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721.
by nly 3y ago
The problem is if someone gives me cash I just put it in to my bank account with all my other cash and it just gets spent on typical living expenses. Nothing I can label as a gift comes out of it.
722.
by nly 4y ago
Sound spike music licensing is a great business model though!
723.
by nly 4y ago
So how is it revenue? Sounds like a liability
724.
by nly 4y ago
It also gives Facebook themselves access to every service you can 'Login with Facebook' with
725.
by nly 4y ago
Just give me password auth back. I work in a lab that requires fingerprint login (TrustKey FIDO keys) with no fallback. Every 6-8 weeks I need to have my keys reset with new prints, which is a process that involves meeting a member of the s
726.
by nly 4y ago
You can compile binaries with additional relative library paths in to them that will take priority over /usr/lib64
727.
by nly 4y ago
I just want a shell that runs my commands, I don't want yet another language. The _beauty_ of bash is you can learn the basics of the language very easily, call out to external tools, and _take that knowledge with you_. Those tools exi
728.
by nly 4y ago
Linux supports a dozen filesystems and has FUSE for userspace. It's nice Windows can do things too though I guess.
729.
by nly 4y ago
The overhead of VMs, properly provisioned, is minimal these days. Even going with card passthrough just works.
730.
by nly 4y ago
More like rusty tin than Gold when inflation is running at 10% YoY
731.
by nly 4y ago
This is a strange argument. A profitable company that isn't growing (selling more stuff, hiring more people, etc) can have a stable (low) P/E and still pay a nice dividend.
732.
by nly 4y ago
I think this idea is dead on arrival..there's a huge mismatch between the appetite for the every day person to invest in illiquid assets (like mortgage loans secured over 25-40 years) and the market demand for such loans. I suspect wit
733.
by nly 4y ago
I've been using ddg for years but I still have to use !g almost daily when searching for a particular page on particular domains because ddg just seems not to want to index them properly.
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by nly 4y ago
Filing taxes in the UK literally takes 20 minutes online and requires no special software, and like 95% of people will never have to do it.
735.
by nly 4y ago
The thing you're missing is there are no incentives for a sovereign nation to give up the ability to mint their own currency and control its supply (monetary policy).
736.
by nly 4y ago
You can't serve ads in GPT chatbot responses.
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by nly 4y ago
Ironic because people here in the UK don't have "annual physicals". There is no routine preventative medicine on the NHS.
738.
by nly 4y ago
British homes are terribly heat inefficient as well.
739.
by nly 4y ago
Or...you could use Clangs GUARDED_BY annotations and thread safety analysis... https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ThreadSafetyAnalysis.html
740.
by nly 4y ago
If you're scaling your whole business for one customer based on one contract then you better be sure you can either scale down again, or the contract has safeguards in it to stop a rugpull.
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by nly 4y ago
They're exploitable because they're economically desperate. The current generation is totally fucked over wrt the cost of education, health, property and pensions.
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by nly 4y ago
Quant firms been looking for signal on social media for well over a decade at this point. It's not new.
743.
by nly 4y ago
Focusing on taxing the highly paid instead of taxing the wealthy is tiresome.
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by nly 4y ago
Yep, everything you said is spot on. I'm on N times the UK national median wage in London and still have anxiety about being able to afford kids, pay my mortgage, and retire at a half decent age. I see American firms offering 50-100% m
745.
by nly 4y ago
Ah, yes. I remember the days of using b nspluginwrapper to load the 32 bit flash plugin in a 64 bit browser on Linux...
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by nly 4y ago
When I saw the headline my first thought was "What!? They're skipping version 11!?". Then, after far too many seconds, I remembered that Windows 11 does in fact exist and I'd just blotted the whole thing out of memory as
747.
by nly 4y ago
Typically when a business declines it's because a competitor in the market is picking up the consumers sweet dollar dollar. That's why buying whole markets makes sense. The entire cryptocurrency universe can go away and people ca
748.
by nly 4y ago
Well, that's delightfully morbid.
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by nly 4y ago
He is probably right. So many businesses have become financialized now. In the UK, John Lewis, which is/was an upmarket department store (and also owns Waitrose, a grocery store), is a mutual , owned by it's employees, but is now
750.
by nly 4y ago
Moral Hazard?

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