ToaKraka
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ToaKraka
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1d ago
the forks have basically died out
Litecoin is a fork of Bitcoin, and I would not characterize it as having "died out". Its transaction volume is about half that of Bitcoin.
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1d ago
If wishes were fishes, there would be no room in the ocean. (the line that has most firmly stuck in my memory from the copious Redwall reading that I conducted twenty years ago)
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1d ago
I have not seen any credible accusations that votes themselves were fraudulently cast
The intelligence service also said access data for official Romanian election websites was published on Russian cyber crime platforms. The access data was probably procured by targeting legitimate users or by exploiting the legitimate training server, the agency said.
It added that it had identified over 85,000 cyber attacks which aimed to exploit system vulnerabilities.
So the election systems may have been hacked.
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2d ago
There has been some discussion of architecture lately. Have you considered how the square–cube law affects building design?
Using the International Residential Code's prescriptive tables, it is easy to design a code-compliant 30-foot (9-meter), 2700-ft2 (250-m2) cubic house. With the International Fire Code's occupancy rules, we can assume that such a house can contain 13 people. But what if your scope suddenly changes and you need to design a 60-foot, 21600-ft2, 108-person apartment building?
Obviously, dead load and live load will increase by a factor of eight, and wind load will increase by a factor of four. Therefore, we can generate a slapdash design by simply: (1) octupling all the stud and footing area, which resists the dead load and live load; (2) quadrupling the layers of sheathing, which resists the shear force of the wind; and (3) multiplying the depths of all the truss joists and girders by three, which will increase their resistance to dead loads and live loads by nine.
As they say on 4chan: Wa la!
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2d ago
30 percent? It looks like 5 percent to me—from 611 dollars to 579 dollars.
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3d ago
I know approximately nothing about guns, but doesn't the KelTec Sub CQB (variant of the non-silenced Sub2000) match that description? Or does it not count because it uses a pistol cartridge?
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3d ago
I don't know that much about cryptocurrency, but it's important to note that different cryptocurrencies have vastly different transaction fees. According to this graph:
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Bitcoin itself (BTC) is quite bad for small transactions, because its transaction fees are enormous—at present, 3 to 6 dollars.
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Monero (XMR) has fees of 0.05 to 0.07 dollar, in addition to offering anonymity.
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Litecoin (LTC) has fees of 0.007 to 0.008 dollar.
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5d ago
For details, see leprechaun economics.
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5d ago
Credit-card processors impose fees that can be major impediments to small transactions. One page describes a fee of 2.9 percent plus 30 cents. In that environment, making a 15-cent purchase is not feasible, because the fee would be literally twice that much. (See also all the small businesses that refuse to accept credit cards for any purchase smaller than 15 or 20 dollars.)
- Gundam Battle Operation 2
- Magic: The Gathering: Arena draft
- War Thunder
- Pokémon games
- Paradox Development Studio games
- Miscellany
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9d ago
'白左‘
Note that the transliteration "baizuo" has been at least semi-recognized in Western circles for several years.
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9d ago
Apparently, the law does not provide a definition, so the Coast Guard's regulations control.
To be considered built in the United States a vessel must meet both of the following criteria:
(a) All major components of its hull and superstructure are fabricated in the United States; and
(b) The vessel is assembled entirely in the United States.
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10d ago
A quick Google search reveals the following documents:
By offering only "hardcore gamers" the right of passage into its workforce for years, Riot denied equal employment opportunities to hundreds of qualified female applicants since opening its doors.
Note that this lawsuit (1) was brought by the California govt. in state court rather than by the federal govt. in federal court, (2) alleged more illegal behavior than just hiring discrimination, and (3) ended in a settlement rather than in a determination of guilt after trial.
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14d ago
Instead of allowing (as engineers, bankers, and lawyers do) a big gradation of physicians, all of whom can call themselves the prestige title doctor but who vary widely in terms of competence, pay, and reputation in the profession
To what exactly are you referring here? As another commenter has pointed out, there are no official gradations of "licensed lawyer": all people who obtain a lawyer license are officially lumped together in a single group, though they are required (1 2) under their ethics code to refrain from actually practicing outside their respective areas of competence. The same is true (§ II.2) of licensed engineers, and the National Society of Professional Engineers is explicitly opposed to divvying up engineer licenses as you suggest has already been done. And I don't think there's such a thing as a "licensed banker".
Clarification of all these healthcare professions from the Bureau of Labor Statistics:
| Occupation | Entry-level education | Median pay (k$/a) |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing assistants and orderlies | High-school diploma | 38 |
| Registered nurses | Bachelor's degree | 86 |
| Nurse anesthetists, midwives, and practitioners | Master's degree | 129* |
| Physician assistants | Master's degree | 130 |
| Physicians and surgeons | Doctoral degree | ** |
*Median pay specifically for nurse practitioners is 126 k$/a.
**Median pay is off the chart, in excess of 239 k$/a. Mean pay ranges from 206 k$/a for general pediatricians to 449 k$/a for pediatric surgeons.
Nursing assistants provide basic care and help patients with activities of daily living. Orderlies transport patients and clean treatment areas.
Registered nurses provide and coordinate patient care and educate patients and the public about various health conditions.
Nurse anesthetists, midwives, and practitioners coordinate patient care and may provide primary and specialty healthcare.
Physician assistants examine, diagnose, and treat patients under the supervision of a physician.
