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by valdiorn 5y ago
Skillshare just pulled the same trick on me. I decided to go with the free trial. Was enjoying one tutorial and decided to get, what I assumed, was the first month of subscription. Nope, got slammed with 130 pound charge on PayPal for 12 mo
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You bought Tesla futures, which, according to you, is not allowed in your country, using crypto and you think this shows how "good" it is? You've literally just given anecdotal evidence of crypto being used to facilitate an i
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I'd argue that it does matter, however it's incredibly difficult to measure "quality" of a software project, so there's no real way to distinguish crappy software engineers from good ones. Even people with 15+ years
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Wow that's a weird exception; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litre I was always tought that the liter was an SI unit, I mean, it's defined in terms of SI units, I know it's not a base unit, but weird that
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Ok. Who is the arbitrator then? A centralised party? If not, then maybe people who stake the most? Because that way you can literally pay for the right to decide what is "truth".
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Same in Iceland. We have something called "artist salary" where every year a handful of artists are selected to essentially be paid by the government to practice their craft. Opinions are however divided as there's always thi
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Been used in bike theft for 10+ years.
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Everyone should watch Wolf Warrior, it's basically the Chinese Rambo 2/3.
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I book my hair appointment online. they ask for name, email and mobile phone number. They need the name to know who to expect for the appointment. They ask for email and/or phone to send you a reminder (which is nice, IMO). Very reason
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Especially since the problem can be completely avoided by encrypting the user's data in the first place. Then the whole "we're deleting the data for your privacy" argument doesn't really hold up. Also, have had simi
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It's anti money laundering regulation, and yes under no circumstances are you allowed to tip off the client that he's being investigated. You are literally obligated to lie if they ask and say there's an undetermined hold-up
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Wouldn't you be better off just being a contractor and taking multiple contracts in parallel? That way you're legally covered, and as long as you're fulfilling your tasks, you could in theory keep everyone happy and collect m
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and now you're giving an unauthorized third party access to the company network. Yeah that's a good way to go from simple breach of contract to possible criminal charges.
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I've never not had a contract that stated I had to get consent from my employer if I wanted to take any other job. And I get the feeling that if you got caught double-dealing like this, a company would take it seriously enough to act
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In Iceland, we can't include housing in the calculation, become the vast majority of mortgages are inflation linked; meaning if inflation goes up, so does the remaining capital on your mortgage (yes, it's insane, if you want to kn
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What really gets me is people who don't seem to understand how to search for information online. If you go to something like /r/wearethemusicmakers (a sub for music making, mostly based around computers and software) you&#x27
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Tell that to the people who are accusing everyone of being racist for having a "master" branch in their git repo. No, I'm not being funny.
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I know this type of response is generally not well seen on Hacker News, but I'd argue neither is a post like this very relevant :) Given that, I feel like it's OK to post this classic Simpsons clip. https://www.youtube.
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it's been standardised now in the spec. Type-A is the way to go.
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actually, this is a pretty interesting move by facebook. * If they put themselves in the position of "guardians of morality" they will be steamrolled by the amount of content on their platform. Good enforcement would cost billions
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yup, now with EU/Brexit import duties and VAT on everything, the carriers (DHL/UPS/FedEx) have been made responsible for collecting the fees on the govts. behalf, but they also don't want to slow down delivery, stop it a
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by valdiorn 5y ago
I had a similar experience from HSBC. They called me about a potential fraudulent claim. They asked for my DOB, card number, sort code, you know, to verify "that I am who I say"... all the stuff they SHOULDN'T ask, and stupid
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Is this apt for the situation? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_ ...
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As an EEA citizen living in the UK (now a citizen, but was here pre-brexit under EU freedoms) I see absolutely nothing wrong with the host state requiring me to carry an ID card. In fact, many countries require this for their own citizens,
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the police and courts have the ability to impose bans on individuals returning to protests and re-offending. They could quite easily say "if you participate in another protest where a road is blocked in the next 12 months, we'll h
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It's inevitable that at some point, Facebook the company will part ways with Facebook, the social network. They'll probably rename the company to "FB Inc." or something equally meaningless, ala KFC or FedEx (where the &q
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That's actually fairly.cpmmom practice in finance. If you base is considered a bit high for your position, the bonus just gets docked a bit instead. It's all 100 percent discretionary so...
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Prisons serve 4 roles; rehabilitation, punishment, deterrent and public safety. How you balance these is done differently in many countries. The US seems to historically have focused on the punishment aspect most of all. I'd say deterr
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I have a random "a vs. b" video on my personal channel with 150k views. A few thousand views is obtainable by accident just naming your video a certain way.
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This is actually a really important question that we need an answer to.

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