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by rvp-x 6y ago
They get disability benefits towards financing care, or subsidization towards hiring a full time caregiver.
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by rvp-x 6y ago
It's very expensive to support dementia patients. They need as much care as a baby, but have adult weight and capabilities. You might be in trouble even in a country with a great support system. You need to have someone there every sin
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by rvp-x 6y ago
Not in .il, because of mass-testing efforts and people needing to show a negative result before travel and having no reason to believe they are positive. Quarantine is mandatory if you had exposure or returned from abroad.
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by rvp-x 6y ago
Worth noting that Google's browser, Chrome, spoofs Firefox and Safari.
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by rvp-x 6y ago
There is one CPU that exposes its out of order inner workings, the VIA C3 ("ALTINST"). The unintended effects are so bad that people that accidentally discovered it referred to it as a backdoor: https://en.wikipedia.org
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by rvp-x 6y ago
The price threshold for repairing stuff in the west is simply a bit higher. Would you like to be limited to just the car shop that's certified by your car manufacturer for car repairs? I had a phone with a user-serviceable battery. It
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by rvp-x 6y ago
I do. If you are a few years behind the latest GPU/wifi then there's a good chance your hardware will just work. It takes longer than usual to get a comfortable setup, but once you do it once it's very easy to keep the same f
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by rvp-x 6y ago
I'm about 5km inland and it's still hella sandy. No turtles for a while.
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by rvp-x 6y ago
That's more to do with living in a bad area.
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by rvp-x 6y ago
Here's a report that a Googler used their vast data to spy on and harass people, including minors: https://techcrunch.com/2010/09/14/google-engineer-spying-fir...
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by rvp-x 6y ago
Israel managed to significantly lower the rates with the introduction of the following changes: - Ban on SIM-locking of phones to one provider - Allowing users to change providers without losing their phone number - Ban on "exit penalt
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by rvp-x 6y ago
I am under the impression that rain forests are primarily burned down for cattle ranching or cattle feed.
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by rvp-x 6y ago
In my country after a small number of students from one school tested positive they sent everyone to quarantine and tested them. They reached 220 cases in total. This school doesn't have mandatory masks, it didn't shut down, and i
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by rvp-x 6y ago
Wake up at 9-10am, have a cup of coffee while reading some emails (gotta get that work time counter ticking). After an hour or two I make breakfast (usually olive oil + egg + tortilla). After 4-5 work hours I start to look at social media t
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by rvp-x 6y ago
It's true that simply having 30,000 people with a quick reply button creates negative interactions, Twitter is also a website that makes money from advertising, and people watch more ads if they're "engaged". This incent
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by rvp-x 6y ago
I know a lot of people who had COVID-19. I suspect I know mostly people who are healthier and young, so they don't get seriously ill.
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by rvp-x 6y ago
Someone compiled NetBSD (rump) to JavaScript before WASM was a thing :-) https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/kernel_drivers_compiled_to... The link seems to be down, I found this as a replacement http://1
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by rvp-x 6y ago
High-end ARM servers support standards called "SBBR" and "SBSA" which means they support UEFI and ACPI. The experience of using them is not very different from using x86 machines: boot an arbitrary OS and almost everythi
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by rvp-x 6y ago
I had similar issues removing added sugar from my regular meals. If the bitterness is what bothers you, get beans that are lightly roasted. The bitterness comes from roasting it dark.
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by rvp-x 6y ago
Microsoft used to have licensing deals with Android phone manufacturers for their use of FAT, it was just bundled in the cost of the phones sold. With the choice of Android effectively costing them $5-15 per device sold, manufacturers still
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by rvp-x 6y ago
I had very few job offers originate from FOSS (maybe 2 in 4 years?). I suspect there's a narrow field where people recruit using FOSS/GitHub and I'm not involved in it. JavaScript based projects seem to be doing much better f
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by rvp-x 6y ago
I assume this is a related newspaper article: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families... Important to note it refers to overweight (might be referred to as "a little chubby"), not obese.
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by rvp-x 6y ago
I can see a future cynical me talking about how brutal it is to lure poor students and have them take loans to pay first year tuition only to kick them out a year later with nothing to show for it, if they're not the top 1/3 for s
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by rvp-x 6y ago
Presumably something like CoreOS which makes extensive use of containers and any security feature it can get its hands on. If I personally put my own opinion on it, I don't like unnecessary use of containers because the model gives you
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by rvp-x 6y ago
Shooting up a symbolic religious building is an indiscriminate hate crime. He intended to hurt more than just the specific individuals that were in the building at the time, he meant to make an entire community of people with a similar back
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by rvp-x 6y ago
A bigger question is how is one allowed to join the navy after taking part in a racially motivated drive-by shooting?
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by rvp-x 7y ago
If I have an audience that entirely speaks the language I try to take advantage of it. It's very common here for people to use English unconditionally in conversations about technology.
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by rvp-x 7y ago
I'm in neither of those places and we have a dramatic increase in unemployment (4% -> 26%), mostly furloughed employees. The local government is encouraging it probably because they don't need any special new legislation or met
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by rvp-x 7y ago
I make an active effort to use my native language whenever I get an opportunity to do so. I see it as an accessibility feature. Much easier to understand things when they're in your native language.
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by rvp-x 7y ago
The best time to act was a month ago, the second best time is now.

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