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mb5
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Comment #49072204
Plenty of nice round numbers in this indictment: https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/file/450211/dl?inline Search for “Wire transfer of” to jump to them. Plus a couple of $1,666,6…
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Comment #47555657
They’re referring to the source of wood pellets for the Drax power plant i.e. this https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/26/drax-pow...
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Comment #43751614
They sure do, e.g. https://docs.astral.sh/ruff/rules/pandas-use-of-dot-is-null/
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Comment #42621442
Jonathan Agnew has a similar story about the late, great Australian cricket commentator Richie Benaud, although filling ~52 seconds rather than 5 minutes. https://youtu.be/FsmtFZQJ…
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Comment #41242994
They do align themselves but, for me at least, it can take a little while. Aiming the mark downwards really speeds things up.
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Comment #40601190
Nice breakdown. I think jasper is this, a library for JPEG-2000 images: https://www.ece.uvic.ca/~frodo/jasper/ Linked to from here: https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/jasper
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Comment #40571568
Why do you think the poster is connected with the repo? I couldn’t see any link.
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Comment #40473157
CFD trading apps have this in the UK (and possibly EU, but I can’t see whether ESMA kept the rule): “78% of retail investor accounts lose money when trading CFDs with this provider…
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Comment #40079388
This is where the article is insufficiently clear. Lists of people who are under investigation for fraud is definitely something banks keep quiet, for the reason you mentioned. But…
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Comment #38671033
It isn’t, but I don’t think the parent comment is trying to use it like that - they’re going for “how many banks are needed to support an economy”. Otherwise deposits per bank or p…
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Comment #38229175
> the Met’s director of intelligence Lindsey Chiswick said that if there is not a match the image is not only immediately deleted, but is also pixelated Which is it?
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Comment #37888865
Yes - and the 1/8 of a cow is needed to make milk to make butter. This might be possible if you were very selective about which eighth of a cow you procured, but you’d need some ad…
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Comment #37600909
If you pull down to open Control Centre and then long-press on the WiFi button, you can toggle the hotspot off and on without having to deal with the Settings app. Not sure if you’…
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Comment #36123520
I've found Work and Personal focus modes on iPhone very helpful for cutting down on two of my mindless habits: checking [social media app] during work hours, and [work IM client] a…
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Comment #36039874
Subject Matter Experts
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Comment #35503705
Can’t say I’ve used it, but isn’t that what dtplyr is supposed to provide? https://dtplyr.tidyverse.org/
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Comment #32303079
It's not just stigma with thalidomide - the two forms of the molecule interconvert in the body. So even a dose of 100% pure R-thalidomide (the useful kind) will invert into its mir…