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by rswail 2y ago
Like every other non-EU citizen when entering/exiting the Schengen area. As an AU passport holder it's been like that for at least 30 years.
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by rswail 2y ago
The US has checks. Most other nations have mostly (or completely) phased them out for more than 2 decades. Credit cards are just chip carriers now. Mag stripe is being phased out. So either you use the chip connection or use contactless. Th
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by rswail 2y ago
I assume that you are excluding the US banking system from that "trickle down" effect.
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by rswail 2y ago
Physical passports, in the same way as physical currency, have numerous mechanisms for reducing the ability to forge the documents. So these documents can be checked locally without any form of communications to some central authority (whic
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by rswail 2y ago
The machine readable printed parts are covered by an international standard ISO/IEC 7501-1 [1]. So despite your cynicism, all governments literally are on the same page about passports. What do people think organizations like ISO, ITU
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by rswail 2y ago
The chip has at least the same information that is printed in machine readable format on the photo page. It has all the same fields in one or two lines with "<" field separators. I've had the chip read, I've also seen
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by rswail 2y ago
If someone pays up front for a service to be delivered over a period, you have a liability, no matter whether on a cash or accrual basis. The difference is that you can recognize the revenue on receipt of the cash, but at the same time, you
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by rswail 2y ago
It's still true. It's a useless asset. That the market can stay irrational longer than people can stay solvent is also true.
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by rswail 2y ago
The new US government has crypto-bros at its core and there will be use of the US Treasury to set up a "Bitcoin Strategic Reserve" that will be a way for the crypto-bros to milk the US economy to bail themselves out of the market
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by rswail 2y ago
Really interesting service and bookmarked. I'd really love this extending more into the event sourcing space not just the log/event streaming space. Dealing with problems like replay and log compaction etc. Plus things like dealin
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by rswail 2y ago
"Replace our MSK clusters and EBS storage with S3 storage costs."
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by rswail 2y ago
Having a kafka compatible API and S3 storage would be something I would jump to, the savings over MSK would be huge. If you had a (paid for) API that sat on top of an S3 API for on-prem, that would be fantastic as well. Kafka is great, but
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by rswail 2y ago
and EC2 stands for "Elastic Compute Cloud". but no one remembers that.
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by rswail 2y ago
S3++?
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by rswail 2y ago
Surely S3++? /s
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by rswail 2y ago
Great article that exposes why ISO20022 will replace 8583 over time, especially in areas not dominated by the M/V monopoly networks. Credit cards, with all their nonsense about cash backs and rewards can be imnplemented in the new paym
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by rswail 2y ago
Affidavits are not normally government issued. They are a statement of what you say and they are notorized. Making a false affidavit is an offence. India's copyright regime has the concept of public domain 60 years after the death of t
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by rswail 2y ago
Yes and no, code comes with affordances like whitespace and comment layouts that are for humans that are unnecessary excess for ASTs.
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by rswail 2y ago
Store ASTs in git instead of text, "reconstruct" the text when displaying to the developer and roundtrip. Add some execution context and annotations to the AST and you could even do "git blame" in your debugger.
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by rswail 2y ago
Asking devs to build their own dependency system for the changes is also part of the issue. Really the only way I can think of is some sort of DAG of DDL blobs, but I have no idea whether you can express a combination of DDL and DML changes
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by rswail 2y ago
Using sqitch in production, the main issue is that it effectively has no knowledge of what is happening except for running psql files for you. So it's hard to keep track of what the actual resulting schema should look like after each c
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by rswail 2y ago
Not to mention that it was set to be 127 so that it would be 8 holes punched out on paper tape, so you could use it to correct a paper tape by backspacing the tape by one position and hitting del.
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by rswail 2y ago
You might remember that the US royally fucked up the process after taking him off the board. Both Syria and Lebanon have managed, in the past, to work out a way for their various regions and tribal/ethnic groups to co-exist.
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by rswail 2y ago
I think Jordan is sitting there saying to itself "If we just stay quiet, maybe no one will notice us". They don't want to be involved and would be ecstatic if the Syrian and Lebanese refugees were able to return and leave Jor
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by rswail 2y ago
Musk sells more Teslas and makes more batteries in China than everywhere else except US. So thinking that Trump will be "anti-China" is wishful thinking. Last time, China didn't suffer, but US farmers had to be bailed out. Ru
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by rswail 2y ago
Except Syria has a completely different history and population, being Arab, is nothing like Afghani people. Assad was an evil dictator and his father before him, but Syria had a stable government and bureaucracy etc until the civil war. It
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by rswail 2y ago
Plus Hezbollah has been beheaded and Iran attacked by Israel and Russia over-extended by its invasion of Ukraine. Turkey has also been involved in this because they don't want the Kurds to have a state, but HTS seems to have managed to
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by rswail 2y ago
In the spirit of Dijkstra's quote on teaching BASIC, learning "Agile" is damaging beyond recognition. :) Kanban boards, on the other hand, are "agile". /s Congratulations to him on his first "real" pr
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by rswail 2y ago
The problem was that the same sort of assumption was made without any basis in reality. If there's no "inspected and certified" then there is no officially recognized evidence that the system is accurate.
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by rswail 2y ago
Sorry? There have been departments of Weights and Measures for literaly millenia. They have required certification of those sorts of items with regular inspections and anti-tampering seals. So yes, you can challenge evidence from mechanical

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