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Makes sense. Also because the original article is not really about the Nord Stream 2 bankruptcy but a short interview with a regional politician about rights the 106 employees that where let go have and tax losses for the canton/state
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The article doesn't talk about the site of the initiative, but Nordea one of the banks whose services can be used for identification. Nordea says on twitter they are under a DDoS attack and their services are slow at the moment (but do
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5y ago
> You do know that neither merchants nor folks writing tax or sales software can "get rid of sales taxes", right? On the other hand, folks who write tax or sales software don't need to cater their software to US tax laws.
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5y ago
This blog post has some interesting works, visualizing sound in very different ways. https://en.99designs.com.co/blog/design-other/sound-visualiz... Especially this one contains a lot o things of what you seem to
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Swiss government just anounced in a press conference, that they will implement the EU sanctions. Accounts of the listed persons would be frozen effective immediately.
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Also countries with whom they can just use CIPS, the Chinese alternative to SWIFT. Seems much more straightforward than crypto for most.
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Not sure what your point is. The Iraq invasion was 19 years ago, and the US still haven't withdrawn all their troops. Is Putin willing to have parts of his army occupy Ukraine for a timespan such as this?
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For me the only somewhat rational explanation is, that the Kremlin did indeed expect the take over to be faster than the west can agree on their reaction. Like the Taliban taking back Afghanistan with little to now resistance and the presid
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Not just externally. If they don’t move faster, they all, maybe except the right wing party, are committing political suicide from their constituencies.
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5y ago
Freezing accounts is definitly not unprecedented. For example accounts of Gaddafi and his circles. But what I think is a bit unprecedented is the speed. Usually Swiss politics moves in months and years, not days.
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5y ago
I don't think Ukraine will win a normal war against Russia, but will have to shift to more guerrilla warfare soon. But on the other hand, is Putin willing to occupy, likely for years, the second largest country of Europe with a populat
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I don't think Ukraine can beat Russia in a regular war and has to eventually shift to full guerrilla warfare, with which the Russians would have to deal with for years. Some in the Kremlin might have expected the takeover to be as swif
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Don't know where GP is from, but "Süßwasser", which translates to sweet water is the German term for water from lakes and rivers in comparison to salty water from the sea. Might be the same in related languages.
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5y ago
For my hobby projects or even more recreational programming I often choose some technologies that have some aspects I'm interested in learning I can't easily do during the day job. E.j. a different paradigm, digital signal process
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Most of the Russian and Ukraine wheat exports don't go to the EU but Egypt, Turkey, Indonesia, Bangladesh and regions there around. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/17/infographic-russia-... Fr
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Just passing on what was said, I don't have much knowledge on this topic. As I understood, they were implying importing more gas from other countries on existing infrastructure, not building entirely new one. Looking at this, Russian L
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Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission said they have spent weeks prior to this getting assurances from other countries to increase their gas deliveries. They named Azerbaijan, Egypt, Nigeria and Norway. She said, they a
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I think the risk of direct NATO military intervention is very low, due to Ukraine not being a member state. As the Nato secretary said, they will support Ukraine, but made it clear the security guarantees are only for allies. "I think
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I think AR is being used lightly in robot-assisted surgery and in the future telesurgery. But to my knowledge so far AR is used more for the trainings on how to use the machines. The surgeons already work with sort of massive stationary VR
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Agree with starting focusing on UI first. But haven’t seen a speed advantage at this stage of serverless vs a simple monolithic backend app with a bunch of endpoints. You can get something in front of users within hours. Either way allows
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Also, there are people that want a hole and there are those, that are selling hole making to others. The latter would indeed want to buy the drill. A restaurant customer doesn't care what knife the chef used. But chefs still choose to
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5y ago
Not sure, whose robots these are in the picture, but there is https://www.kiwibot.com which as far as I know works together with some universities
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Question to all, what has been your experience with non-technical SEO. What things are worth pursuing with limited resources, how to measure it and what are good resources to learn? I'm asking, because every time I read up on these top
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> 22. BlockFi made a material misrepresentation to BIA investors concerning the level of risk in its loan portfolio. Beginning at the time of the BIA launch on March 4, 2019 and continuing to August 31, 2021, BlockFi made a statement in
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One can basically get beer and wine at the age of 16. And when I was at that age, there were many clubs you could get into with color coded wristbands telling the bartenders what they can serve you. But as far as I know, the clubs themselve
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Not really domain specific, although I think more common in web application development: I disagree with the sentiment that technology is moving incredibly fast and that you have to be constantly on your feet to keep up. Well it certainly m
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To my knowledge to get naturalization in the Netherlands you must have stayed there for ~5 years and the required language level is A2, which is beginner level. This doesn't sound like a crazy requirement to me. The giving up other nat
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It certainly does count, but last I checked it is very hit and miss what movies I can actually watch due to geo restrictions. Sometimes there are multiple version of the same movie, some blocked some available. At least it shows this info a
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> Personally, I would love to just pay a microtransaction for the show I want to see, but I'm not sure the economics stack up. I'm longing for this for years. I'm pretty fed up of often the only choices being either free a
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From my view, the issue in the case is not how difficult it is to setup Redis for caching (it is indeed just a couple of clicks/commands), but the new issues one has to deal with when resorting to caching things too prematurely, instea
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