peterdn

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by peterdn 10mo ago
Yes, education around these scams and their methods could be better, but there is also a reason they target the elderly and vulnerable. Unless something else terrible happens, I assume I will count in one or both of those groups eventually.
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by peterdn 10mo ago
Hah, yes, this is also how S21 works. But to still refute the OP's point: (1) it is in stock settings, you do not need to enable the developer settings menu via any arcane method. (2) When you tap on an APK in e.g. Google Drive or What
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by peterdn 10mo ago
This is also how it works on my Samsung Galaxy S21. There's no need to enable developer settings.
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by peterdn 4y ago
I don't think it's that simple. GitHub themselves say [1]: > You're under no obligation to choose a license. However, without a license, the default copyright laws apply, meaning that you retain all rights to your source c
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by peterdn 5y ago
Is it though? By what metrics do you believe that's true?
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by peterdn 5y ago
How is it any different than remembering and using people's preferred names?
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by peterdn 5y ago
Prescriptions are free in Scotland and NI too. Only England charges.
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by peterdn 5y ago
> But ignoring that, the double taxation applies to income not spent. It is irrelevant to this discussion, in which Bezos borrows to spend. It's not irrelevant if Bezos spends his borrowed money on real estate and generally vacuumin
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by peterdn 5y ago
> That is not a tax loophole. In your opinion. However, some people clearly believe it _is_ a tax loophole, presumably including those you're discussing with upthread. One of the talking points against inheritance tax is that it tax
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by peterdn 5y ago
> You are inventing tax loopholes that don't exist Are you aware of "step-up in basis" [1] that is widely considered a loophole around CGT for inherited assets? Any gains on assets up to the point they are inherited will n
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by peterdn 5y ago
This doesn't seem right to me as it goes against my intuitive sense of how other factors generally scale with size/weight/volume (e.g. rocket equation), but I admit I'm definitely not an expert. However Wikipedia claims
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by peterdn 5y ago
AirMap mobile app [1] has a very comprehensive database of no fly zones, airports/airfields, and summaries of national rules. It works well in US/Canada and lots of countries in Europe too. I find it often misses local city or par
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by peterdn 5y ago
> In a normal social setting if someone says "If you don't like X don't interact with it!" that can reasonably understood as a negative statement. Except they didn't say that, did they? What they said verbatim wa
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by peterdn 6y ago
Also, license plates in the UK must adhere to a standard font which presumably makes them easier to read in software: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
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by peterdn 6y ago
> As a free person I think you need to have the right to make bad decisions and accept their consequences, as long as those do not impact others. Peak Libertarian fantasy to think this should apply here. Unfortunately, the real world is
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by peterdn 7y ago
Same experience here. Among my MSN friends it was also common to say "brb" to pause the conversation for a short amount of time. In contrast, I've never seen that in WhatsApp conversations.
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by peterdn 9y ago
Doesn't work for me at all in Edge (v41.16299.15.0). Are you on an Insider Preview?
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by peterdn 10y ago
In some compilers due to C99 variable length arrays [1], your macro compiles happily if passed a value that is not a compile-time constant. For example, this compiles but segfaults at runtime (GCC 4.9.2): int main(int argc, char * argv[
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by peterdn 11y ago
I just finished reading the book. Although it does appear, the linguistic subtlety you mention is lost in translation and I'd have found that particular passage confusing if I hadn't read your comment first. In short, at one point