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by nickff 29d ago
Yes, I spent about an hour trying to figure out how to make the webcam work, but I'm sure you would have figured out the limitation more quickly.
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by nickff 29d ago
> ”Amazon don't accept an existing photo of primary ID for their preferred ID verification check, it must be a photo taken by a camera on-device, and I don't have a webcam on my desktop PC” In my experience, it was not possibl
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by nickff 1mo ago
> qIf you have the right underlings (or inherit them) you might actually not need to do anything at all and succeed. Then again if you have the wrong underlings (or inherit them) then your job is hella-difficult.” I think this paragraph
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by nickff 1mo ago
I am not sure that there is one example which can meet all your criteria, though there are many examples of stupid things that (almost) everyone agrees he should not have done: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WE_Charity_s
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by nickff 1mo ago
> "the worst thing that could happen is this, a vain and incompetent buffoon installed in the top leadership position." Well, Canada repeatedly elected Justin Trudeau (now departed)... so both countries have made some... inter
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by nickff 1mo ago
Each company is required to register and report to each country. If you’re a 2MM EURO revenue company (not that big), and you want to sell one $5 item to Germany, you must be registered, hire a local representative, and file the most compre
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by nickff 1mo ago
This also negatively affects smaller trading partners, and makes (bi-lateral) trade with the EU much less appealing to them. This means that countries like Canada are less likely to maintain trade agreements which open their market to all s
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by nickff 1mo ago
You'd probably be in a better place to understand the scripts now, having seen more performances, for whatever that might be worth. That said, I personally don't read scripts, and have not done so since I was last required to in h
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by nickff 1mo ago
Nurses are also highly-paid in the USA (relative to other developed countries), and they make up a large part of the wage expenditure in the system. This may not make a difference to your point, but it is important to note that doctors are
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by nickff 1mo ago
> "Per capita stats are computed based on population, not per treatment or per person eligible for treatment. " Your point is correct, but since the majority of healthcare spending occurs in the last 18 months of life, and the
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by nickff 1mo ago
How would this change solve: "Hospitals eating the cost of the uninsured..." ? Wouldn't it just transfer the cost from the hospitals to the universal coverage agency? This would make the financial picture even worse for the
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by nickff 1mo ago
Hydro power (dams) causes massive declines in native fish populations in the affected rivers, which is especially significant for salmonids. There have been attempts to mitigate these issues with 'fish ladders' (as well as more co
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by nickff 1mo ago
> "Actually, they were caused by lack of food." This is a tautology; a lack of food can't be caused by a lack of food, as it is a lack of food. > "Yes, which of the 757 million food insecure people is Putin resp
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by nickff 1mo ago
> "If we spend that extra $93b, we'd be well within the range to actually stop world hunger." Almost all recent famines have been caused (either deliberately or incidentally) by government policies, not lack of money. Th
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by nickff 1mo ago
I agree that none of these is universally accepted, as there are people who disagree right here! Open-face sandwiches often have multiple pieces of bread, go by many names, and are similar to toasts and tostadas, which are neither sandwiche
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by nickff 1mo ago
If you cut the rest of the way through the bread in a sub, it’s still completely acceptable to serve, but if cut all the way through a hotdog bun, it is regarded as broken or defective.
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by nickff 1mo ago
Nachos are not crumbled tacos for four reasons: - nachos use (deep) fried tortillas, tacos do not (though some are pan-fried after ingredients are added) - nachos require cheese, which few tacos have - nachos are baked, tacos are not - taco
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by nickff 1mo ago
No, it’s a taco, because the bun is one piece rather than two, as required for a sandwich.
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by nickff 1mo ago
> "RISC-V is already dominant in the MCU space[...]" Where are you getting the idea that RISC-V is dominant? As someone who works in this space, that doesn't jive with my experience or the sources I've seen.[1] 32-bi
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by nickff 1mo ago
"Minor embarrassment" is what politicians who 'take full responsibility' while not facing any consequences 'suffer'.[1] Getting canned for it is a bit more than that. [1] https://www.bbc.com/new
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by nickff 2mo ago
If Wickard v Filburn is still good law, I don’t understand how the betting market is anything but interstate commerce. Futures trading is betting, especially where they’re settled in cash.
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by nickff 2mo ago
Here is a link to a post about the State of New York's case: https://www.shb.com/intelligence/newsletters/securities-liti... I am not sure about how the state regulation of betting will turn out (though I wou
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by nickff 2mo ago
The 'small-scale' 100k-1MM per participant per day per casino laundering can add up to 'real money' quite fast. The larger-scale money laundering in my area is a but more complicated, involving import/export schemes
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by nickff 2mo ago
Criminals don't have to "recruit and pay huge numbers of naive bank customers"; in my jurisdiction, they just walk into a casino with a few hundred thousand dollars, exchange for chips, pretend to gamble for an hour, then exc
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by nickff 2mo ago
Having the ability to identify who is watching or saying what on the internet would be immensely useful to the government; the justifications are really meaningless. Anti-money-laundering is a comparable field, as all the AML regulations an
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by nickff 2mo ago
> "It could be 99% filler and not be a lie." There is no evidence that McDonalds has included any filler in their burgers at all (at least in recent history). See the link in the cousin-comment for more information on what has
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by nickff 2mo ago
To be fair to its adherents (of which I am not one), the so-called philosophy espouses maximizing income, so that one can later allocate that wealth efficiently. Working in a low-earning field which directly provides aid to those in need wo
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by nickff 2mo ago
"100% beef" is a factual claim, and not subject to Trademarks; McDonalds Trademarked "100% PURE ALL-AMERICAN BEEF" in 1982. https://www.trademarkia.com/100-pure-all-american-beef-73352...
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by nickff 2mo ago
What do you mean by this? The two ideas/groups/perspectives seem completely unrelated.
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How A Yale AI-cheating dispute became a 13-count federal lawsuit(arstechnica.com)
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