ridgewell
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Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
It can depend a lot on the shape of your batch to my understanding. A small batch job can be tasked out a lot quicker than a large batch job waiting for just the right moment where capacity fits.
Comment · 1 year ago
I'm not familiar with this app but based on the read, it sounds like they're essentially relying on someone to sneak into the target's phone, install an apk with a 'Settings' logo, where you grant it all permissions (I assume the installer facilitates the process of manually granting full permissions for each permissions type and disabling battery optimization). Android does allow you to effectively delegate full permissions to an app like that, albeit in a manual way.
Comment · 1 year ago
>The thing I found most remarkable is that house prices there are not much less than in Seoul proper (that's what I was told at least), which just seemed utterly absurd - what market forces could drive prices of a farmer village (because that's what it is, really - although the houses looked nice) surrounded by landmines and that is a pain in the ass to get in and out of to that of a first world metropolis?
You are literally paid to live there and be a human flagpole through a tax-free salary of $82,000 USD for agriculture (as of 2013, likely higher now), as well as free education, agricultural incentives and preferential tax treatment. [1] On top of that, there's only a handful of homes, effectively amounting to an artificial housing scarcity.
[1] https://modernfarmer.com/2013/11/guarded-growing-farm-centri...
Comment · 1 year ago
The one that I frequently hear of as a layman (not a lawyer) is Toronto Pearson Airport's Preclearance, which has a very strict and narrow view of the TN Status eligible occupations.
Comment · 1 year ago
I remember at the start of COVID, scoring a Steelcase Leap v2 from a guy who was scooping up office chairs from failed Silicon Valley startups and hauling them up to Canada. Super chill dude, and totally upfront about basically making a 100% profit margin by gluing on new armrests to these wholesale fire-sale finds. It really highlighted the interesting economics of the time - a lot of businesses probably thrived just by redistributing stuff from regions in freefall. You have to wonder how much of the "supply chain" was actually just people moving stuff from places that were dying to places still kicking. Kind of a morbid redistributive supply chain, when you think about it.
Comment · 2 years ago
In Canada, they use gross income instead of net income for student grants.
Comment · 3 years ago
Google Maps in many urban areas is actually aerial imagery. Satellite imagery serves a different use case - often for difficult to access areas where aerial photography is not viable or permitted.
Comment · 6 years ago
I love Miniflux. I found TT-RSS to be much too cluttered and I enjoyed Miniflux's focus on minimalism & privacy, but that's a personal opinion. It also doesn't require a mobile client: it works just fine in a mobile browser, a big deal when most Android apps for self-hosted RSS readers are either ugly or unmaintained.
Setting up Miniflux was problematic because documentation around its pSQL & environmental variables aren't too well-documented or universal in implementation.
However, I've noticed a lot of people really don't like Miniflux because it is very minimal and doesn't try to do everything.
Comment · 6 years ago
Lufthansa: Where fuel surcharges don't match up with reality.
Comment · 6 years ago
DuckDuckGo is just Bing, with the optionality of geolocation by country.
This reminds me of an incident in Vancouver, where the city sought to expropriate single room occupancy (SRO) hotels (read: slums). They felt that each property was worth negative value, but they estimated the value as $1 because:
> We are unaware of any instances of property being transferred with a negative value. Therefore, a value of $1.00 is concluded for the subject property with the knowledge that a purchaser would be required to assume the financial obligations with either holding or demolishing and redeveloping the property.
[1] https://council.vancouver.ca/20191106/documents/cfsc2.pdf