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by valdiorn 5y ago
It will probably be reminiscent of the Red Scare; a bunch of fearmongering, self censcoring and witch-hunting with nothing useful coming of it.
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by valdiorn 5y ago
Same with me. I hate how the media has just blatantly lied about the Kyle Rittenhouse case. I donated some money to his defence. That's not something I'd be happy to mention at work.
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by valdiorn 5y ago
yes, except it is generated and maintained by a faceless, nameless holding company in the US. I'm a businessman trying to hide my wealth, I get one of these cards and top it up with 100k from my CAyman islands bank account, and use it
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by valdiorn 5y ago
Code dependencies, and how dangerous they can be. The art of writing code that doesn't build on top of a jenga tower of shit has been lost. It turns every software engineer into a code monkey that, instead of crafting good code, is sim
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by valdiorn 5y ago
there's a video; make your own conclusion.
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by valdiorn 5y ago
but in Texas, how likely is the staff or the store owner to be armed, and actually confront you? No way that would happen in California. I keep thinking of this event that happened to me in the UK, where laws are equally useless at preventi
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by valdiorn 5y ago
Unfortunately English is an objectively terrible language. It's very non-deterministic, and there's a lot of nuisance that you won't pick up for years or decades as a non-native speaker. There's also zero consensus on ho
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by valdiorn 5y ago
same in Iceland. When my dad (actually) died, everything in his life ground to an instant halt. As soon as he was registered as deceased in the government system, bank accounts froze, we automatically got letters from a bunch of agencies ex
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by valdiorn 5y ago
Buying and selling arms is one of the cornerstones of strong alliances.
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by valdiorn 5y ago
I'm an expat from a Nordic country who moved to the UK, working with very mutlicultural teams. I took up managing a remote team in Poland recently. I completely agree! It's ALL about culture. Do your employees and co-workers share
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by valdiorn 5y ago
Probably all over the world. I started out working a summer for a slighlt sketchy company in Iceland, ran by a friend of my dad's. They made websites for small businesses. They did have a decent core business but looking back, the seni
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by valdiorn 5y ago
this is 100% your companys fault. If this person is literally not producing anything useful, then set them a basic piece of work and tell them to complete it. If they can't give them a warning, tell them to upskill. Repeat after a mont
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by valdiorn 5y ago
I once applied for a job at an oil trading hedge fund in London. The company was small, and everyone who worked there became a partner in the firm once they joined. There were about 23 people there IIRC. I did a 1 hour interview with one gu
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by valdiorn 5y ago
really cool, but needs demos, or at least audio clips.
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by valdiorn 5y ago
I've even had this with mis-spelled words (i.e. "the best Bivycle of 2021" or something like that); I wonder how the f*ck those sites are being generated.
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by valdiorn 5y ago
Not defending it, but I'm not sure the concept of "right-wing terrorism" was a commonly known concept at the time. People commit acts of terror for all types of reasons; holy wars, separatist movements and other political mov
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by valdiorn 5y ago
money laundering or some tax fuddly-duddly would be my guess?
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by valdiorn 5y ago
this is woefully inaccurate. Like, seriously wrong. parent comment was on point. I can tell you, as someone who works in finance, that KYC rules are taken very, very seriously. The bigger the client, the more important they become. There is
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by valdiorn 5y ago
A lot of people point out that Bitcoin doesn't have any inherent value, and is effectively worthless. Well, I recently realised that Bitcoin DOES have value; it is the enabler or criminal activity, and as such, has lots of value to cri
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by valdiorn 5y ago
Was watching a Scott Brown Carpentry video on Youtube where he mentioned most houses in NZ don't have floor/base insulation because it's not needed, the temperature differences aren't that big apparently. I was really su
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by valdiorn 5y ago
there's plenty of new builds in the UK using mostly red brick construction methods. Just plain old brick and mortar. In fact, if you google "uk new builds" almost every image that comes up is a red brick house.
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by valdiorn 5y ago
As an Icelander living in the UK, I will attest to this being true. It really surprised me that all my wooden outdoor structures and projects decay much, much faster in the UK than they did in Iceland, despite the general lack of frost. I h
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by valdiorn 5y ago
How did you find the restaurant? Do they take CC numbers over the phone? In which case, how much do you trust them to keep it safe? Do they even have delivery services? because most of my favourite restaurants never did until deliveroo&#x2F
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by valdiorn 5y ago
- discovery. How do I discover new places I might want to try without them? dozens of flyers in the mail every week? - delivery services. not every place can retain a fleet of delivery people. Also, pooling delivery drivers is much more eff
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by valdiorn 5y ago
So what's the process here? How does the malicious seller take over an existing product listing with good reviews and repurpose it like that? What's the loophole being abused?
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by valdiorn 5y ago
Because the gap exists for reasons besides "sexism".
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by valdiorn 5y ago
I'm assuming this has been posted in response to the recently published fact that 1/3 of all criminal convictions for women in the UK are due to unpaid TV licenses. Yes, it's a CRIMINAL offense not to pay the licence, it&#x27
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meanwhile, it's brought the UK rail system back from a near breaking point to something that might be a manageable level for the future. Ferrying 5 million people into and back out of London was not a long term solution. People are com
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by valdiorn 5y ago
As an avid DIYer that suffered from something similar, I've now set myself three rules that really make a big difference. There are only three reasons DIY something; 1. The item you want is physically unobtainable, and he only way to g
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by valdiorn 5y ago
> There is no good reason to put any form of telemetry in a non commercial open source project, ever. It is just user hostile behavior. So tell me, why do people use telemetry at all? Why would it only be beneficial for commercial projec

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