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by pooper 4y ago
> Because they believe that tax cuts will ultimately stimulate the economy at a time when people are experiencing increased cost of living. It doesn't make any sense from what I understand because we are raising interest rates to co
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by pooper 4y ago
» The September 2022 United Kingdom mini-budget was a set of economic policies announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng on 23 September 2022. Although not an official budget statement, it was widely referred to by the med
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by pooper 4y ago
> It is the same story as with SQL. Trying to use frameworks to keep your app DBMS-agnostic but then nobody ever migrates their apps to another DBMS. A small nit, I think this is partly because we've been burned before. Same idea as
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by pooper 4y ago
> To me it is antithetical to building a sustainable product. Continuing what you said, Google uses macOS and Windows for client machines. That is ok because if Apple or Microsoft were to decide to cut off Google altogether, Google would
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> Facebook, Twitter, and sometimes Gmail. I know this is really sloppy of me but I'd argue my Gmail is as important if not more important than my bank account. If you have access to my bank, you have access to one bank account of mi
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by pooper 4y ago
For my fedora people,I just want to remind them that whenever anyone says docker, you can safely use podman (or at least that is the goal). It won't be rootless in this case as far as I know because you will need privileged ports 80 an
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by pooper 4y ago
> By decision of 18 July 2018 So they haven't paid this fine for over four years now and there is no penalty for it? Just because they have deep enough pockets to afford expensive lawyers? I am sure not having to pay those four bill
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by pooper 4y ago
Strong disagree. There are already other options for malicious actors, most notably Americans with Disability act.
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I watched it in full this time around. Maybe it should have been titled a screen test instead of a pilot, only for people who haven't seen the original. I have never seen the UK Office and I love the Office (US).
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> it is so weird when people do this on HN with no contact info in their profiles ;) I googled their username, clicked through to github, clicked through to repositories, clicked through to personal page (first repository on list), click
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by pooper 4y ago
> April 19, 2018 / Global Yes, original post needs a (2018) in the title.
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It is as simple as more units = more choices and assuming the number of people chasing those units isn't infinite, more units on the market means they now have to compete for the renters. Build more housing is a part of the solution. N
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> Here it definitely doesn't. I have at least 4/5 cables / usb-c ports combos in my home which aren't able to perform this apparently basic feature ; the phone's charging icon will activate but it will still loos
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> It seems a bit strange giving one group so much and the rest nothing. I think it makes sense if we can encourage people who would have otherwise traveled by car to try out the train. I mean that's the whole point, right? If we wan
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by pooper 4y ago
Sadly, no. > Xcode Cloud is a continuous integration and delivery service built into Xcode and designed expressly for Apple developers. It accelerates the development and delivery of high-quality apps by bringing together cloud-based too
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by pooper 4y ago
> This is how you end up with antipattern-laden monstrosities. ah haha I just stepped away from my work computer after creating a new branch and writing a "short term fix" in a particular module instead of fixing the root cause
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> This punishes work. No, it does not. I wouldn't call it a punishment. It forces people to rethink their priorities. Something about extrinsic motivation vs intrinsic motivation. What motivates you to get out of bed in the morning
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> It's basically the reason idealism/utopianism is never practical. It is interesting how people can follow the same path and reach different conclusions. To me, UBI makes sense BECAUSE of decreased production. I do not want pe
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by pooper 4y ago
> I'd also say that in the year of our lord 2022 literally everyone has heard about unexpected cloud bills (yes, happens with GCP and Azure all the time as well) and hence should know that they have to set their account up properly
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by pooper 4y ago
I was kind of hoping we can just use long urls... as long as we are NOT typing them by hand :) Previously, on HN (just this morning, still on the front page) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32493946 so if I wanted to s
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by pooper 4y ago
I think the only long term solution is a federal land and building tax. This is too important to leave to states (and definitely local) governments. A high tax with no credits, deductions, exemptions. Then, from this tax, we can pay "f
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by pooper 4y ago
I simply have a laptop (65W) USB C connected to the phone. I wasn't able to turn it on a month or so ago but tried it again after your reply and yes it still works. I use open camera to take a picture every so often (30s is one option)
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by pooper 4y ago
One problem is power draw. I figured out I can use an old phone with a removable battery without the battery but I still need a battery to power it up. However,if I do certain things that I presume need a burst of energy (wrong term?) that
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This was my first thought. Ask the person to turn sideways and then put a shoe on their head. Or put a shoe on their head and then turn sideways.
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I searched https://www.google.com/search?q=is+google.com+down And I got answer No. I have no idea what it would quote to give this snippet answer...
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I wouldn't call myself a fanboy but I believed he genuinely wanted to advance the electric car, no matter who ends up coming on top. This was the version of reality I saw in 2009 ish. The goal was not to make money. I thought he actual
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by pooper 4y ago
I started using 8601 without even thinking about it for one simple reason. Alphabetical sorting just works with YYYYmmdd So for example, log20220804.txt https://xkcd.com/1179/ At the very least, use four digit years, n
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I had forgotten why I default every little hello world type repo I create on GitHub to public. I knew there was a reason I started doing that but had forgotten. The five slots were precious and I didn't want to waste them.
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And dysfunctional organizations. I worked as a contractor at one place where we simply used the shared file server as a git remote. Reasoning was if the file server was down, it would come back up quickly because it affects everyone. I didn
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I completely agree with you. We could solve two problems at once: get rid of a camera bump and make the battery bigger at the same time by using the extra space of the camera bump to house a bigger battery. Not sure why it hasn't happe

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