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tnuc··on Google display wrong flags for world cup 2026
I can't reproduce it.

Does the error still occur if you do a hard reload or use a different browser?

tnuc··on Australia proposes ban on social media for those under 16
While I dislike social media, this ban is as stupid as Australia's laws enforcing bicycle helmets. Will this mean I will have to register as my real name on Hacker News? Not a chance
tnuc··on Working at Google: Maps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
tnuc··on Stripe is about to refund €147k worth of payments to my all of my customers
>Obviously we also have tracking numbers to prove that literally every succeeded payment from account 1 have received their products, and we have submitted this to Stripe as well.

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So does this mean that any of your customers complained that they have not received what they paid for?

tnuc··on What Are the Odds?
Maybe they just got the numbers from a fortune cookie?
tnuc··on Google will not let me pay an invoice they sent me
It will end up in the too hard basket and get deleted. Don't worry about it.

No credit agency will touch a $1.16 bill

tnuc··on Apple Made $6.5B USD by No Longer Providing Accessories with New iPhones
It certainly drove the sale of airpods according to some analysts. The number is probably higher
tnuc··on NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Price List
These prices are fairy tales. It's a figure next to no one will actually ever pay. Insurers pay less. If you ask for a discount you will pay less.
tnuc··on Why is America stuck with bad headlights?
Putting in orange lights costs auto makers money. Please think of the poor auto companies.

Saving lives is less important than a companies bottom line.

tnuc··on United hides cheapest flights from passengers affected by Coronavirus
Being price gouged by airlines is nothing new, this is business as usual.
tnuc··on What Is Glitter?
It is allegedly mixed with bleach and used by the coal industry to make the smoke look white. People don't like seeing black smoke.
tnuc··on Murder Suspect Has Witness: A MetroCard (2008)
The New York City marathon goes thought the Bronx.

Most of the runners hate it, there are not many trees, not many people come out to cheer runners on.

There is not a single bookshop in the Bronx.

tnuc··on Spectrum internet is getting kicked out of New York
I live in New York and the only provider is spectrum. Yesterday I (and all my neighbors) got a letter from Optimum, offering better prices and higher bandwidth. After calling Optimum I got told that Optimum doesn't service my area.

Is this a new type of turf war?

tnuc··on China's social credit system blocked 11M flights and 4M train trips
Perhaps they should be jailed instead?

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/02/debtors...

tnuc··on Parents in poorer countries devote more time to their kids' homework
The full report has some interesting details.

https://www.varkeyfoundation.org/sites/default/files/People/...

tnuc··on New York's vanishing shops and storefronts: 'It's not Amazon, it's rent'
10 year leases are mostly made by big companies with deep pockets, which puts the value of the property up.
tnuc··on Jim Rogers: The worst crash of our lifetime is coming
He may die first.
tnuc··on They Used To Last 50 Years
If only there was a term for this.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence

tnuc··on Visual Studio Code 1.10
The earnings on developer tools have never been huge but the revenue on Windows server has been huge. The market is shifting from buying windows server to azure. By having an editor that works seamlessly with Microsoft's azure options it cements Microsoft as a long term player in the hosting market.

Microsoft also spends a lot of resources on documentation which makes it an easy choice for the frustrated developer who can't get something working on another companies offering.

tnuc··on The farmer who built her own broadband
Corrupt? They all follow the law.

The problem may be the way the laws get enacted. What might be considered very corrupt in one country is just how business is done in the USA.

tnuc··on Professors Make More Than a Thousand Dollars an Hour Peddling Mega-Mergers
What next? Vilify the lobbyists?
tnuc··on A Two-Mile Beer Pipeline Carries Belgium’s Lifeblood to Be Bottled
Yes. But with pressure and chemicals they can pretty well be cleaned.

In much the same way they (or in some cases don't) clean the lines at your local bar.

tnuc··on Why Fruits and Veggies Are So Cheap in Chinatown
The volume of retail produce passing through Chinatown (NYC) is by far the largest in the city. Profits are made by volume not by large mark ups.

Free market has its advantages.

tnuc··on Detained and interrogated for 10 hours in North Korea
It very well could, the UK has some very interesting laws. Just imagine if he had used the word 'bomb'.
tnuc··on Outlaw Chinese Steel
American companies are all for free trade when it suits them.
tnuc··on Safety Check for Brussels
COUGH http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/when-paris-was-attacke...
tnuc··on Safety Check for Brussels
Rational platform? Selective outrage?

Glenn Greenwald (The guy who broke the Snowden story) sums it up quite nicely. https://theintercept.com/2016/03/08/nobody-knows-the-identit...

tnuc··on More Money Really Does Make Schools Better
Something like this has been tried before. It results in the students being institutionalized and prepared for prison.

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/boarding-school-syndrome

Maybe lifting the people of the urban ghettos out of the poverty trap might be a good start.

tnuc··on New ways to teach young children to code
Give them a paywall to hack past?
tnuc··on Comcast injects JavaScript into webpages to show copyright notices to customers
Timewarner does it whenever I use their "free" wifi hotspots.
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