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451.
by valleyer 5y ago
No, Social Security and Medicare (collectively, FICA) taxes are not levied on capital gains.
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by valleyer 5y ago
Sadly, Raspberry Pi can't be manufactured by third parties, since Broadcom doesn't sell the SoCs to the public. There are some other ARM SBCs listed here, but I'm not familiar with them enough to know whether they're goo
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Biden Sets Up Tech Showdown with ‘Right-to-Repair’ Rules for FTC(bloomberg.com)
3 points by valleyer 5y ago|0 comments
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by valleyer 5y ago
1 to 10 million dollars, depending on compensation and money management skills.
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by valleyer 5y ago
The US has banned tobacco ads on TV and radio for over half a century. It does not seem "totally weird" to us.
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by valleyer 5y ago
This page (linked from the IEEE article) actually has a picture of the thing: https://hackaday.io/project/178826-pineapple-one
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by valleyer 5y ago
Good points. So what did Foxconn gain? Or was it really just a slip-up?
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by valleyer 5y ago
Yeah, sounds possibly like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier-grade_NAT
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by valleyer 5y ago
Cool! Looks like it's FPGA-based. Here's some of the source for the CPU, I think: https://github.com/MEGA65/mega65-core/tree/master/src/verilo...
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How to port your OS to EC2 (2018)(daemonology.net)
120 points by valleyer 5y ago|30 comments
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by valleyer 5y ago
I've always wondered: what's the point of the gift card system at Costco? Don't most stores solve this nicely by making the gift cards valueless until "activated" by the cash register system?
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WebAssembly Interface Types: Interoperate with All the Things(hacks.mozilla.org)
1 points by valleyer 5y ago|0 comments
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by valleyer 5y ago
Charities are often corporations. Corporation doesn't mean for-profit, and it doesn't mean publicly traded. At its core it just means "an organization that is legally treated as a unit". Goodwill is not publicly trade
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by valleyer 5y ago
Great story. Which Intel integrated GPU, if you remember? And what shader language? It looks like GLSL expects `float` to be a normal float32. https://www.khronos.org/opengl/wiki/Data_Type_(GLSL)#Scalars
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by valleyer 6y ago
I'd love to hear more about how you tracked down the schematic and how you used it to find the right joint. What kind of problem was the machine exhibiting?
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by valleyer 6y ago
MobileDevice.framework isn't open source.
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by valleyer 6y ago
I see what you're saying, but it's not 100% an implementation detail. The raw values are accessible through the `rawValue` property, which can be useful for serialization, for example. (That could of course be abused to create b
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by valleyer 6y ago
Swift has "stringly-typed" enumerations (enumerations with backing "raw values" of string type), but it does not treat the enumerations as equal to the strings. Explicit conversion is required. https://docs.s
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by valleyer 6y ago
Visited Anchor a few months ago, during the pandemic. They seemed to be doing fine, knock on wood. I left with everything I was looking for, and more.
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by valleyer 6y ago
Apple uses a VPN. Most stuff needed to get work done (version control, e-mail, bug tracker) is behind it.
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Bitbanged DVI on the RP2040 Microcontroller(github.com)
3 points by valleyer 6y ago|0 comments
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by valleyer 6y ago
The dynamic linker used by macOS (and derivatives) solves this problem using "two-level namespacing": http://mirror.informatimago.com/next/developer.apple.com/rel...
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by valleyer 6y ago
To the first point, GP is referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Start-stop_system
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by valleyer 6y ago
The straws theory is mentioned, yes, but the article specifically details how the FDA action was based on the measured iron content of De Cecco's pasta, and it also discusses reasons for scarcity of other manufacturers' bucatini.
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by valleyer 6y ago
It's pretty common to use "Britain" (usually not "Great Britain", though) as shorthand for "the UK state". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britain_(place_name)#Modern_us... > The ter
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by valleyer 6y ago
A system like this is on the ballot in California this year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_California_Proposition_25 A "yes" vote would replace all cash bail with a ruling from the risk-assessment system
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by valleyer 6y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/technology/google-sexual-... > The suit included a screenshot of an August 2015 email Mr. Rubin sent to one woman. “You will be happy being taken care of,” he wrote.
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by valleyer 6y ago
Updates of Safari are made available for the two preceding releases of macOS. For example, Safari 13 shipped with Catalina, but it's also available for Mojave and High Sierra. Any OS features not available on those earlier OSes are di
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by valleyer 6y ago
I love this question. I don't know the answer, but one part of it might be that electricity is a "commodity" that you can effectively buy from anywhere in the country, or perhaps anywhere in the world, via the power grid. Wh
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by valleyer 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Chevy_II_/_Nova#Urba...

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