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But big expensive machines and software sales usually involves a lot of customer research and pre sales intelligence and rocking your sweet lone self (allowing you might be able to fake the roles and personalities necessary to mimic a remot
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I think this may be the most relevant quotation to our contemporary predicament: "The military escalation had, like all those before it, coincided with an increase in the cost of living for working-class Americans." Give or take t
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The Fed simply devalued the dollar to keep the cost of post '73 OPEC crisis oil down. This sustained heavy and extraordinarily polluting industries in the US until the nineties. Coincidentally, reducing the influence of unionized labor
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4y ago
German law forbade the "sale" or combined sale of any good at zero cost, even carrier bags until the turn of this century. Coincidentally or not, they have the Mittelstand high technology SME sector and, until the beginning of thi
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4y ago
>It's just the camera sensor's color space (Adobe RGB) Sensors don't have a color space. It's a transformation applied in the camera software. Unfortunately no commercially available camera either exposes using the se
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Mach more than helped: "Mach 3 (Figure B.1) moves the BSD code outside of the kernel, leaving a much smaller microkernel. This system implements only basic Mach features in the kernel; all UNIX-specific code has been evicted to run in
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> There's a rather murky limit on freedom of speech, I don't believe it's murky at all, but defined deliberately in fuzzy terms in a number of important ways, one of which is the avoidance of precipitation of criminality.
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That's because each of the several hundred billions of pounds of greenfield government software programmes is a slapdash crud forms exercise bugger the millions of man years of development by the original experts despite there's l
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This was such a phenomenon in the seventies that by the time Yes Minister was broadcast the joke was a running ironic theme that met with deflated apathy: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=yes+minister+hospital+no+patients&...
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> Wow, what a deceptive clickbait title! Should read "FDIC tells FTX US to delete a tweet". (I've restructured this comment removing only a tangential illustration of shareholders liability, adding only to make my meaning
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I have a hypothesis about this phenomenon of the software house monopolies, which is that wherever consistency of human interaction is beneficial, you get large concentrations of development, for reasons of human computer interaction being
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I can see valid reasons to delete a inaccurate and misleading statement, but this requires substitution with a link to the archived message and a public statutory countdown to a seven days grace period before any misleading public servant e
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Lynn Nichols' The Rape of Europa may be the definitive non expert introduction to this subject: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rape_of_Europa_(book) There's a well reported 2007 documentary upon the book
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The problem starts with the time between patent award and regulatory approval limiting the commercial exclusivity. This has driven big pharma to patent manufacturing processes instead of the compounds. If I understand it correctly from memo
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This is very old hat. A friend battled the old British Telecom, after Deutsche Telekom (the rest crumbled after that) to publish Telex businesses directories a whole couple of generations ago. Copyright laws protect the structure and occasi
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>That feels like a decent trade off to me comparing years of life lost from liver cancer to time spent scraping scrambled eggs off of pans. Are you sure you meant that just how it reads like? I mean your life isn't something I want
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In the UK arrest is lawful simply to ensure that your statement or interview can be obtained, entirely without any kind of suspicion. Still will disqualify you for automatic entry in the US however.
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Gov.UK is slick af on Jelly bean Chrome 85 sideload with dozens of lengthy pages in active reference. Upgrading unnecessary. In the new economy any clever MVNO could turn L3 rules into subscriber market lead by keeping orphan handsets usabl