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by addy34 9d ago
Tax filings are available here: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/943... Rev. Costs(all) Legal ----------------------------- 2019 37 37 0.2 2020 22
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by addy34 20d ago
Not in those words, but the decision did give absolute immunity from criminal prosecution and civil damage suits for all core official acts and presumptive immunity for all acts "performed within the outer perimiter of his official
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by addy34 1mo ago
"We are incubating a new photos experience in OneDrive" MS no longer build apps it seems, but instead incubate experiences...What a comms team.
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by addy34 9mo ago
I'm guessing this doesn't capture manual restarts? I have the same experience as the commenter below: Plasma requires a restart a few times per day for me, as the panels disappear and one monitor's (of two) desktop goes black
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by addy34 10mo ago
Let's not forget this gem in a memo from Summers: >Dirty' Industries: Just between you and me, shouldn't the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Least Developed Countries]? I can
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by addy34 1y ago
>Try it today in the Gemini app. Available globally on desktop and mobile Not quite. Gemini isn't available in Hong Kong. Unfortunately instead of telling Pixel users that, they updated their phones to use Gemini instead of the fu
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by addy34 2y ago
I wrote a cat-themed web version a little while ago for fun. It's not overly configurable, but there are zero ads, trackers etc. and it's very lightweight with hopefully no (significant) bugs. https://www.solitairecat.c
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by addy34 2y ago
The government currently tendering for providers of different systems. See here [1] and here [2]: Tender documents released on Monday show the technical trial is slated to begin “on or around 28 October”, with the provider also expected to
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by addy34 2y ago
Less than low energy antitachycardia pacing (LEAP), which is itself a lower-energy alternative to the typical 1-shock defibrillation. Their "1000 times less" means three orders of magnitude. From the abstract of the paper: We fin
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by addy34 2y ago
It depends, but it's not uncommon to completely forget the entire character. If you sort of remember it, then the muscle memory in your hands often helps to finish the character correctly once you start, at least that's what I&#x2
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by addy34 2y ago
It may be contrived, but it still highlights the key difference. Even if sneeze was a word that you were taught once in school and hadn't used for 30 years, you would still likely get close to the correct spelling from the sound (sneaz
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by addy34 2y ago
Sure, but noone is forcing you to use Firefox. Getting a barcode from GS1 is mandatory if you want your product to exist in the modern retail world.
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by addy34 2y ago
It does, but the only real requirement is to prevent duplicates. It's not a limited resource like domains or IP4 addresses. There's no justification for the subscription model aside from "because we can". They used to gi
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by addy34 2y ago
> An estimated 10 billion barcodes are scanned globally, every day, according to GS1, the organisation that oversees UPC and QR code standards. GS1 are the ultimate gate keeping monopoly. They provide numbers as a service. Most retailer
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by addy34 3y ago
For anyone interested in the the details, China Talk released a podcast last week on the updated export controls, which discussed the enormous quantity of ASML machinery purchased by China in the leadup to the regs being tightened [1]. From
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by addy34 4y ago
Having lived in Taiwan both before and after China's crackdown in Hong Kong, I can say that post crackdown, I haven't encountered a single Taiwanese that wants any integration with China. They just want to be Taiwanese, which afte
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by addy34 5y ago
NSFW warning: The current home page has porn hub as a bookmark, which displays a bookmarked image that is likely not SFW (depending on your workplace).
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by addy34 5y ago
>At least you’re not in Macau, which is 30 sq km? Macau has quarantine free travel with the Mainland, so that's >9 million sq km ;)
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by addy34 5y ago
>I wish I was living under (3). Sure it's painful in the short term, but compared to rolling lock-downs for over 12 months? Having spent the last year under (3), I dream of 1 or 2. That said, it very much dependent on the country.
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by addy34 5y ago
Similarly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMXfyZc_Gvg