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by stevenjohns 6y ago
I am not worried that Amazon would shut down all of AWS any time soon. Can you honestly say it would be a complete surprise, however, if Google announced an EOL for GCP?
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
That applies to individuals, not companies. With groups like Facebook it is “always assume bad faith,” because it always is.
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
I specifically said average, because it’s important to note that the Swedish personal income tax rate starts at 32% with a tax free threshold of about AUD$3k. Re: healthcare, you won’t realise how good you have it until you try to go to a S
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
You're missing out on the significant unemployment in countries like Sweden. There is significantly better free healthcare in Australia - which has an average tax rate of 23.6%. The correlation of high taxes = better quality of life
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
In my team my personal Zoom room has become a communal channel. Somebody would join my Zoom at ~8:30am and it keeps going until about ~5:30pm everyday. People are free to come and go as they wish, people from other teams join, when people c
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List of Reduplicated Place Names(en.wikipedia.org)
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
Exactly the same boat! Namecheap offshores all their abuse to their “legal” department - underpaid level one support in Eastern Europe. Namecheap is abused to prop up the largest SMS phishing scam in Australia and they do not care to enforc
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
Hi Ted! It’s good to hear you won’t be stealing domains. It would be even better to hear that Namecheap starts enforcing their TOS and doing something about your registrar being used for hundreds of thousands of SMS scams in Australia by th
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
This isn’t great advice for technical hires. Maybe for seniors experienced with the stack, but for anyone else you’d get a lot more mileage out of the on-boarding process by having them do stack-related tutorials, explaining things like the
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
You see it happen on HN often because of title length limits.
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
I’ve never liked this reasoning: > A civilization that wishes to continue expanding across the universe will need to compete for the limited resources with any other intelligent life If a civilisation has the ability to travel across to
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
Your link seems to indicate that this falls into the "$5000 and up" category.
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
The real politics is actually on how they quickly realised calling it “Egyptian” was a mistake due to ownership claims, and proceeded to start calling their looted artefacts by their dynasty (i.e “Babylonian” or “Sumerian”) rather than the
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
You've actually touched on something very important here: Mozilla seems to be getting its fingers into more than it can handle. It wants to do everything but ends up doing a lot of things fairly poorly. I switched away from Firefox to
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Ask HN: Reporting domain name registrars for abuse inaction?
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
70 years ago the post-Ottoman Middle East began to unite under a pan-Arabist identity (the brainchild of diaspora Greeks, funny enough). The progressive West spent the next 70 years ensuring that identity never took hold. Specifically on Tu
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
I didn't say they're left-wing so I have no idea who you're quoting there. I just said that they're not conservative, and I stand behind that. On the plebiscite/postal survey though: the government in Australia isn&
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
Completely spot on. They are both two sides of failure: one creating the garbage and the other that takes center-stage in its distribution. What the Australian government can do about News Corp becomes a question of media freedom, whereas F
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
No it's a fairly well established meme in Australia that the Liberal Party is conservative. I wouldn't be surprised if the Liberal Party themselves promote the meme to try to win conservative votes away from the actual (socially)
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
Your suggestion aside, I find it odd that people call the Australian Liberal Party conservative. They banned firearms, introduced the GST and made same-sex marriage legal. They've now introduced the largest welfare package in Australia
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
...start punishing slow websites by de-ranking them? The same way they have punished poor content in the past? The same method that worked every single time they've done it? You seem to believe that they don't have any other opt
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
AMP is fundamentally broken. I've said this before, I'll say it again: companies are not people. Once a company reaches a certain size, the rule is to assume bad faith . Always.
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
Yep, my bad.
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
Not really. Pleasantries are common all over the world. If you've ever spent time in Latin America then you'd know it's rude not to ask anyone how they are before engaging in any sort of conversation. The Middle East (i.e
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
I have a Firefox plugin[0] that I click on whenever a GDPR -- or, well, any obtrusive modal or overlay -- gets too much in the way of things. It's hit and miss, but when it does work it makes life so much easier. [0] https:/&#x2F
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DuckDuckGo browser updated to retrieve favicons directly from websites(github.com)
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
It’s not a matter of verifying the accuracy, I’m curious if it was reported on at all. The OPCW was the driving force behind Central European foreign policy on Syria which has included everything from arming militias through to sanctions. T
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
Out of curiosity, for Central European media, how many of them reported on the damning half-dozen OPCW leaks[0] that create turbulence for Central European foreign policy in Syria? [0] https://thegrayzone.com/2020/02&#x
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
In 2015 their columnists were arguing for arming ISIS as a ‘homegrown Sunni resistance’ and the “last Sunni bulwark” against Iran[0]. That’s in the print edition too. It’s not like their ethos were suddenly made worse in 2018 with Sulzberge
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
* What if every hospital had an overt political stance and forced doctors to make diagnoses based on those politics? * What if the hospitals had a financial incentive to sensationalise public health? * What if independent doctors only got i

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