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"the attitude towards healthcare : it's not a business, rather a right" "I first heard the words "Preexisting condition" when I moved to London and researched private insurance there." Might that
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It's. Not. Free. "Free at the point of delivery". Do you pay to use the highway, or do you drive on the highway for free? If you can use a service without handing over money for the use of that service, it's reas
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I can't imagine naming variables using any other language but English. I spent some time as a consultant auditing other companies' software. Even with platforms where the coding-standards dictated the use of English, most
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From their blurb: "To qualify for your official ALISON Diploma, Certificate or PDF" (emphasis mine). In their Knowledgebase [1], they acknowledge "ALISON courses are not accredited or recognised by any institute" [1]
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The commit message explains that the terms are verbatim from Wikipedia [1]. Wikipedia [2] attributes it to a Yahoo email filter "which automatically replaced Javascript-related strings with alternate versions, to prevent the possibili
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is it wise to just take this list "as is" as a black list for, say, valid usernames? I interpret this as a list of input that you should accept, and it's test-data to verify that the input is correctly handled. Afte
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"and the ability to lock it's doors and drive someone to a police station" That's unlikely, without a change in the law. Some modern cars do allow the doors to be locked remotely, but they don't prevent the
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I'd disagree on the subject of 'map data': Open Street Map is a good example of free, open map data. Whatever map data Uber/Lyft started with (and have perhaps since augmented with proprietary GPS data supplied by their
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>> "The people who own the cars…will have the freedom to switch to >> any ride-sharing network they like (or even multiple networks)." > "The hardware manufacturer/owner will fight tooth and nail
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That's the point of welfare programmes: to provide the basic life-sustaining means to those who don't have them. Food, housing, warmth, and sanitation. So yes, many societies do use taxes to provide free food (or food-stamps, or a
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by manarth 10y ago
> simple, elegant mechanics. Have you ever looked inside a watch! Well, I'd grant the "elegant mechanics", getting all those teensy cogs and wheels and levers and bits to work together like, er, clockwork… But &q
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It's not a perfect white: it's a 476-pixel square with some random (very small) splotches of light grey. As the image is called 'texturetastic-white.png', I assume the intention is to give a more natural texture feel to
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I can think of plausible use-cases: e.g. wireless data communication with devices that aren't networked. I've got scuba-diving computers that need special cables to sync with my PC: if they could sync with nothing more than a webp
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I decide to stop them from communicating, so I transmit "<callsign 1> QRT DE <callsign 2>" Is this harmful interference? On amateur radio, you're obliged to identify yourself, so this would be a breach o
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The news is reporting a failure from 12:30am. It's possible that it might be due to the leap second, but given the 30 minute gap between the leap-second and the failure, I'd hesitate to ascribe causation just yet.
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I just came across a note about Morocco, which entered daylight savings time in March 2016, but then left daylight-savings in June for 35 days , re-starting daylight-savings in July [1]. I've read that the explanation for this tempora
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Sometimes it's best to store a scheduled events as "Event localtime" and "Timezone" (where timezone is a named description - e.g. "Europe/Madrid" - rather than an offset - e.g. "+1:00"). Thi
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The US overall averages only 34.4 hours worked per week Source? Forbes (in 2014) says the average is 47 hours per week [1]. Wikipedia (data from 2015) says it's 8.4 hours per day for a man, 7.7 for a woman (although there doesn
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most people who work under 40hr/w want to work more I suspect that they want to earn more. Most of those will be in low-pay, hourly-paid work.
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Well, a 4-day working week is a decent benefit, one that many civil servants wouldn't get. Even though its balanced by longer working days, in a lot of places, those longer days would simply be unpaid overtime.
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In particular the removal of the magsafe power connector When USB-C removed the need for a dedicated power lead, I think that spelled the end for magsafe. Still, there's always this: https://griffintechnology.com&#x2
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"did any other market complain about worker safety or abuse or pollution and refuse to buy products?" Pre-industrial revolution, living conditions were pretty poor working conditions were pretty poor life expectancy was pr
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"Would I be allowed to sell that product in the US? Probably not." I can't think of any legal reason why not. If the product meets US electrical/safety standards, and isn't in breach of IP such as patents, s
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as a maintainer, I don't like turning down all this work you've done for free I empathise with that perspective, and I appreciate any work that an open-source maintainer does to contribute to a project, so thank you. I mus
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Given the scenario that I am using open-source software X, and that I have made changes to the software to suit my requirements, and that I believe those changes might be useful to others, I can either: 1. Contribute those changes up-stream
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I'd guess that some of the products were from Amazon whilst others were from third-party vendors. As for the question of liability, there's usually a proviso for taking legal/criminal action against the perpetrator. Even if t
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This happens every day in the UK and other countries I agree that there are countless examples of people deserving of citizenship (through marriage, children, etc) who are denied by bureaucratic rules, and are often separated from t
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> TB2/mDP can't carry power > > TB1 should carry some power. > > I was able to run a thunderbolt capable seagate external 2.5" hard drive (all this with the caveat of "I am not a physicist,
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With the amount of variation in support/standardisation of USB-C, drivers are last on the list of potential issues. Sure, if there's no driver, the user will be out of luck, no matter what. But that's at least a clearer, sepa
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Seen that, with conference speakers stressing out minutes before their talk, about why the laptop > projector adapter isn't working. It's the worst-case scenario: adapters/connectors that appear identical, but behave dif

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