Okx

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by Okx 1mo ago
Taxing companies on revenue would completely wipe out low-margin businesses like supermarkets, and create massive distortions in the economy where one company being vertically integrated and owning everything being practically the only opti
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by Okx 1mo ago
Unfortunately if your employer pays for private health insurance, HMRC says that is a taxable benefit and you still pay tax. The more insidious part is how the government makes employers pay a hidden 15% national insurance tax that needs to
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by Okx 6mo ago
maybe it would be a little better to use ints rather than longs, as Java lists can't be bigger than the int max value anyways. Saves you a cache line or two.
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by Okx 6mo ago
The code: public int parseOrDefault(String value, int defaultValue) { if (value == null || value.isBlank()) return defaultValue; for (int i = 0; i < value.length(); i++) { char c = value.charAt(i); if
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by Okx 8mo ago
this comment is pretty obviously written by AI
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by Okx 11mo ago
Unfortunately, Wikipedia doesn't seem interested in this. Their revenue is more than enough be able to invest and sustain the site forever, but they just increase expenses on non-core outgoings https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by Okx 1y ago
Yes, last time I checked, Zig's comptime was 20x slower than interpreted Python. Parsing a non-trivial JSON file at comptime is excrutiatingly slow and can take minutes.
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by Okx 2y ago
You’ve got a monopoly on lemonade because you pay all the grocery stores to be the default lemonade. So we’re going to force you sell your car. I don't think this is an accurate anaology. It's more like, you own the
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by Okx 2y ago
> The above code is simple and correct Unfortunately not: Using notifyAll and wait in Java is tricky to do correctly, you'd have a much easier chance using concurrency primitives that wrap these functions, like CountDownLatch[1] for
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by Okx 2y ago
soma fm has some good online radio stations: https://somafm.com/ (and shows you the track and artist)
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by Okx 2y ago
GnuCash and KDE Money always seemed very similar to me. Why should I use GnuCash over KDE money?
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by Okx 2y ago
> You can use GraalPy with GraalVM JDK, Oracle JDK, or OpenJDK https://www.graalvm.org/latest/reference-manual/python/
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by Okx 2y ago
No wonder he heard from his brother that the Border Patrol were always hiring; they seemingly make it impossible to get hired.
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by Okx 3y ago
Can you DMCA yourself for someone else's copyrighted material? That's what I'm talking about here.
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by Okx 3y ago
If you've inadvertently committed, say, copyrighted material to GitHub, and want to fully erase it, is there a way? Other than contacting GitHub as this article mentions. Even if you contact them, GitHub says[1] that they will not remo
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by Okx 3y ago
Not only that, but it makes the pronunciation difficult. Should this be pronounced like the English word "love", or interpreted more like a German word (which actually has this letter in the alphabet, and guess what, it isn't
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by Okx 4y ago
Here is the AMD64 reference manual https://www.amd.com/system/files/TechDocs/40332.pdf The stuff you will need most is in Volume 3.
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by Okx 4y ago
My question is, how was there enough liquidity in Beanstalk to be able to buy half of it in an instant? The article doesn't explain this.
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by Okx 5y ago
Wikipedia's expenses go up year after year seemingly needlessly. It is making revenues far and above what it needs to maintain the project, but its expenses seem to go up each year anyway. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by Okx 5y ago
I don't think you should be risking anything when there's $5bn at stake and a single failure can cause you to lose all of it
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by Okx 5y ago
The article also argues that severity of autism doesn't really make sense.
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by Okx 5y ago
It already does on mobile. It is impossible to view subreddits unless you sign in, you only get a "preview"
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by Okx 5y ago
It's only a disincentive to ask for a raise if you don't know what it means. You only pay back student loans based on the percentage of money you earn above a certain amount. If you earn £21,000 and the threshold is £20,000, you o
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by Okx 6y ago
A software firewall is useless against a DDoS attack. It will only serve to help your IP not get discovered in the first place.
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by Okx 6y ago
I usually say "If and only if two numbers are different, then you can find a number between them". People often accept this axiom. Then, I offer them to find a number between 0.999... and 1.