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by shagie 8mo ago
Tariffs do hang out in a vault for a period of time when the importer can challenge the collection or the amount. https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/06/cbp-tells-judge-it-... > Under customs law,
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Most of the money that Nintendo paid and is entitled to have be returned to them has not gone into the government's coffers. The money that has passed various deadlines may be more difficult to return, however it is still money that is
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> Most resumes are not very good. Beyond the obvious problems like typos ... This is a person who you're going to be reviewing their code or reading the documentation that they write. If there are typos and poor formatting in the re
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> There's a lot of anger in this thread at companies for making obvious choices. Elsecomment and on Reddit, you'll see the attitude that their years of experience should be sufficient assurance for their prospective employer th
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by shagie 8mo ago
> Almost invariably after submitting, I see how I could clarify and/or expand on my thoughts, so I often do end up editing. One of the tricks of HN is the 'delay' setting. https://news.ycombinator.com/item
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> All because it was getting cold outside and he needed a place to sleep. And he also had a toothache that had been bothering him for weeks. So he hoped to see a doctor while he was in county jail. https://www.wmtv15news.com&#
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My apologies if I didn't make that clear - my "yes" was to the question "Do you think anyone explains it to them?" And yep, she was a very good English teacher. It was a more fun class than the other English classe
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by shagie 8mo ago
It's listed in his computer science bibliography https://dblp.org/pid/c/VintonGCerf.html and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint_Cerf#Author Though the edit for that authorship to the RFC
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> Directional laser beams are orders of magnitude to jam compared to radio wave. That alone makes it of big interest for military applications, even with 500 ms latency. I am reminded of RFC 1217 - Memo from the Consortium for Slow Commo
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by shagie 8mo ago
Depends on how the items are purchased. Some are trying... https://www.facebook.com/CardsAgainstHumanity -> https://www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com
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by shagie 8mo ago
It depends on the loading. If you've got it 9-12" high apart and are putting paperbacks on there... that shouldn't be a problem. However, when the shelf becomes multiples of that, then people start putting hardcover volumes
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by shagie 8mo ago
> It isn't that it isn't enjoyable, but it just isn't enjoyable in the same way. How often do you view the jokes in shakepear's work as raunchy or sexual? Do you think younger teens get the jokes? Do you think anyone
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Full article share link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/science/chimpanzees-cryst...
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I'd have to dig to try to find out what the date on this would be. Russia is telling since they changed their timezones in 2016. I'm going to note that timezones are also a political identity too. https://www.timean
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Most of the world tends to prefer to not be too far from the center of the timezone (where solar noon matches solar time in standard time). Geographic and political boundaries make it so that often it's more red. The extremes of no
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by shagie 8mo ago
The part "Copyright is another form of intellectual property protection available to code and algorithms. However, it should be noted that certain jurisdictions do not permit an owner to assert both trade secret and copyright, especial
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That's partly because it's in the same timezone as Poland. Madrid is further west that London, but London is an hour behind. Moving Spain to permanent DST puts it on the same effective timezone as London. http://blog.
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The author is nominally Daren Tang of WIPO. https://www.wipo.int/web-publications/wipo-guide-to-trade-se... ... Trade secrets have been hidden gems for too long. It is time to bring them into the light, so t
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Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandford_Fleming ( https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/sandf... ) > He promoted worldwide standard time zones, a prime meridian, and use o
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https://www.wipo.int/web-publications/wipo-guide-to-trade-se... Section 3.2 > As mentioned above, code is the language used to write software programs, contains the implementation details of algorithms and can revea
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by shagie 8mo ago
https://www.wipo.int/web-publications/wipo-guide-to-trade-se... is likely a good source for the "what constitutes trade secret" To enjoy trade secret protection, the above mentioned three criteria (i.e.
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by shagie 8mo ago
Other coverage: * The Supreme Court doesn't care if you want to copyright your AI-generated art https://www.engadget.com/ai/the-supreme-court-doesnt-care-if... * U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear dispute over co
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I'm not a lawyer. I believe it's a question of "who is found liable" and then "what is the damages" and then the damages are split between those who are found liable. If it was Greenpeace and {Some Org} that we
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There's a footnote in Consider Phlebas at the end... > “The following three passages have been extracted from A Short History of the Idiran War (English language/Christian calendar version, original text AD 2110, unaltered), ed
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonbruner/2011/10/20/the-high-s... has some interesting data on the Columbia River and its dams. From that https://youtu.be/jvnaiHFT6nQ is a visualizati
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While he's the most recent one, it's been a systemic problem that's largely been from congressional budget cuts. 2014 The War on the IRS https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/war-irs 2015 Poor IRS Service R
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That's a success rate that largely is based on suing people who don't have the resources to fight it (no claims made about if they're right or not). However, the IRS has had reductions in staff and funding which made it hard
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When this came out a week ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47039636 ) I was playing around with some prompts to see what I could do to guide it without giving it the answer. I want to wash my car. The car wa
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> If most people are not using a tool properly, it is not their fault; it is the tool's fault. I would say that is a reasonable criticism of git ... but I've seen the same thing in svn, perforce, cvs, and rcs. Different variat
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Some states have that as a "you should/need to declare that as a use tax." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_tax It's likely poorly enforced, but it's on the books and it's a complicated o

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