Physicians and surgeons diagnose and treat injuries or illnesses and address health maintenance.
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16d ago
Which indentation style do you prefer?
IMO, Ratliff makes the most sense, because it's the only style that reduces the number of tabs after typing the closing brace, rather than before.
if(this){
that();
if(nothing){
something();
}
}else{
other();
}
Indentation style is a problem for the IDE. The user should never think about it.
I find it disconcerting and nonsensical for the IDE to automatically delete a tab before the cursor when the user types a closing brace in non-Ratliff styles. Also, I'm not much of a programmer, but I imagine that writing a program to pretty-print code in non-Ratliff styles must be a major hassle, because it would force you to move the cursor backward and then forward again after finding every closing brace.
More comprehensive tl;dr (text of decision):
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A grand jury is led by the county prosecutor to indict Smollett on 16 counts of felony disorderly conduct (false police reports).
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The county prosecutor recuses herself and appoints an assistant county prosecutor to replace her in this case as "acting county prosecutor". The assistant county prosecutor decides to drop the case (nolle prosequi) in exchange for 10 k$ of restitution (less than 10 percent of the overtime pay spent by the Chicago police on investigating this case) and 15 hours of community service, all of which Smollett has already provided. Smollett will not even be required to admit guilt.
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A third party moves to disregard the assistant county prosecutor's actions and appoint a special prosecutor. The third party argues that, when the county prosecutor recused herself, she was required by law to appoint a special prosecutor in her stead, and had no authority to appoint an assistant county prosecutor to the nonexistent position of "acting county prosecutor". The trial judge agrees and appoints a special prosecutor.
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A new grand jury is led by the special prosecutor to indict Smollett on six counts of felony disorderly conduct. Smollett moves to dismiss the indictment, arguing that starting a new prosecution after entering into a nonprosecution agreement of which the defendant held up his end is a violation of the constitutional prohibition of double jeopardy. The trial judge denies the motion. A nolle prosequi is presumed to be a unilateral and non-final decision rather than a formal nonprosecution agreement (dismissal with prejudice) that triggers double jeopardy if reneged upon (like what Bill Cosby received in Pennsylvania), and in this case there is not enough evidence of a bilateral agreement to overcome that presumption. Smollett is convicted on five of the six counts, and is sentenced to 5 months of county jail, 25 months of probation, 25 k$ of fines, and 120 k$ of restitution (the aforementioned overtime pay). A majority of the appeals panel affirms the trial judge's analysis.
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The Illinois Supreme Court unanimously reverses. (1) In this case, from the wording that the assistant county prosecutor used, it is apparent that a bilateral agreement had been reached between the assistant county prosecutor and Smollett, and that the parties intended the agreement to be final. Under these circumstances, the fact that the charges technically were merely nolle prosequied rather than being dismissed with prejudice does not matter. Call it a "bilateral nolle prosequi". (2) Smollett himself never argued that the assistant county prosecutor's appointment was unlawful. Rather, he relied on the idea that the appointment was lawful in obtaining the bilateral nolle prosequi. Therefore, the third party was not entitled to suggest that the appointment was unlawful in order to cancel Smollett's bilateral nolle prosequi.
We are aware that this case has generated significant public interest and that many people were dissatisfied with the resolution of the original case and believed it to be unjust. Nevertheless, what would be more unjust than the resolution of any one criminal case would be a holding from this court that the State was not bound to honor agreements upon which people have detrimentally relied. As the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania recently stated [in the Bill Cosby case] when enforcing a prosecutorial promise not to prosecute:
It cannot be gainsaid that society holds a strong interest in the prosecution of crimes. It is also true that no such interest, however important, ever can eclipse society’s interest in ensuring that the constitutional rights of the people are vindicated. Society’s interest in prosecution does not displace the remedy due to constitutionally aggrieved persons.
That court further noted the consequences of failing to enforce prosecutorial promises when a defendant has relied on them to his detriment:
A contrary result would be patently untenable. It would violate long-cherished principles of fundamental fairness. It would be antithetical to, and corrosive of, the integrity and functionality of the criminal justice system that we strive to maintain.
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17d ago
In some parks, I have seen benches dedicated to dead people. Why not put one in your own backyard?
As a starting point, Uline offers various park benches and picnic tables for well under 1 k$. I don't know whether that counts as "heirloom quality".
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18d ago
The installation instructions:
Installing Miniflux is straightforward if you have some basic system administration knowledge.
There actually aren't any instructions for installing on Windows.
& Tilde;test& Tilde; (without the spaces, case-sensitive) → ∼test∼
Also, & approx; → ≈
HTML named character references are supported by Markdown.
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21d ago
In the purest form of libertarianism, the child would decide everything for himself.
I feel obligated to point out that, according to one prominent libertarian, under an ideal libertarian framework (1) the parent would have absolute authority over the child, but (2) the child would have the option to assert self-ownership and emancipate himself at any time by leaving the parent's household.
The graph for that metric indicates near-identical median transaction sizes of around 230 dollars. (Mean transaction size is 250 k$ for Bitcoin vs. 50 k$ for Litecoin.)
I don't see how that's relevant to the original question of whether Litecoin has "died out". In my opinion, even if Litecoin has died out as a store of value (I have no opinion on that question), the combination of half-as-large transaction volume and near-identical median transaction size means that Litecoin has not died out as a medium of exchange in comparison to Bitcoin.
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