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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died on Saturday September 03, 2022 @03:38PM (#32705325)
It "sort of makes sense" as much as the invasion of Ukraine does.
Re:Writing one sentence per line on Monday June 20, 2022 @08:51AM (#31809734)
LaTeX does the same as Markdown and HTML - I used to do this when I was in academia.
Would this be avoided if the employee was kept on 1099 instead of switching to W-2?
Re:Armenia’s miserable dilemma on Thursday March 03, 2022 @07:40PM (#30549055)
30 years ago isn't that long - there are still people alive in Azerbaijan who own property deeds for houses in Karabakh, and who were born and grew up there. At the time there were 684k displaced Azerbaijanis (UN number), most of which are still alive today.
Re:Armenia’s miserable dilemma on Thursday March 03, 2022 @10:52AM (#30542542)
It was not an ethnic Armenian majority before the first Karabakh war.
Re:Armenia’s miserable dilemma on Thursday March 03, 2022 @10:52AM (#30542534)
There's been UN resolutions against Armenia, but that didn't result in anything.
Re:Ask HN: How do you take care of yourself? on Friday December 31, 2021 @08:45PM (#29754597)
For me the most important thing is to stay physically active.
Re:Ask HN: Simplest stack to build web apps in 2021? on Monday November 22, 2021 @05:12PM (#29312145)
Check out RedwoodJS
I highly recommend Indistractable by Nir Eyal
Re:Google suggest vi for Emacs and Emacs for vi on Thursday December 10, 2020 @09:49AM (#25374206)
Also "erlich blachman" and "erlich bachman"
Re:How Payment Transaction Processing Works on Monday December 07, 2020 @12:08PM (#25334118)
Unrelated, but how does privacy.com work on purchase categories? Like I have a card which gives me more cash back for airline ticket purchases - will the info of transaction category be kept?
Re:Secure Phone Series: Device Security on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @01:28PM (#24982453)
Depending on your threat model, you might want to stay away from a proprietary OS controlled by Apple.
Re:Secure Phone Series: Device Security on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @09:26AM (#24979890)
A while ago Graphene OS diverged from Coppperhead OS. What are their current differences?
I remember when I lived in Germany, it was cheaper to fly to US and buy the highest end MacBook there, and fly back, instead of buying in Germany. The price was the same number in USD and EUR, and this was when EUR was strong.
Re:Trusted Contacts won’t be supported after December 1 on Saturday October 17, 2020 @01:55AM (#24807733)
Not killed, but replaced by Location Sharing?
Gave me memories of the times when US had cryptography export restrictions :)
Re:How to form a California LLC without a lawyer on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @09:53AM (#24492717)
Cost: $800, repeat every year
Reminds me of the Doener Geraet! :D
As an ex-Googler it makes me sad that an internal discussion leaked like this.
This is just so cool!
Re:Germany begins 3-year universal-basic-income trial on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @02:45PM (#24214406)
https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/service/gehaltsrechner-geh... An article in German, but 1943 Euros a month in Germany is the median income. And it takes only around 6100/month to be 1%.
Re:Apple helped make 'top secret' iPod for US government on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @02:39PM (#24214305)
Assuming this is all true - how does something like this leak? Wouldn't someone go to prison for the leak?
Re:Raise Less Money on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @05:10PM (#24137035)
Exactly my first thought
It would be hard to provide a seamless UX for it, so it would reduce purchases.

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