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what most likely would happen as most of these agreements is full reciprocity. i.e., like Europeans have to pay $14 for the ESTA visa waiver to travel in the US, Americans would have to do the same and register online. That visa waiver woul
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thanks, regarding the last one : today, if I own a US company and I charge a subscription to a German customer, I have to pay Germany's VAT and U.S. corporate tax, is this correct? 'Tomorrow' , I would only have the VAT to Ge
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I'm curious what this tax would change for : - iPhones made in China and sold in Europe (i.e. would Apple have an incentive to involve Apple USA or not) - iPhones made in China and sold in the U.S. - U.S. based company (LLC/C-Corp
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I always thought the magnifying glass for search made sense as it was like a detective looking for clues. It is shown in the famous Cluedo board game [1] (aka "Clue" in the USA). It's typically associated with forensics when
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Picking amazon isn't really a fair comparison, It's Amazon, the people behind AWS, the same people who say that "every 100ms of latency costs them 1% of profit." Of course amazon.com and its servers are ultra-optimized
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The 2015 interview at a start-up awards show linked [1] in the article is pretty interesting. Evan gives a few startup ideas who failed before he succeeded with Snapchat, how he initially marketed Snapchat with flyers in a local mall , and
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Something I have a hard time understanding, is how Cloudfare's cache generator page had access to sensitive information ? Were the 2 things running on the same process? If they were not, there's no way that the buffer overrun coul
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> Presumably 2 consecutive requests to the same malformed page could/would leak different data. Wouldn't the second request be served from the CDN cache? Since for Cloudfare that particular page is a valid cached page, it would
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I would assume that the servers that host big trade secrets would log everything happening. There wouldn't be a need to log the laptop itself.
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Apple expanding its Seattle engineering center, making a big bet on AI(geekwire.com)
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on modern system with a lot of RAM I found myself doing the opposite of swap to speed up development : mount disk on RAM using tmpfs [1] and then change the ccache [2] directory to that ram disk. With that setup, I obviously don't wa
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Amazon liquor license signals drive-through grocery plans(usatoday.com)
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It would be interesting to know how the heat from such data centers would compare with active submarine volcanoes and submarine hydrothermal vents. Some of them apparently are at 500°F [1]. [1] http://geology.gsapubs.org/con
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those are some cool changes. For those who can't/don'w want to watch the video: - 24 bit color support added. - lots of work to support more programs - launch windows programs from bash (notepad.exe for instance) - file chan
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One reason for incompetent leaders I've heard is the leader's leader chose him specifically for his incompetence. The leader shields himself with less competent direct reports so that it's unlikely that one of them would be
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At least the oldest cars had a cassette player, so you could use a jack cassette adapter[1] and listen to music on your phone/mp3 player. The more recent one would have mp3 CD players so you could burn discs with hundred of hours of mu
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Indeed, however every programmer no matter how good will make mistakes sometimes. It can be in 1%, 0.1%, 0.01% of LoC. Loosing attention can be so easy, it can be a co-worker walking by, an important email/meeting happening while you
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I think the whole benefit of a static website generator in general is to avoid the "I copy/paste the same header/footer on each" step, especially copy-pasting the menu/header, as your menu can change as you add new
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First, 23 yo is young, don't worry. I'm not a designer expert but a few remarks : On your website I can't find your resume, a simple pdf that I could skim through quickly, or even a linkedin link. On each of your projects, I
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PowerShell 6.0 Plan(github.com)
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This reminds me of the one the myth that French are descendants of the Trojans [1][2][3]. That one has more credibility since in both instances French and Trojans got defeated and beat a retreat :) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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Announcing Project Rome Android SDK(blogs.windows.com)
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Read the map title, the real salary according to their source is $74K (CAD$ 97K). The adjustment for Cost of Living in SF is discussed in this thread, it might not be accurate.
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No the author, but I can see a use case where you have already existing "services"/"daemons" with your client Win32 app. If you want to rewrite the client from Win32 to UWP, it seems that you wouldn't be able t
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you can also donate via the Free software foundation, I'm not sure what the author prefers, but the FSF donation can most likely be matched 100% if your company participates in a matching program. Hopefully, adding a "for 'G
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> So if I try to use this template with the wrong type, after a bunch of template and macro expansion the compiler will print out a cryptic error showing the templated code and the failed type substitution. This is one of the reasons why
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Are your side projects generating money from app stores or selling directly to your users? If selling direct, how do people handle the EU VAT stuff with a US based company? (assuming sales to the EU countries)
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> The U.S. would need 63 percent more asphalt than its consumes now just to pave roads at the rate it reached a decade ago Interesting how the article fails to mention that asphalt isn't the only way to build roads. Unless you live
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what rates of those fixed mortgages do these subsidies provide on average? To me, massive government subsidies is more like in France where you can have a 0% interest 25 year mortgage if your household income is low enough. Or the special a
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> Drive-thru supermarkets/walmarts/amazon pickup is going to change the world. you probably mean change the USA, in France for instance, drive-thru supermarkets exists since at least 5 years [1][2] They now even have some new 2

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