Fishing is a relatively minor economic activity within the EU. It contributes generally l
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by logifail 2y ago
According to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41283368 we should be linking to the primary source. Q: Is there a specific reason* that this thread links to threadreaderapp? * other than politics, which we try Really Har
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> How many millions joined those street protest? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_February_2003_anti-war_prot... : "The British Stop the War Coalition (Stop) claimed the protest in London was the largest politic
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In the 1960s a Canadian research expedition collected soil samples from Easter Island which led to the discovery of rapamycin (aka sirolimus). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirolimus https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih
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by logifail 2y ago
It was indeed all about the roundabouts. I forget the details but I do know it took us quite a while to get there(!) Those tutorials filled me with dread at the time, but with hindsight they were - how can I put this - a fairly formative

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