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Comment · 7 months ago
Poor kid. The irony of scarring this kid for life over completely normal behavior, in order to "protect him from abuse", is hopefully not lost on all of you.
Comment · 1 year ago
Indeed, as is obvious to anyone productive. Taxes come from the productive and entrepreneurial, of which of the 10k that did leave are a big portion, and that's before actually comparing the incomes as opposed to the net worth.
Comment · 1 year ago
"The UKs 3.06 million millionaires". LOL. Every geriatric with a centrally located apartment is a "millionaire" nowdays. But I'm sure the "tax justice" network doesn't actually understand the difference.
Comment · 1 year ago
Even connectivitycheck.gstatic.com doesn't seem to be responding, making Androids think they don't have internet access.
Comment · 1 year ago
2 years ago when backpacking in East Africa, I went from "there is no way I'm ever doing this" to taking nothing but those moto-taxis ("boda bodas") even for 40 minute inter-city rides with a 12KG backpack on my back. No helmets to speak of. Except maybe in Rwanda.

Part of the learning experience of such travel, is to see firsthand how the locals of these places perceive the risk. How they manage risk in general, and what is the "value of a human life" for them as compared to our western perceptions.

Comment · 1 year ago
Is it 5G only or does LTE also work?
Comment · 1 year ago
Perhaps it is no longer realistic to push such a huge changeset into linux anymore. Could this be solved with some hypervisor layer? That is, a hypervisor doing most of the work (in rust) and a small support layer upstreamed into the kernel? Of course, no actual virtualization is even necessary. Just some kind of ABI to the kernel running underneath.
Comment · 1 year ago
This is an audit that is actually meant to get results
Comment · 2 years ago
Isn't there some kind of statue of limitations in us tax law? That's stuff from 11 years ago.
Comment · 2 years ago
Usually the esims you're referring to are data only (have no number). The sim registration requirements throughout the world are only about sims that have numbers attached.
Comment · 2 years ago
Keyboard layouts should be legally required to be standard.
Comment · 2 years ago
Whatsapp is known for banning accounts that use any kind of third party clients.

For Android users on iMessage (insane achievement!) obviously this isn't such a big issue, as they didn't have an account before, so the sanction of being banned is not so important.

I would never dare, however, to switch over my WhatsApp to a 3rd party client. Do you have something planned in this regard?

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