razakel

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by razakel 25d ago
I'm not sure why there isn't a "why are you flagging this post?" dropdown. It'd reduce false positives and let the mods know what to prioritise.
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by razakel 26d ago
Where are all these Americans who will work for Chinese wages?
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by razakel 1mo ago
Cheating was obviously going to happen when education became a business.
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by razakel 1mo ago
"Good enough for most people and cheap" is what Realtek do.
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by razakel 2mo ago
I think people do, but it's subconsciously.
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by razakel 2mo ago
Only if you're on O2 or 3 and haven't disabled the adult content filter.
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by razakel 2mo ago
What law do you think he's broken?
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by razakel 3mo ago
The foreign tampering wasn't at the ballot box.
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by razakel 3mo ago
>That people can show up with a suspicious pile of metal and convert into cash seems to be what creates the opportunity for the thief. The UK does that - a scrap dealer can only pay by bank transfer or cheque. That way there's a pap
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by razakel 4mo ago
There was a guy who planned to bomb us-east-1. Someone reported it and the feds gave him a fake device. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56719618
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by razakel 4mo ago
>You may be able to rent your quantum computing time if that gets cheap enough to be practical, but I doubt many people will ever own one. You already can rent time on one - IBM and others offer it - but they are not cheap.
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by razakel 4mo ago
> As a big fan of the KLF I once learned that it’s great to burn great things up. For anyone who doesn't know, the KLF took a million pounds in cash, and set it on fire. For no obvious reason.
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by razakel 4mo ago
>The FBI is aware of a software misconfiguration That's not a misconfiguration, that's incompetence. How do these people get hired?
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by razakel 4mo ago
The auto factories propose to actually create jobs, though.
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by razakel 4mo ago
The right of reply is widely considered part of journalistic ethics. If you accuse someone of something in print, you should at least give them the opportunity to refute it.
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by razakel 4mo ago
For some strange reason people aren't all that keen on building something that'll increase their utility bills, pollute everything, and threatens to take their job.
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by razakel 4mo ago
eBay and PayPal almost always side with the buyer.
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by razakel 4mo ago
Aladdin, Ali Baba and Sinbad the Sailor were well-known long before Disney. There's even a major Chinese company named after one!
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by razakel 4mo ago
There's even a version with Brians May and Blessed.
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by razakel 4mo ago
When they first rolled out Universal Credit, they decided to do it using Microsoft Dynamics NAV. It didn't work very well, so GDS rebuilt it in-house.
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by razakel 4mo ago
"Legal tender" only means it must be accepted to settle a debt.
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by razakel 4mo ago
Cash handling isn't free, and for smaller businesses might actually end up being more expensive than accepting electronic payments.
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by razakel 4mo ago
Here is the piece in question: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-06-09/chinese-off... It's very clearly labelled as an official response from the Chinese government. So it's what the people
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by razakel 4mo ago
It's a letter to the editor from the Chinese consul in response to an editorial.
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by razakel 4mo ago
Roald Dahl would agree with you. Fiction is the perfect place to explore complex emotions around the unsavoury parts of life, in a safe manner where the reader is in control.
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by razakel 5mo ago
Stuart Semple changed his name to Anish Kapoor, because only Anish Kapoor has the rights to use Vantablack for artistic purposes. I think there might also be export restrictions, but I'm not sure.
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by razakel 5mo ago
Or there is a warrant, but it's secret.
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by razakel 5mo ago
It's not Railway's fault that he didn't read the docs and thought it'd be a good idea to play Russian roulette.
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by razakel 5mo ago
Even an office PBX has listen, whisper and barge. Why wouldn't a telco-grade switch have it?
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by razakel 5mo ago
It'll be because of ads. You can only advertise prescription drugs to medical professionals.

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