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by uiri 9y ago
It is probably based on browser user-agent detection that doesn't distinguish between iPhone/iPod Touch iOS Safari and iPad iOS Safari. It is not necessarily an active act of malice nor even anything more than "cleaning up&qu
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by uiri 9y ago
I don't think they require separate accounts per-country, but my only experience is with .com and .ca. They might do the accounts on a per-realm basis (North America, Far East, Europe, etc.) rather than strictly per-country.
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by uiri 9y ago
It really bothers me the number of web services which reject email addresses containing '+' in the local part. If you're going to try to "validate" an email address, read the goddamn RFCs.
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by uiri 9y ago
Developers really should be using Windows Server for Windows development, particularly if the software is going to be running on Windows Server in production. That solves at least some of the issues you mentioned.
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by uiri 9y ago
I think you're underselling the science and engineering behind building waste disposal systems that scale, the science behind the taste, shelf life, etc. of packaged food & beverages, and the complexity of taxes. Sure, there is a l
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by uiri 9y ago
A US person (for tax purposes) should not be dealing with a brokerage company operating outside of the US. The US government has decided that the only reason someone would do that is to evade taxes (although money laundering is a nice cover
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by uiri 9y ago
That calculator explicitly assumes a car-oriented existence in both places. Taking their 157% factor at face value, $10.8k for a car in St Louis is $17k in Seattle. So $80k without a car is equivalent to $97k with a car. Or $60k with a car
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by uiri 9y ago
Median household income in Saint Louis is roughly $60k. Median household income in Seattle is roughly $80k. Even after taxes, you'll have more money leftover after rent & transportation without a car in a city like Seattle than you
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by uiri 9y ago
A personal automobile is the single most expensive form of transportation (except for a private jet, of course) on a per mile basis. Reasons around palatability (it's also the most dangerous form of transportation) aside, it doesn&#x
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by uiri 9y ago
I am neither American nor a lawyer, but I have looked at the US Constitution a bit so I'll take a stab at these. Of course, an actual scholar of the US constitution would have more correct answers: 1. Article Five of the US Constitutio
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Feds Bust CEO Allegedly Selling Custom BlackBerry Phones to Sinaloa Drug Cartel(motherboard.vice.com)
165 points by uiri 9y ago|112 comments
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by uiri 9y ago
I am not blind but edbrowse is far and away the best non-GUI web browser I've ever used (better than elinks, lynx, etc). I highly recommend that sighted folk crack open the user manual and give it a try.
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by uiri 9y ago
The most recent Disney episode was basically Empire Strikes Back but more poorly done. All the major plot points are there, although some out of order and some new ones just to make sure it makes even less sense. Jedi student training with
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by uiri 9y ago
That bug mentions that Facebook is also broken. I am kind of surprised that the sites you mention can implement the spec correctly but Facebook and Google can't.
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by uiri 9y ago
Yeah, I don' think that statement holds up to scrutiny at all. That said, I wouldn't be surprised if the median salary in the US was higher than the median salary in Luxembourg/Ireland/Singapore/Brunei/oil-rich
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by uiri 9y ago
If the backlog is truly 60 years, then it will take 4.2 years of giving every single employment based greencard to Indians to clear that backlog. This ignores the backlog that exists for Chinese applicants. The fact is that the backlog
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by uiri 9y ago
Yes, I am aware that there is currently a different system, for green cards. I am aware that your proposal is to process each application in the order that it is received. What exactly do you think is going to happen to go from here to th
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by uiri 9y ago
There is no "order they are received" for H-1B. You have to apply on the first of April and literally win a lottery. If you remove the national origin quotas (it has little to do with race and everything to do with where you were
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by uiri 9y ago
Same place that they come from when doing an investment round with VCs - the corporation issues new shares and dilutes existing shareholders.
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by uiri 9y ago
If this ever becomes a concern, the class B shareholders can convert their shares 1 to 1 into class A shares. Once all class B shares have been converted, class C shares will also convert 1 to 1 into class A shares. This would then make the
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by uiri 9y ago
Right, but Office, SQL Server and Azure don't live beside it in the same repo. Windows is one project. The FreeBSD base system lives in one repository but I wouldn't call it a monorepo.
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by uiri 9y ago
Microsoft doesn't really use a monorepo (although they may have done so in the past). Everything is moving to git, and while they've invested significant effort into getting git to handle larger repos, you don't have everythi
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by uiri 9y ago
Actually, you might be surprised at how often a soft no means yes, in business. Of course, in one's personal life, people try not to be rude, so a soft no is often really a hard no. An athlete or doctor or lawyer who is too busy to giv
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by uiri 9y ago
It will overflow a 32 bit integer around that time. If you are using a 64 bit representation, then you'll be fine.
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by uiri 9y ago
Conversely: the order for 5 4-bit values itself has 4-bits of information.
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by uiri 9y ago
Considering compensation definitely drops in your 4th/5th year (because your on hire grant is fully vested and it doesn't get refreshed properly), you're almost certainly a sucker if stay longer than that rather than leave fo
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by uiri 9y ago
Barbarians at the Gate is a - surprisingly good - movie about the hostile takeover & leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco. The events depicted became the poster child for the corporate greed of the 80s.
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by uiri 9y ago
Weird. I was expecting some wacko motion on the agenda for their annual shareholders' meeting but it is just a letter to management from two major investors. I doubt anything will actually come of this.
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by uiri 9y ago
Are local, state-chartered banks with no branches outside of their home state just as squeamish when it comes to marijuana businesses?
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by uiri 9y ago
Fulfillment solves warehousing, inventory, and delivery of Amazon packages. Amazon built out their own network. FBA is Amazon renting out that network to third parties - whether they sell on Amazon or on their own ecommerce site.

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