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by timoth 6y ago
Indeed. Or even native speakers speaking our native language. A fond memory of mine is having to translate a Glaswegian colleague when we were on business in Kentucky. By which I mean I basically just repeated what he said in my "st
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Covid: Remdesivir 'has little or no effect' on survival, says WHO(bbc.com)
2 points by timoth 6y ago|0 comments
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Alphabet Mineral reveals crop-inspecting robots(bbc.com)
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by timoth 6y ago
It seems a little unfair to single out Europe or the EU for this. If the EU didn't exist, then the situation wouldn't be any better (of course, you can hope that the EU would make the situation better than it is, but that require
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Hackers Extorted $1.14m from University of California, San Francisco(bbc.com)
2 points by timoth 6y ago|0 comments
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Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe(bbc.com)
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by timoth 7y ago
"Give away" implies permanence (as does the reference to BitTorrent, though I realise that strictly speaking it doesn't necessarily entail illegality), but according to the post they're still limited to 2 weeks before th
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Coronavirus privacy: Are South Korea's alerts too revealing?(bbc.com)
1 points by timoth 7y ago|0 comments
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by timoth 7y ago
You can move freely among EU countries, not just Schengen countries. Schengen isn't just a subset of EU countries -- it's many EU countries and some non-EU countries, and it's to do with a lack of border checks rather than t
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by timoth 7y ago
If you're in the UK for more than 183 days in the tax year (6 Apr to the next 5 Apr), you're classed as resident though. https://www.gov.uk/hmrc-internal-manuals/residence-domicile-... Up to 60 days can be di
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Russian cows get VR headsets 'to reduce anxiety'(bbc.com)
4 points by timoth 7y ago|0 comments
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Netflix feels the pressure as competitors circle(bbc.com)
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by timoth 7y ago
It's even annoying for non-Americans living in other countries who have to declare that they're not American and don't have any tax liabilities to the USA.
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by timoth 7y ago
It seems that in most countries few control most of the wealth, regardless of whether they're dictatorships or democracies.
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by timoth 7y ago
Reminds me of this story of the British paying "blood money" in Iraq which I found quite illuminating at the time: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/jul/02/iraq.features1...
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by timoth 7y ago
I feel like I must be missing something here, especially given who I'm replying to, but doesn't it mean that, even if your password is compromised, it can't be used to log into the service which is also protected by TOTP? Re
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by timoth 7y ago
> And all income earned by a US citizen is subject to federal taxes, regardless of where in the world the income is earned. This is just the same as many countries. All income earned is subject to tax in the country you live in, regardl
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by timoth 7y ago
15 countries failing doesn't actually seem to be 100% of the evidence so far. What about Argentina, Spain, Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland and Italy (and BC in Canada) listed here as currently having wealth taxes?: https:/&#x2F
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Xiaomi's founder Lei Jun receives £735m bonus(bbc.com)
2 points by timoth 7y ago|0 comments
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by timoth 7y ago
Reminds me of this Irishwoman who joined the British army in the late 1600s and managed to remain disguised as a man until she was receiving treatment after being wounded -- but only for the second time!: https://en.wikipedia.org
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How do you know where your olive oil really comes from?(bbc.com)
1 points by timoth 8y ago|0 comments
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Translation errors force Osaka metro websites offline(bbc.com)
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Addis Ababa: The city where tech innovation is driven by necessity(bbc.com)
3 points by timoth 8y ago|0 comments
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by timoth 8y ago
I don't have any association with the RecordMeNow app -- hadn't heard of it before this article -- but I thought both the article and app were interesting and brought up points that hadn't really crystallised for me before.
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If you die early, how will your children remember you? (RecordMeNow app context)(bbc.com)
2 points by timoth 8y ago|1 comments
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by timoth 8y ago
I think it's slightly ambiguous wording "burst blood vessels", where "burst" is an adjective, not a verb. So burst blood vessels are something it covers up, along with age spots and other blemishes.
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by timoth 8y ago
Could be a double-edged sword. Have you seen Black Mirror -- first series, episode 3?
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What we just don't understand about the 1%(bbc.com)
1 points by timoth 8y ago|0 comments
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by timoth 8y ago
Britain is already in neither; it's never been in Schengen, and left the EFTA when joining the EEC as the EU was then. Although the other 3 countries in EFTA are part of the EEA (edit: which is how they're part of the single mark
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Untold good news story of America today: “local America seems to be flourishing”(bbc.com)
2 points by timoth 8y ago|0 comments

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