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by robjan 6y ago
"healthy" is a spectrum. Everything isn't either healthy or unhealthy and what's healthy depends on the rest of your diet.
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by robjan 6y ago
Most people eat white bread anyway which has little fibre.
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by robjan 6y ago
Element is probably harder to use than Signal for less technically inclined users. There are some other matrix clients, like Pattle, which hide much of the complexity and give a more familiar UX to other messaging apps.
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by robjan 6y ago
Gmail just proxies the image which protects your IP address. Marketers can still see whether you opened the email unless you have images disabled.
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by robjan 6y ago
The domain is for sale for the right price: https://www.haven2.com/index.php/domains Seems the asking price is at least 1m USD
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by robjan 6y ago
Oracle provide a lot of other software, similar to SAP, which are often used by enterprises. A lot of the time it all comes bundled together including a support contract. The database also has a few proprietary features which no other RDBMS
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by robjan 6y ago
I used this just a few weeks ago and was impressed at how comprehensive the tool is as well as the level of detail in the readme.
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by robjan 6y ago
As long as the stock market works, the pricing represents long term growth rather than short term setbacks.
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by robjan 6y ago
If you brake in the middle of the highway (even just to slow a little) when the road ahead is clear you become a bigger hazard than the plastic bag. Double if you swerve as you suggested.
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by robjan 6y ago
Many parts are completely inaccessible from abroad.
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by robjan 6y ago
Search results were either failing or taking a few minutes to load in Hong Kong this morning
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by robjan 6y ago
There's really no need for such a salty comment. OP just described their stack and the current server load. I didn't detect any arrogance.
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by robjan 6y ago
I remember attending a talk where the conclusion was that you should never market a product as "green" or "eco-friendly". The reason being that if that's your value proposition then you are now limiting your product
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But that's not what he wants to do.
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It does but not by default and it only works between two specific devices.
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It doesn't push down salaries but does increase the signal to noise ratio when it comes to hiring and therefore the cost of talent acquisition. In influx of bootcamps in my area caused something similar with Software Engineers. We didn
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by robjan 6y ago
The term "bachelor" in the context of education came from the Latin "baccalaureate", a word which we still use today. Master comes from "magister" which means teacher.
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They could but TSMC's manufacturing capabilities are unmatched in China. Many Chinese companies are customers of TSMC.
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by robjan 6y ago
Previous networks didn't absorb the majority of the interconnected world, become one of the biggest companies in the world or have huge lobbying power.
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by robjan 6y ago
No, not really. A high PE ratio just means investors are expecting the company to grow. I probably wouldn't buy TSLA, but 25 isn't some magic number which means the stock is overpriced otherwise people who "know what they are
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by robjan 6y ago
You first have to define "overpriced".
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by robjan 6y ago
When random throwaway accounts are the two top comments predicting a crash...
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by robjan 6y ago
The metal doesn't get vaporised in the explosion. There's still at least $50k of scrap aluminium there for someone to salvage
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by robjan 6y ago
You usually slice it up along the fuselage and remove the wings, similar to how they left the factory in the first place. Then take it away in an operational 747 then shut it together again at the destination.
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by robjan 6y ago
I can only guess it's a mix of local regulations and the fact that the RMB (CNY) isn't freely convertible. There's an HK version of WeChat pay which is more open but isn't very widely used since we have had the Octopus s
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by robjan 6y ago
Americans don't have access to the payment features of WeChat since it requires a Chinese bank account (with the exception of HK and Macau). It's a pain in the butt. Even as someone living in HK with an RMB denominated Unionpay ca
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by robjan 6y ago
It costs a lot more than that to host a Mastodon instance. The system requirements for all of the dependencies are pretty heavy
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The PNR (passenger name record) is the data record which represents your booking on Amadeus. It's basically a semi-structured flat text file. Each line is an entry which may represent a leg of your journey, your name, the payment metho
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by robjan 6y ago
There are of course two errors that the developer of the backend made. The first is not filtering what came back from the Amadeus API, but the second one - the one I am referring to - is using an Amadeus API key with too much access. Amadeu
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by robjan 6y ago
The issue isn't Amadeus, it's that some airlines don't bother to use accounts with lower levels of privileges for operations which don't need full access. There are a number of different levels which are intended to be u

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