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by robjan 6y ago
The problem is when you sell the truth and your competitors sell "all of our graduates earn 500k within two months of graduating", which one is going to get the customers? Part of the problem is the students themselves who see six
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by robjan 6y ago
They still send the invoice. I accidentally left a couple of small files in an S3 bucket for years. Eventually my card expired on that account and they continued bothering me until I contacted support and we agreed to waive the bill. I imag
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by robjan 6y ago
Sadly glass costs more, is more breakable and is quite heavy relative to its contents and therefore leads to higher CO2 emissions. Glass is also theoretically close-loop recyclable but it's again cumbersome and expensive. It's usu
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by robjan 6y ago
Wealth and success aren't only measured in dollars
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by robjan 6y ago
If you aren't registered with a GP and have no records at the hospital there are other ways to check, for instance your National Insurance records. It's not easy to get away without paying if you are an ineligible person.
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by robjan 6y ago
It's not like the US system where people have to choose whether or not to call an ambulance but it's obviously better for visitors to come with health insurance since a policy covering most emergency healthcare, and various other
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by robjan 6y ago
Not giving medical advice but you probably shouldn't be going to A&E for a sprained ankle unless it's very serious or a suspected break. For people who are not ordinarily resident in the UK an A&E admission costs £100-£500
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by robjan 6y ago
Foreign nationals without a visa (and non-resident British people, like me now) do receive a bill. I used to work in the department that recovers the money. The rates are in an excel file linked on this page. Visitors pay 150% of the publis
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by robjan 6y ago
The state will not provide it to non-residents. As soon as you arrive in the UK, immigration stamps "no recourse to public funds" in black all-caps into your passport as a friendly reminder.
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by robjan 6y ago
If the only way to cheat is illegal and can be done on the Blockchain anyway then why use a Blockchain rather than a database?
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by robjan 6y ago
Teams tends to be used by bigcorps with tens of thousands of hundreds of thousands of staff. Why buy and audit another tool when you already have a Office 365 subscription for the Org.
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by robjan 6y ago
I also receive emails and invites for someone else but I actively use my Gmail account. I think it's just people misspelling email addresses.
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by robjan 6y ago
Project management is a different career from development, not a progression.
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The only way is to book on an airline who doesn't have the MAX, doesn't have them on order and has no history of wetleasing. Alternatively you can fly only on routes where the MAX is unsuitable i.e. longhaul.
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by robjan 6y ago
I live in Hong Kong. We have 0% capital gains tax, 0% dividend tax and my effective income tax is around 5%. Many people get this down to 0% by getting married, having kids, giving money to their parents, offsetting against mortgage interes
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by robjan 6y ago
Search engines already have a fresh content bias but at least all content is indexed. With silos, especially Facebook, after a day or two on an active group a post just disappears
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by robjan 6y ago
It seems to be pretty random. I clicked that link and all of the outfits were black t-shirt with different colour cargo shorts and random shoes like white tassle moccasins. Then I refreshed the page and the suggestions were much less whacky
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by robjan 6y ago
I just successfully navigated to that site in Brave. The only problem was that I had to accept the invalid certificate.
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As long as they are replaced it's not too much of a problem.
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Wayback machine link: https://web.archive.org/web/20201115030921/https://raccoon.o...
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by robjan 6y ago
Most credit cards have an expiry date
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by robjan 6y ago
If anything happens to you which prevents you from renewing your domain, e.g. you are detained or in a coma, then it's probably gone as well unless you have a lot of credit on your registrar account.
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by robjan 6y ago
There are other options available. I personally don't use it, but Zoho Mail is free with paid plans starting at $1/mo.
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by robjan 6y ago
Marginal cost is meaningless when you are dealing with exponential values. There are four trillion photos on Google Photos currently. That number is increasing faster than the cost of drives is going down.
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by robjan 6y ago
It's difficult to tell what the intentions of this list are. "Bad things" is a very vague and subjective idea.
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by robjan 6y ago
This will lead to people posting lower quality comments and one liners to increase their engagement, reach and therefore following. Let's keep it simple. A lot of HN users do have a blog you just need to find it.
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by robjan 6y ago
See the hull loss per million. Using that metric you are 34 times more likely to experience a hull loss incident on a 737 MAX than a 320 http://www.airsafe.com/events/models/rate_mod.htm
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by robjan 6y ago
Probably the airlines who will both be dealing with the logistics and be able to return to BAU quicker because of the vaccine. For example, American Airlines is up 25% premarket today and IAG (owner of British Airways) is up nearly 30%.
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The difference being that it's neither an Indian app nor are the majority of their users based in India.
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by robjan 6y ago
You are thinking about the abandoned Extradition Bill. The National Security Law includes the ability to extradite people but only for promoting succession, spreading certain views and talking about certain things. The guy who murdered his

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