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by quink 3y ago
> words that are perceived to be derogatory against disadvantaged groups The _game_ won't accept responses of such a nature? That doesn't sound too bad.
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by quink 3y ago
Your argument against a non-existent $150,000 yearly tax is that a single person would need to pay that if they owned a property two thirds the size of the Vatican, on the ocean, 45 minutes from the biggest city centre in a 2000km radius. N
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by quink 3y ago
> I get fuck all of the money I bring into the country (after expenses, salaries risk and taxes). So why argue this passionately against a non-existent tax that failed at the ballot box on A. assets that doesn't kick in until above
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by quink 3y ago
> Help I’m being oppressed by needing to pay some tax on assets. That sounds like a terrible thing the government is doing to you. > No, not the government. That sounds like a terrible thing the opposition might do to you. > No, no
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by quink 3y ago
Guardian, December 2023: > The wealth tax contemplated by New Zealand Labour would have required couples to pay an annual levy of 1.5% on any assets they held over a $10m threshold. The estimated $3.8bn in revenue would have funded incom
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by quink 3y ago
I stand corrected.
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Not really, kitty was forked from putty. Calibre afaik was created from scratch. Those are two entirely different circumstances from which to start from and it’s inevitable they would have vastly divergent results even in the same hands.
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by quink 3y ago
> glory days 1971: Will the Last Person Leaving SEATTLE — Turn Out the Lights I’d argue the 757, 767 and 737 Classic (i.e. -300 to -500), all of which much more 80s than 70s were much more glorious. And the 90s brought us the 737NG and 7
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In the immortal words of Hugh Greene, responsible for WDR’s predecessor organisation NWDR until three years before the founding of the Electronic Music studio here: > We are going to use this organisation to change the way the rest of th
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How Microsoft tells you to use Copilot isn't how Copilot tells you to use it
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Moreton Bay? Nah, their home is almost definitely around Ashgrove, Red Hill, Kelvin Grove, Paddington, somewhere around those parts. Suburbs just to the north-west of the CBD, based on having been around those a pile and having seen most of
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Ah, yes, what a horrible, awful burden the... consults notes... top 0.4% of taxpayers in the richest country on the planet are being asked to live with. I'll go find a tiny violin so I may weep for them. Edit: Hang on. I was wrong, I a
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`-m 1` might be good with that.
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Observe the phrase “still working on” doing an extraordinary amount of heavy lifting, certainly more than any Hyperloop ever did.
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The first coin’s denomination is 1, so it’d be a given that it would be shared. Two out of four isn’t much less impressive though.
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by quink 3y ago
Side note on WP's subscription popup there, "A99c every 4 weeks for the first year" is never how you should write that. "A$0.99 [...]" is the way to go. https://www.stylemanual.gov.au/grammar-punctua
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by quink 3y ago
Semi-compulsory link whenever this sort of thing comes up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesiod_(name_service)
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Not really, the video and extensive commentary is from 2019.
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> You can just kill the process instead. > Before gently laying this process to rest we would just like to have a minute of your time to gather some information so we can provide our customers with a better service. [Ten question surv
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by quink 3y ago
End of the monarchy. No fanfare, no big drama, just OK, bye, we’ve got an election for president to organise. Especially after Brexit the British people have learned the lesson of fucking around for years when it comes to any change, this w
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by quink 3y ago
(2014), or thereabouts?
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by quink 3y ago
+1000 for Clozemaster. After a lot of research it’s the one I most vibe with. I also do LingQ and WaniKani every day. It’s perfect because it doesn’t demand much, you can do other thing a at the same time even, is extremely straightforward
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by quink 3y ago
The death of Fireworks made me much much better at CSS, SVG, and HTML. Because just doing it in those technologies is often just as fast if not more productive than doing a mock-up in XD or Photoshop or Illustrator. I’ll use a vector editor
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by quink 3y ago
Said MUMPS programmer from the last link here. I kept working with MUMPS, although it became much more Caché ObjectScript over the years, until this March. I’ve moved on to doing other things now, but I can see myself absolutely going back
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> As long as those apps are noncommercial
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Flatpaks continue to horrify me because of fundamental stuff like this that keeps getting completely ignored: https://github.com/flathub/org.libreoffice.LibreOffice/issue... I swear, Desktop Linux has continued t
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> I ran DNSSEC for hundreds of TLDs as a one man team That’s not a good thing?
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That's different. This uses an infrared receiver on a Linux box to render out a teletext stream that's interpreted and displayed on a TV. The CEEFAX games in the link on the other hand were games transmitted over CEEFAX to be load
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https://ianix.com/pub/dnssec-outages.html
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So a separate font for features that should be OpenType variations. Glad to see that spirit is still alive over at Linotype. Meanwhile in the real world, Inter is still widely rising, with lots of OpenType variations and variable weights.

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