bxc

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by bxc 8y ago
I was already working remotely, but I'd quit a job of several years because of a disagreement. Someone wanted to give me work, but they preferred to give me a job through a company-based contract rather than being an employee (for work
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by bxc 8y ago
One of the things that has repeatedly pushed me off WhatsApp has been their very aggressive stance on this: I've several times stopped using it because "you need to update your app or this will all stop working in 7 days" and
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by bxc 9y ago
Be happy disengaging from the game with non-competitive responses like "yeah probably no one will use it, but mostly I just want to have fun" or "Yeah it sounds like a waste, but I get my paycheck".
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by bxc 10y ago
That's what an easy to edit personal website feels like.
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by bxc 12y ago
The National Health Service in the UK has this as a strong stereotype; and it is true in some places. But the only two times I've used a UK hospital, I've been done within 24 hours. Part of me wants (without any evidence) to say t
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by bxc 13y ago
Its a value added tax, so no, 13% doesn't get taxed every time money changes hands. Only the added value.
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by bxc 15y ago
Symlinks don't work on all filesystems, so don't always work.
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by bxc 15y ago
Now I don't really know how well it works in practice but the european model for VAT (the rough equivalent of sales tax) is basically this: if you're a small business, you don't have to collect VAT for the place you're sending the goods; bu
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by bxc 15y ago
I see they picked up on 'bi-weekly'. I'd never thought of it as an Americanism but it is ambiguous and should be banned for that reason.
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by bxc 15y ago
Yesterday I accidentally browsed the terms and conditions of galois.com and discovered that I'm not authorised to view their website without a written licence (as I have a professional interest in their area of business and my viewing of th
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by bxc 15y ago
although there's more to the story, the headline itself sounds so 1990s. (soon you'll even be able to order pizza online!)
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by bxc 15y ago
I actually use this as the primary authentication mechanism for sites I rarely/occasionally visit... password reset at every login!
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by bxc 15y ago
if you're interested in ssh-like functionality and http, I just wired browserid into my shell server for in-browser logins: http://benctechnicalblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/browserid-in-b...
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by bxc 15y ago
I think the main rage people get here is when they get data on their phone and so can make a much more of a "like-for-like" comparison between various means of delivering 132 characters delivered to/from a mobile device. I mean of the user
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by bxc 15y ago
There's some talk of SMS over GPRS. I have no idea how widely that is deployed though.
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by bxc 15y ago
If we're making inappropriate price comparisons, that 14mb is half a cent of hard-drive space. A whole 3 characters worth of SMS!
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by bxc 15y ago
the EU doesn't have a single VAT, or a even a single VAT rate. Each country can choose its own. But if you sell from country A to a resident of country B, you have to charge your country A VAT (in most end-consumer situations) just like y
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by bxc 15y ago
its interesting (to me) that they avoid collecting sales taxes in various US states, but that (at least for AWS) they are compelled to collect VAT for all EU states because they have a presence in at least one of those EU states...
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by bxc 15y ago
real world analogue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_House_Rule
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by bxc 15y ago
In NL? You're required by law to have health insurance and the insurance companies are required to give it to you. Assuming you're there legally.
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by bxc 15y ago
yep, the broken-dutch vs clear-english appears to be my experience too - if I'm in the right mood, I'll tease dutch people by speaking full speed english around them when they don't want to speak dutch ;)
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by bxc 15y ago
now I've made two comments on this thread which make amsterdam sound kinda negative; so now I feel that I have to say that, no no amsterdam is a cool place to live ;)
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by bxc 15y ago
well, NL is pretty expensive to live in if you're earning USD; the tax burden is high if you're used to the US (though there's some offset because that tax includes what would be private medical insurance in the US); and people are forever
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by bxc 15y ago
Even if you try to learn dutch, you won't easily find people who want to speak it too you, tbh. (at least that's my experience after a few years)
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by bxc 15y ago
There are other ways of dealing with "fake real numbers" (which is what doubles are) One example is interval arithmetic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_arithmetic None of them seem very mainstream: the predominant thinking is that
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by bxc 15y ago
They do have an understanding of how the internet works. You type what you want into google and you get it. Maybe its not how the internet worked before, but hey its nice to have to not keep downloading HOSTS.TXT.
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by bxc 15y ago
> Someone sold a huge amount of Bitcoins. The market acted accordingly. It doesn't seem very free market to rollback the market and cancel all the free market trades that happened.
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by bxc 15y ago
I've been a remote worker for maybe 5y now. I realise now that I've spent more time working remotely than I have in an office. My experience with getting hired on various jobs has been: the people with who(m?) I've worked remotely with befo
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by bxc 15y ago
"small increase" - the exchange rate against the dollar has risen from under a dollar when I first looked to 6ish - it's almost tempting to trade in my single bitcoin for cash (the reality of the market being that I have nothing else to spe
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by bxc 15y ago
facebook has ipv6, on wwww.v6.facebook.com www.v6.facebook.com. 3600 IN AAAA 2620:0:1cfe:face:b00c::3 Maybe on ipv6 day they might put that on the main www.facebook.com name too - no idea.

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