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Fun fact, in France we call debit cards "Carte de Crédit " (or carte bleue) Debit cards there come with the same amount of fraud protection as the credit cards, there's not really a reason to use Credit cards there. In reply
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Interesting news, The Reuters article[1] they cite has more content than the current article[2], but even the Reuters article looks very PR-like. The TLDR appears to be: The new engine uses variable compression technology, which [allows]
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thanks, Good luck to you guys!
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Hi, good looking product :) I don't have an iPhone so I can't try it. Did I understand correctly: You synchronize your various accounts (Fb, Instagram, 4square/Swarm ) and Fabric will do the same thing as the Foursquare &quot
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> FOR SALE > 2,719.32669068 bitcoins > The required deposit to participate in this auction is $100,000.00 USD. As of today 2719 Bitcoin equals $1,597,793 (Source: google) This is a weird auction, putting Bitcoin risks aside, Bitcoi
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This seems to be a (2010) post. > ….Did that really just take as long as I thought? This machine has a gigabit connection to the Internet. I must be imagining something. > ….Okay, I wasn’t imagining something. It must have downloaded
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Impressive. likewise my five years old Thinkpad still runs like new (with Windows 10 startup improvement over 7 it felt even faster, but even faster is Ubuntu. it runs incredibly fast). For tech enthusiast who enjoy smartphones unfortunatel
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Why would it be only one object? It could be a belt of random sizes and shaped asteroids that is between us and the star?
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If you're using an OS that lets you setup restrictions per process, you could do something like this: https://gist.github.com/juanje/9861623 : I was tired of Chrome eating all my laptop resources so I decided to p
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Association of Animal and Plant Protein Intake with Mortality(archinte.jamanetwork.com)
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Washington state sues Comcast (for $100M)(arstechnica.com)
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I remember using logo during elementary school a bit later (late 90s), the computer room was full of old computers, not sure if they were MO5, but the keyboard looks familiar. I loved it. I was so happy when, back home on windows 3.1, I c
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Microsoft Pix(microsoft.com)
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13% would be the state income tax. On top of that you need to pay the federal income tax, as well as social security and Medicare tax!
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Unfortunately comparing European and US salaries is comparing apples to oranges. Not only there's vacation as other people mention, but most importantly and often ignored : tax rates and retirement. In those 55k, you also probably have
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The tires noise probably has to do with the road and tire quality. I remember walking on a quiet street in the suburbs and being very surprised by a seeing a Prius driving past me as I didnt hear it coming at all.
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>You can't even get the Microsoft Natural Keyboard any more. Wow, are they Out of stock temporarily or permanently? https://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/Natural... EDIT: They stil
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As pointed out in What Musical Notes Can Look Like [1], Music is sound, there can be multiple ways to represent it visually. The link above is such an example. From the About section: This artwork is created by a mathematical algorithm t
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Translating music into visual art(notesartstudio.com)
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I agree with both late2part and you. I saw late2part situation happen a lot of times: A junior dev find a quick an elegant way to solve problem X. Senior dev comes and say: It's good but you should do it that way because it <will be
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> As this IOCCC entry shows, every single C++ revision has been a breaking change to the previous revision This post never mentions C++'s backwards compatibility. It points out these 3 examples: // comments C90 do
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Agreed. for an elementary tutorial, I would have not put that rm -rf /mnt/c/ command on it, at least I would have put a # in front just in case. Once the authors discovers GNUScreen/tmux, xargs and other tools, hi
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Is this supposed to be a Show HN? Where does it get your move list from? I know I rated a lot of movies on my rotten-tomatoes profile, can this be used? EDIT: Also, it's not clear that you can start using the product without Facebook,
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Working from the West coast regularly with people in India, Europe,and US east coast, I disagree. You certainly have some benefits of having teams spread out around the world, as you could virtually have someone working at any hour of the d
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From the parent Microsoft guideline [1], they make the explicit differentiation between Server-driven and Client-driven paging, the Server-driven seems to be exactly what you describe in your first paragraph: > Paginated responses MUST
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Very impressive, but It's not a fully reusable rocket (in the SpaceX sense), but it looks more like a reusable ship, like the columbia space shuttle. > May 23, 2016 ISRO successfully flight tested India’s first winged body aerospace
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Apple’s ‘Planet of the Apps’ reality show for developers is now casting(thenextweb.com)
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I see. I thought they'd have kept the authors name, unless the code was completely rewritten.
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> "We were surprised to see that the comments at the top of the game proudly proclaimed the authors: Bill Gates and Neil Konzen." This is odd that these comments aren't in the github source code, is it missing something? W
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From what I understood they are not providing a cash stipend: > €35 (£29; $39) per asylum seeker per day from the central government in Rome. This has to cover everything, from accommodation, food and medical care to Italian language les

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