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by lukeramsden 6y ago
Cannabis was named "marijuana" by American newspapers for the express purpose of associating it with Mexican immigrants. The criminalisation of cannabis was started by racism, and has been solely for the purpose of racism ever sin
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by lukeramsden 6y ago
I don't know about Brazil but that's how the rules work in the UK, because otherwise everyone would charge $1 for the item cost and $itemPrice+25 for shipping, and no custom tax would be paid.
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by lukeramsden 6y ago
It's a big problem here in the UK too, at least for me and the people I know.
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by lukeramsden 6y ago
And you know that he "caught" Covid-19 _weeks_ after starting medication to treat pneumonia, which is why he wasn't vaccinated despite being high-risk, right?
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by lukeramsden 6y ago
Can they not automate that? That would probably put them _ahead_ of the Play Store
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by lukeramsden 6y ago
So, every broker is on margin with DDTC, they don’t have to have 100pct cash for the dollar amount of the buy orders they send to DDTC, as long as they will have the cash in 2 day. I'm assuming you mean the DTCC? This actually isn&#x27
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by lukeramsden 6y ago
Last I heard, the DTCC have raised collateral requirements on GME from 1-3% to 100%. Seriously. That's the real reason clearing houses stopped accepting new orders on GME from brokers.
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by lukeramsden 6y ago
This is well known the be common practice and very much not punished.
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by lukeramsden 6y ago
Part of the reason it was trading so low was supposedly because the short sellers were suppressing the price, simply by way of being very publicly short the stock. It was clearly undervalued because of this, which is why people like /u
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by lukeramsden 6y ago
> Who has the money to keep buying at $350 to propel the stock to $400 Delta hedging, potentially > But there's 55M shares trading at all time highs 55M is the float but there's nowhere near that much actively available. Fid
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by lukeramsden 6y ago
> that's reaching. there are many successful software build on top of mysql/mariadb. That doesn't make them better or even good. There is also successful software built on CGI scripts, but I'm not going to go and say
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by lukeramsden 6y ago
The notifications counter isn't _gone_, just moved to the top right on the home page next to the Direct Messages button. I didn't and still don't like the change but it's not catastrophic.
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by lukeramsden 6y ago
> i do not know which is funnier, that sean actually submitted this bug, or that you all are so stereotypically gentoo users as to take it seriously. and then marked as duplicate. seems like a lot of arguing went on on this bug tracker,
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by lukeramsden 6y ago
I've been to concerts of artists I simply would not have discovered if it weren't for Spotify, their curated playlists, and their algorithm. I can absolutely guarantee this for my personal circumstance These artists have been from
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by lukeramsden 6y ago
This is why multiple ways of paying for music are so important, because for my £14.99 a month on Spotify I've listened to (since 2020-03-01) 2,733 different artists[0]. That would simply not have been possible under the traditional bus
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by lukeramsden 6y ago
Here is a StackOverflow Q&A about something just like this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38923376/return-a-new-st... A similar system is used in Jira called LexoRank
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by lukeramsden 6y ago
I currently use Keycloak with vouch-proxy[0] to secure services on my personal self-hosting server. It seems to be quite slow, and much more heavyweight and complex than I need . Is this something Ory can solve for me? Is there any document
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by lukeramsden 6y ago
I see, yes I was surprised Google didn't have any simple to use triggers for sheets.
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by lukeramsden 6y ago
I'm currently using Integromat for some personal stuff, but I'd like to self-host so I came across n8n. All I need is a Google Sheets trigger, which I do see is in the works [0], then I'll probably have a go at it. [0] https
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by lukeramsden 6y ago
> I feel like they missed opportunities to replace Craigslist as the de facto online classifieds and to offer a payment system like Apple Pay. Perhaps these are only obvious in hindsight I think they're trying to rectify both of the
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by lukeramsden 6y ago
Automated testing should be done at CI stage, and you can submit a binary to Apple without having to send it live on the AppStore (TestFlight is for that), or you could send it to other beta distribution channels
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by lukeramsden 6y ago
Do you know of anywhere that hires more older people that would also consider hiring some younger, junior candidates as well? I don't know about other younger developers but personally I'd rather work with older, experienced devel
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by lukeramsden 6y ago
> The last 1% is people who legitimately care about these people and want to discuss their wellbeing and rights. But I'm putting that in to be generous, I don't think I'm ever seen these topics discussed in good faith. Or
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by lukeramsden 6y ago
This would only be a threat if you're using the SaaS, right? If you self-host the user is still authenticating directly with your services, it's just that your services run a pre-made solution on the backend.
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by lukeramsden 6y ago
> IMO GraphQL is great to quickly develop something. If your front-end is making 18 queries to REST API and you're making a case for how awesome GraphQL is, I think perhaps your REST API design needs to be properly thought out. I pe
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by lukeramsden 6y ago
You can create custom scalars in GraphQL, which then have shared logic for serialization on the backend and frontend. That knowledge on format does have to be sort of out-of-band but that could probably be added to the standard.
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by lukeramsden 6y ago
The issue is that hard bounces can cause big issues with your email sending reputation, and too many can make you lose access to mailing services such as Amazon SES, so you're encouraged at all points during the implementation of anyth
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by lukeramsden 6y ago
Couldn't you give property tax breaks to retirees, or to people temporarily out of work?
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by lukeramsden 6y ago
> I'm not honestly convinced the fallout from a company being breached is that high The market clearly doesn't care, and so neither do executives. What needs to happen is a household company gets exploited/hacked/pwne
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by lukeramsden 6y ago
Why's that? They run an incredibly significant amount of internet infrastructure, is it not also natural for them to own a lot of IP addresses to go with that?

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