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Australia: 82K tests, 111 cases, 1 death, 900.000 people locked down(twitter.com)
19 points by wsc981 5y ago|31 comments
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Ukraine has launched e-Residency(twitter.com)
4 points by wsc981 5y ago|0 comments
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Thousands protest in France against Covid-19 vaccinations, passes(voanews.com)
3 points by wsc981 5y ago|0 comments
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by wsc981 5y ago
Sadly difficult to read. There doesn’t seem to be any easy way to get past the paywall.
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by wsc981 5y ago
Real estate is often used to launder illegally gained money[0], so likely drug money as well. > Real estate has long been a preferred vehicle for money laundering. All too often, the proceeds of crime and corruption is used to purchase
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Macron: “The unvaccinated will bear the brunt of the restrictions”(twitter.com)
6 points by wsc981 5y ago|0 comments
817.
by wsc981 5y ago
> A MS dev writing a blog on building MS’ own distro of Linux on his _Macbook_ must have Ballmer sweating bullets. Not to mention throwing chairs.
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by wsc981 5y ago
I agree with the point of premium-gecko regarding CO2 / climate change. I also feel COVID is way less dangerous as portrayed by media and politicians. I actually not worry about COVID at all, will not get a vaccine and only wear a face
819.
by wsc981 5y ago
First of all, this is from my view as a freelancer that has been working remotely for about 4 years now. I realise full-time employees most likely feel differently. > Some of the managers and executives completely lost touch with the hu
820.
by wsc981 5y ago
Since someone else linked some data on Mexico already, I will add link some data from India [0]. The interesting thing about India is that states apparently can choose their own medical policies regarding their fight against COVID. So some
821.
by wsc981 5y ago
I very much doubt the results of this study when there's been huge successes with Ivermectin in Mexico, India and several others. I'd like to read more details on how the study was done, but details in the article are scarce.
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by wsc981 5y ago
My current Australian client asked me to sign an NDA before doing the interview as they were busy applying for a patent.
823.
Central banks will have absolute control on rules and regulations of CBDCs(twitter.com)
1 points by wsc981 5y ago|0 comments
824.
by wsc981 5y ago
Somewhat related, this is an interesting story of the escape of a Western guy with his Chinese wife and child from China: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7CPqROtanA He did have to escape on short notice after he shared or
825.
by wsc981 5y ago
Ah yes it was LGPL2 indeed.
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by wsc981 5y ago
> There is no empirical evidence in what he says Didn't Apple remove all GPL-based code from the whole iOS and macOS dev infrastructure at some point due to GPL licensing concerns? I also believe Apple sticked for a very long time
827.
by wsc981 5y ago
In The Netherlands and the EU there are quite a few well-known whistleblowers who received the short-end of the stick. One example would be Paul van Buitenen [0]. It's really risky to become a whistleblower and if you do, you better be
828.
by wsc981 5y ago
I thought the following comment from the Twitter thread was kinda funny: > "So basically they’ve already given it to Michael Abrash but HR said they have to look open minded."
829.
by wsc981 5y ago
So I will probably soon buy more Bitcoin as I believe the price will in the long run go up. Tether (USDT) is a huge liability that could cause a temporary crash. But at the same time you see some regulation changing that e.g. allows banks t
830.
by wsc981 5y ago
Can we read the full article somewhere without paywall?
831.
by wsc981 5y ago
It's fully in German, so for most people here it will be hard / impossible to understand. For me as a Dutch person, I can understand his speech a little bit. I believe this professor is critical on the COVID approach in Germany an
832.
Shadowrun Trilogy Giveaway on GOG(gog.com)
6 points by wsc981 5y ago|0 comments
833.
by wsc981 5y ago
> Those who are in the right are able to form rational arguments, raise concerns about specific problems, and offer solutions. But no, not in this case. The only reason for anyone to not be a diehard supporters of the author's poin
834.
by wsc981 5y ago
> This, however, I disagree with. I mean in a general sense, not specific to how your brain is wired. It all depends on the first couple of language that one learns and how they are learnt and taught. 10-15 years ago people would find i
835.
by wsc981 5y ago
I've found having my current git branch shown in my prompt is extremely useful to prevent committing on the wrong branch. YMMV.
836.
by wsc981 5y ago
Tenchu: Stealth Assasins should also be very playable still I think? At least I played it a bit recently on a PS1 emulator on a Raspberry Pi and was fun enough for me (as is Tekken 3).
837.
EU Recovery and Resilience Facility spending at risk due to lack of transparency(open-procurement.eu)
3 points by wsc981 5y ago|0 comments
838.
by wsc981 5y ago
On the Mac I loved Nisus Writer [0] in the past. However, it's Word compatibility was limited, which is annoying if your company uses Word for internal documents. It's fine for RTF documents though. Perhaps these days the Word com
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by wsc981 5y ago
> Do you ever find this makes finding a new job on return difficult? I am not the same person you asked the question to, but I guess if you work on a couple of hobby projects and actually release those in your break year, you won'
840.
by wsc981 5y ago
Nice, seems like a useful tool!

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