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by mvc 5y ago
I'm afraid this is the logical consequence of a majority of people falling for the lie that "government can't do things as efficiently as the private sector". When people vote for politicians who say "government
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by mvc 5y ago
The 3rd step above would have protected me but I'm not sure everyone would be so cautious as that. In my case, the attacker had control of my solicitor's email. A few days before he sent me a letter instructing me to deposit money
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by mvc 5y ago
Haha I wonder if you've read my case. I was scammed out of 100k this year. The scammer had control of my solicitor's email and timed the attack perfectly so I was absolutely convinced I was sending money to the right place. Didn&#
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by mvc 5y ago
What's a normal person?
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by mvc 5y ago
> We both know that the program goes way beyond "black people shouldn't be indiscriminately shot" I say we call their bluff and stop shooting black people indiscrimately anyway. That'll show 'em.
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by mvc 5y ago
Of course everyone knows that feminism has nothing to do with basic workers rights because a women's place is in the home. /sarcasm
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by mvc 5y ago
Except the students who went there I guess.
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by mvc 5y ago
He got an MP on his side which seems to be all it takes these days in the UK.
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by mvc 5y ago
Haha, I tried to do this and it was working great until I got sacked.
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by mvc 5y ago
Is it frustrating going through life assuming a superficial understanding of words and phrases without considering how they are intended to be understood by the writer/speaker? The article I linked clearly explained that "processe
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by mvc 5y ago
Processed food is "problematic". The problems are well known and documented though https://www.lhsfna.org/index.cfm/lifelines/may-2019/the-many...
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by mvc 5y ago
Ah yes. The old, "I can't be racist. I have black friends" defense.
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> We hit bottom when the Catholic Church and the Boy Scouts both turned out to have thousands of pedophiles in positions of authority. Of course prior to 1980, the church had never done anything to harm those it claimed to care for. Not
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by mvc 5y ago
Why should you get an inflation busting interest rate if you're not prepared to accept some risk? That would literally be money for nothing.
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by mvc 5y ago
Took up other hobbies and forgot about side projects.
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by mvc 5y ago
How are you going to respond to a warranty claim if you've wrongly deleted the order data when a subject requests that you delete all PII you have about them? https://www.adyen.com/blog/gdpr-what-it-means-for-custo
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by mvc 6y ago
To be fair, it's not only bitcoin scammers who think we're in line for a bit of inflation over the next few years.
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by mvc 6y ago
His original investment was only 40k in 2017. Admittedly still a chunk of change to have invested in a risky asset like bitcoin but it's not like he earned 400k by being "smart enough" and then emptied it into bitcoin.
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by mvc 6y ago
Not yet but that's the way the wind is blowing
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by mvc 6y ago
Funny how it took 6 whole seasons to figure that out. Must have been a coincidence to do so when a lot of NFL fans are tweeting out messages saying they'll boycott the league if it doesn't cancel him due to his "disrespect fo
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by mvc 6y ago
When your job is PR, when you have a PR disaster you might have trouble finding another job until you figure out how to demonstrate to future employers that you have learned something from the experience.
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by mvc 6y ago
What was the social justice being fought for when Colin Kaepernick was cancelled?
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by mvc 6y ago
> There are many American products that are initially set in USD that I can buy with EUR Ultimately those EURs are being converted to USDs because the producers of those American products are taxed in USDs.
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by mvc 6y ago
Why wouldn't they pay (at least up to) the same amount of money to you so that you can create your own space?
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by mvc 6y ago
May I be so bold as to suggest that not all vote rigging conspiracies are considered impossible. Just the ones that have been rejected by every court that has tested them.
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by mvc 6y ago
> Most of the time we need to store monetary values with two decimal places (cents). Yeah who cares about fractions of pennies anyway. Just makes things complicated.
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by mvc 6y ago
`copy to` yes. That's what bulk insert is . How can having the feature make postgres bad at it? "in memory csv" no. You don't need to create an in memory csv file in order to load in bulk. Your language binding should p
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by mvc 6y ago
They "earned" it the same way billionaires earned it. By getting wealthy competitors to fight each other and consolidating their monopoly position whenever possible.
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by mvc 6y ago
Exactly! You can have "total liberty" to the extent that you can defend it. Since the cost of defending it against nation states (or frankly even against well-resourced pirates) is so high, most people group together and form thei
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by mvc 6y ago
Gives a chance for people who own stock in companies that don't trade on the stock market, to sell that stock.

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